As the boys exit their rooms, (Jerrell?) says, “c’mon, let’s get this mess overwith”. That’s the spirit, people!
At the model selection, Kenley sticks with Shannone. Bye, Leslie. (Eh. No great loss)
Heidi sends everyone down to the lobby to meet Tim and go on their field trip. Jerrell hopes that the field trip doesn’t have anything to do with female wrestlers. Hee.
Korto speculates that they’re going to the Bronx for a hip hop challenge. “Suede loves that!” Cut that shit out already, will you?
In the car on the way to the mystery destination, Tim asks Oompa-Loompa-Licious how often he tans. Oompa-Loompa-Licious tans every other day. “Isn’t that a lot of time spent tanning?” Tim asks. “It’s like other people go to the gym.” Right. “I just want to go tanning. Please.” Licious whines.
So they wind up at the Armory Track & Field Center. They wander onto the speed skating track and, Ohno! (Get it?) It’s Apolo Anton Ohno, 5-time Olympic speed skating medalist! I love Apolo Ohno! Did you see him in Dancing With The Stars a couple of seasons ago? Too cute! Oh, goody! Apolo’s the guest judge.
Challenge: design an outfit for the women of the U.S. Olympic Team to wear during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. Ooooh. BTW, have you noticed that this season (except for the “green” challenge) they’re not making the prize a promise, like, that the women of the U.S. Olympic Team would actually wear the winning outfit during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics? Burned by the Miss Universe and Sasha Cohen fiascoes?
They get to spend some time in the Center’s Olympic Museum for inspiration. Most of them just look confused.
Terri is very much into the Olympics. Me, too, Girl! I like you even more than I did before!
Stella is “a true cave girl.” Leatha, fur, bold, progressive, aerodynamic. “That’s like – Gladiator.” Of course it is. So she’s making her outfit all in black and trimmed with red, white, and blue.
Daniel has no clue. “I’m into high-end glamour and this has nothing to do with anything I’m used to doing.” He’s never watched the Olympics (guess he hides under a rock every 2 years). He went to boarding school and hates uniforms. “They make everyone look so generic.” So what does he want to do? Cocktail fantasy ’40’s, but modernize it. Which is going to make those little 15 year old gymnasts look like, I dunno, hookers?!?
At Mood:
Korto – chose a white, lightweight leather and linen.
Kenley wants to work with plaid – blue & white only because it’s more tasteful. Than your country’s colors? Red, white & blue is just so tacky, don’t you think?
Keith has taken Terri’s fabric and cut from it. Oh no you di’nt!
Back at Parson’s:
Leanne thinks Stella’s outfit is something you’d wear to a Goth nightclub.
Oompa-Loompa-Licious is “getting paler and paler, and weaker and weaker.” He does seem to be a tad less orange, this week. Jerrell thinks Oompa‘s tanorexic but that the blonde hair is keeping him alive. Could be. Someone asks Oompa if he noticed the tanning booth as they passed by and he says he got a little tear in his eye…. “Please let me tan…” he whines. Paraphrasing Ebenezer Scrooge: If he would die, he had better do it and decrease the surplus designer population. Soon. Really, really soon.
Leanne thinks Terri has a sweatshop hiding under her table because of how many pieces she’s constructed so quickly.
Daniel and Kenley are always horsing around and Kenley’s laughing constantly. It’s starting to piss everyone off. I think it’s horribly forced. These people are doing whatever they can think of to make us think they’re eccentric. Not working. What’s also not working is Daniel letting Kenley tell him to leave off his bolero jacket because “she’ll look like Wonder Woman.”
Joe’s making a skort. He took red and blue zippers apart and mixed them. That’s a cool idea.
Oompa-Loompa-Licious wants to do something “more literal”. I don’t know what that means. Neither does Tim. Tim tells him that “It’s looking a little Sgt. Pepper. ” “I don’t know what that is,” replies Oompa. You know? The Beatles? Oompa hasn’t really heard the Beatles and doesn’t get the reference. Rolling his confused googly eyes, he interviews that he “saw Across The Universe, which was Beatles music done by other people, so [he] guesses that [he] likes the Beatles music, but more in the progressive.” Huh? Maybe he really does need an infusion of UV. Holla atcha boy. Whatever.
Tim thinks Daniel is beginning to unravel.
Jerrell’s ensemble is beginning to look Lucy Ricardo and he wants to use his pinstripe fabric horizontally! For female summer olympic athletes! The weightlifters will look darling!
Joe’s getting possessive about the sewing machines. He’s used the same machine for every challenge and everyone should pay attention. It’s his. A chorus of “Waaaa” rises in the background. Next week, he’s going to pee on it.
Next day, they have 3 hours.
Runway:
Suede – Is that a cheerleader skirt? Please.
Kelli – June Cleaver housedress.
Joe’s skort had a little problem with the length on the front skirt part, but it was athletic and cute. Heidi really liked the mixed zippers. Me, too.
Daniel made his 40’s cocktail dress. I’m still picturing those little gymnasts strutting around the arena, tripping over their heels. Michael said his model looked like she was representing the Republic of Cocktail Land. Good one!
Jerrell – what?!? A pencil skirt, half a dozen short neckerchiefs around her neck. No, no, no.
Terri’s model looks like she’s going to fall out of that tube top. And there ain’t that much to fall. Good thing these girls don’t eat enough to get up any real energy. But the look was very classy and versatile. Judges loved it. Lauren Hutton ’70’s vibe Hooray for sportswear!
Jennifer: what is that? black and gold? I’m sorry, whose team is this? It’s just a little dress with a little jacket. If it came in my size, I could have worn that to the office. Thirty years ago. Buh-Bye Jennifer!
Michael thinks that the bottom 3 heard the challenge in another language. That explains everything.
Look, people – the challenge was to design an outfit for the Women’s U.S. Olympic Team to wear in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics – not cocktail dresses, not Holly Golightly goes to work in a law office in 1963, not Rita Hayworth in a pencil skirt – ATHLETES. Petite 15 year old gymnasts, swimmers, women who run and jump and play softball and volleyball and soccer and basketball. Pay attention!
Next week, try saying it in “Licious.”
good one. my recap is up, finally. you know where to find it. MK was totally on the money this week, wasn’t he? If your Olympic sport is drinking, this is perfect!