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This week's episode starts with all the boys moving in together. This makes Andy very happy, since he's been "alone in a room with Michael C. for a while now", and he's really glad to have people around that he "trusts". Seriously. I liked Andy in the beginning, but in his own super-subtle way, he is the cattiest one of all!! Andy, honey, I can assure you: Michael doesn't trust you either. (I guess I don't have to call him Michael C. now, since Michael D. is gone, so he'll be just Michael from now on.)
Back in the girls' room, Valerie and Ivy are BFFs, with Ivy worried about Valerie being "broken" by having been in the bottom, and with Valerie loving on Ivy and her awesometastic design skillz. (Again, seriously?)
Back at the runway, Heidi comes on for her obligatory 30 seconds saying hello, and saying that Tim will reveal challenge. And that the twist this week involves a big chunk of change. That's it. That's all she's got.
n the workroom, we discover this is one of the advertorial episodes. Meaning, they pretend that the hair or the make-up is a really critical part of the look for the runway. In this case, Tim is joined by Collier Strong from L'Oreal. Makeup will, according to Tim, be an important aspect of this head-to-toe look of this weeks "high fashion" challenge. Head-to-cameltoe challenge, did you say? (Before you judge, read last week's post!)
The prizes for this week: The look will be featured in a L'Oreal "advertorial" in Marie Claire Magazine. And $20,000. Which they all salivate over. A lot.
Mondo is all over this challenge, saying: "I can do over the top. That's who I am." Oh, and also, he could really use the money because he's never made over $12K in a year. Gretchen is also poor. Very poor.
To get inspired for their challenge, they each have to pick from different sets of some new L'Oreal product lines, eye shadow duos. The makeup comes in different "finishes", and the designers have to use their chosen finish as their inspiration.
Here's how their finish selection goes down:
- Mondo: Bright
- Christopher: Crystal
- April: Matte
- Michael: Metallic
- Ivy: Bright
- Valerie: Crystal
- Gretchen: Velvet (And according to Michael C: "Velvet is a boring fabric and Gretchen designs boring clothes, so perfect.")
- Andy: Metallic
30 minutes to sketch.
$300 to spend at Mood.
And it's a two-day challenge.
We start to get an inkling of what they're thinking:
- Mondo: Chose Bright, and is thinking Kaleidoscope
- Ivy: Chose Bright, and is thinking Hawaii, like waves. Uh oh...Literal Alert, Literal Alert.
- Gretchen: Chose Velvet and is thinking a big kimono.
On to Mood, where we catch a glimpse of Mondo's kicky yellow knee-high rain boots.
And we catch a glimpse of Tim chasing SWATCH!!!!
And saying "Bye Swatch." Clearly, the producers LIKE ME. They really really like me! Because they have been including Swatch every. Single. Week!
In this episode we learned:
- That Valerie likes to dress like like a Peanuts character. Seriously, her red skirt with a wide, blue waist was totally Lucy.
- That Michael is "using Gretchen's fabric". Even though it looks totally different to me. And even though, oh, I don't know, didn't you steal his fabric last week, Gretchen? Payback's a bitch, chica.
- That these designers still have a ridiculous chip on their shoulder about Michael. More smacktalk, and how Gretchen and April just feel they are world's apart from him, so they should just "let it go". To which I say, yes! Please! Let go!!!
- That Andy is translating "Metallic" into "Futuristic." Which isn't much of a surprise.
- That we can question Ivy's taste level based solely on the fact that she chose 70s-tastic blue eyeshadow.
- That, sure enough, Tim thinks Ivy's dress may be too literal, and too pageant.
Of course there has to be more drama. On an individual level, Mondo has to start his bodice over, because his model is too tiny.
Then the group announcement: Tim enters and tells the designers they need to create a ready-to-wear look to be a companion piece to the high-fashion look. As Tim says: "Very few, if any, designers can sustain a brand on such a high-fashion look. They build it on ready-to-wear."
They have only 15 minutes and $100 to spend at Mood a second time. And they still only have until the next morning. No extra
