Jennifer, Keith and Joe

Home stretch, bitches!

Jennifer describes her style thusly: " Holly Golightly goes to Salvador Dali exhibit."

Makes a good soundbite but we don't see it. The clothes are nice, though. A little too precious, but nice.

Model: Topacio

A little too precious, but nice" just about sums up this entry.

The little lip prints all over it were cheesy as hell.

And the dress is certainly well executed, but she chose to make it with one of the easiest (and subsequently, most boring) materials: paper towels. As an entry, it's good enough to get her to the next round, but it's nothing to get excited about.

"I'm a completely self-taught designer. I have a gift that many aspire to, go to school to have it and I was just born with it."

Ahh, ego. Why is it so forgivable in hot men? He's the Fashion Messiah, here to Show Us The Way with his gifts.

Enh. It's a look. Two of them, in fact.

Model: Runa

Ditto. It's not terrible, but it's kinda basic. Like Suede's, no matter what you do to it, it's still going to look like a picnic tablecloth.

Points for using that laundry bag netting and that metallic belt.

And we do like the skirt, but we'd like it more if he used a different material.

Gratuitous face shot. Enjoy.

This is Joe. He has daughters. That means he's straight.

Model: Bell

From a technical standpoint, he did a pretty great job, especially on that skirt. Not only did it move, which is a big deal when you have ten pounds of uncooked pasta hot-glued to it, but the pattern was arranged in such a way that it didn't actually look like ten pounds of uncooked pasta. It looked like a cute print skirt.

Kudos also need to be handed out for that top, which you'd never know was made out of oven mitts.

The problem is, that top and skirt don't look like they go together. It's like he spent his time figuring out how to make his materials work without considering how they work together. Still, a decent effort.

BONUS: Tim Gunn Spanking!

"Designers, I just have to say that I'm seeing a lot of tablecloths in this room and that pisses me the fuck off. You were supposed to pick materials that were untraditional and unexpected. If I wanted to see a bunch of dresses made out of shit, I would have taken you to Jo Ann's Fabrics.

Whatever. I'm out of here. Bunch of lazy motherfuckers."

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Leanne, Emily & Suede

Shitfire, there's a ton of dresses! Let's MOVE IT!

"I'm the silent fashion assassin."

Honey. Parading around the Ren Faire in your homemade Arwen costume doesn't make you badass. Let's look at your portfolio, shall we?

A little too cute and a little overworked, but there's talent there.

Model: Karalyn

Didn't love it. Again, it's a little too cute and a little overworked. We do like how she handled the coffee filters, though.

But that's just a monstrosity. It looks like it weighs ten pounds and that poor girl will be wearing nothing but a syrupy frock if the temperature ever went above 90.

Who?

Were the producers fucking with us when they picked a half-dozen designers that look alike? Is there going to be a surprise reveal halfway through the season that these girls are all sextuplets or something, like that show on TLC where that cute biracial couple gave birth to a litter of biracial children and now all they do is yell at each other and not have sex?

We like. Basic, but chic. These portfolios don't always demonstrate a lot of restraint, so it's nice to see it here.

Speaking of restraint...

Model: Leslie

That's the opposite of it.

The ONLY positive thing we can say about this look is that she demonstrated a fine sense of color. The hues in that collar are fun.

And we suspect the collar itself is supposed to be fun but it looks like a centerpiece at a middle school dance. It's just a little too arts-and-crafty. It doesn't help that the dress isn't exactly memorable and she didn't manage to make anything look more expensive than it was.

"I got tired of making millions for the rest of the world and decided Suede needed to make millions for Suede and Suede is gonna rock it. Yeah!! Whackadoodle!!"

There's one word from that quote with which we totally agree. Guess it.

Not our taste, but it looks polished. It also looks like an ad for Jordache from the '80s.

And our little Suede may just be a crier. He definitely looked like he wanted to sit down with a box of Kleenex and have a good one after Tim eviscerated him. Don't let us down, girl. Tears, and lots of them.

Model: Tia

Meh.

It's not horrible, but it's certainly not worthy of any real praise. Basic, basic, basic.

A big problem is the "fabric" itself. There was simply no way to disguise that it came from a cheap tablecloth. The little last-minute additions didn't really help hide that.

Nor did the fact that it looks like he just wrapped it around her and stapled it up the back.

Not an impressive first effort. Suede needs to step it up for Suede or Suede is going home.

Yeah!!

Whackadoodle!!

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