The Best of the Best
Updated 2009-10-30 07:11:21
Last week's challenge inspired the designers to a big old bowl of meh. Nicolas got sent home for his lackluster efforts leaving Christopher and Logan as the only representatives of the flailing XY chromosomed designers. Although, it might be worth confirming that Althea's hair is actually female, because it kind of looks like it belongs on Sebastian Bach. Before the day's competition, Christopher and Logan sit in their mancave to scratch in peace while they strategize and tout their superior math skills. Logan thinks they, as the sole surviving members of their race, need to really step it up and get out of their comfort zone. Christopher wants to work on making the judges "get it." I'm not sure what "it" is, but I'm sure it requires several doses of Cipro to cure. Christopher recounts each and every last wonderful thing the judges said about him way back at the beginning of the competition when the judges cared and it was Christmas every day and little birdies helped dress his models. However, it seems that Christopher has been dutch-ovening himself and has managed to kill enough brain cells that he doesn't remember any of the mean nasty things the judges have said about his looks. And by "looks" I mean outfits. The judges haven't sunk to mocking his actual looks yet, although they have seemed harsher than usual this season. Christopher disagrees with me, though. He is pretty sure the judges called him fat. They must have edited that out.
Over in the girls' locker room, Althea's head is being eaten by an octopus and no one is helping her! It is a competition after all. Hmm. Maybe the octopus is actually one of her family secrets for achieving perfect hair. Okay maybe they are curlers, but, wow!, that is a LOT of curlers. Granted she has enough hair for an entire '90s hair band (including the saxophone player who just shows up for soulful solos during the rock ballads.) Irina is pretending to be humanoid and plays well with the other girls in her suite as they boast about the size of their ranks. (RANKS, not racks, minds out of the gutter please.) Althea thinks she, Irina, and Carol Hannah are the best designers in the competition and that Christopher, Logan, and sad, sad Gordana have proven they can't play with the big girls. Gordana is too depressed to even get out of bed at this point. Carol Hannah's exuberance (or mascara) has not rubbed off on Gordana at all (it's waterproof!), but Carol Hannah is not entirely composed of sunshine and bubbles and Lash Blast. She is concerned because all she has shown the judges is dresses. She pinky-swears that she can make pants too. Just not, you know, today.
The designers are lined up with their backs facing the runway. This situation has come about because after last week's disappointments the judges can't stand the sight of them anymore. Christopher hears rustling noises, squeaks, and hides under his chair because he knows (KNOWS) that the judges are coming to flatten him or at least, flatten his faux-hawk. Heidi surveys the backs of the designers contemplating who to take out first. She glances around, realizes the cameras are rolling, sighs and tells them to turn around. The designers all gasp when faced with the ghosts of designs past that have filled the runway. Each of the designer's winning looks is displayed on a dress form. Well, except for Logan's. He never had a dress that won, so they've given him a dress that didn't win and thus it doesn't get to be on a dress form, but instead is sloppily tacked to the front of one, like the producers didn't want to expend the effort of actually putting it on the mannequin. Logan sighs in despair because he can see that smoke in the distance and knows that the train of termination is coming for him. Heidi explains that the challenge is that they must create a companion look for their outfit. Logan is excited to be working with his floor-length grey dress with the zipper accent. Irina obviously takes a moment to be bitch. She thinks this challenge will really show the difference between the good designers and the lucky wins. Of course in Irina's overblown head, every design was a lucky win except for hers. She thinks a few people should have gone home already. In fact, they should probably just give her the $100,000 check and the Buick right now and send everyone else home.
Tim meets the designers in the work room to explain the rules. They will have $100 for materials and can work only until midnight to complete their looks. Everyone gasps in horror. Althea explains that her winning look was a mini-skirt with a "paper bag" waist as in the top is cinched together with a belt like a paper bag. This is by no means the same thing as a cinched up Hefty bag. This is paper, not plastic. She wants to use the paper bag waist on a pair of pants and then make an oversized sweater to complete the look. As a designer, she likes to play with volume. Yes, your hair speaks volumes to that point. It's like her hair has a secret life. I mean, was it that... large at the beginning of the competition? Has her hair been going out at night and living the high (very high) life in the big (very big) city? Irina is excited to be working with her Aspen look, while Gordana was assigned her edgy grey dress from the divorcee challenge and wants to replicate that edgy sophistication. Speaking of sophistication... oh wait, no, we're talking about Christopher. He thinks this challenge is so fantastic on this like metaphysical level where you have to be inspired by your own inspiration. It's like Richard Simmons, but with frocks. His winning design was a short dress, but he does not learn anything from this rather obvious statement and instead decides that he is going to make a long dress. Only he calls it a gown to make it sound less like a bad idea. Also, I have always hated the dress that won. It's the one that sort of looks like a plastic poodle on the top and a bedskirt on the bottom. But the judges loved it, so it must be AMAZING and I am a blind moronic monkey with no fashion sense at all. Oh well.
Tim takes the designers to Mood for their textile needs. He reminds them that they only have a hundred clams to make or break their designs. I know the Mood budgetary and time restrictions are supposed to be another level of the challenge, but I think they are kind of ridiculous. There are far more interesting ways to challenge the designers then by rearranging the charmeuse and swapping the denim with the taffeta each episode. Why not, say, tie their hands behind their backs and force them to sew with their mouths?! Now, THAT would be a challenge. Anyway, Logan has decided to take the zipper from his original look and stick it in a room with some candles, a nice vintage of Colt 45, and the smooth tones of Marvin Gaye and just let that zipper procreate so he can make a dress out of nothing but zippers. Christopher has opted away from the sundries (a choice I firmly support) and instead is listening to the voices in his head that are telling him to switch it up. He picks an identical fabric to his original dress, but switches it up by buying it in... silvery white. Dream big! He buys 30 yards. Which would be sheer madness, except the fabric is opaque. Irina has stumbled on a brocade so lovely that any remaining scraps should definitely be used to re-upholster the couch. Carol Hannah is having a fashion brain fart, luckily Tim is there to offer a cool guiding hand to help her see the light. He points out that making pants when she is only comfortable making dresses would probably be a bad choice. While Tim hasn't had the best track record this season as far as doling out the advice (*cough* shirt dress *cough*), Carol Hannah knows he is right. She's making a dress, suck it, trousers!
Back at the workroom, the designers start to craft their outfits. Irina describes her new outfit as being about work while her old outfit was designed for a battered woman in Aspen sipping champagne and hiding her bruises under a giant cowl neck sweater. Or something like that. Althea and Irina are almost friendly, although if I were Althea I would take Irina's advice with a whole handful of salt (and I'd have bigger hair). Logan points out that Malvin (oh, remember Malvin? I wish he was still around) made jodhpurs and got sent home for his efforts. Althea glares at Logan for pointing that out and Logan retreats to his work station muttering about needing more testosterone and OH MY GOD how did I not know he was completely bow legged? He must have some big cojones to walk that wide a stance. Gordana thinks that the energy in the room has really changed and is filled with nervous energy instead of the tomfoolery and shenanigans that so irritated Irina last week. THE DARKNESS IS WINNING. The six designers all work feverishly in their efforts to make it to Bryant Park. I guess when they moved the show to LA they did make it a lot harder to get to Bryant Park, at least mileage-wise.
Who knew Rob Lowe had a secret simultaneous career on the Lifetime network? I need to watch more television!
It is eight hours until the end of the day and at this point in the competition it is time to really start unloading those clichés. Yes, yes, they've hinted at them before, but the pressure is really on now, so clichés in bulk are called for. Christopher knows that the pressure is on, because one of them is going home. And it's not one out of fifteen. Nay, it is one out of six. I feel like that sentence should have the same tagline as a Die Hard movie, like, "One out of Six: This Time It's Personal." Logan jumps on the cliché train noting that when he looks around the room he sees five other designers plus Althea's hair, which makes six. (He's cute and he can count? Swoon!) But he thinks that being from Idaho (wait, wah? Don't they always say Seattle?) he has a different perspective. Er... yeah. I guess we should be proud that he's not just making potato sack dresses. Being from the state which is most known for potatoes, separatism, and succession aspiration, he is different. He can go from fixing a car to making a dress. Oh my god, he is the Tim Riggins of fashion design. Can you imagine if Tim Riggins (and if you don't know who I am talking about run, don't skip or crab walk, but RUN over to iTunes or Netflix or Amazon and start watching Friday Night Lights RIGHT NOW. I'll wait.) designed clothing? Okay so holy hell Logan is the Tim Riggins of Project Runway , the fuck up with the heart of gold who will fix your car and break your heart in five minutes flat. How did I not know this until now? I thought he was from Seattle and that he fixed me a latte at Vivace once. But he replaces an engine on his Chevy pick up, wipes off the grease, turns around and creates a floor-length silk charmeuse gown with zipper accents? I LOVE HIM. So my newly beloved Logan thinks he has a great shot at showing in the tents of Bryant Park because he has a unique perspective. Gordana interrupts my revelry with a tale of an impoverished upbringing on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. Her rise to reality television stardom is not something she could have dreamt of as a child on her parents' farm. Reality television has gotten so ubiquitous that I bet there is a little child on a farm outside Belgrade looking up at a star and wishing and hoping that someday she might be able to compete on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III: This Time It's Personal . Maybe she'll reach her dream. Or maybe she'll get to be an extra on The Amazing Race . Carol Hannah still hasn't settled on a design for her look. She has commitment issues. She makes sure to make her commitment issues known to Logan so that if he wants to, you know, check her oil, he knows if he doesn't call her in the morning she won't start stalking him. Christopher bought thirty yards of white fabric, which he thinks will lend his signature look to his piece. Logan and Carol Hannah are not sure that sending down an entire dress made exclusively of ruffles is such a great idea, but Christopher wants the judges to see the dress and KNOW it is "A Christopher." I am guessing that the judges already can guess which gowns are his. And, frankly, calling something "A Christopher" sounds ominously like it could be taken out of context really easily, like "He totally pulled A Christopher." Or "Ugh, that dress was such A Christopher." Or "Did you see that guy totally gave her A Christopher." Not necessarily something to aspire to.
Tim comes to check on the designers' progress (it's like Pilgrim's Progress with Bryant Park standing in for Heaven). Carol Hannah is up first and she is the first to admit that her outfit is a big ugly mess. Tim does not disagree, but with his trained eye for design he gives Carol Hannah a big pointer about layering the green under the black and she is off running in her new direction. Okay, it sounds stupid when you write it down, but I swear, it was a HUGE tip and the camera kept cutting to Irina like she was about to get all Brooklyn (Brighton Beach, not Williamsburg) on Tim for giving Carol Hannah such big advice. Irina explains her last minute change of heart from skirt and jacket to mini dress and oversized sweater. Tim thinks the brocade fabric and the oversized sweater are unexpected. In a good way. He seems a little reserved, but probably because he is scared of Irina. Christopher is not so lucky. Tim thinks Christopher's winning dress was youthful, vibrant, and sexy, and the new gown Christopher is working on looks like her mother's dress. Christopher doesn't seem to think that dressing someone's mother is a bad thing. I mean, Michael Kors has built a brand on it. Tim thinks he has a lot of work and not much time ahead of him. Althea is next and she is looking forward to her model fitting, because she needs to make sure the proportions work on her model. Tim thinks she needs to worry a little more about the fact that her pants look like something baby MC Hammer would have worn and that she should scour the Macy's accessory wall for some Pampers. No, really, he thinks her pants look like they are ready for a diaper. She doesn't even blink at that harshness but swears she has faith in her pants. Tim agrees her sketch is good, but she has to execute it well. If she does, she could have a winner. Logan's look has Tim excited. He has made a collar out of some of his 400 zippers and both he and Tim really like it. Althea, however, is not a fan. She thinks that when she did the same collar last week it looked better. She is annoyed that Logan would be "inspired" by her collar to such an extent, but whatever. She'll just wait until it is dark out and he is sleeping and then she will send her hair over to kill him. Gordana is the last stop for Tim and her jacket and skirt are not inspiring Tim at all. Gordana, showing the perseverance and determination of her forebears in fighting potato blight and genocide equally, loves the look and is pushing forward despite Tim's concerns that the seams look sloppy and unfinished. Meanwhile, Althea, who swears she is totally fine with it, is cupcaking with Irina about how Logan totally stole her look. She pretends she is going to confront him on borrowing her collar. Like she wouldn't just crumple in front of his awesomeness. And, I hate to be the one to tell you this Irina, but fashion is almost all about "borrowing". You see something from one designer or an era and reinterpret it and make it your own. That is fashion. You get inspired by what's around you and remake it. I mean, yes, it might be annoying when the guy in the cubicle next to you re-interprets it, but unless you can tell me that you have never looked at anyone's outfits, never glanced a fashion magazine, seen movie, or walked into a store, I won't believe you have never been influenced. Also, IRINA? You're kibbutzing with Irina? Oh Althea, you are innocent. Tim is excited about the looks he is seeing (except Christopher) and he sends in the models.
The models swarm the work room and squeal in excitement about their latest looks. Irina entertains herself by mocking Christopher's dress. She thinks there is nothing to say about it except that it looks like one dress is throwing up another. Okay, she might be right. Althea continues her bitchfest, complaining to her model that Logan is stealing her ideas and shouldn't even be in the competition anymore because he's never even had a top three look. The model doesn't really care about Althea's naïve assertions or bitchy bitching. After the fitting, the challenged get back to their drudgery. Christopher is nervous because when he did his original look, it took him eight hours to melt the plastic flowers on to the dress. I still hate that dress. It looks like one of those craft projects from the '70s where you melt plastic into adorable poodle shapes or something. No like! Irina, with her superior time management skills, has a moment to relax and sneer at all the other designers' work. She thinks everyone is in trouble in this challenge except her. It is midnight and as the designers head home the last word out of Logan's mouth is: "What a nightmare." Uh oh, is Tim Riggins in trouble? Will Coach Taylor save him with a rousing half-time speech?
The next morning all the designers (except for Irina) are feeling the pressure. Carol Hannah still has to make a shirt, fix her skirt, adjust the straps and do hair and makeup, but she is driven by the power of Greyskull (mascara) and will finish it all. Irina does a good job pretending to play well with others, but you can tell she is just calculating and gathering intel on her competition. Christopher also has a lot of work to do and he and Logan and Carol Hannah all have the sewing machines racing the second they get in to the workroom. Althea is handstitching her sweater, but makes the time to help Gordana find a hook-and-eye closure. Irina, would only take the time to put a hook in an eye if it would eliminate a competitor. She interviews that she isn't here to make friends (we noticed, thanks) and pretty much always gets what she wants (scary!). Logan explains the origin of Irina's nickname Meana Irina. Its derivation is from the fact that it rhymes, and she is mean. He wishes the judges would pop her overblown ego like one of those pimple things he heard of somewhere. Two hours until the runway, Tim sends in the models for L'Orealing and Garniering. Althea's model loves Carol Hannah's dress (TRAITOR!), but Althea seriously has her bitch on this episode and can't help but point out that Carol Hannah always does dresses. Now, she, Althea and her wonder mullet, have cute dresses, but she (with the help of her locks of love) has also done pants and jackets. She is surprised that the judges have not come down on Carol Hannah for being a one trick pony. She, Althea, is a multi-trick pony and she expects full credit for that. Was Althea always this bitchy? Or is the peroxide slowly eating through her brain? Carol Hannah, oblivious to the one-woman bitch session taking place mere feet away from her, likes her dress. SHE IS SO STUPID! IT IS JUST A LITTLE DRESS. I WILL SQUASH IT LIKE A BUG. Oops sorry that was Althea's hair talking. I beat it into submission with a straightening iron. Suddenly it is only ten minutes until the runway. Everyone scurries into their outfits while the designers each take a moment to badmouth the competition. Logan thinks Gordana is taking the challenge too literally and to ill effect. Irina thinks it is hilarious that Althea is complaining about Logan stealing her collar, when it is obvious to the non-drunk, non-stupid people in the world that clearly Althea was inspired by Irina's Aspen sweater. And, now that we see Althea's finished look, Irina may have a point. There is definitely a similarity of style between the two looks. That is really funny. Time is up and Tim corrals everyone to the runway. It is show time!
Heidi storms the runway in a wackadoodle outfit comprised of silver knee length walking shorts that may or may not be made of leather a pink ruffled tuxedo shirt and a shrunken black blazer with bejeweled accents around the elbow. I once read an Archie comic where Betty and Archie were both helping Veronica paint her house and Betty spent the whole time industriously working and Veronica just changed her outfit five times and totally won over Archie with her hot painting togs. Like, she would waltz into the room where Betty was scraping lead paint off a wall with her teeth and Veronica would throw up her arms and say "Ta da! Painting togs!" And Archie would drop his paintbrush and lunge at Veronica with his eyes bulging (and probably pants, too, but they didn't show that). The point of this is that whenever Heidi walks on stage in some insane outfit that no one would ever wear in public and everyone is supposed to gasp in pleasure, I think of she should really put forth the effort to say, "Ta da! Painting togs!" Because at least then we would know what the hell she was wearing. Heidi recaps the challenge and reminds the designers that they had $100 and one day to create a companion piece for their best look. The designers shrug, because they know this already. What they don't know is who will be judging them this week. Judge number 1 is Nick Verreos, contestant on season two and a fashion instructor. He and his pocket square smile like they mean it. Nina Garcia is here to offer a soupcon of stability and continuity in the judging for this season (although she's only been here, what, three times?). Rounding out the judging panel is Kerry Washington, an actress and a face of L'Oreal. I am too embarrassed to admit that the only movie I know her from is Fantastic Four 2 : This Time It's Personal.
The show starts with Carol Hannah's simple black dress. It is a very bouncy sundress with a snug waist and a very full skirt that ends above the knee and has pockets. (Pockets! You girls know what I mean.) I don't really see how it relates to the feather-and-bead extravaganza that was the inspiration, but it is a very cute, very wearable dress. Althea sends a fetching fashion forward look down the runway. Her pants are very similar to her winning skirt with the same paper-bag waist. The pants flare, but stop at the knee, saving them from being harem pants or jodhpurs. She has paired them with a simple tank with elaborate straps and a grey sweater with a lot of material around the neck creating a cowl-like effect. Her model really rocks the look and it is one of those moments where you realize that having a good model can totally save or sell your look for you. Logan's look is next. It does not look good. The collar he created sticks straight up and is connected to a plunging neckline giving the dress a sort of vampiric affect. The skirt is short and layered with netting and seems to have no relation to the top half of the dress at all and the leather belt that divides the two does not make the look more cohesive. The cap sleeves are made out of zippers and so are the accents on the top. The overall effect is of Judy Jetson going as a vampire-biker for Halloween. He is proud of his work and thinks it is not something you will see anywhere else. For really good reason. Sigh... he totally pulled A Christopher. Irina is next and her color palette and oversized knits tie her two looks together cohesively. Her model unwraps the oversized brown sweater revealing the brocade strapless form fitting mini dress underneath. It's cute although I still don't like the color palette. Following Irina's success is Gordana's drab look and you can already tell it has FAIL written all over it. The grey suit jacket is long and fits the model well, but the collar is flopping around like a forlorn flapjack and looks sloppy and unfinished. You can tell Gordana thought about it -- and she claims to love the look she sent down the runway -- but it doesn't work. Christopher's dress explosion rounds out the show. He seems to have taken exactly none of Tim's advice and the dress is as large and in charge as Divine in Hairspray . It is not fun or youthful but is a black halter with a cascade of grey "petals" and white ruffles. When his model turns you see the petals trails up the back of the dress. It kind of looks like a raccoon tail (not in a good way). Christopher claims he took the judges' words to heart and really stepped it up. He didn't do anything safe or simple, but really pushed it. Oh honey, all you pushed were the boundaries of good taste. He has a huge smile on his face as his models bushy tail trails off the runway.
As there are only six designers left, all the models join their designers on the runway and the judges sneer at everyone. Christopher is first and he tries to explain what the hell he was thinking sending that dress down the runway. He explains that he totally thought the challenge was to create a wearable dust mop and he completely owned it. Nina thinks it is so bottom heavy that it looks like a parade float. Nick's mouth thinks it needed editing, but his eyes say DIE DIE DIE. Heidi thinks it looks like his model took the bedskirt with her when she got up this morning. Christopher nods eagerly like a puppy who keeps getting whacked on the nose but keeps hopping up looking for a treat. It's sad. I'll call the ASPCA to see if they can take him home. Irina fares much better under the judges' gaze. She wanted to create an evening look to accompany her Aspen outfit. Everyone thinks it is elegant and upscale. Everyone except Nina who thinks the tight brocade dress looks cheap. For that, Irina arranges a hit by calling her daddy who is in the Russian mob. You know it is true. Gordana wanted to make an elegant silhouette to pair with her last edgy look, but instead made a sad drab floppy uniform. Nick thinks it looks like an office worker in Poland, Nina thinks the collar and the darting and the length of the jacket are dated. Heidi stamps FAIL on Gordana's forehead and sends her backstage. Is it just me, or does it seem that Heidi saves her harshest words for Gordana? Is there some longstanding ethnic rivalry between Bosnians and Germans? Gordana lamely defends her look by bleating, "I like it. So... sorry." Which is a masterful piece of passive aggressiveness. Like how are the judges supposed to respond to that? Carol Hannah's dress is applauded for its lightness and simplicity. Logan explains that his look is the sportier side of his previous piece. He admits it is on the brink of costumey but he could totally see someone like Pink wearing it at the VMAs. Wow, what did Pink ever do to Logan to deserve that slur? At that thought, Nina makes a face like Heidi just laid a whiffer. Her face is so wrinkled in her obvious dislike for the look that Kerry starts giggling. Nina thinks it looks like student work because the ideas are there, but the look is so unflattering. Nick thinks it is simultaneously '80s and futuristic. So... extra points for time travel? Upon seeing Althea's look, Heidi utters her highest accolade, "I want it." Althea giggles in response. She loves the pants, loves the sweater. Heidi then asks the question that was obviously planted by the producers. She wants to know who had the overblown sweater idea first: Althea or Irina? Irina smirks appreciatively and Althea feigns ignorance. Irina takes the opportunity to point out that she did a big knit sweater look last week, so obviously she was first. Nick isn't really interested. He knows people influence each other when they are working next to each other. Althea lamely claims she came up with the idea independently, which is a defense to copying, but if you have easy access and exposure to the thing you are copying it loses viability. Not that fashion design is copyright protected, because it is not. You can go to Forever 21 and prove that to yourself. Irina continues trying to call Althea a copycat without flat out calling her a copycat, but the judges have moved on. Heidi loves Althea's look and Nina loves the proportion. Irina bites her tongue, but is still smirking. Heidi sends everyone off stage so they can talk about them in private.
The judges mull. They think Irina's outfit was wearable and chic and looked really luxe. They also love Althea's look because she created something architectural but cozy. It was impeccably crafted, too. Carol Hannah's cocktail dress rounds out the top three. They think it is young and beautiful and refined with a quiet elegance that all of them could wear. Nick doesn't argue, so I won't either. They move on to the designers with the lower scores. Logan's look is universally derided as being the '80s idea of the future. Nina calls it an indulgent fashion student project. Heidi remembers that she told Logan to let the judges know who he is and unfortunately he is zippers. (I am Zippers! Here me roar!) Zippers might be the worst clown name ever. Gordana's attempt at edgy elegance was so sad that no one really wants to talk about it. Christopher's dress incites giggles because it was just so misguided. Too many petals, too much material, bedskirts! The have made their decision. The challenged file back on to the runway for judgment.
Heidi reminds the designers that one will be in and one will be out. The designers manage to avoid shrugging or rolling their eyes, which is actually pretty impressive considering how impatient they must be at this point. Carol Hannah is safe. She smiles and leaves the runway. Althea stares down the judges like if they pronounce Irina the winner her hair will leap from its place and strangle them all. The judges take the threat seriously and announce that Althea is the winner of the challenge. Althea's hair settles down as the judges explain that they all wanted Althea's outfit for themselves. Althea readily agrees to the bribe and heads backstage to make her victory lap into Carol Hannah's open arms. Oh Carol Hannah don't be nice to her! She accused you of never making pants! You can't be friends with someone like that. Althea pretends not to understand what Irina was accusing her of, but then tries to distinguish between her hours-long screed against Logan and his collar and the unfounded and cruel accusation made against her by Irina. The difference is that she talked about Logan behind his back, while Irina did it in public. Oh, right. In the end though, she doesn't care, because she won and Irina didn't nyah nyah nyah. Back on the runway, Irina shrugs and accepts her runner's up pass to the next round of competition. I would call it the Miss Congeniality spot, but Irina SO isn't congenial.
The bottom three remain on the runway. Heidi calls Christopher and his ears perk up. He is safe. Good god, can't they just put him out of his misery already? He's been in the bottom for four weeks (or is it five?) running. Just send him home to his parents' basement so he can go back to making slutty outfits for his Barbies. Don't get me wrong, Logan and Gordana both deserve to be in the bottom this week, but Christopher should not be allowed to design another day. Heidi turns to Gordana and tells her that her two looks were not related. Her outfit was sad and drab and dated. Gordana shrugs and smirks, and that little gesture is so infuriating that I am surprised Heidi doesn't storm the stage and crush Gordana under her boots. Really, it was very adolescent like she might as well just bob her head and wave her finger while she's at it. It's like the most obnoxious teenage behaviors in a 45-year old's body. Unsettling! Logan's look was desperate for editing. Heidi calls Gordana's name and Gordana clenches her jaw and glowers at Heidi until Heidi announces that she is safe. Hearing that she is safe, Gordana breaks into a huge smile, hugs the judges, sheds a single tear, and then dances off stage humming "Beat It" at top volume. Logan is out. Holly kisses him auf, he thanks the judges and heads backstage to bid farewell to his former competitors. He is a little stunned to be sent home for creating something so innovative and out there, but he knows he is not trying to design for middle America. He is a rebel, a loner, an Idahoan masquerading as a Seattleite. He is looking forward to the next step and the next opportunity. Pretty, pretty Logan heads out of the competition and undoubtedly into the arms of some (twelve) vixens at the Viper Room. At least we still have Tim Riggins.