Project Runway: Season 9 (Premieres July 28 @ 9 PM/8C)

Are you ready?!

tbh i did not know the new season was coming so soon until i learned (via facebook, of course) that one of my first-ever boyfriends will be a contestant this season. haven't even seen him in over 10 years! kinda strange to know i'll be watching him on the tee-vee once this starts.

so...

anybody?

thank you for reminding meeeeee

You better believe it.

going to watch. this is the only tv show i like.

I'm already rooting for the old recovering alcoholic guy

rooting for the rich blonde to drink a gallon of anti freeze

dunno if i'm going to watch this - still annoyed by the season 8 finale tbh

BERT!

omg I almost forgot!

Michael, Nina, Heidi, and Tim are like ... I missed them so much and didn't even know I missed them.

<3 tim exclaiming "is that a toilet?"

Did Anthony Ryan say he was a Gulf War veteran or was I mishearing things?
Might as well cut Gunnar Deatherage, he's more of a Metalocalypse guy than a Project Runway guy.
ZOMGLOLZ @ Michael Kors' "I like myself" pocket.

Also, does the guy who just avoided elimination remind anyone else of Michael C.?

Anya's pants were the grossest thing I have heard the judges praise. The fit? The FIT? There was a giant pubic poof and the crotch hung to her knees. I don't think she should have been in the bottom three, but I thought some of the "safe" designs were much better than that. It's like the judges were so amazed that she could sew, they forgave a multitude of hideous sins. I thought the construction on Bert's dress was a little funky, too.

When Baldy McBalderson's look came out on the runway my exact words were, "What the fuck?" I was way more horrified by his look and the jacked up snowboarding pants than by Rafael's stuff.

Elmo, which designer did you used to date?

I kind of feel compelled to pull for the chubby, 38-year-old white lady with glasses for obvious reasons.

the guy i used to date was the first designer dismissed in the pre-challenge elimination! i was hoping he would go far. aw.

I've heard that one day you're in, the next day you're out.

Aw, bummer, Elmo.

tim gunn "thank you petland discount!"

Heidi had a lot of nerve bitching about that Groomed Man's model's makeup with that lipstick on. Dag.

even though the color style was dated, me and my family liked the orange and brown garment in the bottom 3 over the design that won

Me too! I liked the color and the style, too, but I only learn things are dated by listening to judges bitch about them on Project Runway.

Loooool they gave Olivier subtitles even though dude was speaking english. wtf with that accent tho seriously

(and yes, I caved despite swearing never to watch PR ever again. This season's designers seem totally crazeballs so...)

Olivier is from OHIO. He moved to London when he was 16. He is now 22. That accent gives me the rage.

Olivier is from OHIO

he's a scientologist

Gross.

Olivier speaks Madonna's English. Ugh.

Bert was acting like a total diva.

Anthony Ryan robbed.

The fact that Bert didn't even try really bugged me.

anthony ryan seems so sweet. and gaunt. i want to make him a sandwich.

he had nut cancer, cut him some slack

Burt seemed cool at first, he proved he's bitch-made though. Calling him going home next week (predictable).

Really liking the girl who "cant sew"

Really liking the girl who "cant sew"

The one who kind of looks like Cassie (mohawk anyway), aka Miss Trinidad & Tobago, aka Anya Ayoung-Chee.

anthony ryan's was quite nice but maybe too referential to mcqueen? what with the high ornate collar and faux beading effect. though definitely my favorite of the bunch if not the most original.

That Oliver kid is going to be the bane of my existence this season. That shirt he made fit like ass on his model.

Don't forget blond "I'm the Only One Who's Glam, and btw, SPOILED RICH."

btw, finally figured out that Anthony Ryan is not an Iraq war veteran, i.e. it's "I Rock One," not "Iraq I."

The blond from St. Louis is going to be a treat, too, but I feel that the editors are already going after her. She'll be gone in six weeks. Oliver will probably be in the top five gods be damned.

i really hate the vain overly bronzed dude who just had to roll up the sleeves on the scrubs in the 1st challenge and then in the second one rolled up the sleeves on his stupid yellow t-shirt. he isnt even that toned i mean srsly give it up

feel like there are some decent ppl this year tho

Oliver reminds me an awful lot of Miles from Piece of Art in case any of the eight people who watched that show are reading.

Also, has this been mentioned yet?

i kinda like the idea that the blonde woman sitting in the second row is a witch & none of the other contestants can see her she looks impishly knowing but also sinister

if thats the woman who always made those great beach-y patterned dresses then im glad cuz i liked her stuff a lot, if i were a girl i wouldve bought her stuff for sure

oh kenley

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you mean uli? the german woman from season 3 the judges kept telling to make something other than resort wear and she kept making resort wear anyway? that's not her.

i don't see the point of bringing these people back for an all-stars show if they're not going to interact with the judges who already know and loathe them. specifically, i wanna see heidi vs. kenley 2: the rematch.

imo it seemed like last season tim & the judges just stopped giving a shit altogether about the show being meaningful and were more openly hostile towards the contestants than usual. i thought giving gretchen the win was just a big fu to the whole process.

also, oliver isn't a scientologist i was just riffing on that nails song.

So Tim and them are not hosting the all star show, but are they leaving the show for good? Terrible free Chicago commuter paper The Red Eye had a little blurb yesterday that said they were gone (but did not mention the all star show) but I feel like if that was really real there would be a whole lot more enraged blog posts about it.

Oliver reminds me an awful lot of Miles from Piece of Art in case any of the eight people who watched that show are reading.

Fauxcent automatically makes Olivier ten times worse than Miles.

i kinda like the idea that the blonde woman sitting in the second row is a witch & none of the other contestants can see her she looks impishly knowing but also sinister

Man, some of those designers are O_o All-Star choices.

I wonder how many of them are willing to go to jail for stabbing Kenley in the face.

was this ever posted: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/18/kenley-collins-arrested-p_n_176499.html

Without clicking on the link, I'm going to say she threw another cat at someone.

haha no it's the first cat-throwing incident

I mean, the fact that there's even ONE cat-throwing incident! Worst human being ever on Project Runway.

xpost Oh, it's the same cat as last time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/plechazunga/tybe/sytycd/04/kenley_cat.gif

Worst human sure but awesomest Runway villain ever!

Oliver and "I've Been Shopping At Neiman's Since I Was Nine" Barbie might be the worst human beings

How has Ohio not spat Oliver out into Lake Erie

Man that was a whole lot of fug on the runway

Falene looked like the stylists at the hip place where I get my hair cut. She was clearly not emotionally cut out for this show. I wish her the utmost happiness.

I think Kimberly and my 38-year-old, bespectacled, chubby sister were robbed. I am not fashion-aware enough to pick up on this myself, But I guess the winning design was super referential - http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2011/08/pr-winner-winner-chicken-dinner.html.

Tom and Lorenzo otm:

Worse, the designers once again seemed to get no information as to what the judges were looking for. You would think a stilt-walker challenge meant that the whimsical and fantastical were not only on the table, but encouraged. Instead, the judges – and we think they should be a bit embarrassed by this – mostly praised the outfits that looked like regular clothes, except really, really elongated.

seriously thought the same thing, and wondered wtf Michael Kors was on about when he was all "This would still be amazing if it was scaled down". why bother with a stiltwalker challenge then?

I think it would be one thing if the more fantastical outfits were, you know, good. If Chris March made something it probably would've won.

That bullfighter nightmare was soooooooo tragic

thought this episode was crazy boring

I hope this season isn't all bullshit challenges

It’s so Marie Antoinette after she ripped the curtains down and made them into a dress in The Sound of Music.

Stolen shamelessly from Tom & Lorenzo's comment section.

this latest challenge was total garbage and all the designs sucked

poor fallene, she was not built for this game and project runway ain't no etsy store. dude who was her partner needs to get kicked off soon, after that pee-pad napkin dress & horrible tutu.

watching the models walk was really discomforting and weird, i guess we have learned that nothing can make a stilt-lady look sexy if she's lumbering around like an AT-AT in drag

Fallene's partner seems like all he knows how to do is make poufy skirts

I'm upset that truck girl's dress-coat is in the bottom, it looks awesome

They picked the wrong person, but it's not like she was going to be around much longer if she stayed.

I don't like any of these designers so far.

If she could actually sew, Anya would be my favourite because she has an unfailingly great eye for what looks good AND interesting, which comes as much from her beauty queen/modeling background as anything else. But her lack of training is going to let her down sooner or later.

lol @ kors talking abt whoever's green blouse only being appropriate for a joan crawford st pattys day party

also lol @ nxt wk track competition & oliver busting his ass

haha, as soon as I saw that clip I was like, dude probably jetted from Ohio at16 so he wouldn't have to run track ever again, I CAN NEVER ESCAPE HELP ME

i love nina garcia but i thought that challenge kind of set the episode up for boring outfits because she dresses like a normal person, not a runway model. or it's possible that these designers kind of suck? anyway, two boring episodes in a row.

I rewatched the runway. I think trucker girl's downfall was in the construction. There was a couple diagonal seams and the hemline was diagonal too (the two ends didn't match up). The orange kept the dress-coat from being boring. Going up only halfway on the left arm was a nice touch. The grey and dark grey looked fine but I think that using two greys hurt her. However they were sort of sporty like the orange stripe because they were seperated vertically as well.

I think that a few touch-ups could of put this dress-coat in the top 3. She should of grabbed a blue and a light blue...

errr, dark blue and blue

Loved how the guy who's colorblind is all, "That's a great color" during the runway show.

Kimberley's pants were bangin'...and I loved the top. But I kinda liked Anya's jumper too...overall though def a snooze challenge

I'm glad Kimberley won. She got her shit done on time, unlike Anya.

I liked how the designers helped each other out. Cooperation!!!

yeah i liked that, too, and when victor complained about it, i was like how sour do you have to be to call helping people cheating?

And maybe, despite my better instincts, I like the rich blonde?

I *kind* of felt Victor though...if it wasn't for blondie's finishing maybe Anya's piece wouldn't have been so high up?...but it was hard to tell how much was done. Her concept and the design and color were so right on though, I don't really fault her too much for accepting help. But Kimberly's tailoring was A+

those pants were snug as a hug. the way they clinged to the model's buttox was a thing of amazement and wonder

I have completely missed this season bcz I've been traveling but I totally just sat around Abbott's apt all afternoon and watched them all. Johnny Ryan is way adorable and I hope he goes far. I hated the tan personal-trainer guy from day one ("have 2 b kool/have 2 cut the sleeves off of my scrubz/I am so fab!!!") but now I really like him a lot (the colorblocked dress he did for the Nina challenge srsly should have won IMO). I loved Bert from day one but now I really hate him a lot (and Viktor too, though his black two-piece was S T E L L A R). Anya's a treat, but her lack of skills are going to bite her in the ass at some point. Also, I think it was sorta shady she had to have 3 diff ppl help/guide her. I really like Olivier too and I mean come on, dude lived in London for 6 yrs and it's not totally shocking that he's developed a bit of an accent and also he's humble and sort of weird. I think he's a cinch for the top 3. Also RIP Amy Poehler :(

If I haven't called your name I don't like you very much; you can leave the runway.

oliver in top-3 otm

bert is so fukken gangster just laughing in their faces

man i love anthony ryan but he really should have gone home. hate bert, hate josh, this episode was "good" in the sense of dramatic but another stupid challenge. can't they be allowed to design interesting clothes at some point?

josh c. seems like a nice dude, but i did not understand why the judges liked his backpack tshirt outfit.

I hated that Josh was such a jerk and then got praise from the judges for being a good team leader and won an extra victory. Blech.

Yeah on garment alone Anthony C should have been gone but seriously if the judges gave Josh an extra win and sent AC home after Bert was such a toolbag I probably would have stopped watching.

I hated that Josh was such a jerk and then got praise from the judges for being a good team leader and won an extra victory. Blech.

yeah that was a seriously gross moment for me. the whole time the challenge was going on, i was thinking, a good leader gets the best out of his team by listening to everyone and taking them seriously, and i buy that josh and anya have different taste than becky, but they never really seemed to take her seriously for a moment. her designs haven't stood out for me so far, but everything she said about how they were treating her was otm. there is a really gross middle-school vibe to the way these designers interact.

can't they be allowed to design interesting clothes at some point?

idg why the show wont allow then like an extra day to make clothes... the whole 'lol make three outfits in four hours' garbage was so stupid and its obv why they needed to give then the extra five hours but id like a multi-day challenge

bert is obv a terrible person but every1 in this season seems so smug and terrible and incompetent that i kinda relish him just delivering this stonefaced disdain like hes just clarifying what pos designers they are, deal with it style.

yeah not having enough time to design is part of it. also, design an outfit to go with heidi klum's new balance sneaker line? really?

Anya seems like such a sweetheart with a good eye, really wish she had taken a year or more to learn the craft before applying for the show.

I loved that backpack t-shirt outfit!

I am not loving all these whiny bitchy drama-drama crybabies this season. Seems like it's worse than normal. Just sew, you bunch of fucking babies!

I hated that Josh was such a jerk and then got praise from the judges for being a good team leader and won an extra victory. Blech.

― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny),

otm. he's the worst kind of jerk - cocky, oblivious and non-repentant

he acts so entitled, but his designs are really not very good. And it seemed like he won on the back of Anya's dress which kind of annoyed me.

i rly liked cecilia, but i think i understand why she decided to leave. :/

VG totally OTM; I mean, flat-out: Josh won for a dress that Anya designed. That's some BS. I was also pretty disgusted with his behavior, and sure, he apologized and all, but only because he sort of assholed himself into a rut. I just imagine how if (when) he does the same thing IRL outside of a TV show, he doesn't feel remorseful or apologize because he doesn't have to. Totally smug and entitled.

I was about to cry if Anthony Ryan got sent home, and I actually teared up a bit when he was in. I can't remember loathing someone on PR as much as I loathe Bert. Like, him JUMPING THE FUCK UP AND DOWN and giggling when they were picking apart Laura's dress, and also just watching the way he argues with people is so "talk to the hand/I know you are but what am I" etc. Like, you can be a next-level monster and at least be witty/articulate at the same time, but Bert's just a fucking six-year-old in almost every way imaginable. I super hope he has some sort of emotional breakdown on the show and stops being a prick and maybe opens up to people.

Also Becky's whole "May I fetch you some coffee? I"ll be right back" bit was prob the #1 lulziest moment of the season thus far.

Is anyone else watching online ("Oooh, see what Anandra did??")? The streams on the Lifetime website are clocking in at around 64 minutes (with maybe 3 or 4 minutes worth of advertisements), but from what it looks like from their TV schedule, they're airing in 1-hour time slots (which means roughly 40 minutes of footage with 20 minutes of commercial time)? Are the web streams edited with extra footage or what?

On TV the episodes are 1:30

Really?? When did that start happening?

When it switched to Lifetime, I think. Maybe?

Between Bert and Josh I can't really tell who is the worst. Josh flounces around that workroom like it's backstage on opening night but it's like he's just there for the catty backtalk and doesn't have a damn thing to show for all of his attitude. The only thing in Bert's favor is that he has some talent, but so far all I've seen is 900 cocktail dresses from him so I don't know if that's his limit, or he's holding back or what. As a human being he seems horribly insecure and petty and cowardly and rude. I liked him a lot in that first episode but now I want to punch him.

Anthony Ryan is lovely and I hope he goes far, because aside from his tragic look this week he does seem pretty talented. And his southern accent is to die for. <3

Bert's a dry drunk.

i still want to make anthony ryan dinner.

and have him read Tennessee Williams plays by the fire

I can't remember loathing someone on PR as much as I loathe Bert.

i kept trying to remind myself that they could just be giving him the bitch edit but then when he said he couldn't remember anthony ryan's name because he only remembers impressive people or whatever i was like oh hell, no.

his little asides during judging were enough to confirm he's a terrible person, editing or not.

I'm pretty sure is giving the editors an embarrassment of riches.

Until Bert throws a cat an ex, though, Kenley still is Worst Human Ever.

good call there

So far Bert hasn't even thrown Tim's suggestions back in his face, either.

Oooh but I bet that's coming.

I can't remember loathing someone on PR as much as I loathe Bert.

i would also like to submit gretchen and victorya for consideration.

I don't remember much re: Victorya but Gretchen was a different kind of awful. She meant well and was intelligent and had good design, but she wasn't childish and malicious and impish the way Bert is.

Bert is sort of funny.

Bert seems like he would throw a fit if you put out the wrong napkins with dinner.

eh i think that bert is pretty terrible, i'm sure he has reasons to not like young whippersnappers in the work room but you know, it's a competition reality show and he doesn't seem to think he has to actually compete with them

^^ yeah bert making the other designers feel like shit doesnt bother me, most of them need to feel like shit more often imo but his general disdain for the competition itself and his 'im great, this is what i do, take it or leave it' attitude bugs me. like if you're above making shit of pet supplies than go make boring dresses for calvin klein and dont go on this show

let's face it, he's a sour old queen and there's nothing gonna change him at this point, and while the work he's shown is pretty well made and fitted, it's all pretty dull and dated from a design perspective

like, oh what a tasteful little bill blass cocktail dress... again

exactly. does he even know there are pants?

Pants are insignificant. Therefore, he need not remember the existence of pants.

"I laugh in the face of pants. Behold my cocktail dress of zzzzz"

gretchen had a tracy flick quality to her, in an "arguing with the teacher to get her b+ turned into an a- because it would ruin her gpa" kind of way. i don't think was was actually mean or spiteful towards anyone, other than she couldn't understand why she wasn't always winning so it had to be somebody else's fault somehow.

victorya, i can't remember any specific incidences of her behavior but iirc she was exactly like what elmo and lamp are saying about bert, didn't get the "television" aspect of "reality television" and was just openly hateful about everyone and everything involved in the process.

sort of want to see Bert fall off the wagon and smack Josh while Oliver has another panic attack

Wow, I don't remember Victorya at all. Apparently, I have scrubbed her from my head. Gretchen was totally self-absorbed ("Guys, we're making PR history here"), but yeah, didn't have the malice -- Ivy was equally invested in herself and DID have malice.

Recall how Bert says at some point that he's loved every garment he's made so far on the show? Does that include his pet challenge design, where he admitted on the runway that he was fortunate to have

Yeah I'm surprised they let him get away with that with nothing but a chuckle and a slap on the wrist.

I totally forgot about Ivy! She was so hateful. I despised her and also Michael Costello but Bert seems decidedly worse in a way.

Like just that stupid dismissive smirk, ewwww

http://wpc.4d27.edgecastcdn.net/004D27/ProjectRunway/PRS9Episode5_Part%203/PRS9E5P3+18.jpg

yeah, I'm cool with Bert. he's a funny nonchalant old man jerk. good tv

i'm not really rooting anyone on so far this season. not even ol' color blind one nut. cool story bro

I think Anthony C is pretty adorable but I couldn't remember his name for the first few episodes (like Bert lol) and a couple of times I have referred to him mentally as "Cancer Boy" and then I felt really bad.

(pssst his name doesn't have a "C" in it. Unless you're calling him "Anthony Cancer")

oh no... also guilty lols...

I guess I am conflating Josh C and Anthony C WHY DO I HAVE TO REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THESE INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE????

God I am a terrible person, aren't I? I'm just going to cheer for Bert from now on.

my wife just told me there's a former Miss Universe on this season???

yep, anya -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Ayoung-Chee

wasn't she just miss trinidad?
this season is good so far! don't really see any clear frontrunners thus far.
bert is pretty funny - thought he was going to be the cute old guy everyone is rooting for, but he's horrible! in a good way.
bummed all of the colorado ladies are gone -- julie was like an archetypal colorado girl.

uh oh SEX TAPE SCANDAL.

I think you meant "hooray SEX TAPE SCANDAL"

right, just a miss universe contestant
ha yea i didnt know abt the sex tape thing specifically being her but i admit remembering se asian pagaent girls having a sex tape

in my world of sex tape ppl

viktor's got some serious chops, i can see him making it far, his entries the past 2 weeks have been pretty great. kimberly is a contender, too. and despite his shitty leadership, weak output, and undeserved win this week, josh c could make it if he resists his bedazzling impulses and learns to edit his designs and style his models in a more sophisticated manner

I like anya's top hair. I hope it wins.

also i cannot understand how anya's design got a win, the judges are grading on a serious curve wrt her sewing abilities. the stripe & zipper on her maxi dress were terribly finished and the judges would have sneered with disgust at such a simple garment being so poorly executed in any past season. she's got good design & styling instincts but i am hoping her grace period is coming to a close.

thought it was a little lame that josh c was rewarded for being all "you are not cool and not pretty" to becky throughout that last ep, but then again, i guess that's the fashion world in a nutshell?

xp, more like a maxi pad dress amirite?

i think oliver might be the tao lin of fashion

berts was godawful; so was beckys

Bert's was hoorrrrrrrible. Oliver's looked like she was just draped with an assortment of bedlinen.

I'm glad Anthony won because I wouldn't have been able to stand smug terrible diva Josh winning. And him taking credit for Becky's creativity was such an eyeroll. He's the worst.

I <3 Anthony Ryan so so much but srsly his dress looked like it was falling apart and unfinished and i'm stunned they loved it. And BERT'S WAS GROSS!!! Those colors!!! OMG 80's on LSD, arts and crafts, etc. Also why are there so many team challenges for chrisskaes? It's like they saw what a mess the first one was and were all WHOA DRAMA AND RATINGS LET'S DO THIS EVERY OTHER WEEK.

I <3 Anthony Ryan so so much but srsly his dress looked like it was falling apart and unfinished and i'm stunned they loved it.

yeah i have to agree. kenneth cole was otm, it was not well-executed. i love anthony ryan though he is so sweet!

you know, in an early stage of Bert's design i thought it was sort of rad, but the finished product was wack. also was irritated with project runway editors for trying to humanize Bert this episode, what motivated his sudden i need to stop being an asshole conviction?

also i thought josh's skirt was ugly. idgi.

yeah, so did i!! It was total blah.

Overall I think I liked the middle 5 more than the top 3.

Josh's top was too poofy to be wearable

And him taking credit for Becky's creativity was such an eyeroll. He's the worst.
ha, this was great, in a terrible way.
bald josh will be played by david cross in the tv movie.

They should get Kenneth Cole more often, dude was channeling my thoughts.

bald josh will be played by david cross in the tv movie.

agreed.

amy poehler will play the one that was amy poehler

Viktor and Kimberly soooo jobbed, totally deserved to be top 3. And of the actual top 3, Laura got shafted. Love Anthony Ryan, but yeah, the application looked slapped on esp. with the TV closeups. From a distance though, it looks pretty striking.

Liked Josh M's top, but he got it from McQueen, didn't he?

Finally a team challenge that did not produce an endless runway of fug.

Team Chaos brought it imo. That said, Anya's was the winning design? Really? Viktor robbed again.

And Josh M needs to go away forever.

^^^YES to all of that

Viktor killed it.

Josh is like everything awful wrapped up in a horrible cheerful Copacobana shirt. I hate him so much he makes me not want to watch. Ugh.

Anya's dress shouldn't have won in a design contest, but I will say that was the first article of clothing anybody has sent down the runway that I actually wanted to wear, as in I sincerely hope that she produces that in plus sizes because I would wear the shit out of it. So by my personal metric, at this point Anya should win the whole season.

Josh is beyond even being a good reality TV villain. There's no "love to hate" feeling watching him. He just makes me angry and kind of sick to my stomach because he's so awful and unpleasant. Like, I don't even want him in my living room via the miracle of television. If that's editing, the editors should be fired. If that's really how Josh is, the casting director should be exiled.

RIP Becky. I liked you because you were like me, but your stuff was pretty boring. Also you said "chit chatting" and everybody who says "chit chatting" comes across like a prig.

Viktor really, really should have won, but I have to say, Anya's eye has been consistently good. She always makes cute things.

I liked Becky, too, mostly because she was very good at articulating what a jerk Josh could be. But yeah, her outfit was bad.

Rachel Roy + Rose Byrne might be my fave guest judges ever.

also omg what were Josh's team thinking with that theme and those prints? The blond lady actually cracked me up when she was like, "clocks? what is that?" but she should have spoken up! Kimberly also cracked me up by being the only team member who recognized how heinous the prints they came up with were.

also if your suggestion is 'sea amoebas' than yknow, mb try harder

xp yes kimberly is v smart

id say top 3 will be oliver, kimberly, anya

although viktor, anthony ryan, blonde lady, even josh for a villian and hes been mostly solid also, could all make it...idk all of a sudden there are like a bunch of decent designers here?

I know! I was actively disinterested in the "avant garde" episode. I don't even think I paid attention during the runway show. Now I care a little bit.

I think Anya, Anthony Ryan and Viktor/Oliver/Laura will be top 3.

Anya's dress shouldn't have won in a design contest, but I will say that was the first article of clothing anybody has sent down the runway that I actually wanted to wear

Yeah this, pretty much. It's been said, but she does have great style and Bryce should've used the shorts she wore this ep as a template for the awful pair he made in the end.

Still, if her outfit was the first this season I actually wanted to wear, Viktor's was the first that actually made me go "wow" (which is frankly a little sad considering we've already had an avantgarde challenge and a stiltwalker challenge).

I hope Josh goes soon. I reached a point early in that episode where I was like, "Do I really need to be watching this show at all"? He's why I *don't* watch other reality shows. Because I don't want that level of crazy drama. I want to see people make clothes. I don't want to see them dump intestines all over the floor and cry like babies.

So is Anya being a rookie at sewing just a red herring now? Or has it not been as much of an issue because of all the team challenges?

Everyone went with b&w, so I assume that was a printing limitation, but couldn't they dye them?

yeah i would have liked more color

God that number print was so horrible. All their prints bummed me out but that one was like Beverly's Crafts $5 bargain bin circa 1991

Everything looked terrible for Nuts and Bolts. Becky should of stayed just because mall clothes are better than ugly innovative design clothes. Josh's gear coat would of been better as a single top where the floppy parts could of been stitched together (and the back had odd unconnected flappy parts as well). Josh has too much of a thing for coats with holes or strips. The dangly coat thing he had on another episode looked way more flamboyant than fashionable

I was puzzled about how the length of Burt's dress was good. That looked like ass on the tall, slim model.

Speaking of models, Victor's model walks like a drunk Clydesdale. Is that a thing now?

i think Josh complimented Burt on the length of the dress, but i got the impression somehow that the judges thought it should have been shorter. judges otm.

Josh was probably sabotaging Burt by encouraging that length.

Speaking of models, Victor's model walks like a drunk Clydesdale. Is that a thing now?

i think Josh complimented Burt on the length of the dress, but i got the impression somehow that the judges thought it should have been shorter. judges otm.

Funny that for all his affectations, Olivier pronounces his name like "Oliver" instead of the Frenchy way.

He's why I *don't* watch other reality shows. Because I don't want that level of crazy drama.

lol people like Josh are why I watch other reality shows!

It was sad watching Becky go :( but her outfit really was the most boring. And yeah, I thought the same thing re: Josh re: overboard drama that's making the show un-fun. I also actually thought the EXACT same thing abt Anya's dress, like "omg I wish I could wear that"

I cannot believe this season isn't even halfway over

Josh is beyond even being a good reality TV villain.
yeah he's not even very funny, which is what i look for in a reality tv villain. he's just kinda cringe-y.
anyway, becky seemed ok, but really had trouble presenting anything worthwhile on the runway. she's probably a good designer, just not very good at the challenges.

god oliver is such a delicate flower. a delicate flower ASSHOLE.

also what do the judges have against Viktor?

also what do the judges have against Viktor?

i know!

Heidi revealed that she didn't like him when he worked with Bert. Ridiculous!

If he wasn't going to win, then the judges should've given it to Anya. I don't revile Josh like you guys do, and his look was very classy, but his didn't wasn't the least bit interesting compared to Anya's (much less Viktor's), plus when Laura said it looked like his client was going to a funeral, that was the only thing I could see.

Yeah I didn't think Josh should have been rewarded just for being simple. And that's kind of what it was. It was a cute dress but it was no less off the rack than Bert's.

I was lol'ing so hard over Oliver's terror of "OMG BOOOOOBS!!!" He's such a weirdo. SUCH a weirdo.

I didn't like the sleeve on Anya's thing. I feel like Viktor should have won.

I feel like Viktor should have won about 13143223254 challenges by now.

Oliver is like the very worst stereotype of fashion-y people come to life - "I don't want boobs, I just want them to be flat, I wish they'd just shut up and wear what I tell them to." Who knew there was such a monster in that precious little head?

Oliver seems insane. and yeah, Viktor really should have won. again.

Olvieieier only wants to dress boards. As in literal pieces of wood purchased from Home Depot. Flat, boobless, don't talk back.

The challenges where the designers have to make clothes for non-models and they all shit themselves in terror about how faaaaaat everybody is just make me sad.

i think this batch of designers is particularly bad about that. maybe they just lack experience? and are also assholes? i feel like in previous seasons i've watched there was at least one designer who had made plus-size clothing previously or was fat him or herself and some level of familiarity with making clothes for regular people as opposed to models existed. (this episode had me missing Korto, for example.) i mean, none of those women was even fat, but the designers struggled with accommodating their bodies. with the exception of Bert, i guess.

Korto <3

i did lol when Barbie was all "I dress a lot of Barbie types." you don't say.

I liked that the woman went full-on Barbie, but I wish the colour of the dress had been a bit brighter, seemed muddy?
Lots of drama for Olivier, ummm forget her name but the other girl who was sewing right to the end.. just to hit the middle?

Also, TLo call Olivier "Precious Moments" which I think is 100%

Also, liked that big hairy dude seemed to know his wife's style better than any of the more groomed men. Even if it did result in a cheerleader uniform - I enjoyed the dress but can see the criticism there.

With Josh's, I think the neat thing was that the dress could be any colour fabric and/or lace trim and all reasonable colour combinations would have looked really sharp. Like the 'model,' I want all the colours. She was so cute when they suggested it could be another colour. Did she say 'more dresses!!!'?

What was that amazing line Olivier spat out? "These boobs... are such a problem to me"

"These boobs, to me, are trouble."

actually my favourite part of that was him asking Tim Gunn about double-D cups, and Tim's deadpan reply. "I just know it's a bra-size, I don't have any personal experience with it, Oliver."

(Lol but also kinda sad - here are two dudes who make clothes for women and they have no idea what women's bodies are all about. :/)

The worst was Josh whining about how haaaard it was to design clothes for non-models. Like, uhhhh....

For real. It's not like there are enough models or people shaped like models to financially support you, homie. You're going to have to design for the lumpy, misshapen rest of us if you want to rely on clothing design as your main source of income.

you know the crazy people who proclaim that gay male designers like to dress skinny, flat models because they are so boyish? in josh's case think it might be true

Maybe he's just lazy and unskilled.

as in, this look from his final collection xp

wait, Oliver, i'm not sure how you feel about Ewan's body; could you clarify? good riddance.

shit. forgot it was last night, spoiled myself. ah well. bye bye olivier!

he will not be missed by me. good luck to him with designing high fashion looks for elves and nymphs or whatever magical woodland spirits exist in his affected country of origin.

also, how did anya manage to completely fail at making a caftan!? of all people.

viktor continues to turn it out. the kid's got skill and taste.

yeah viktor is kind of a marvel. he works so well and so fast.

word viktor so so killed it this wk
this was an awful challenge tho

So was this challenge to make Widespread Panic look like a bunch of assholes?

Going back some:

Heidi revealed that she didn't like [Victor] when he worked with Bert. Ridiculous!

― licking your challops (Tape Store), Saturday, September 17, 2011 2:35 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Like, did they not hear about how Josh picked a fight with Bert as well?

Anyway, so many unintentional lolz, esp. the designers calling this band "rock stars," or Viktor saying, "I love Rolling Stone, and Marie Claire."

this was an awful challenge tho

And I know that the bumper was made with some gratuitous editing, but the part where Tim worries about the exposed zipper drawing attention to the guitarist's crotch, and Josh is all, "IKR???" is spittake-worthy.

viktor trying to work in "crispy" as a thing wrt menswear and then being all "aw, fuck it"

project accessory w/ molly sims?!?

viktor shouldve won again imo
lol @ joshua not knowing what the 70s are
bird challenge next week could be horrific

anthony ryan had been falling down on the job a lot recently and i think he deserved to go, but he was such a doll! though viktor once again did an amazing job of pulling together well-made stuff, i was okay with his not winning this week. there was something kind of blah about his outfits, maybe just the palette. if you get to do the 70s and don't use color it seems like kind of a waste to me. my favorite was bert's roller-disco outfit tbh; that's the 70s aesthetic i love. josh's pants were one of the ugliest things ever; wtf?

i was okay with anya winning; that jumpsuit was really cute. i think she is maybe not as talented with tailoring/execution as Viktor but her taste/vision is my favorite of the remaining designers. also it was the 70s challenge! she looks so 70s all the time!

Thought josh should've gone but I get why they'd wanna keep drama-rama around a bit longer.
l
must say that anya reallly impresses me, even with her lack of skills - happy that she won. Loved that jumpsuit, and I hate jumpsuits usually.
really liked bert's cute little dress too.

what's that stray l doing there? woops

I don't know. The "Anya, who taught herself to sew four months ago and is also beautiful, loses her money and makes it work* and wins omg" felt like blatant producer manipulation, especially when you compare her stuff to Bert's (agree something about Victor's was a little flat) and ESPECIALLY when the Piper Lime lady is like "oh hey Bert we're going to make your look, too, because it will actually sell and isn't just a giant pair of pants made out of a fabric Heidi liked."

*or not really, IMO.

Meh.

I mean, look at this:

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/sites/mylifetime.com/files/images/2011/09/29/pr9-ep10-anyaheidi.jpg

It's fine, but it doesn't take much skill to make and since when does "fine" win challenges this late in the game? Since it makes a good store, I guess, which bums me out bc I liked PR to be about the clothes more than the story.

Also Heidi could be standing in the corner of my apartment in that picture.

Bert's dress is sold out on Piperlime. That jumpsuit is still available, though!

Heidi is not currently in our apartment.

Bert's dress is sold out on Piperlime. That jumpsuit is still available, though!

― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, September 30, 2011 10:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm consumers

(Bert's dress is also $100 cheaper)

Josh's outfit made my eyes vomit. WTF

anthony ryan had been falling down on the job a lot recently and i think he deserved to go, but he was such a doll!

This otm so much! Kind of though it was interesting how much they bagged on the granola-ness of his looks, considering the winner of the previous season.

Josh's outfit made my eyes vomit. WTF

This episode is lolzy with amazing Nina faces, that look she had when she saw the back of Josh's face needs to become a gif, as does her face when Anthony Ryan said that the '70s was all about weed smoke to him.

Predictions for top 3:
Viktor (duh)
Bert (from the edit he's getting, especially lately -- wish we'd gotten more of Dirty Berty than Douchebag Bert)
Kimberly (last spot is a tossup; at one point I thought that Josh was a lock because the judges seemed to love him, but Anya has gotten mad camera time and judge praise, and I'd be curious to see what she can design given more time, but realistically, Kimberly ought to be in over her)

If someone does bad up until the final 3, barbie designer could be going just because she is consistent

I am so upset and confused and dumbfounded w/ Anthony Ryan over Josh W T F

Josh is better tv.

someone shop berts face onto
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2004/08/06/Birds128.jpg

thought Anya was being a total bitch not helping out Josh after she got so much help before but at the same time loooooooooooool

judges need to get over their collective girlcrush on anya tho

I just wish ONE of the judges had looked at Anya's dress a little more and said, 'um...so how does one actually get INTO the dress, Anya?'. I mean, I know that's not how they judge and yes it's Project RUNWAY not Project Seamstress but holy fuck. My hope against hope is that if Anya does make it to the final 3, the person who can actually sew worth a damn amongst the final 3 actually wins. Please for the love of god make that be so.

This challenge was set up very strangely. Make 2 dresses but only put out one?

And can I please see some individual challenges now. Jesus.

"My hope against hope is that if Anya does make it to the final 3, the person who can actually sew worth a damn amongst the final 3 actually wins."

Nah

design/vision/conceptualization > sewing skills

Agree with your last 2 points though.

lol @ the idea that any1 but anya wins this season

I knoooooow but aggggh. Sewing skillz is half of why I ever started watching this stupid show in the first place.

Can I just say that I loved when Tim gave Kimberly a hug...so sweet and it was SO the right thing to do. You could tell that she just needed to hear a few encouraging words from the Gunn and she'd get her mojo.

His hug taps are hilarious, but yeah, much needed for her.

That wonder woman comment about Burts was otm.

Oh that bodice was Halloween Superhero Costume 101. He's such a fucking PRISS about stuff he doesn't like, I don't know why he can't just get over himself and make soemthing that looks good in a color he doesn't necessarily like.

These people. Honestly.

Burt made a *ton* of garbage on the show.

Oh god, and wasn't he making some kind of tragic hooded things as well? I PRESENT MY 'WATCHMEN' COLLECTION FOR 2011

Anya is v. v. pretty

so far that is the only opinion I have formed about the season

lol, otm.

and her speaking voice is so beautiful. the pr producers must have freaked out when they watched her audition.

i have come to the conclusion that Jenny is otm. about everything, actually, but specifically about how i'm getting played by the Anya narrative.

i haven't watched the most recent episode, though.

I don't begrudge her win quite as much this time, but that's because nothing else looked interesting to me so I could at least see where the judges were coming from. I hated the dress she made (it looked vaguely labial to me, with a big vertical smile pleat down the front) but honestly I kind of just don't care anymore.

Like I'm as bothered by the sudden shift to Petty Conniving Beauty Queen Who Can't Sew as I was by the whole Pretty Sweet Designer Who Can't Sew, because she should have been auf'ed weeks ago based on her work. Keep people around for drama/plot development, fine, but don't make it so f'n obvious. It's insulting.

This is a really boring season, but I'm not going to stop watching now.

hee hee, i fell asleep during the runway segment last week! don't think that's ever happened before. otm about it being a kind of boring season. but i still love it, who am i kidding. my work is doing some kind of project with faleene this week. so exciting.

Oddly enough, this is prob my favorite season in awhile. Prob because all the designers that I despised were kicked off pretty much in order of dispisel.

I was surprised that they were already down to six, it still feel like a new season to me.

Ha ha.

Waste of time.

anya's 3 looks sucked hard

That was such bullshit, I can't even care.

that gold dress was like the statue of liberty played dressup in a arts and crafts store

Thought Josh's three looks were the best but thinking that based on an entire collection that Viktor will take it home.

ugh viktor's looks were stupid except for the 2 prints he used which were nice. otherwise it looked like banana republic. josh's were definitely the best, except for the back of that dress.

Josh grabbed the 3 things with the most black - all of which were made with him wearing "I must make things less cheap looking" glasses that Tim Gunn gave him. The first coat and shirt were rockin. The second outfit was decent but the top collar thing reminded me of a plastic dog harness. The last outfit was a terrible idea coming from an absolutely terrible taste level. Josh would be nowhere without the critiques he received this season and style influence from the other designers

That was so lame. That gold dress was...I can't even. Even from the runway walk you could see the hand stitches in what were barely even pleats...and up close you could see how badly she'd oversteamed the fabric. The swimsuit was pretty bad. This season has been a joke, they've spoonfed Anya the whole way.

and WTF was Kimberley's collection. I don't even WANT to see the rest of it.

Josh's jumper-gown was LOLOLOL "Olivia Newton John pants"

pics of josh running track were incredible

id be p surprised w/ any outcome where viktor doesnt win

It will be a miraculous come back by Anya.

;_;

C'mon it will be worth it to see josh explode.

Please let it be Viktor

How many days do they have to rework their collection?

Viktor deserves this

I think they have 3 or 5 days?

I thought three of them had at least one look that blew me away -- I'm just going to say I loved Josh's last look coming AND going, i.e. I have no taste -- and Anya was the clear weak-link. I love Anya, but yeah, I'm kind of fearing another Mondo wuz robbed thing.

BTW, I wondered the other day, does Tim or anyone else from the show visit the decoy designers at all, just to make their collections look presentable? (Also, wondering if Anya got to the first top 4 simply because Tim wanted to go to the Caribbean.)

It pains me to say it bcz I reely adaw her soh soh moch but like srsly Anya should not be in the final 4, she's clearly not going to win, and the producer manipulation is, as stated above, insultingly blatant. Can't she just get her own goddamn show? Please?

she'll probably be on PR All Stars

god what an awful season. I love Anya, but yikes. Team Viktor, but totally expecting either an Anya or Josh win. UGH.

LOL @ pics of Josh before he discovered tweezers though.

this show is garbage and is now dead to me

Can't she just get her own goddamn show? Please?

Insert sex tape joke here.

Of the designers that didn't make it to the final four, Barbie's collection is the best . Oliver's is weird (and not a good weird). Bert's is classy/plain and occasionally old fashioned (and he has a couple goddess dresses). Bryce shows that he shouldn't of made it so far. And Anthony Ryan jumps on the Aztec print/trapezoidal cut bandwagon (his ugly closer made me close my eyes)

Quite a few of the designers have see-through tops. Is this an in-thing right now?

I don't even know what to say about this season.

Dell and I just watched it and he's sobbing hysterically.

Also TLo p much said everything we've all been saying re: producer manipulation

http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2011/10/pr-all-over-but-the-shouting.html

Suuuuuch bullshit. Motherfuckers.

speaking as someone who watched 40 minutes of one episode of this season, this result pleases me

>:(

think i liked kimberlys the best of the last 4

Can we please talk about Josh's crazy-person shorts?

You have got to be kidding. She made ten v-neck pillow cases and won? I am flouncing. Fuck this show forever.

Josh's crazy person shorts should have walked away with this.

Jeff (with pillow on his head): Do you like my hat? Anya designed it for me.

It's an original. She loves me.

Surely each season has its own merits. Future seasons may have better designers

So Uli copping all that shit back in Season 4 for too many tropical dresses...for relying too heavily on prints......apparently that's not a thing any more.

Ugh this shit makes me so IA.

I know I shouldn't find this funny but the fact that I deciphered 'irrationally angry' from IA kind of cracked me up

"Only On ILX"

:)

OTOH, we did find out that she's half-Asian, so there's that!

All-Stars premieres tonight!

i read the judges are different? is there one (1) tim gunn?

On the bright side I don't think this could possibly be worse than last season

oh shit I need to dvr this

its like i didnt know how much i missed mondo in my life

I'm already cringing at Kenley's air-raid-siren voice

omg kenley's back?? ♥
(Keep the cats away from her.)

Haha, Elisa is such a treat.

I forgot how rich and rewarding Elisa's lol's are. Holy nutbar.

Top Chef is to Runway as Chopped is to 24 Hour Catwalk. I love Alexa Chung.

Whatever judges they bring in seem intent on hosing Mondo over. ;_;

Rami's was pretty awes, though. It didn't seem like total injustice.

Well, if his first season is any indication, he's going to run this one joke into the ground, which is the sense I'm getting since his ahem winning look cribbed so much from the look he brought in.

Also, so so not looking forward to hearing Michael C's voice again. Why him and not Chris March?

Ugh Michael is so annoying. He reallllly pushes his humilty into faux territory.

A lot of times on PR and Top Chef the most eccentric person went home first. I would of liked for Eliza to stay

well she would have had to have made something other than winged underwear to make that happen

<3 sacred geometry <3

damn michael costello is so annoying but that dress is GORGEOUS

mondo has to win this thing though or i'm quitting

why isnt santino in this

michael c str8 murdered this challenge

lol'd so much @ the ad for this - http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/sexting-in-suburbia -- if someone would make an mp3 of "she broke the 1st rule of sexting...never show your face!" line theyd be a hero

yeah I hate that I loved Michael's dress, lol.

Serious wtfs over SweetPea & Kara's
empire-waist taffeta hideousness.
Those models looked like PREGNANT ZEPPELINS.
Am I alone in this?

http://beopened.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/you-are-not-alone.jpg

;_; ty

definitely not alone. i remember liking sweet p but maybe it was just as a...person? seems like she'll be going home soon.

yeah she's really kinda terrible, huh?
I remember liking her too.

seems like she'll be going home soon.

h8 2 break this to u, but...

lol wait was she the one who went home? i am such an idiot. i don't remember the last five minutes at all for some reason.

April's dress was kinda hideous too, like her model got attacked on the way to the runway. Her Alice in Wonderland/hot topic goth thing is sooo cringeworthy

And I often like her, despite that

I <3 Sweet P so much, but seriously, they cast her for being (can't avoid the pun) the sweetest contestant ever, not because she can design. -_-

yeah, pretty much

I still have nightmares about that color-block dress she did the week before

Ugh I just watched first ep and it seems like some low-budget public access version of ProjRun with awful editing and an even more awful host. What the fuck is this show?

I know. It's not great. But it's all we got ;_;

yeah it seems pretty "off" at the moment, like they're training interns in the editing room? but part of the weirdness is having it be so similar in format to the real PR, but w/o the familiar recurring faces -- gunn, klum, garcia, etc. also, i guess just the boring-ness of already knowing each designers' personality style. i dunno, i'll stick with it!

Joanna or whatever her name is, Snow Queen, seems kind of terrified whenever she engages with the designers in the sewing room, like she's going to sprint off to the bathroom & wash her hands

ha, with her, i find myself wishing Tilda Swinton was the "mentor" ... that'd make things interesting
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2011/08/joanna_coles_a_p.jpgp
http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/42433/tilda-swinton_M_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg

24 Hour Catwalk > Project Runway All-Stars

24 hr catwalk is kindof a trip

"designers must incorporate the clown mask"

alexa chung is dope tho

indashio is the worst person

This was such a weird episode, half-surreal, half-earnest. However, I couldn't tell if Not-Tim Gunn was sincere or ashamed and debased out of her English mind when she was talking about the international superstar Miss Piggy.

The worst thing about having Michael C. as an All-Star is that Ivy is too weak a designer to have around so as to strip away his unctuousness.

His terrible 'do you have a date' to Miss Piggy, I'm sure even she gave him an eyeroll.
Austin's dress with those bows was all kinds of wtf. How was that ever not going to be a bad idea.

I finally realized what Kenley's laugh reminds me of!
"You ever hear of a ritual killing? Aheheehehehehe"

http://youtu.be/vdG5lmB_MOk

♥ Kenley.

"very sarah jessica parker circa 1999 meets 2002....but futuristic"

This season is the worst, just not interesting at all.

"very sarah jessica parker circa 1999 meets 2002....but futuristic"

idk what's more remarkable: that anyone would even actually say this, or that this garbage talk actually represents a communicable idea

the occasional showstopper dress aside, michael is p the worst imho

I dunno, I loved this episode, notwithstanding Anthony going home. TT_TT He brought so many lolz, he will be missed.

them having to get clothes from ppl was p classic

thought jerrell prob shouldve gone, ya will miss anthony - lol @ his comeback to being questioned abt getting that dude's shirt ~ theres no accounting for how much inspiration matters!

I love how the only criticism of Mondo's was "it's too styled". Really.

Jerrell's look really should've been styled with a big fruit turban, no?

Anthony going up to people on the street and talking them out of their clothes -- this is a reality waiting to happen, no? Get on it, Lifetime/Bravo!!!

I was dearly hoping that at the beginning of the challenge, one of the designers would ask not-Hodi for her clothes. /straight dood

Clearly this "all-star" season is a test run to see if the PR brand can thrive without Hodi/Tim/Neeners/Kors/et al.

I love how Jerrell was all "imma be in the top 3!!"

i dont want to talk about Michael's whatever-that-was except to say NO

really dont have a prob w/ the replacement judges but timothy gunn is essential

Tim Gunn, I mss him ;_;

miss, even

tbh I do not actually miss the regular ProjRun crew -- I think the commentary this season is much more insightful and thoughful, the mentor lady is giving better critiques than Gunn has in years, and the judging is thankfully not focused on repetitive "DISCO SNOWBEAST ON PROMNIGHT" michael kors zingers. i don't like not-heidi but whatev

Jerrell wasn't THIS tacky in his original season, was he?!

Austin = "The Silent Killer" hahah

This was kind of a cool challenge. Was bummed that Mondo didn't really get it together. I'm kind of glad Jerrell is gone, I just think he has really bad taste. He gets super caught up in the concept and is kind of looking at the model like a clothes horse, like "look what I can make" instead of "look at how good she looks"! But the one thing I did always like was his commmitment to his design. Even if it was the fugliest thing on the planet, he would happily stand by it.

So, sausagefest.

Okay I haven't even finished watching the finale yet but the Marie Claire exec assistant wearing a BASEBALL CAP indoors made me want to smash something.

As you were.

That's why he's working at Marie Claire rather than Vogue, no?

I guess. Maybe the regular guy is on vacation and they've got the bike messenger pulling double duty.

Mondo was kind of a dick this episode. It was kind of disappointing. Keen to see his collection though, loved the Rorschach prints he made.

Major LOLs at Anthony's reaction to Austin's "Fragonard, Madame de Pompadour meets 21st century rock-star, Williamsburg Hasidic gentleman" I love Austin's work for the most part normally but I have a feeling his collection is going to be O_o
Those bloomer things are just...scary

Michael, I have no idea. But yes let's make another draped white dress as your final piece, just to remind everyone 'Here comes Drapey Ole Michael' ffs

Hopefully that'll be Michael's downfall.

zomg Anthony, he should have had permanent immunity or something, every other thing he said was lol.

Mondo was in his own headspace, and keeping in mind the editing, I don't really see what was outrageous about his behavior. He's not really under any obligation to interact nicely with the other contestants, and was working through his own malaise.

I am likewise curious, though, to see his crazypants inspired crazy pants, though I also want to see the rest of Austin's pieces (I'm still on a buzz from his rave gotherina from a couple challenges ago). I think the bloomers are for two models to wear at once, conjoined-twins stylee.

hahah

yeah I dunno, I get that Mondo's tired and whatever but he was just so sulky and pouty I was kinda annoyed.

That one guy rated "best dressed man" was wearing a baseball cap when he was judging... not to excuse the white guy for doing it in his place of work

season was worth it for "its called austin scarlett and its a story of a vampire from the 18th C who has lived many hundreds of years and now resides in williamsburg and occasionally borrows clothes from her hasidic dandy friends"

^^^^^

The reaction shots of the baffled audience did it for me.

I couldn't bring myself to look at the tv, I just stared at the floor awkwardly waiting for him to finish...so much secondhand embarrassment

that wedding dress was freaking beautiful though. The way it moved! Wow. I don't like marshmallow wedding dresses usually but goddamn.

(Just wanted to assert my straight-dudeness and mention that the rack on the model who wore Mondo's Rorschach was like woah.)

HA yeah she definitely gave it a 90's flygirl look (re her nice curvy bod), much appreciated

lol you really are an Americaphile.

Guilty as charged