Heidi sent all the designers to see Finding Neverland on Broadway this week. Their challenge: design something wearable inspired by Peter Pan and the Broadway musical.
The designers mess around at Mood and then are barely back in the workroom before Tim brings them all back to reality: there are only 8 designers left, and now even very good designers will go home. It's almost as if he knows who's going home already.
Designers sing and dance a little bit while working, but Lindsey has a happier song and dance than usual. She designs a green dress which will never appeal to Heidi because of its lack of décolletage exposure, but is less boring than most of her previous designs.
Swapnil decides to buckle down and get to work, and he designs an interesting long dress that doesn't look like he has put more work into it than he has on previous designs. It has an Indian cut and it's fancy but relaxed, so we know he won't go home.
To his credit, Edmund made cigarette pants and a cute fitted crop top that fit the model like a glove. It's pretty obvious that he's made this outfit before. But there's no hint of whimsy or inspiration from the musical until he adds a fluffy purple jacket/vest/thing. I thought it was BAD. He put something really weird on top of an outfit that he's made before and skates by again.
Kelly is inspired by the formalwear that she sees "while standing in line for the bathroom" at the play (most likely because she has never seen a live show that didn't have monster trucks...) and starts designing what looks like a fancy costume for a lady of the night. She has immunity, so the judges compliment her fabric choice, but that's about it. They're too busy trying not to look at Laurie's model.
Laurie TANKED. She buys a fabric with holes in it, uses it as a tube top, and doesn't do a liner at all. Hello...Earth to Laurie. Did she really not think about her model flashing everyone as she walked down the runway? Laurie also picked a boringish fabric to make a weird coat (Tim warns her against it, and rightly so) and then made a weird-looking skort that exposes her model's rear. She sorta covers it for the runway, but the look is bad from every angle.
Merline made a black dress which requires little to no construction, although she did use boning to make an interesting sleeve. Ashley starts making what looks like a gorgeous design with gorgeous ombre purple fabric, but turns out sad (Nina's word).
Candace makes this totally out-there black look with a leather bustier and tulle and TOTALLY pulls it off. I don't have a clue how she did it in so little time, but wow. I really liked some of the layers of the skirt. She (of course) picked a dark moment from the play and went from there. SPOILER: she wins. Duh - not really a spoiler...
SPOILER FOR REAL: Lindsey goes home. I admit that she's not my favorite, and she has deserved to go home many times before. But not this time. She made a ho-hum look, but at least it didn't expose her model's top front quadrant!! Laurie will redeem herself next week, but she definitely should have been the one to go home this week. Lindsey was also surprisingly sweet and not whiny when she left. I felt bad. She will probably be coming back to be a nice, encouraging sewing assistant for the final designers.
Next week: Does anyone have a clue what those hints mean for next week? I was baffled.
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