PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 10: Does Anyone Really Know What A “Badass” Is?

Well, it’s the Final Six, meaning there are no more Safe designtestants; everyone’s a Top or a Bottom … and I’ll leave that there. Still, let’s leave it to Sam to cite that age old Reality Show Mantra: “I don’t like being safe.”

Yeah, we’ll see about that. Alyssa Milano meets the designers on the runway to talk about the “Project Runway All Stars” tradition of giving back. To that end, she introduces Yvonne Niami, founder of n:Philanthropy, a women’s apparel company that gives 10% of its profits to fight pediatric cancer through the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Yvonne says the winner this week will design an exclusive look for the n:Philanthropy summer line.

The designtestants will have $250 and one day to create a modern, sophisticated summer look with a “badass” edge, and we hear every from Ken to Emily to Asha to Sam say that they only design for “badass” women.

Yeah, we’ll see about that, too; let’s rip ….

THE BOTTOMS

KEN

Since “badass” is Ken’s aesthetic, he’ll be making a bell-sleeved top and a skirt because nothing says “badass” like a look inspired by The Flying Nun. Trouble is, Ken then switches it up from a dress to separates to pants to what ends up looking like a jumpsuit after Zanna and Yvonne Niami warn him that his look needs more edge and more sex. And maybe more time because once again Ken is stuck at the last second scrambling to make a top for his look … “badass”?

WHAT HE SAID

Let’s keep in mind, I put this together last minute.

WHAT I SAID

It’s chic, but it is so not “badass”.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ calls it a summer badass, but then, to Georgina, a stark white jumpsuit must be a gang uniform; she does call Ken out on the cheap looking belt, but he did create it in about 90 seconds. Guest judge, actress Debi Mazar, felt that the top was giving her a sort of medical vibe; she clutched her throat and I seriously thought Ken’s look would kill her. She also felt the model's but was more wedgie than edgy. Fellow guest judge, designer Zac Posen, said it was neither fashion forward nor “badass” and called the pants badly constructed,  while Alyssa had trouble justifying a white jumpsuit as a Top Six design. Isaac called Ken out for the too-long pants — to which Ken snapped that the model had no trouble walking. Isaac then said, “It’s not easy for me to be the biggest bitch in the world,” causing the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ and Alyssa to say, in unison, “Really??”

DOM

She spent a great deal of time telling anyone and everyone that she’d been in cancer research for three years before giving that up to do something more worthwhile like fashion design; she says she is inspired by rubber gloves and stainless steel … and I’m also gonna leave that there without comment.

She doesn’t want to do lightweight fabrics even if this is a summer look, and picks metallic’s and brocades and silvers and ribbons to create a Dom Textile. The skirt that she quilted from lamé looks suspiciously like the pants Layana created for the athleisure wear challenge last week and yet no one called her out on that. Zanna and Yvonne did, however, call her out on the heaviness of the fabrics and the length of the skirt, though Dom didn’t shorten it at all because of the neck-high — I kid, it was thigh-high — slit.

WHAT SHE SAID

That slit is too high!

WHAT I SAID

It’s a space-age look that doesn’t say summer, or sophisticated or edgy or “badass.”

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Debi Mazar loved the inspiration — she dubbed it “butterfly” — and called it chic and elegant, but said it lacked a waist. Zac said the slit was too high—uh, duh—and wanted some movement in the skirt. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ agreed that the skirt was too heavy and that the look was over-thought, while Isaac called the top an “inside/out aluminum foil” mess and felt that Dom let them all down.

ASHA

She also rode the I Design Badass Train into the workroom, and opted to create a strappy leather top with nude illusion because she was inspired by Josephine Baker. For reference, Josephine Baker used to wear banana leaves while she danced so I didn’t quite get straps of leather to mean La Baker!  Especially straps in dark oxblood leather, which Asha called fresh for summer. Um … okay … until both Zanna and Yvonne called Asha out for the heaviness of her fabrics and the color palette which screamed fall … into the Bottom.

WHAT SHE SAID

It’s such a cool take on this challenge.

WHAT I SAID

The skirt seemed bunched up at the waist because the fabric is so stiff that it won’t lie down; plus, from the rear, the print creates a vah-jay-jay-esque look which isn’t pretty.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said the look wasn’t at all Josephine Baker because La Baker was playful with fashion; she called the look strict and buttoned up and said the harness needed to be juxtaposed with something flowier. Alyssa did, however, love the neckline and the back, but agreed that the fabric was too stiff; Isaac called it “not summer” and “moderate.” Debi Mazar it was dated, like Brigitte Nielsen in the 1980s — and Miss Nielsen was over in the 80s, so, yeah, there’s that.

THE TOPS

SAM

His aesthetic, like Ken’s and Asha’s and Emily’s, is “badass” and so he’s going to make a seersucker jumpsuit because that’s what all the “badass” girls are wearing in Boston in the summer … of 1919. Seriously, you’d really have to know “badass” to make seersucker edgy.

And that’s what Zanna and Yvonne  say, though Zanna adds that she’s seen a jumpsuit from Sam before … and before that, too, and called it safe and the Hamptons … and we all know how “badass” the Hamptons can be. So, again, Sam shreds his look and starts over, and then mutters something about how he’d rather be risky than safe … which begs the question: then why do you always start out making something safe? He ends up with a deconstructed tuxedo that he says a rock star would wear to the VMAs … if they had the VMAs in the 1920s.

WHAT HE SAID

I’m so happy that I decided to shred that initial jumpsuit.

WHAT I SAID

This is the hottest of all hot messes. I can’t even begin to figure out what it is.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac liked the seersucker, though he called it anemic and felt the top looked a little baby bjorn. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ liked it, too, but thought the front piece — the bjorn — was too heavy. Debi Mazar called it a homecoming queen sash, but she did like the shoes … if only this were Project Runway: Pick The Right Shoe, then Sam would win! Zac Posen said a skinny pant and cool top are not enough, and when Sam said this was his second try, Zac said it looked like a save. Alyssa didn’t think seersucker was “badass” and said the design didn’t go far enough.

KINI

Kini is taking a risk; finally, someone is taking a risk, though I am kinda scared. His risk is a genie pant with a swimsuit top and a yellow hounds-tooth cropped jacket. Risk, yes. And he worries that maybe it’s too crazy for the judges, and it doesn’t help when the other designers call it crazy and asks what it is … Seersucker Safe Sam called it an iguana.

Zanna and Yvonne says it’s a lot going on and ask that he tone it down and take away what Zanna called the “disco banana.” So, Kini dyes jacket into an ombré fabric that looked good but did not tone anything down. In the end he loses the jacket and keeps it as a simple white top with genie pants.

WHAT HE SAID

I’m so happy I scrapped the jacket.

WHAT I SAID

While I liked the jacket, without it the look seems edgier and a bit more summer.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Zac loved the 50s throwback, which I totally do not see but … and Debi Mazar loved the draping on the pants, calling the look both edgy and feminine; she also stole Sam’s line — that he uses to describe his own looks — and says the model is “serving it.” The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ was perplexed by the look, but intrigued as well because she liked the risk. Isaac said the look had wit and was edgy and ballsy and summer time.

EMILY

She designs for the “badass” girl and is a “badass” herself, though I think blue hair molded into horns and pink eye shadow under and over the eye is more “look at me” than “badass.” And I disagree with Emily that black is “badass,” even in summer; I also disagree a palazzo pant and structured vest power suit is “badass” and I cringe at the idea that she’ll handpaint it.

No handpainting, please! Luckily I get my wish when Zanna and Yvonne love the idea of the suit — minus the pant — but think it needs to be shorter to create that edge. Emily then takes the sheers to the palazzo pant and makes culottes. I’m worried … because I loathe culottes.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love it. I think she looks great.

WHAT I SAID

I’m not getting summer, but there is an edge to the look. And the culottes are so wide they seem like a skirt, which I like better than culottes.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa wants to be the girl who’d wear that look, saying it has a punk quality to it, and that she loves the feminine culottes and the masculine vest. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loves the deconstructed, rebellious schoolgirl attitude and believes that Emily has come into her own as a designer. Zac hated the shoes … again, if this were Project Runway: Pick The Right Shoe, Emily would lose, and Isaac called it tongue-in-cheek sleazy, and said he didn’t get it, but that if Emily could make him feel like an old geezer with her designs she was doing something right.

Ken’s very safe white jumpsuit, with the too-long pants and the wedgie ass are safe, while Dom’s refusal to do a summer textile, and Asha’s use of fall colors for a summer look land them both in the Bottom. In the end, the non-Josephine Baker look of Asha’s sends her home.

As for the tops — and I think there should have been a Bottom Four to include Sam — Sam’s seersucker suck of a look is safe. It comes down to Kini’s risky genie banana pants and Emily’s punk-edge culottes look. And the win goes to Emily.

I would have given Kini the win just for the risk and the fact that his color palette read summer, but, Emily did step it up this week so I’ll give her props. 

Now … Sam really needs to go for several reasons: he always plays it safe, then he says he hates being safe; that little pat on the back he gives himself after he completely scraps a look and starts over is annoying. Howsabout doing something right the first time and not relying on Zanna to give you direction? Plus, that little cutesy wave he gave to Zac Posen was just another attempt to seem flirty and fun though he comes off desperate. Plus, he like says the word like, like every other like word and it’s like the most like annoying thing like ever. Like, stop it.

Dom gets off a couple of Lines of the Night — mostly at Sam’s expense — when she says:

“I don’t understand Sam’s woman, He designs for, like, fifteen year olds.”

“The challenge was not to create a jumpsuit for a breast-feeding mother.”

Ken’s scoop-neck-pec-revealing t-shirt was a little distracting … in a kind of a good way.

So, last week I said it was Emily’s time to leave and here she is a winner. So, maybe next week she goes? Nothing against her but I don’t see her showing a mini collection. I wanna see Dom and Kini show, and then Ken, though I think they’ll keep Sam around for the drama. Unless they let all four show … ?

What did YOU THINK?

PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 9: Touched By An Angel, er, Alyssa

The designtestants are off to Coney Island and a baseball field—home to the Brooklyn Cyclones—where they find Alyssa Milano and the PR Models all wearing Alyssa Milano’s athletic wear designs from Touch by Alyssa Milano. The challenge will be to create an athleisure — elevated streetwear — look that can be worn to a sporting event, but also worn out to dinner or on a runway or catching a foul ball …

The winner this week will have their look made—after it’s modified—and sold as part of Touch by Alyssa Milano. They have one day and $200 to make Alyssa Milano happy so, without another Alyssa Milano, let’s rip …

THE SAFE

EMILY

She said she was taking a plain white ‘T’ and reworking it. She did, though I cannot see a woman cheering on her team unless she wanted her lady parts to fly out. I also didn’t get the slits in the leggings.

THE BOTTOMS

SAM

This is Sam’s wheelhouse; he does athleisure in his sleep … or something. But he also wants to redeem himself from last week’s mesh disaster so he opts to use the same mesh, that blue color I loathe, and lace to create a circle skirt—ooh, how first year design student — that is reminiscent of a cheerleader — ooh, how not the challenge.

Zanna takes a look at his piece, which is mesh in the front and lace in the back — perhaps he saw Dom’s two-sided look and thought he’d give it a go — and she dubbed it two different dresses, Sam loses the back; makes a basic dress and tacks on lace details on the shoulders and hem.

WHAT HE SAID

This is really athleisure couture.

WHAT I SAID

This is really an ice-skating dress for a girl just starting to ice skate.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Kristen Cavallari called it gorgeous, and had a great silhouette and she loved the lace and it was all so beautiful … for a cocktail party, not a game. Alyssa agreed and said it was wrong for the challenge wand was kinda pissed that Sam didn’t adhere to the constraints; she called the look a slap in the face. Isaac, though, said, “This girl loves that dress.” — to which Alyssa said, “Thank you Miss Isaac,” and he replied, “It’s Missus.” — while the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said she would wear that to a game because, to her, it was athleisure; Isaac reminded her that she’d probably prefer it with fur or feathers; the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ also, however, pointed out that it was too simple and not very well executed.

KEN

He’s a wee bit tired of making gowns so he says he’s up for the challenge and will do a hoodie, in black and white lace … apparently for night games … in the bedroom? But ken has all kinds of issues and, according to Zanna, too many ideas.

He didn’t buy red thread; he sewed part of the look wrong; he has to rip it apart. He storms out … well, he summer storms out because it wasn’t all that; it was just drama because the next day he’s back and scrambling to finish his look in two hours and scrambling to sew on a couple of black lace pockets in the front.

WHAT HE SAID

My look is a little more ‘downtown’ than the girl I normally dress.

WHAT I SAID

Those last minute pockets are just bad, and that dress underneath seems like an odd choice, and then for some reason, as she’s walking away, I get a vibe that it’s kind of a nurses uniform or something. It was a mess.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa loved that it was sleeveless but said she, too, hated the pockets. Worse than that: the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ was disappointed that this was a Ken Creation; bad proportions, bad length for the skirt; bad. Guest judge, reality show star and now a designer… uh huh … Kristen Cavallari, loved the simplicity of it and said she “could see a million girls wearing it.” Isaac said, “Could you see a million girls wear it, or do you see a million girls wear it?” He said girls already have that look, only theirs doesn’t look so cheap.

LAYANA

Another week and another challenge where Layana says she has this … this is what she does … this is who she is; Oy! But then, because she’s been Bottom Feeding for a while now, she takes on a pant that has thousands and thousands of pleats in dozens of panels because she wants to throw everything at the judges.

Sadly, Zanna thinks it looks more sportswear — high-end sweat pants would have been more accurate — and then Layana does herself no favors when she makes a simple white top and the scraps it for some more heavily details sports-bra-t-shirt smashup.

WHAT SHE SAID

She looks so cool, so high fashion!

WHAT I SAID

The top seams too rigid for the pleated sweats and, again, I loathe that shade of blue.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loved the pleating detail but thought the proportions of the top were a bit off; she also felt that because Layana was in the bottom so many weeks, that she tried to do too much and created a visual overload … huh, me and GC … GMTA.  Kristen Cavallari also loved the leggings … just not with that top. Isaac sounded the same bell: good leggings, bad top, while Alyssa said it just wasn’t “game wear.”

THE TOPS

ASHA

She’s riding high on last week’s win and has a cool idea; she’ll take the look of a man’s baseball jersey and turn it into a skirt, topping it off with a sports bra. My first thought is: Is a sports bra supposed to be seen? Zanna loves the idea of the skirt but says nothing about the top, so it’s sports bra mania at Asha’s work table.

WHAT SHE SAID

My model looks sporty and badass.

WHAT I SAID

It’s cute, though as I see it, I think it’s kind of a costume, and, yeah, I don’t like the sp0rts bra. I mean, I cannot walk around Camden with a jockstrap on the outside … well, I could, but I don’t wanna spend one more night in the Crazy Tank.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loved it, thought it very creative, but wasn’t keen on the buttons down the skirt front; it was also a bit too junior for her. Isaac also disliked the buttons, though he thought the skirt idea was clever, while Alyssa agreed about the skirt and agreed with me about the sports bra. Kristen Cavallari liked the sports details: the striping and the mesh, but also agreed that a better top would have made the look.

DOM

Her ideas scare me a bit; she wants to do a bat-wing dress with a detachable piece along the bottom in mixed fabrics. And here I thought Layana had too many ideas. But, as usual, the mix of fabrics seems to work, and she, once again … like last week, created a kind of peek-a-boo back.

Zanna loved the back and called the detachable hem — taking the dress from long and dark to short and lean — was unique.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love my look … it’s very sophisticated.

WHAT I SAID

It’s kind of mummy from the front, and the head scarf is odd, but the back is, once again, a wow.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa loved the detachable hem — and I thought it looked so much better short — and called the look brilliant. Kristen Cavallari also liked it better short, but thought it too high-fashion to be game-worthy. Isaac disagreed; he loved the drama of the longer length; and he loved the shapelessness of it, though it still hugged the model’s body. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called it a 1920s tennis dress-and by that she meant she loved it; she loved, again, the back detail and the way Dom mixes patterns so well.

KINI

He’s doing three pieces: a coat, some jeans, and a simple top. He also bought the same mesh fabric that Sam used this week—and the same mesh fabric Sam used last week—because, he says, he wants to show Sam how to make mesh work. I seriously wish these two would f**k already and stop sniping at each other like schoolboys with a crush.

Anyway … Zanna loved the jeans, but worried that the coat might be too sportswear and not athleisure enough for the judges.

WHAT HE SAID

It’s so different for me to do ready-to-wear with no drama in it.

WHAT I SAID

I hate Capri pants … or whatever you call that length. But I like the look and the coat is cool.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Kristen Cavallari called the jacket smart and creative, though she thought the rest of the look wasn’t all that.  Alyssa also loved the coat, especially the pleat in the back that made it more fashionable. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called the coat chic and loved the splash of color, but she took issue with the crotch of the jeans. Isaac marveled that Kini, who usually does dresses, pulled off a coat and jeans and a shirt; he praised Kini’s versatility.

Sam, though he swung at it and missed, is safe; Ken, though he fouled out, and took a walk, is also safe. And that leaves us with Layana, who committed her third strike and was sent home.

Howsabout those sports metaphors? Not bad for a queen who can’t throw!

As for the tops: Asha made it to first base despite the button, while Dom rounded second with her dramatic look. But it was Kini who scored a home run this week, his first All-Stars win.

When Sam said, “If I don’t at least end up in the top in this challenge, I might as well go home,” and then finished in the bottom, I kinda hoped the producers would say, “Bye Sam.”

And if they didn’t send him home for that, they should’a booted him for donning his drab circle skirt and spinning like a dreidel.

Line of the Night goes to ken, who knows nothing about sports:

“I don’t know too many sports, but I figured red, black and white had to be somebody’s team.”

Now, as for his exit: that look he gave Dom when she asked if he was all right scared the bejeesus outs me. I’ve been told that I give Good Dirty Looks, but I ain’t got nothing on Ken. That said, his walk-out was a TCV Walkout because if he wasn’t coming back the producers would have sent Alyssa or Zanna in to tell the designtestants and to clear out his stuff. Plus, Ken has to stay in the PR Guest suites with the other designers so even they knew he wasn’t really leaving. Give me real drama, not this made up shiz.

I wanted to smack Sam for his eye-roll when Kini was bragging about his critique because Sam is always bragging about how much the judges adore him; he even bragged about what Kristen Cavallari and the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said about his look and apparently missed it when Kristen said it was a cocktail dress and not athleisure!

Emily. Emily. Emily. You had one win, which I think was given to you, and always seem to be Safe. It’s time to go. I’m tired of the blue hair—in that blue—and the pink eye shadow. Go home, dear.

What did YOU think?

PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 8: Drama! Or Not ...

We start this week with the designtestants strolling the streets of New York looking for the Drama Book Shop — a bookstore all about Broadway … pinch me, I must be dreaming! I started thinking, though, Drama? Is it going to be drama on the show or on the runway?

Alyssa meets the designers alongside Laura Michelle Kelly, who is currently starring in "Finding Neverland" on Broadway. She tells the designers that their challenge will be to create a modern runway look for a classic female character from literature.

And they have $200 and one day, so let’s rip …

THE SAFES

KEN — Snow White.

Now, I’m not saying the look should have been white, but since when does a red suit say Snow White? I got Red Dragon Lady.

EMILY — Snow Queen

It was Glitter Rock Icicle.

THE BOTTOMS

SAM

The Little Mermaid

He goes literal, choosing a netting fabric—because she used to be a mermaid, y’all—and patch-working some glittering fabrics onto the look in the colors of the sea. Oh, and it’s a crop top and a pencil skirt.

Zanna told Sam she expected to see a sense of freedom in the look, as when the Little Mermaid leaves the sea … or Sam leaves the competition.

WHAT HE SAID

I do notice that there is some weirdness going on.

WHAT I SAID

It’s a hodge-podge quilt that isn’t quite finished.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ liked the modernity of it, but called Sam out on the execution, and pointed out the “weirdness going on” that Sam pretended not to see. Alyssa called the netting too stark and said it cheapened the look; she then said Sam phoned it in and she found that insulting. Isaac called the top “junior,” and not All-Stars; then he struck deeper, calling it “kindergarten arts-and-crafts.” Guest Judge Brad Goreski liked the skirt, and the panels, but said the top was bad. The other Guest Judge, Kesha, liked it. Oy.

LAYANA

Belle

Again Layana has this one, though every time she says that she’s in the Bottom. But this time she has Belle who moved from a farm to a mansion, and Layana moved from a farm to a city so she’s got this. Yawn.

She creates a story that The Beast is taking Belle to a polo match in Brazil — I know, WTF? — and Zanna looks at it and says she’s seen it before, and it wasn’t good. But Layana loves it all the more after the fitting so … Bottom here she comes.

WHAT SHE SAID

My favorite part is when she’s spinning.

WHAT I SAID

It’s ladies who lunch … at Sears.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Kesha said she was getting a vintage vibe — as in “seen it before,” perhaps — but also called it super boring. Alyssa thought there was too much fabric and pattern and color goi9ng on in the skirt. Isaac simply said this doesn’t look “polo in Brazil,” while Brad Goreski simply said it could have been better. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called the colors too jarring and said there was a lack of taste. When Brad added that it was a “pretty dress,” Isaac snapped back, “It’s a pretty dress for a sale rack.” At Sears.

ALEXANDER

Cinderella

Alexander went too literal, I think, in creating a gown for Cindy; I mean, a couple of field mice made her a gown in the story and Alexander thinks he can top that? Bibbety-bobbity. Boo-Hoo. His fabrics are dark and dated and Zanna warned him that it was too safe and not at all modern.

WHAT HE SAID

I love that you can see it shimmer.

WHAT I SAID

Asha called it when she said it was Evil Stepsister.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ reminded Alexander that Cindy was young and fresh and this look was sophisticated and old; she added that it was depressing. Brad Goreski said this is the Year of the Booty — I hadn’t gotten that memo — and then said Alexander’s booty was not so good; Alyssa said it looked safety-pinned together and kina beauty pageant. Isaac called the back off-putting and the neckline tacky. Kesha then asked Isaac to be nice while she called it a bridesmaid look. How is that nice?

THE TOPS

KINI

Alice in Wonderland

Alice makes his think denim and ruffles and makes me think Kini thinks Alice is a country singer. But he soldiers on and it’s a look … simple in the front and drama bringing up the rear. Zanna loves the look but worries about the proportions of the back, which Sam says is Lady Bug; it’s not, it’s butterfly.

WHAT HE SAID

The shift dress is cool, but the ruffle is the dramatic piece.

WHAT I SAID

I’m really getting butterfly as it walks, not Alice in Wonderland. But it’s cool and modern.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac loved the denim pieces but called the ruffle a costume piece; he does say this look screams “fashion,” and he lovedlovedloved the white collar The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ begs to differ, loving the strict front and the playful back; fun, witty and smart. Brad Goreski brings up the obvious: business in the front, party in the back; Kesha runs with that, calling it a fashion mullet, but like a whimsical gift, too. Alyssa loved the fantasy adventure the dress inspired.

DOM

Tinkerbell

I like Dom because Dom thinks about the challenge; she’s making Tink a riff on a mod 60s London vibe; a girl who hangs out with the boys. And she’s using every single print in Mood to create her own textile for a shirtdress and pants.

Zanna likes it, but wonders how much Tinkerbell is in the look.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love my look … it’s sophisticated … chic … fun.

WHAT I SAID

The prints are crazy, but it’s very cool and the back is fabulous.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Brad Goreski loves the midriff — perhaps it’s the Year of the Midriff, too? And he loves that there was skin in the front and skin in the back … which sounds a little Hannibal Lecter to me. Kesha was obsessed with the look and thought she was the coolest girl. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said the pants were exceptional and called it bold, modern and fresh. Both Alyssa and Isaac loved the little details, like the striped hem on the inside of the long shirt, though Isaac thought it a bit sportswear.

ASHA

Rapunzel

She sees Rapunzel as a rebel, wearing pants as she’s racing down that tower, but then with an over-skirt to look more “princess.” It’s an interesting take, but Asha has but one fabric and that worries me. Zanna, on the other hand, likes the idea but warns Asha to finish it properly.

WHAT SHE SAID

I think she looks like a cool, modern take on Rapunzel.

WHAT I SAID

The overskirt became a tail, and that model slouch does it no justice.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa loved the duality of the pants and the skirt, while the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called it fresh and regal; she was not a fan of the sheen and the print on the fabric, though, Isaac disagreed; he loved the fabric and loved that the model wore flats. Brad Goreski wishes the flat had been dressier and Isaac said he wants to wrestle Brad to the ground over a flat show. I think maybe he wanted to wrestle for other reasons but I digress. Isaac did say that he loved that the messy brad was reflected in the tail which fell to the ground and I got it; it worked now.

Sam gets saved … and for that? So, it’s down to Layana’s Lack of taste, or Alexander’s Old Lady Look. And, well, Old Lady goes home.

As for the Top Spot, it comes down to Asha’s Rapunzel and Dom’s Tinkerbell and, much to my shock, Asha gets the nod this week.

I would have given the win to Dom, again, because her look was really great and Asha’s was too simple for my taste, but then I am only a blog-o-sphere judge. On the losing side? After Sam’s nudist d-i-saster and this week’s patchwork mess, he should have gone home. Alexander’s wasn’t awful — it wasn’t good — but it was better than Sam’s.

The Kini-Sam fight continues, with Ken stirring the pot about Kini making the top of Sam’s look in the group challenge and not getting credit for it. I want these two bitches to Dynasty-style cat-fight in a lily pond and get over this mess.

I did like when Sam said, “I won two challenges. How many have you won?” And Kini replied, “I own three challenges on Project Runway and went to Fashion Week.”

Now …Sam’s own runway look … that nerdy tween Twi-hard … was ridiculous.

LINE OF THE NIGHT

Alexander Pope, on getting Cinderella:

“I can totally relate to Cinderella because we are both princesses and I am a gorgeous tall blond.”

Note to Brad Goreski, from one gay to another: Saying "OMG" out loud is over. M’kay?

Next week? Ken storms out! Is he off the show??!? I doubt it because the next scene in the preview showed his look on the runway. Unless he stormed out after the runway. Stay tuned.

What did YOU think?