by Chandra Clewley

 

"Wild Card"

 

This week Launch My Line starts off with our boys from DSquared2 coming in with sunglasses on. The challenge is to design their “wild card” or “avant garde” piece for their lines. They have to include sunglasses as their accessory. They have a tray full of sunglasses and the boys ask Merle to pick out her sunglasses first since she won immunity in the last episode.

 

Once Merle picks out her sunglasses, she is given the task of handing out the other sunglasses to the teams. Merle hands the ugliest pair, a hot pink Divo-esque set to Eric and Galina since she can’t stand Galina. Patrick is upset that he gets an enormous, hideous pair of sunglasses that he describes as the type that” women in New York who have just had plastic surgery would wear.” I would describe them more as post-op Glaucoma beauts: http://www.magnifyingaids.com/graphics/product_thumbs/541730.jpg 

 

Coco and Marilyn begin trying to figure out what they are going to do, and like always, Coco is upset and bratty. Marilyn is all about staying focused and keeping her eye on the prize. Coco is anemic, tired and hypersensitive. Is this editing? I mean is anyone this difficult? She snipes at Marilyn for not communicating what she wants, the entire time. Marilyn finally tries to explain and Coco says it is “unconstructable”. Everyone is designing and they are having a conversation after Coco has a hissy fit, and Marilyn is just trying to pacify her to get the work done. When Marilyn asks for advice, Coco says she is going to go smoke a cigarette while Marilyn puts her thoughts together.  Nut job, anyone? Finally Marilyn asks Coco why she is so concerned with her design when every time she designs something Coco says she cannot construct it. Pfft…

 

Eric goes into the Trim Room and comes out with a disco ball silver bolt of fabric to Galina’s dismay. I guess the mermaid look isn’t going to fly (yet again) tonight for Galina. Eric stands behind his fabric and says it sticks with his club wear theme. Galina doesn’t like it. (I, personally, think its fab!) According to Merle, Galina’s been the one driving their train anyway and so when she tells Eric “This is your baby, you gotta love her” about the fabric, it is refreshing to see Eric stand behind the dress. 

 

Patrick’s idea is to design a dress and then shade it with black tulle in a vest over it. He is taking the “shades” idea a step further.

 

Louanna is taking her 1970’s sunglasses and designing a silk charmeuse dress with a train and getting elaborate. It does ring a bit “Scarface” but the dress certainly is not a stretch from the rest of Louanna’s line. The fabric is the same as the first challenge. 

 

The team is rounded up to the break room to have wine and snacks, where Dan and Dean introduce their guest, Lady Gaga! Lady Gaga gives the designers some advice by saying that they should know what shape they are trying to show at all times, and to stay consistent with their styling. She then selects a bolt of fabric from the trim room that the designers must use in their dresses. To everyone’s dismay, she picks out bright red leather vinyl. Suhweet!

 

During the judge’s panel, Kathy is safe with her pretty green and yellow braided dress.

 

Eric and Louanna are the top 2, and because Eric used the red vinyl as trim, he seems to win the judges over by a hair.

 

Marilyn, whose dress looks like it was sewn “cheaply and quickly”, Patrick, whose dress looks “goth, very dark and is a cop out on the red vinyl” and Merle whose slim cut dress and jacket “don’t have enough drama, and have an ugly front turkey neck-like tummy” are in the bottom three.  Judge Stefani Greenfield says “This was me four months in to having my pregnancy start showing.”

 

Merle has immunity so she is safe and it is between Marilyn and Patrick. After the judge’s look at the two lines, they see that Patrick’s is more cohesive, albeit they wonder if there is a buyer for the line, and Marilyn’s has been pretty but not altogether coherent.

 

In the end, Marilyn and Coco’s miscommunication and lack of cohesion sent them home.

 

(I don’t know about you all, but I didn’t see any avant garde or couture in this episode… I feel like if the cast would have taken more risks the judges would have chastised them for the pieces not being marketable…all in all this episode really was a bit bipolar for my taste…pick one LML: marketable or couture?)

 

Catch an all new Launch My Line next Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Bravo!

 

 

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