I thought Mondo's outfit was adorable.

I liked the bikini and the jacket but together isn't really my thing but they were both cute. I was so surprised and pleased at Mondo's turnaround about Michael C - at the end they were sitting on the couch with their arms around each other. So different than the beginning of the episode. Mkes you wonder how much of Ivy and Gretchen's influence was behind it.

The best line of the night about Ivy was Michael Kors saying "she's a seamstress, not a designer" and I just said "ohhhh snap!!!" All through the episode, every time she was on screen talking, I punctuated her conversaiton with "and I'm a bitch".

Mondo's outfit was cute, but it did scream "juniors" to me.

every time she was on screen talking, I punctuated her conversaiton with "and I'm a bitch"

Heh.

Mondo's outfit was cute, but it did scream "juniors" to me.

Don't teens go to the beach too?

It drives me bonkers that the designers are supposed to design for a very narrow and poorly defined age range, and are raked across the coals if they dare to deviate from Nina's idea of what is "young but sophisticated."

But I think "resort wear" is different in terms of customer. "Resort wear" says to me, essentially, woman of means shopping for a fairly luxe vacation.

Teens go to the beach, yeah, but most teens shop for summer at Forever 21 and Old Navy.

I could see a young Fergie (the singer) in Mondo's outfit. Someone in their 20s. The bikini screamed Katy Perry to me.

Ivy also styled her model terribly. The only halfway interesting thing about that look was the shoulder, and having the model's hair down totally obscured it. She would have been so much better off if she'd had some poor construction to point to rather than stripping her design of all personality so it would be something Mike D (I know that's not what PR calls him, but it amuses me) could sew. It's interesting that no one was taken to task for construction/fit problems, at least that we saw.

OTOH, I don't need to hear the phrase "thrown under the bus" ever again.

Kors calling her a seamstress? Ouch. I thought for sure that was the kiss of death.

I think it was Nina that said you could get a look like Mondo's at K-Mart. Which, also ouch, but as soon as she said it I could see what she meant. I did think it was cute, but nothing special.

I cannot wait to see what "MC Hammer meets Beverly Hillbillies grandmother" looks like.

Just Desserts is giving away dessert through OpenTable today (but you have to buy dinner first):

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Masterchef: Yay!

Huh. That was..well, okay.

(Top Chef. Survivor will have to wait until tomorrow.)