I don't really get Michael's dress. I just don't like it, it looks like nothing in particular and unflattering in its billowiness. The thing everyone has always said about his winning looks is how beautifully they are cut and this one doesn't look like it is, to me.

Did everyone know they are auctioning off the finished pieces? [link] I didn't until tonight. I'm intrigued by the possibilities.

Eta: I'd forgotten April was so young, she comes across as confident and experienced.

I don't love the quick turn around aspect of the challenge, either, but it's always been part of the show.

All of them? Or just this challenge?

Also, how completely random to do a challenge based on a flavor of gelato. I think I was expecting them all to be really summery, somehow.

The auctions from previous shows have ended and this one hasn't started yet, so I'm not sure, but it looks like all of them.

Oh, very cool. I wonder how it works, though -- you get that actual garment, or you get one made in your size?

They say things like "due to the nature of the challenge this may be unfinished, blah blah blah, as is, disclaimer-cakes" in the terms that make me think it's actual garment, sized for the model, just packed up and mailed to you. Which is interesting.

They didnt focus on it at all but Jerrel's dress seemed to be totally nutbar.

I thought that the dresses were mostly NOT GOOD this week.

Same sumi. I guess that's what happens when you only give them 6 hours.

I'm just glad this seems to be a much better experience for Michael this time around. His last run was so uncomfortable to watch with every single person constantly slamming and attacking him (including Mondo for awhile.)

The time constraint was brutal, and I wanted to shake Not!Tim during her walkthrough when she was chiding the designers for not stepping far enough out of their comfort zones -- if you've only got 6 hours from first sketch to finished garment, you're gonna fall right back on your tried and true bag of tricks. (Kenley's dress, especially: so cute, and so utterly standard and unchallenging.)

I kind of really, really liked Michael's dress, though, especially in motion. Not the wretched color, but damn would I wear that in a heartbeat in a deep, deep blood-red, with a nice severe Louise Brooks haircut and some Deco jet jewelry. In some less old-lady-nightgown color, that dress could look deliciously, elegantly predatory.

Yeah, JZ, a big reason why I didn't like it was the color, so I think that they gave him a break for that since he was constrained by his ice cream choice.

I loved Mondo's dress, despite the fact that I hate the color orange. I would say that I would wear it, but that lovely sexy open back is not an option for the double d