Silk Chiffonzies vs. Crazy Lady

Slow going for me this season but sometimes My Lifetime doesn't quite mesh as well with My Life as I'd prefer (but capitalizing things about myself makes me feel Very Important). So let's just jump right in to Episode 5 and start from there, shall we?

First of all, this was not the Nina Garcia episode I was led to believe it was going to be. No early critiques, no stress-inducing work room visits, no endless repetition of an emphatic "no". Total let down. However, as far as team challenges go, it was actually interesting-ish. The collections were pretty cohesive and I thought it was very efficiently clever of Team 6 to divide the workload by garment (finally, Man-Pants represents). And of course, no team challenge is complete without some drama and Elena took it upon herself to BRING.IT. Christopher is right. She does have a feral quality about her. Sadly for her, that may be her most interesting quality because her clothes, not so much.

Personally, I liked Freegan's dress the best but I have no quarrel with Melissa's winning design. Smart choice for her to go with not-black. Absolutely horrible choice of print and fabric from the Silk Chiffonzies. Even if their collection wasn't awful, it was still full of silk chiffon. Stop it already. Geesh.

A few other parting thoughts:
1. I don't get why everyone loves Ven's designs so much. It's creeping toward the same one trick and I don't find his tops flattering at all. I guess they are tailored well, but they appear ill-fitting and stiff to me.

2. Is Christopher really as sincere, nice and rational as he seems? Because I want to believe that he really is that adorable.

3. If eye rolling earned us points, I would be Team Gunnar all the way.

Scoring for Season 10

These are the rules. You are either in or you're out.

How to win
Each week you will pick your favorite 3 designers and earn points based on the scoring system below. At the end of the season, the person with the most points wins! Easy!

The fine print
Every Monday around lunch time the moderator (Kelly, aka lady librarian, with Lora as a back-up) will send you an email with the previous week's updated scores and a reminder to send in your picks for the next episode. You have until 5:00pm on Thursday, day of show, to send your picks. If you do not send an email, your picks from the previous week will roll over.

When the season gets down to 7 designers, you will pick only 2.
When we get down to the final 3, pick only 1 designer.

If your picks from the previous week are rolled over and one of your designers was eliminated, you will automatically get -1 for that eliminated designer.

If you rolled over 3 picks after we went down to only 2 picks, you lose one point for each designer that rolled over and you do not accumulate - or lose - points based on the episode.



The Scoring:
6 points
Winning a Challenge

-6 points
Eliminated

2 points
Top 2 runner-ups for winning challenge

-2 points
Lands in the bottom 2 (except for the one who is eliminated; see Eliminated)

1 point
First one saved from Elimination in the bottom three

3 points
Crying (tears or the wiping away of tears must be visible. A designer can only earn points for crying once per episode, not per scene)

4 points
Verbal Fight (w/ another Designer, per episode for same fight. Designer(s) can earn additional points for a totally different fight with another designer)

3 points
Model Trouble: No Show / Ruins garment / Late to show / Fight w/ designer

3 points

Designer starts from scratch and redoes garment for better (top 2/3)

-3 points

Designer starts from scratch and redoes garment for the worse (bottom 2/3)

1 point
Any judge except for Nina says they want to wear/own/buy your designer’s garment

2 points
Nina says she wants to wear/own/buy your designer’s garment