obligatory PR post
OK, I was about 50% with the judges last night, and the other 50% of me was in a COMPLETELY different world.
The 50% I agreed on was this:
--that Vincent's dress was poorly fitted and didn't look couture or hand-done at all. Good riddance... finally. No more inappropriately sexual descriptions of how things got him off and turned him on. Ew.
--that Michael's dress was a mess. I mean, I love Michael, and the idea was nice. It just didn't work out well.
--that Uli's dress was not the most interesting, but certainly very Uli, and appropriately taken up to the next level with all that braiding and beading. Didn't totally convince me that it was couture, but it was a nice dress.
The 50% where I didn't understand what was happening was this:
--that Laura's dress was "old and done." I mean, I know we've seen that look before. That's the whole point of what she does. There's a reason that look shows up every once in a while. It's a classic, and I thought that dress was very Laura and very couture.
--that Kayne's dress was tacky. I really think that this was just the judges expecting to see tacky from Kayne, because I thought that dress was GORGEOUS. Of all the dresses up there, that's definitely the one I'd want to wear. Hell, I'd actively choose that dress in a store. I thought it was beautifully done, had a nicely unified look, and did look very couture. It was John Galliano meets Jean-Paul Gaultier.
--that Jeffrey's dress was in any way acceptable. Now, I know couture dresses are out there. That's sort of the point. And that's why Uli's dress and Michael's dress and Vincent's dress weren't very couture to me. Yes, couture has to take a risk. But what Jeffrey made was extremely unflattering, looked like it was messily constructed (not because it was, but because it had so many things hanging off of it that that was the visual impression I got), was--for all its tons of bunchy fabric--fairly simple looking, and was all around a travesty and a waste of fabric. I seriously HATED that thing. To the point that I would have put him in the bottom.
nullsechs and I were talking when it was over, and we decided that it ultimately is totally subjective on the part of the judges. They give all these reasons for liking things and not liking things, trying to justify their decisions, but they get so contradictory that it's ridiculous sometimes. You never know whether they're going to criticize someone for going over the top or say that he took a risk that paid off.
I yelled aloud when they announced that Jeffrey was the winner. It makes me hurt inside.
In other news, Catherine Malandrino is so French it's painful, and I LOVE IT!!!!!