Famous Designers

Who wants to be a Grammy girl?

The girls went to visit the Grammy muesum to see all of the exhibits. The girls then got to meet Neil Portnow, President and CEO of The Recording Academy. He then proceeded to inform the girls that one of them will be chosen to be a "Grammy Girl" for the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards that occurs in February 2011.

The girls were put in pairs and had to go pick out outfits that they think are worthy of a Grammy girl. The only thing was that the girls had to pick out the outfit for their partner and not themselves. The winner of the challenge was Kayla.

This weeks guest judge and fashion expert was a photographer Francesco Carrozzini. He took the girls photos during the photo shoot this week. The girls were each assigned a famous designer to impersonate in their photo. The designers were Alexander Wang (Ann), Vera Wang (Kendal), Marc Jacobs (Jane), Vivienne Westwood (Kayla), Carolina Herrera (Chelsey), John Galliano (Liz), Betsey Johnson (Chris), and Christophe Decarnin (Esther).

Liz won best photo this week and elimination came down to Kendal and Esther. In the end though, the judges did not feel that Kendal had the personality and overall presence to be a good model, so she was sent home.

The photos are Liz, who won best photo, and Chris.

I liked this weeks episode. I was really disappointed though that a lot of the girls did not know who their respective iconic designer was. These girls want to be in the fashion "business" and that means, at least to me, that they need to know who is in the "business". Chelsey was the only one who seemed to have any fashion knowledge at all. Liz's photo was really good, but I feel like she got lucky. She didn't know who the designer was, but when she was looking at photos of him she saw that he raised his eyebrow a lot, so that is what she did in her photos. She appeared to have just gotten lucky with her photo. She did break Ann's winning streak though so that was really good, but then Ann started complaining and losing her confidence. Ann sometimes gets on my nerves. She is so good at modeling, but is she doesn't win, or get compliments all the time she loses all of her confidence. She is really irritating when she is like that. All of the judges tell her week after week how awesome she is, PLEASE GAIN SOME CONFIDENCE FROM THAT!

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I do not own any of these photos. They are the property of The CW. You can check out their website here.

Pretty Women

Pretty Women, walking down the street.

So if you are not a fan of awesome 1980's

Julia Roberts movies

then you

probably have no idea

what I am referring to

in which case you

should immediately

go rent (or better yet

buy) Pretty Women

staring Julia Roberts

and Richerd Gere

and watch it. Go. Now.

Now if you have scene the movie then you know the iconic movie

scene where she (Juila Roberts) go shopping on Rodeo Drive in

Beverly Hills. That was the inspiration for this weeks

photo shoots. The girls went to Rodeo Drive and

were put into groups of two, except, because of their

odd numbers, Chris got to do it alone. They walked

with a male model in between each girl and were

photographed.

This was the awesome part of this episode because this week

the girls were photographed by Patrick Demarchelier.

Demarchelier is one of the THE top photographers in the entire

world. He is a "photography Master" as Tyra put it.

And if you have ever seen the movie The Devil Wears Prada,

Meryl Streeps character often asks for Anne Hathaway

to call him. So if you didn't know to whom Meryl Streep

was referring, you do now. I put a photo of Tyra with

Demarchelier at the bottom of this post as well.

One thing that I didn't like about this week's photo

shoot was that it failed to be interesting, set or costume

wise, as it usually is.The only thing that was interesting

about the shoot was that it was done by Demarchelier.

However, even that fact made this photo shoot the most

boring one to watch in a long time.

This week's challenge was also not that exciting. The girls

were put into groups of three, given a kit filled with CoverGirl

products, and then asked to create a presentation to sell the

product. The next day they went to Wal-Mart and had to give

their presentations to customers there and then they customers

voted on their favorite. This was also disappointed, challenge

wise. I was so excited for this episode because it did feature a

legend like Demarchelier, but then I was very disappointed

because it was sooooooo boring. Overall not my favorite

episode so far that is for sure.

Kasey won the challenge for her group because she was

voted as the best person out of all three groups to sell

the product.This however did not save her because she

was sent home this week at elimination. I was happy

to see her go though because she has been so mean

throughout the whole thing and no one in the house liked her.

Ann won best photo, again.

To watch this episode click here.

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I do not own any of these photos. They are property of The CW. You can check out their website here.

Karolina Kurkova

This episode starts off with the girls having a challenge in the 2nd Street tunnel, which was shut down completely for a runway challenge. They girls wore designs by Herve Leroux. The hard aspect of this challenge is that the runway is on a convery belt and the girls have to stop three times in the runway, stepping off the convery belt each time. While doing this may not sound that difficult, wearing ball gowns and four inch stilettos do make it a challenging. The winner of the challenge however won jewelry by SOMEONE. Kacey was the winner of the challenge.

Andre Leon Talley brought international supermodel Karolina Kurkova to visit the girls. She gave the girls some food advice about eating healthy and taking care of themselves.

For the photo shoot this week the girls were photographed in a boxing ring with Lucha Va Voom, a form of Mexican Mask Wrestling. The photographers Eddie and Moshe Brakha, who are a famous father and son photography team. Kurkova joins the panel as this week's guest judge. The results of the photos this week were 50/50. Some of the girls had good photos, some had bad. Best photo went to Ann, again, this week. My favorite photo, personally, was Chris' photo so that is the one that I posted.

The elimination came down Lexie and Jane. In the end though Lexie was eliminated. I was starting to like Lexie so I was sad to see her go. I am still trying to find a new favorite since Rihanna was eliminated, but I have yet to find one. Who is your favorite girl this cycle?

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I do not own any of these photos. They were taken from the CW website, which you can find here.

Matthew Rolston

This episode of Cycle 15 of ANTM found the models riding the roller coaster Silver Bullet at Knott’s Berry Farm Theme Park. The girls had a challenge when riding the Silver Bullet. The would be given a word or concept that they would haft to convey in a photo while riding the Silver Bullet. The camera was a camera that is seen on every rollar coaster. Miss J Alexander and Nigel Barker were there talking to the girls as they rode the roller coaster. When the girls got close to the camera, they would be told their word or concept. So the girls only had seconds, while also riding a roller coaster, to think of a face to do. The winner of this challenge was Liz and she chose Chris and Kayla to go with her to receive her win. The girls got to go to a photo shot and their photographer was Tyra Banks. The shots were for Tyra’s website. After the shoot the girls got to have tea with Tyra and really just talk and get to know each other.
For the girls photo shoot this week their photographer was Matthew Rolston. The girls had their upper bodies made up to look like mermaids while wearing jewlery by Neil Lane, Martin Katz, and Mikimoto. Matthew Rolston photographed the girls literally under water. There was a pool of water above the girls with Rolston above the pool photographing. The photos turned out wonderfully. The girls, most of them, looked gorgeous. Ann won best photo again for the third week in a row. The guest judge this week was Matthew Rolston. The judges loved most of the photos of the girls. The bottom two this week were Rihanna and Liz. Rihanna was sent home because the judges felt that she was not versatile enough for Italian Vogue.

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I do not own any of these photos. They were taken from the CW website which can be found here.