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

I felt bad for all the designers -- so many of them got stuck with nightgown/Easter egg/after dinner mint colors that were gonna look like ass no matter what they designed.

eta: The other thing about Mondo's dress was the neckline; I'm just barely small enough (hovering between C and D) that I can find some low-backed strapless bras that would let me get away with the back of his dress, but that boatneck does no favors for any woman chestier than Audrey Hepburn. It kills me to pass up those dresses when I'm out looking, but after decades of hoping and trying I know by now that it's pointless; that neck makes me look like a fire hydrant with a face.

OTOH, not everyone chose to be literal. God knows that the orange in Mondo's dress wasn't actually in the ice cream. Even Kara only used a little of the brown.