Season 8, Episode 9 - Race to the Finish (Part 3)

Challenge: Create a high fashion look and a ready-to-wear companion piece for a L'Oreal Paris photo shoot.
KORSimile: "And then to style her like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind...I mean, HELLO! She's got all the curtains from Tara ripped off the wall and put into the one dress!"
In Reference To: Michael C.'s High-Fashion look
What's funny is that I'm guessing that Michael C. does NOT get that reference at ALL. He would think it was a compliment if MK hadn't said it in THE whiniest voice ever. But then again, who WOULDN'T be flattered by being compared to the household drapery of a 19th century slaveholder who has three different baby-daddies and steals from dead Union soldiers?

Actually, this KORSimile is pretty accurate. Just look at the curtains in Tara, and then look back to Michael C.'s dress.

Unfortunately, it's not as funny when MK's criticism are actually pretty well-founded. They're always better when they're akin to "She looks like a Trinidadian Medicare beneficiary who teaches finger-painting classes to braindead roller derby moms." WHATEVER.

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Season 7, Episode 5 - Run for Cover

Challenge: Create a look for Heidi to wear on the cover of Marie Claire.
KORSimile: "That peach comes off like Ace Bandage. And then once you crop her, she's literally in some kind of weird jog bra with a V-neck."
In Reference To: Mila's dress


Take it from someone who actually does need a sturdy "jog bra" while exercising ("jog bra"? Really? You design women's clothing, MK. You know what it's called.)-- this girl's chesticles could TOTALLY be restrained by an Ace Bandage. Or regular Band-Aids, for that matter.

We have to say, though, that Heidi Klum in a V-neck "jog bra" on the cover of a magazine would probably sell a lot of copies...

Sure, some of them would end up stickier than your average Marie Claire, but a magazine sold is a magazine sold.

Michael's reaction to Heidi's tits is a pretty strong "meh."

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Season 8, Episode 9 - Race to the Finish (Part 2)

Challenge: Create a high-fashion look and a ready-to-wear companion piece for a L'Oreal Paris photo shoot.
Simile: "I think this weird diamante hoop on her shoulder is just wacky. The only possible accessory she could use with this is a wand...

...It literally looks like 'I love YOU, and YOU, and YOU!'"

Oh, Michael! You love me?? Does that mean you've switched over?

Oh. Well, a girl can dream.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANITA

This post goes out (admittedly, a day late) to special person Anita. Happy Birthday, Ice Fingers.
Put that thumb away, Michael. God only knows where it has been.

Season 8, Episode 8 - A Rough Day on the Runway

Challenge: Create a sportswear outfit inspired by Jackie O.
Simile: "MC Hammer meets the Beverly Hillbillies grandmother...and then the ankle boot, come on. It's like she's making soap or something."
The soap-making part is really quite an astute observation. As Midwesterners, Mike and Caity have visited Greenfield Village many a time, and were treated to very graphic reenactments of Ye Olde Timey Housewifery, which OF COURSE included soap making. Why MK chose to point out the soap-making over the candle-dipping, butter-churning, and chillen-rearing will remain a mystery. That said, these boots do a somewhat acceptable job of distracting from what are the second-most jowly pants I have ever seen.

Can't touch this.

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Season 7, Epsiode 1 - Back to New York

Challenge: Create a design that embodies your design style from fabrics that you grab in a mad dash!
Simile: "It's like a huge crocodile trunk exploded all over an evening gown."
Bonus Nina Simile: "She looks like a Hershey chocolate bar."
When traveling down the ol' Hershey Highway, Nina, we think we agree with MK-- this is most definitely an expression of something exploding.

Our real problem with this look is not so much that it's "crocodile" (Caity did a project on the American Alligator in 4th grade for their River Animals unit, and she can lecture you on the differences between alligators and crocodiles and it just so happens that crocodiles are not this lovely, milky, ExLax color) or even that MK is referring to an alligator which has been poached (we really have no problem with that-- we like our alligators how we like our eggs), but more because this looks like what Keri Russel would have worn on a date on that show Felicity AFTER she got all of her hair chopped off and that show jumped the shark. That is to say, this is such a 90s look without including any 90s goodness. Where are the Gushers? Where are the Pixar films? Where is Operation Desert Storm? Those were the good things about the 90s, and you choose THIS bullshit?

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Season 7, Episode 2 - The Fashion Farm

GRATUITOUS ASS FOR YOU!You're welcome.

Season 8, Episode 9 - Race to the Finish

Challenge: Create a high fashion look and a ready-to-wear companion piece for a L’Oreal Paris photo shoot.
KORSimile: "They look like Bridesmaids under the sea!"
In Reference To: Ivy's dresses

The taffeta is always greener

In somebody else’s lake

Ivy thought that this looked good,

But that is a big mistake.

Just look at the poor construction

It is giving Michael fits!

Such horrible color choices,

Just look at the models’ tits!

Under the sea,

Under the sea,

Darling it’s stupid,

Aqua is putrid

Take it from me!

The necklines are crooked and they're whack

Don’t get me started on the back,

You’re a bad designer

And such a whiner

Under the sea!

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Season 8, Episode 7 - What's Mine is Yours

Challenge: Create a resort wear through collaboration with another designer.
KORSimile: “It looks like a weird assemblage of clothes from Forever 21 that were on the sale rack…he’s [Heidi’s] daughter’s personal couturier.”

Actually, MK, this looks more like a random assemblage of clothes on an OLD NAVY sale rack. Don’t disrespect Forever21.

On the other hand, Mondo's hair looks FANTASTIC in this episode. His hair is what my hair jerks off to.

Michael rolls his eyes so far he can see forever

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Season 8, Episode 4 - Hats Off to You

Challenge: Create a garment to complement a Phillip Treacy hat

KORSimile: “If you’re going for a three-day weekend, it looks like you layered your underpants for the weekend and each day you unpeeled and you had a new panty.”
In Reference To: April's resort wear

Actually, this inspires us to come up with a new invention—the Multi-Day Travel Panty! It might look like an “Oops, I Crapped My Pants” adult diaper underneath other clothing, but think of the convenience!

Michael C.’s reaction to how close he is to a woman’s crotch

"Ohhh....nooooo"

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Season 8, Episode 2 - Larger than Life

Challenge: Make a garment that epitomizes the Marie Claire woman to be shown on a billboard in Times Square.

KORSimile: “At night she would feel like she was wearing a satin bedspread, for day everyone in the office would say, ‘is that a walk of shame dress?’”

In Reference To: Jason's "Infinity Dress"

This is Jason trying to explain the "versatility" of his "infinity" "dress."

This is Michael's face as he listens to Jason's bullshit.

Mike and Caity were not so reserved in expressing their displeasure.

Season 8, Episode 3 - It's a Party

Challenge: "Design an outfit using party store supplies."

Designer: Casanova

[Red means click!]

"...a transvestite flamenco dancer at a funeral." ~ MK

KORSimile: "[sigh] Where do I start? I mean, she looks like a transvestite flamenco dancer at a funeral. [Betsy Johnson giggles] I mean, she just does. ... The workmanship is there, but the taste level is just totally missing."

M & C say: Oh, MK! Transvestite flamenco dancers endure the grief of bidding farewell to lost loved ones as often as the rest of us. You'd be well advised to reconsider the potentially profitable untapped market of tranny flamenco funeral attire.

Top left: a mourning transvestite flamenco dancer.