Third floor: Women’s Wear, Housewares, and Marital Aids. Please watch your step. While there is some nice detailing with draping and seams, this is too basic a dress for a design competition. It’s a cute dress, but it’s a very done dress. Oh dear. It looks like we’re...

Third floor: Women’s Wear, Housewares, and Marital Aids. Please watch your step. Click for full...

Sourpuss takes the stage. We make no bones of the fact that we think Emilio’s was the worst out of the three finalists, but it would be difficult to point to any one outfit and call it a disaster. In fact, his pieces were all uniformly very, very good. What tripped him up in our eyes...

Sourpuss takes the stage.Click for full...

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Hit it, Seth A! We had a somewhat unusual reaction to Seth Aaron’s collection. We went on a little journey with it. In February, when we saw it for the first time in the tent, we were excited by it. It was obvious to anyone with decent observational skills that the finalists were almost...

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Seth Aaron, come out for a final bow! It’s a fantastic coat. Beautifully tailored with great proportions. The problem is that plaid is simply too dated. It’s not an updated take on an ’80s plaid; it IS an ’80s plaid. On the other hand, we like that the lines are so...

The one where everyone apologized to everyone else and not one of them was sincere. Honeys, what can we say? On the one hand, it was a reunion so spicy that one could reasonably argue that a couple careers might be in danger over it. On the other hand, it was a dour affair that in the end...

The one where everyone apologized to everyone else and not one of them was sincere. Click for full...

The one where everyone apologized to everyone else and not one of them was sincere. Click for full...

Woohoo! Darlings, we’re going to type softly and ask all of you to do so as well, because, to borrow Auntie Mame’s charmingly useful double entendre, we’re a little hung this morning (And Dora the Explorer is currently playing at top volume on Laura’s TV right now, to...

It’s Colorforms fun! Of the three finalists, Mila is the one who offered the most variety in terms of silhouette. From long and flowy to short and tight to dramatic A lines, you can’t quite pin her down on that front. She’s definitely got a range as far as that goes. She...

Uh-oh. We fear the torches and pitchforks are going to come out in our comments section because we’re about to pay Emilio a lot of compliments. Ready? Here goes: to our surprise, it is Emilio who has the strongest collection of competition pieces. We’ve bitched a bit about some of...

In which we confirm to our readers that we are indeed smoking sweet, delicious crack. Love this dress. Love the color; love the contrast between the stiff metallic of the bodice and the flowy sheer of the skirt. And yes, we even love that Judy Jetson shoulder treatment. We think it should...

In which we confirm to our readers that we are indeed smoking sweet, delicious crack. Click for full post. If you’re having display issues with your feed, subscribe to our new...

In which we confirm to our readers that we are indeed smoking sweet, delicious crack. Click for full post. If you’re having display issues with your feed, subscribe to our new...

Seth A, step up to the judging circle, please. Darlings, if you’re new here, this is something of a T Lo tradition. We take a look at all the garments made during the competition by each finalist to see if we can find certain themes and motifs and even weaknesses. And we’ll be...

Our pick (and a lot of others’) for the winning collection.Click for full post. If you’re having display issues with your feed, subscribe to our new...

Our pick (and a lot of others’) for the winning collection. We’ve said it all in the previous post on this topic, but just to reiterate and possibly clarify: We think both Mila and Jay showed strong looks to the judges and ultimately both had very strong collections. However,...

Our pick (and a lot of others’) for the winning collection.Click for full post. If you’re having display issues with your feed, subscribe to our new...