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...But it is never far enough.
Last night, the intrepid Top 8 were given the license to thrill, thanks to the presence of Bob Mackie, legendary feather and sequin man, as guest inspiration and judge. Nicolas in particular nearly fainted at the idea...which makes sense, him being the "Feather Prince of New York." For, if he is the Prince, surely Mackie is the KING.
To make matters even more thrrrriling, with 4 'r's, the Bob Mackie-inspired gown should be for singer Christina Aguilera. That was a bit of a needle-scratch-record moment for me (side note: when will we have to stop using that reference?) since I stopped following Aguilera right around her dirrrrty (read: skanky) phase, when sequins and feathers would have been sorely out of character. In fact, most of the time if someone mentions Aguilera (which doesn't happen often in my world, but still) I actually picture Sarah Michelle Gellar (yay, Buffy!) on Saturday Night Live as Aguilera in a particularly dirrrrty phase.
Still, I understand she's done more upscale stuff since her dirrrrrrrrty days, and apparently the designers are well aware of this too.
They are given 30 minutes to sketch, $300 to spend at ErsatzMood, and two days this time...which the designers appreciate very very much.
So, what did we learn in this episode?
-That Irina just continues to be the queen of talking smack. She's got the talent to back it up, but for once I was agreeing with Nicolas's whiny ramblings
-That Nicolas has a lot of nerve rambling whinily about how much he wishes Irina would be nicer to people, considering his own prodigious smack output in previous episodes
-That Carol Hannah is hot for Logan, and Logan thinks of her like his little sister
-That Gordana is not above taking advantage of immunity to totally give up for one week
-That Shirin can't always pull it out last minute as she did last week
-Finally, that Lifetime probably edited out a confrontation over fur between laconic cutie Logan and friend of animals (and BlogHers) Tim Gunn. Evidence: Check this comment on last week's recap where Haley, aka CheatyMonkey, talks about talking to Tim Gunn about a confrontation he had on the show re: one of the designers using fur. And I quote: "But, Tim told me that there's an episode where one of the designers attempts to use fur, and Tim goes bolistic [sic] on him.her. He told me for sure they edited most of it out because it was tres intense." Then note that Logan was indeed using fur (which Irina theoretically shot him a dirty look for). Then, note the go-to-commercial clip of Tim saying "What is that?" with a look of horror. BUt did that clip ever come to fruition when they came back from that (or any other ) commercial? No, it did not. So, I believe the fur flying over fur was left 100% on the cutting room floor! Boo, Lifetime!
Oh, the non-drama! And between us...isn't this season so lacking in drama that it could have used a good Tim bitch-slapping over fur?
Anyway, on to the show, where the judges are Bob Mackie, Xtina herself, and yes! ninagarcia is back, and she's better than ever!
