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Emerging from my ennui to recap the runway.
So, we finally made it to the Project Runway finale, and it's a sad indication that the moment of highest drama, on or off the runway, was Carol Hannah puking in the bathroom.
Although, I might amend that to say that the moment of highest drama amongst me and my viewing companions was when Heidi came out on the runway wearing another horrendous ensemble. She really saved the "best" for last, in a hot pink, shiny "suit", featuring too-tight pencil capris, a weird short jacket and completely incongruous cranberry-colored lipstick. The horror. No, really, the horror. We decided that Heidi has looked less than her usual stunning self this season because Lifetime needs to free up some budget, stat.
Of course I might take the hot pink suit over the bizarre curler-left-in hairdo sported by guest judge Suzy Menkes. Honey, a British accent does not class up whatever that was nesting on top of your head.
Even Tim Gunn seemed to be wigging out pre-runway (and you can read more about his feelings about Season 7 in this LA Times blog post.)
Which reminds me: This should have been the season I loved the most. I mean, I actually got to meet Tim Gunn this summer...I was predisposed to look kindly upon Season 6. Too bad there wasn't a designer to love or hate, and there wasn't a consistency in judging either.
So, since I'm not so excited to talk about the collections, let me tell one last Tim Gunn story. This summer Tide was bringing Tim Gunn to BlogHer '09 as part of their sponsorship. He was going to spend some time in their booth signing autographs, but we were also running a contest for one lucky person to get a "15 minute personal consultation", also planned to be in their booth.
A few days before the conference, we get a call from Tim's representatives saying he's "concerned". Of course, we start freaking out...Tim is concerned? What? What could it be?
Well, he was concerned that 15 minutes wasn't nearly long enough to connect with someone. And that doing it in the booth wouldn't really be personal at all, and certainly not private.
So, instead, he wanted to have the winner comes to his hotel and have lunch with him! In the end, a limo picked her up, took her to his hotel. They had lunch, which he paid for, not letting the publicist pick it up, and he spent over 90 minutes with the winner!
Isn't he simply the best?
[PS-You can read Beth Terry's recounting of the tale here at her blog, Fake Plastic Fish.]
OK, back to the less warm and fuzzy matter at hand: The final runway collections.
You can click to see all 39 designs here.
