Jonathan fared slightly better with his super-tight, super-sheer dress with lots of (messy) cut-out detailing, but the panels were bunkety-bunk-bunk. For me, for you, dawg, what?!, you can really blow!, there was not a single cent of old-money sophistication in Amy’s Creamsicle top. Maturity!) Certainly, they weren’t going anywhere when Amy and Jonathan came about as close to hitting the posh, UES bullseye as Randy Jackson comes to delivering sound, constructive advice on Idol each week. To quote Cher Horowitz: As if! (Also: points to the designers for not making their dislike for each other public in front of the judges. Thanks a bunch, Nina.ĭisappointing though Team East Village was, there was no way The (Un)Holy Trinity was gonna lead Jay ”I won two challenges” Sario or Mila ”mad for mod” Hermanovski to the guillotine. But hey, at least now we know for sure who cast the deciding life-preserver vote when Emilio sicked that atrocious stringy-bubble gum bikini on the world. That said, I don’t share la Señora’s opinion that ”Emilio can do more.” Guy’s been on a downward spiral since the Mini Me challenge and caught a break tonight. I agree with Nina that it left just a little je ne sais quoi to be desired. Emilio gets credit for forcing SA to work with color, and his ”modern-day Billie Holliday” gown was certainly cool, but it was no game-changer. Now, I haven’t been Seth Aaron’s biggest champion this season (”Duh!” says a chorus of loyal recap readers), but I can appreciate that he has a way of imbuing pieces with his own signature flourishes - even if, as Nina pointed out last night, indulging in fewer of them would up the taste level. I’d argue it was Seth Aaron’s denim ensemble that gave them the edge, since it captured Harlem to a fashion-forward T. And they both did, in a Project Runway first. Maybe now you see why I was so sure that Team Emilio/Seth Aaron was gonna win. I don’t want cliché, but a little flash would have been cool. Instead of vibrant colors, textures and patterns, they gave us… basic black? Sure, there were those blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em blasts of red on the skirt, but in their original sketch, red and gold were the main colors. But their fear of going all-out playful in one of the most colorful areas of town left me feeling the way I do when I eat an apple instead of cookies for desert: mightily unsatisfied. To be sure, Georgia Peach and Quiet Girl are to be applauded for not returning from Chinatown with dreams of dresses made of fake Rolexes, pirated DVDs, and lunch-special egg rolls. She praised Anthony and Maya for their subtlety, but also pointed out that they could have cut loose with more color. Seeing as Sir Quips A Lot was at a tanning convention in Capri absent (and temporarily replaced by Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein), Nina did most of the talking. In any case, the judges said they dug what the two kids did: a black dress with cool, puzzle-like detail inspired by a Chinatown dragon, and a jacket-and-skirt ensemble with details meant to evoke a pagoda. Though we were supposed to believe there might have been some friction between Anthony and Maya in the workroom, methinks that was nothing but massively drummed up faux-drama.
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