I'm glad you started this thread, I was hoping someone would.
I didn't even know it premiered this Thursday so I had to catch up over the weekend. I love the show and I hope they never cancel it. The first challenge was interesting but I didn't care for any of the results. The only one I kind of liked was Anthony Ryan's. For a t-shirt top and mini-skirt, it looked surprisingly chic. My other top two would probably have been Laura who made the best pair of pants. Viktor had a very nice, chic, clean dress which I thought was well made. I also found something very appealing in Fallene's dress, but then again, I felt something was missing in it.
Anya, while I like her and all, in no way deserved to be Top 3. There were better pants made and that top was just ugly. Take away the fact that she supposedly just learned to sew and the outfit is very not that good. Didn't care for Bert's dress either. I didn't see any 'wow' or 'increased volume' in it at all. In fact it was such a student-y work and not a good one at that.
As for the bottom. I didn't find Joshua's look to be THAT awful as they made it to be. I liked that little jacket. The shirt was harmless. The shorts were tight, but not atrocious. Julie deserved to be on the bottom because well, those pants. I'd probably put Kimberly in the bottom based on that top alone, just awful. And of course Rafael deserved the boot. From the dreadful pants to that unflattering shirt to that who knows what it was 'necklace'.
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