First, that Fern/ Bruce Vilanch comparison almost made my spleen burst from laughing so hard.

Second: "Ok did I say I didn't like this show? You know I was just trying to look like I have taste, right? I LOVE THIS SHOW."

Amen, sister. This show was so bad that it was secretly awesome. I hope they are casting for season 2 soon, cuz I expect to see you at the audition. You have as much fashion sense as these yahoos!! Actually, you have better fashion sense. And MexiJay can't sew and he got to show a whole freaking collection! You should totally do this. It could be a whole new world opened up to you. DO IT!

Anyway, thanks for bringing the LOLs, Flipit.

I wish you had not reminded me that I wasted TWELEVE HOURS of my life on this show...however, your hilarious recaps more than made up for the time loss. So right back at 'ya with the love - it would not have been any fun at all without YOU commenting each week!

Crackerjack Queen???!!!!???
Oh Flipit, you have the most amazing wit, that one had me laughing for 10 minutes.

I had to force myself to sit through the show - I was sorely tempted to just fast foward to the end. The reunion show was a ridiculous mix of non sequiter segues - Eye Sack would be in conversation with one contestant and then would jump to another with no warning. Gave me whiplash...

Reco did seem to have some serious anger going on, but was overall pretty quiet compared to his 'tude on the show. I wanted to wipe the smirk off Kenley's face with a backhand slap - ugh, she just annoys the crap out of me. None of the collections really had a big "wow" factor - since the public was voting on the winner I felt sure it would be Yarn Lady - her clothes were the most wearable and had the most mass appeal. Merlin's collection? There are not enough drugs on the planet to make me want to watch that group stroll down the runway again.

Enough ranting on my part. Bring on PR - even if it is a season filled with no-talent hacks like last season of PR, it will be light years ahead of this show. Big hugs, Flip!! xoxoxo

Thanks for once again making the best of a bad situation by making me laugh through the unbearable. You are the best of the best and I am looking forward to PR with you.

Flip, you are the greatest. I wouldn't have continued watching this show if it weren't for your recaps. I'll send you my therapy bill.

Wow. There were some bitter queens on this episode.

Glenda rocks. I was so hoping she was going to bite JP's head off as a grand finale. "You are NOT the winner of this travesty. Goodbye." Glad you noted she never really answered EyeSack's question, Flipit. That part had *me* giggling like JP over a his Pakistani sweatshop women. Tee hee.

Reco was filled with so much self-righteous indignation, he lost what little grasp of English he had in the first place. Thank goodness for Flip-it-matic Reco Translator. Really handy. You should patent that. I thought Reco was going to go up in flames with all his pent-up rage and mental muttering. Spontaneous Human Combustion. And you know that would have been tragic, because between the oil stain that is Johnny and Merlin's polyester suit, fire is the last thing needed in that room.

I bet EyeSack is pissed about letting Jonny Day go. I was pissed they let him go because he’s a really talented, established designer (something this show had little of). I’ve seen a few of his LA fashion week shows (both with The Compound and with Elmer Ave) and, of course, Elmer Ave was on America’s Next Top Model. I admit that was when I started watching for their collections; I don’t usually follow LA shows, but their look is deconstructed rock star mixed with tailored pieces and pretty cool, especially their men’s wear. They showed in L.A. this season, too, (yes, I’m addicted to the Runway Report on Fine Channel) and by no means as bad as what he put on the runway for this show. Let’s face it, the tube skirt was a stupid idea if you are marketing for everyday women and not a rock star (as this show clams it is “real fashion”). Unfortunately, Jonny didn’t know his material well enough. I think they were hoping for another Stella/Jeffery but ended up with a tube skirt. Which he had to design because that was his group’s basic. Which is where I knew this show was effed up: beige tube skirts, black boleros and harem pants as basics? What sort of meth are they smoking? These are basics from this season’s runways, not on the Runway of Fashion Mainstays. Ugh.

Anyway, yay, Yarn, for winning. Personally, I'm glad she won as I couldn't stand Kenley's personality, but dang it if I could only see vaginae in her collection. It was like going to an O’Keefe exhibit. Yes, they are dresses, but nearly every dress had a v-jay-jay shapes incorporated into it once you started looking at it. Even though Anna's collection was a walking Freudian Slip, I still liked it better than Kenely’s Armored Stick Insect collection. I know Eyesack said this wasn't a personality contest -- and he would hardly be the appropriate judge of character if it was -- but I can't stand her.

At the end of the day, Yarn's dresses were more marketable than Kenley's armor collection, which would have been costly to reproduce. If you’ve seen any of the offerings on the Bravo Web site, “costly” is definitely not the word that comes to mind. Besides, the crowd can "ooh" and "ahh" over shoulder pads and ill-fitting pants all they want – and after Merlin and Johnny’s collections, rightly so -- but would you really want to wear that? Seriously? And could you? Unfortunately, I am not a seven-foot tall alien with no tits and arse, so the answer is no. I actually liked some of the chainmail vests, but practical marketing, they are not. Besides, I live in Texas, it is 108 outside and the chainmail pattern isn't pretty enough to be seared into my skin for all eternity by the hot, hot sun, so I know I wouldn’t have actually bought anything if her collection if I could get away with wearing chains. And, btw, Kenley, love, as self-absorbed a t**t as you are, why can't you figure out where the anatomical placement for a crotch is? I can understand baggy crotches on the pants of gangster wannabes (they are baggy pants, after all), but on a skinny pant? Fugly. Just saying it is all.

So, yay, Anna, for knowing how to create pretty dresses in a non-cohesive collection. I sort of like that she bucked the trend, showcased everything she’d already done and made it about the dollar, not the clothes. Ha. At least she’s honest about what its about at the end of the day and not making it totally about "The Art of Fashion." (Only a select few really want to dress like a funeral shroud, James Paul. Sorry, mate.)

P.S., Flipit, hard to tell, but I think JP was saying the Pakistani women made his S&M belts, which is what made him giggle because, he thinks Muslim women only wear purdah and thus can't have kinky sex. Edjit. Outsourcing is ok in the collections, btw, if you account for where it comes from. I doubt Kenley really worked those chain vests, just designed them. And from my understanding of how PR works (have a friend who works the show) it is ok to get specialty items outsourced, like the stitching on Neckless Wonder’s green and white zipper dress, so long as you can account for it all on receipts. If you can’t account for it, you can’t show it and there were a few items (white leather jacket, I think?) that he couldn’t account for. Details are fuzzy, but it ended up being fairly fair.

Thanks again, Flipit. You rock.

I hated this show so much I almost didn't watch the finale - I thought Rico should have been up there but you have to admit most of his collection was FUG too - but not as bad a James Poles - and Kenly's leather shoulder pads sucked- I didn't see not one piece I would wear-

Oh, Flip, soooooo funny from start to finish. I, too, almost lost it with the Fern/Bruce comparison. "Bruce Vilanch with a shower, a shave, and a new pair of Gokey Lenses TM." Priceless!

Loved how the diss of the "Nightmare Before Xmas" dress went right over Wednesday's head. And how about Merlin's fabulous diss of Yarn's collection, about how she knocked off herself. Loved it.

Don't know if you had a chance to watch Andy Cohen's talk show later that night featuring Eyesack, but it was pretty funny. They were trying to figure out who between the two of them was the gayest jew ever. LOL

Now that's my kind of TV.

Just. Can't. Stop. Laughing. Must. Breathe. Must. Breathe.

Darling Flipit,
So many LOL moments! I don't think this show would have been bearable without your recaps. Did you see the look Kenley gave Yarn after the win? She was smiling with her mouth but had daggers in her eyes...that pretty much sums up Kenley!
Looking forward to PR...here's hoping for some people with actual fashion sense!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Topaz

Flip it, this was soooo flippin' funny!!! It's been 24 hours since I read, but the captions on the Merlin line were hysterical!!! and the captions on the Glenda speech . . . excellent way to put this one to rest.

I did like the crack pipe write in, MJ, bleeech, and great to have you point out all the knocking off . . .kahem . . . why didn't they play back the start at the fabric store and tell him to eat it!

Glad Anna won, she's got a very every day people vibe and I wish her luck--winning by 56% (after JP's loss of 19) Means Kenley only got 25% . . . haha . . Hope she's not so full of herself that she doesn't take Glenda up on her offer . . .

Go Glenda--make her an official judge, and have Fern do the back room--anyone but Eyesack--he's still a hissy queen if you ask me . . .

Love your recaps, Flipit. That was a whole lot of fug going down the runway on this show.

I don't understand what went wrong with Reco. His final collection was so bad, yet he was one of the top competitors during the season. It's like the extra time hurt him, where it helped James-Paul. And Reco's wedding dress coming apart on the runway sealed his doom.

The one thing I'll say in favor of this show is that their guest judges were actually designers and industry people instead of "celebrities" like PR does. I mean, Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Lohan? WTF? They can't even dress themselves! It's one thing to have a stylish celebrity, but just any old bitch off the street? And they should definitely have a name designer for the final collections.

Forgot to add . . . Merlin's collection--dragalicious!!! She needs to get herself on RuPaul's Drag Race PRONTO!!!!

(I had peeked at these the week they booted Merlin, so tho I disagreed with ousting him for that hot coat, I knew his final collection was . . . well, we all saw it now . . . )

CANNOT WAIT FOR PR!!!!! Flippy, are you going to do a contestant rundown--they're getting teased all over the blogosphere . . .

XOXOXOXO