Rami? Rami?! Rami?!? Oh, please.
I can't believe that the judges picked Rami in the "run-off" to go to Bryant Park and Fashion Week. Chris' pieces were so much better.
Now, I'll grant you that Rami listened to what the judges have been telling him week after week after week - no. more. draping. But the key here is that they had to tell him that over and over again. He's gotten a free pass the whole series. He got lucky in that each week, someone else went off the deep end and got eliminated. Rami is nothing if not consistent. Consistently the same.
And then Chris got raked over the coals during the last challenge because he had two dresses that were similar. What the hell?!
In tonight's "run(way)-off", I thought Chris' collection was much better than Rami's. I liked his theme, his overall look, and I even liked the human hair (deliciously weird!). Rami's didn't grab me. Yes, they were an improvement over what he had been doing, but they didn't "wow" me. And Nina and Michael said his were more "saleable" while Chris' were "costumey". Have they ever seen the bizarre shit that comes down the runway from established designers!! They said themselves, in the avant-garde challenge, that your runway designs should be outrageous, and then you pull them back to make them saleable.
How hard would it have been to have all four of them go to Bryant Park, if they liked Rami and Chris's work so much? It's not like they didn't do that before (see Season Three).
I like Chris probably more so because he's a costume designer, he's over the top, he's funny, and he reminds me of some people I knew in college. And Rami's not bad, but...
Still, neither of their collections are as strong as Jillian's, IMHO.
Meh.
I can't believe that the judges picked Rami in the "run-off" to go to Bryant Park and Fashion Week. Chris' pieces were so much better.
Now, I'll grant you that Rami listened to what the judges have been telling him week after week after week - no. more. draping. But the key here is that they had to tell him that over and over again. He's gotten a free pass the whole series. He got lucky in that each week, someone else went off the deep end and got eliminated. Rami is nothing if not consistent. Consistently the same.
And then Chris got raked over the coals during the last challenge because he had two dresses that were similar. What the hell?!
In tonight's "run(way)-off", I thought Chris' collection was much better than Rami's. I liked his theme, his overall look, and I even liked the human hair (deliciously weird!). Rami's didn't grab me. Yes, they were an improvement over what he had been doing, but they didn't "wow" me. And Nina and Michael said his were more "saleable" while Chris' were "costumey". Have they ever seen the bizarre shit that comes down the runway from established designers!! They said themselves, in the avant-garde challenge, that your runway designs should be outrageous, and then you pull them back to make them saleable.
How hard would it have been to have all four of them go to Bryant Park, if they liked Rami and Chris's work so much? It's not like they didn't do that before (see Season Three).
I like Chris probably more so because he's a costume designer, he's over the top, he's funny, and he reminds me of some people I knew in college. And Rami's not bad, but...
Still, neither of their collections are as strong as Jillian's, IMHO.
Meh.
