The casting for this show is obnoxious. I am sure there were thousands of aspiring fashion designers who auditioned, and yet they chose to cast almost exclusively based on personality. The skill levels are laughable in several contestants. To give you some insight: three designers have said that they do not know how to sew. They are designers in the same way that every middle school girl says that she wants to be a fashion designer: they doodle dresses but have no idea how to get the design from paper to runway. What did they think this competition was going to be? That there would be a team of pattern makers and sewers helping the contestants with each challenge?!
In the second episode, a contestant pieced together an outfit with safety pins, and admitted openly that he doesn't think sewing is important and STILL WASN'T ELIMINATED.
The other annoyance is that the show has relied completely on team challenges, even in the mini-challenges, with the exception of one event so far in the first three episodes.
On the positive side, the challenges are creative and interesting, just like in Project Runway. Also, in a divergence from PR, the Fashion Show hosts a real runway show with a full audience every week, which is sort of fun.
I will continue to watch, simply because I have a lot of time pinned underneath a sleeping baby. Furthermore, I've got to have faith that eventually those without talent will be voted off and we could be left with 5 or so authentic, talented designers.
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