Did any of you even remember these looks? We have no recollection of them.
The only thing you need to know about Gretchen's aesthetic is that Gretchen is constantly designing for herself. Everything she's done this season looks like it came out of her closet.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of very successful female designers from Coco Chanel to Diane von Furstenberg have done exactly the same thing.
The benefit is that the designer always has a crystal clear vision. The downside, assuming success is desired, is that you have to convince other women that dressing like you do is a good idea.
Anyway, look: we're at the end of the road for this episode and we have to figure out SOMETHING to talk about, so there's your discussion point.
As for this look, it's fine. Not great, but fine.
It's not a style that we respond to, but there's a customer for this kind of hippy chic thing she does.
Our only real issue with the look is that it wasn't flattering in either the butt or the crotch.Tim Gunn's Workroom:
Gotta give it up for the Bunim/Murray folks, they've turned the phone call home into a total fakeout. Used to be that it always signaled someone's auf'ing. Then it became a red flag that someone was either going to be auf'd or they were going to win the challenge. Now?
Now it just means "middle of the road," we guess.This isn't awful, but there are some fit and proportion issues that make it less cute than it could have been.
We like the idea behind the top. It could have had an easy-breezy, "cocktails on the Lido Deck" kind of feel. We also like the colors and the print she used for the shorts.Herein endeth the part where we talk about what we liked.
The back is grossly unflattering.
We do try to refrain from "NO WOMAN WOULD EVER..." type statements (although the Duchess loves saying that), but we think we're safe when we say that no woman under the sun wants to make her ass look huge.
Those pleats that she loves so much simply don't work in that formation on that part of the body. It doesn't help that they weren't executed all that well, but that's not Val's fault.
Then there are the shorts, which gave her a chevron'd camel toe, which is your new phrase for the week and which you must work into a conversation at least once. Sure, someone else sewed it, but Val was there for the fittings and she should have asserted some control when these were first put on the model.
And finally, while we like the idea of the top and we mostly like the idea of the shorts, we're not sold on the idea of them paired up. A high-waisted short with a split top like that puts the eye solely on the mid-section, which is not where the eye is supposed to go when dressing a woman. The boobs, the butt, the legs, yes. The upper abdomen? No. A lower waisted short (sans camel toe, of course) would have totally changed the feel of this ensemble.Tim Gunn's Workroom:
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