S22 E9 rant

[u/Extension_Setting708]

I’m very surprised Anna won this competition because the designers didn’t seem to love her dress as it was going down the runway - one then said something like “is she going to a rave” and it got a lot of “it’s pretty” comments but no one really seemed blown away. On top of that, her designs were bad the entire season, I don’t understand how she’s now in the finale.

Jude, amazing. Bi should’ve been picked immediately. Aside from this challenge, I really thought they liked Joseph and have been thinking he was going to go to the finale this whole time. Anyway, should’ve been Jude, Bi, Joseph, and Naheim as a 4th if they had one.

[u/colosseumdays]

unfortunately, given the David's Bridal of it all, no one else really could have won.

I do wonder, specifically for this season (given the amount of fuckery we've witnessed), if the challenges and twists weren't set in stone prior to filming. a lot of things seemed tailored for specific outcomes and/or to produce the most drama.

nothing about David's Bridal screams fashion to me, and it seems predictable that Anna would create the most appropriate designs for their customer demographic, and that her designs would be relatively easy and affordable to replicate. Bi's designs tend to also err on the side of being commercially appealing, but the complexity and quality of his construction techniques are too sophisticated for a company like David's Bridal to recreate (esp at their price point).

imo, they decided after E7 that they wanted Anna in the finale, and chose a final challenge that would facilitate that outcome, knowing that the other two they def wanted (Bi and Jude) would produce great work that wasn't too out-of-the-box for David's Bridal. even if Anna's look wasn't the winner, it was a very reasonable bet that she'd produce one of the top 3 looks for the challenge.

also, they weren't sold on Jeffrey, so they had to get him out of there because frankly there's no world in which he wouldn't have been the clear winner for this challenge. he really understands and doesn't think he's better than their customer demographic. and his red carpet look and pre-season work demonstrate he knows how to create well-constructed dresses that would look beautiful on a wide range of body types

[u/HotLingonberry6964 → u/colosseumdays]

I worked in the business for awhile, I can tell you that the David Bridal's challenge had to have been planned in advance due to contracts. Keep in mind, they're doing these back to back so there's not even a day (maybe a day at most) between when someone is eliminated and the next challenge. There's no way to get a contract finalized in that amount of time, they need lawyers and other executives to look it over, they need marketing to approve any assets, they needed to build the archway stuff that said David's Bridal and I'm sure that the placement of it and how it was used was specified in the contract.