This piece caught my eye.
I find the torso area...hideous. Doesn't it look like it's on backwards?
Then the floofy skirt area.....it looks like coral reef. or something. i'm so stunned.
This is a tunic. Looks like someone got drunk/high and then decided to do something "constructive" with their gauge swatches. this poor model looks like she got attacked.
If there was anything that should be what not to crochet, these are definitely it! Whoa!
ReplyDeleteThe audience member laughing in the background is appropriate!!
ReplyDeleteI count 4 audience members who are laughing or giggling. That should be a sign to lion brand that this idea really isn't working.
ReplyDeleteThe top one looks like some sort of tumor methinks. eww and the bottom one, well, I am wondering if that was not the winner of the preschool division of the make your own useless apron competition? Yep, that's what it is. Gotta be.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the expression on the face of the woman to the left of the model in the light cream colored top! The whole audience is laughing at just how beyond ridiculous this outfit is! Classic!
ReplyDeleteI dunno, the first is hideous. But the tunic is rather funky in a deconstructed kind of way-- I can see this being sold at high-end prices to the younger crowd.
ReplyDeleteThe second one is just fug-awful. Fugful?
ReplyDeleteThe design of torso on the first is actually pretty innovative and chic and in line with some of the upcoming styles for fall, including the layers and color. It would probably be way more successful as a whole if it weren't all yarn- i know you guys love your yarn, but the look would be way better with something more formal and drapey like silk.
I think they were trying for the poofy "balloon skirt" thing that's so popular now, but again, using yarn to do that is a big FAIL.
Also, what kind of runway show has such absolutely crappy lighting? overhead fluorescent.... ugh.
Vanna seems to be getting a kick out of it, too!
ReplyDeleteI agree, Tirzah, the audience member on the left is the best part of the photo.
ReplyDeleteAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am gouging my eyes out!
What is THAT purple thing?
Even the audience is laughing at that piece.
Illegal drugs had to be involved with the creation of both pieces.
These are indeed gawdawful. The red and white thing reminds me of an old lawn chair we used to have, with half the threads missing on the seat. I believe in the end somebody sat on it and fell right through. Let us wish a similar indignity on the designers of these... clothes?
ReplyDeleteThe Lion Brand designers must be drinking water from a questionable source or something. Not even the most beautiful and shapely models can make these crochet nightmares look like they ought to be displayed in public places. Both 'garment' (using the term loosely) IMHO are candidates for wool recycling projects.
ReplyDeletethe top model looks like a plum... not to mention her nipples are showing. and how heavy must that dress be??? how can she pull off such a smile???? i don't think she knows that the audience is laughing at her, not with her.
ReplyDeletethe other person is grimacing like "what did I get myself into????? Is she wearing an apron???? i know that some of the fashions these days are a bit odd, but the bottom one is like (fill in the blank). poor model, she looks like a window with a bad paint job, or maybe an odd checkerboard. honestly, does anyone beside me feel that it would be less humiliation to walk around wearing diapers?
Is that Vanna White!?
ReplyDeleteAre you sure these weren't meant to be in the "joke/junk" division of the show? Some one must have been joking as they came up with this junk.
ReplyDeleteTHIS is exactly why we crocheters get no respect and are continuously disabused. Well...this and day-glo grannie-squares.
ReplyDeleteWell someone paleeezzeeeee design something gorgeous in crochet?
Enough with the stuff animals, TP covers and doll dresses.
And stop publishing patterns for ponchos...they're just, just....so wrong.
There are no words in the English language to describe the project in the top photo (excuse me while I fight the sudden bout of nausea) , but I fear that Chessie may just be right about the second project. I can honestly see young people flocking to a high end store to purchase the "tunic". These projects are truly fug-tastic! Yikes.
ReplyDeleteeven Vanna is laughing and she works with Lion Brand.....
ReplyDeleteof course, it is probably better than anything the company I work for would do - imagine a pile of out of date tablets and capsules....wait, maybe that's where the idea for these "fashions" came from;)
Hah, I said you'd do this one...
ReplyDeleteYet again, I'm sure Bjork would love the first dress.
ReplyDeleteThis is the funniest blog I've seen in a long time. I keep scrolling and reading and laughing! The crochet tampon cozies had me laughing so hard I was choking!
ReplyDeleteYou know the sad feeling you get when someone you know has a life-threatening disease? And you try to smile at them and reassure them, but you break down crying, and the dying friend is the one who smiles to reassure?
ReplyDeleteThat's how the girl in the second picture is smiling.
What the first (ahem) dress lacks in the 'lift' department, it more than makes up for in separation though I've always thought of cleavage as more of a crack than a gap. The real question begging to be asked here is "Does this dress make my butt look big?". As for the second monstrosity... I swear I saw that same outfit on someone at the pig auction but I could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteAcid trips and crochet hooks do not mix.
ReplyDeleteActually, the first photo doesn't look as though the model's dress [?] is on backwards--it looks as if her *head* is on backwards. I trust the readers of this blog, of all people, will appreciate the distinction.
ReplyDeleteIs she laughing, or shrieking in anguish?
Hmm, could this, in fact, be a fashion show on 'what not to crochet'?
ReplyDeleteI like the second one. I find it really interesting.
ReplyDeleteOMG it's Leeloos outfit in crochet.
ReplyDeleteAkta Gamat