Top Design 4: Don't Crimp My Style

February 21, 2007

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This week’s challenge is to design a post-grad living space for an L.A. design student—a place where someone could sleep, eat, study, design, cry about their student loans and have drunken sex with their former R.A.

It’s a lot to ask of a 12’ by 12’ space but our eight remaining designers are determined to hit it with their best shot.

Unfortunately, they’re all upstaged by judge Kelly Werstler’s brave and crazy decision to have her hair crimped. Though it may have seemed like a fun idea in theory, in practice, it’s a bummer and the normally delightful Kelly seems diminished by it. She’s like a cross between fellow judge Margaret Russell’s nana and Grizabella from Cats. I kept waiting for the reprise of “Memory.”

But back to the challenge and shopping. Instead of being let loose in the Pacific Design Center, the designers get woken up by Todd at the crack of dawn. Todd tells them they’ll be buying all they’re stuff at local garage sales. I wish they had been shooting the weekend Tori Spelling had her yard sale. I think Andrea could have fashioned a charming, folky wall clock out of Tori’s slightly worn voodoo doll of Shannon Doherty. Of course, there’s also a Candy Spelling doll and Tori might not want to break up the set …so bookends maybe?

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