The Glamour of Project Runway

The following contains spoilers about tonight’s Project Runway. If you haven’t seen it yet, I suggest you change the channel, er, uh, I mean head over to the forums to chat.

As I’ve said many times before, I’m not a glamour girl. And believe me no one would ever call me a fashionista (that noise you hear is the collective nod of my girlfriends), but I guess I had no idea how far removed I was from good taste until I saw tonight’s Project Runway.

In tonight’s design challenge the remaining designers (Chloe, Daniel, Santino & Kara) were tasked with designing an evening gown that would be representative of their collection if they were make it to Fashion Week in NYC.

Per usual I liked all the dresses with the exception of Santino’s. While I agree with the judges that Kara, Chloe and Daniel played it safe, I did think they were classy. And if I had a waist of a 6 year old girl, I think I could pull it off too. Seriously, those models are tiny. Itsy bitsy.

Supermodel Iman thought Santino’s dress had “a great editorial”. Wow! I can’t believe Iman and I share the same brain. When Santino’s model walked the runway in his dress, I kept saying “what a great editorial”. (Note to self…figure out what the hell “a great editorial” means). In this context I’m going to go ahead and assume that by editorial Iman meant gawdy and hideous. First off, it was gold with sequins. Gold is scary enough, but with huge sequins draped in pleats…yuck. But those damn pics Santino has of the judges dancing naked at Tommy Hilfiger’s last party came in handy yet again. He stays.
Daniel won the challenge (yay) and tonight we said goodbye to Kara. But let’s face it. No one besides her family wanted her to win, so no big whoop.

So Chloe, Santino and Daniel would battle it out during Olympus Fashion Week in NYC. Actually, their collections have already been shown and a winner declared. But for some reason no one who was in attendance wants to spill. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.