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?

PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 6: It May Be Baroque But I Didn't Ba-raque It*

Well, after last week’s nekkid challenge, this week we’re going into the past as the designtestants head to Medieval Times. But there aren’t any giant turkey legs to gnaw on and toss to the ground, and, No, Sam and Kini won’t be jousting. This trip is about Baroque fashion, as we learn when Alyssa Milano arrives on horseback with the details.

The designtestants must create a couture-inspired gown based on ideas from the Baroque period. And because couture takes weeks and weeks and hundreds of hours, the designtestants have two days … and $300 to spend at Mood to create that mood.

Let’s rip …

THE SAFES

clockwise from top left

ASHA

It’s a pretty dress, a nothing dress, but it has nothing to do with Baroque.

DOM

I liked this, even if it does seem like Asian Princess Gone Baroque.

EMILY

Zanna was right; I liked this look better every year when Halle Berry wears it to the Oscars.

KINI

It’s kinda Baroque, with the appliqués, but the red reads Asian to me, and haven’t we seen Kini’s upside umbrella skirt more than we really need to?

THE BOTTOMS

ALEXANDER

He reminds us he’s a costume designer so he can do this, and then he proceeds to sketch a large hip flange over a simple skirt that looks nothing at all like what he created.

He is, however, paying attention to details, with velvets and lace and pearls and sequins, though Zanna warned him that it didn’t look modern at all … or Baroque.

WHAT HE SAID

Elegance pops into my head!

WHAT I SAID

He was so worried about creating a Baroque costume, that he created a costume worn by an extra in Titanic.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called it Breakfast at Tiffany’s and not at all Baroque couture — I loved the way she said, “Bah-roque cu-tour.”­—and she wished he’d edited out some of the details. Isaac said the pearls were more Elizabethan than Baroque, while Marchesa co-founder Karen Craig believed the pearls and the styling made the whole shebang a costume. Super-supermodel Coco Rocha called the look “grandmamma,” and Alyssa said it was a well-made gown, er, costume, from the wrong era. I loved when Isaac called it a pretty dress, and the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ snapped, “It’s not a pretty dress, it looks cheap.” Ow.

LAYANA

She doesn’t do couture, but she did couture at Oscar de la Renta so she knows she has this. She finds a beautiful brocade fabric in yellow and black and so she knows she has this. She’ll make a beautiful ball gown so she knows she has this.

But she pairs the brocade with a dirty brown skirt and then cannot make a ball gown because she’s out of fabric. But she still knows she has this one … “I’m gonna win!” Zanna liked the detail but didn’t feel it was modern or sexy and she’s worried because the challenge was to design a gown.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love it so much!

WHAT I SAID

It’s like an Old West Madam meets Matador. It’s not gonna win.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac said it wasn’t a bad look, but it was less couture and more factory-made couture. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ thought there were just too many great ideas and Karen loved the brocade but not with the brown skirt. Coco Rocha nailed it by saying it was a cheap costume.

MITCHELL

Mitchell thinks he has this because he’s all about the details … except he can never finish the details. And, he’s making a mullet-gown because nothing says Baroque like a mullet-gown in a fabric that looks oddly cheap and badly sewn before he even touches it. He seems so overcome with the undone details that when his model comes in he doesn’t even have the skirt, just the odd bodice.

Zanna worries that it looks more dungeons and Dragon and then Mitchell says he wants to make “grieves” — think ‘thigh-highs’ — which Zanna thinks might be the Wow. Except, again, Mitchell runs out of time and cannot get the grieves on. He also cannot fix a busted zipper and makes do with a weird back panel.

WHAT HE SAID

It’s obvious that I put a lot of effort into it.

WHAT I SAID

And a lot of a lot … it’s too much, but then it’s missing the grieves, and the skirt looks like a shredded wrap.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said it wasn’t Baroque, and called out the zipper catastrophe, while Alyssa said she loved the bodice but found the skirt, and the proportions, upsetting. Isaac agreed that it looked awkward on the model, calling it banal and unflattering, and Coco Rocha said it was the shoes that killed the whole look. Karen agreed about the good bodice and the horrid skirt and awful shoes.

THE TOPS

VALERIE 

At the outset of the challenge Valerie says she has this, even though it’s not exactly in her wheelhouse and she’s still a bit crushed after last week’s near elimination. But, she perseveres and creates a faux corset look and a skirt with pleats — prompting Mitchell to beg her to do something else.

It’s light and airy and has Valerie’s Not-Really-Patented geometric design to it, but Zanna worries that it’s not enough and there’s no Wow Factor. But Valerie doesn’t seem to be able to do wow, so she just soldiers on …

WHAT SHE SAID

I’m excited! I think it’s just the right amount of classic and simplicity.

WHAT I SAID

It’s a Baroque peasant girl. And it’s neither here nor there. Not good, not bad, not great.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loved that it “referenced” Baroque without going all the way there; and she loved the corset lines without an actual corset. Isaac called it fresh and plain, but new, while Alyssa also loved it. Karen thought it a medieval costume and said it wasn’t pushed enough, while Coco Rocha said it was well-made.

SAM

He got an idea in head about the Sistine Chapel and ran around Mood looking for it; um, it’s in Italy, Sam. So, he settled on one fabric, a flowered lace and a couple of trim pieces. But he soon realizes that, unless the dress is sewn over muslin you’ll be able to see lady-bits, so he asks Dom for advice, and she tells him to cut some of the flowered pieces and lay them over the dress to cover up things no one wants to see.

Uh oh; another designer helps Sam … what will he do? Well, when Zanna asks about it, he says it was his idea to layer the lace so it wouldn’t be sheer. Thanks Dom! Cue a Kini Side-eye.

WHAT HE SAID

I am so proud of myself. I worked that out … I worked so hard …

WHAT I SAID

It’s pretty, very pretty, but you’d have to really stretch to get Baroque from that dress in either the fabric or the design.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac called it pretty, and loved the covered up lady-bits and Coco Rocha agreed about the placement of the flowers. Karen Craig loved the fabric, but said it wasn’t Baroque while the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ dubbed it a light Baroque, or Baroque-lite; she also called it fresh and feminine. Alyssa wasn’t feeling it and said it wasn’t couture, it was just a great fabric draped on the model.

KEN

We learn that Ken has never won a challenge, even in his original season, though I think he did win the Don’t Murder Another Designer Challenge … anonymously.

He’s all about a strong powerful woman and so he creates a long body conscious gown with a semi-cape. He loves the fabric — though he doesn’t love it when Mitchell compares it to tree bark — and keeps the front covered and the back sexy. Zanna thought it looked heavy and kind of medieval costume party but Ken sniffed and didn’t change a thing.

WHAT HE SAID

She looks like a tall glass of wine.

WHAT I SAID

She looks like a dragon come to back to life as a woman, and I mean that in a good way. Loved.It.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said it was a bold statement, and that it was couture and austere and elegant. Alyssa loved the strong powerful feminine vibe and loved the sequin-lined cape, while Isaac said Ken is great at what he does, but this look wasn’t his favorite. Karen loved the color and called it modern Baroque, while Cocoa Rocha said she hated it when she first saw it, but then the model really worked it, and she fell in love with it.

Valerie didn’t wow anyone but she’s safe, so it comes down to Sam … please not Sam, please not Sam … and Ken, who finally gets his first win, and the added bonus of designing something for Marchesa’s upcoming Nota collection.

Alexander is safe, for hitting an iceberg with his Dinner on the Titanic gown, and Layana is safe for her Toreador Saloon Girl chic, which leaves us with Mitchell, who is finally out for, yet again, not finishing a look, even an awful one.

I couldn’t help but giggle at Layana’s shock that she was in the bottom. The color alone should have been clue enough.

LINES OF THE NIGHT

Ken, suggesting an idea for Sam:

“I think Sam should make another jumpsuit … you’ve done eight jumpsuits so far.”

Sam’s retort:

“Eight jumpsuits in five challenges? I am impressive.”

Mitchell’s last word:

“Don’t forget Kini made one of them.”

That said, I am over Kini’s grudge against Sam. Either spill the tea or shut up … and enough with the side-eye already. Oy!

I kept thinking who it was that Mitchell reminded me of, and I realized it’s the flamingly gay Jack McFarland from Will & Grace. Only Jack was far funnier.

I’m needing Dom to step it up so she can get noticed. I love most of her work, but it always seems just shy of getting to the top.

Emily needs to go; I mean, she utterly ignored the challenge this week; her look was as Baroque as the plaid flannel pajama bottoms I’m wearing as I type this.

And finally, it looks like Ken drama as he goes off on Sam and then appears to storm off the show … with Sam whimpering in the background, “Bye gurl.”

What did YOU think?

*The post title is an old joke from The Dick Van Dyke Show. For you youngsters out there, think of it as a 1960s Seinfeld.

PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 4: Someone Call 911!! It’s The Unconventional Challenge!!!

The designtestants gather in front of a firehouse and I’m all, “Hot Fireman Challenge”? “FlameWay?” “Hot Men?” Yeah, right to the gutter my mind goes. But this is no ordinary firehouse, it’s Engine Company 31, home to DCTV, the largest free arts training program for New York City youth.

Alyssa arrives by ambulance to, as Ken said, out-Beyoncés Beyoncé, and brings with her representatives from the Fire Department, the Police Department and the EMTs; I saw that police officer and said, to Carlos: “Cuff me, officer, I’ve been bad.

I told you my mind went right to the gutter; and so did Ken’s because right then he said, “I usually avoid the police, but he can handcuff me anytime he wants.”

I was hoping it’d be Hot Cops In Bikinis but it’s even better in many ways because, ladies and gentleladies, this is the Unconventional Challenge. And while the designtestants kvetch and moan — though they knew this was coming — Alyssa explains that they must create a high-end runway look using the materials from the fire, police and EMT services. They have just five minutes to grab whatever they can and one day to complete the challenge:

Let’s rip ….

THE SAFES

clockwise from top left

DOM Why this wasn’t in the top I do not know. Very cool. Very unconventional. I blame the hat.

EMILY Having never heard of Herve Leger — who is known for them — Emily makes a bandage dress which Zanna calls a mummy; she adds x-ray strips. It’s cool, and I love the belt, but it’s just safe.

KINI It’s what the wife of a Muppet looks like when she’s pregnant.

LAYANA She uses the blue gauze and Zanna worries that it’ll go Smurf. It went boring, instead.

MITCHELL Silver star badges and catheter tubes. There is nothing more to say.

THE BOTTOMS

ALEXANDER 

He seems like he’s shopping at Duane Reade, purusing the merchandise and filling his bags with gauze bandages of every color; I’m worried because gauze is a fabric and not all that unconventional, especially when, as Alexander does, he glues it to muslin to make a textile of … gauze which he’ll use to create surreal shapes …? He tells Zanna he’s thinking of adding a black glove that appears to “climb the dress” and Zanna throws him out a window … or tells him not to do it; either way.

WHAT HE SAID

It’s just a basic dress.

WHAT I SAID

In my best Bette Davis voice, dripping with sarcasm, “How unconventional.”

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loved the degradation of the colors but really felt it was a nothing dress. Isaac also liked the color but thought that it was too short. Guest Judge, stylist Johnny Wujek, said it needed to be amped up and loved the back more than the front. Alyssa did like the way the gauze looked like suede though that had nothing to do with Alexander … it was just the gauze.

ASHA

She also grabbed bandages — how unconventional is a bandage? — to create a pink bandage tribal print with a pill motif. Zanna takes one look at it and hauls it over to Valerie’s station to see that the two dresses are very similar. Asha is undeterred, though, except when it comes to a skirt which runs the gamut from a shiny silver warming cover to more pink bandages.

WHAT SHE SAID

She’s Black Barbie. I hope the judges appreciate all the detail.

WHAT I SAID

And by detail she means a couple of strips of gauze and x-rays and a few random pills that made it look like Lohan spilled a drink and then her pill box on the front of her dress.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac hated the slashed skirt and its length, while the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called the skirt a throwaway … possibly literally; she added that it was average and apologetic. Johnny Wujek wanted more … more pills and more couture, and called it a nice club dress but Alyssa a bunch of random pills glued on top wasn’t innovative enough.

STELLA

She was kinda mean and grabby at the firehouse, shooing people away from her stash of all things “blue.” I didn’t realize blue was a fashion but she’s got all kinds of blue oxygen hoses and not a thought about what to make. So she goes sci-fi alien ribcage coat … or something.

Until Zanna comes by and reminds her this isn’t to be an art project, so Stella kills her coat and goes all kinds of safe with a bandage skirt and hospital gown top; the only unconventional part was taking x-rays and cutting them into skyscraper shapes and gluing them to the blouse. Still, it was all kinds of safe and not safe in a good way.

WHAT SHE SAID

I’m happy I put something on the model.

WHAT I SAID

Is the model happy? I like the skyline but it’s not new or unconventional.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa loves New York skyline and wished that had been the idea for the whole look, but Isaac and Johnny Wujek call it mall and “Forever 21.” When the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ likes the x-ray idea but hates the look as a whole, Stella throws Zanna under the bus by saying she had thrown out her original look. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ politely says she cannot judge what she cannot see, while Isaac is far more direct: “Forget about how un-chic this is, there’s nothing less chic than an excuse.”

THE TOPS

VALERIE 

She grabs gauze — in pink, of course — and a boat-load of cotton swabs. I remember someone on an earlier PR used popsicle sticks to make a cool corset and I’m hoping she’ll do the same, but, alas, Valerie is making a chevron pattern she calls fringe by sewing the swabs together. Zanna says it might be a bit too crafty and a little not fashion.

WHAT SHE SAID

It’s fantastic. Nothing’s breaking.

WHAT I SAID

I like it. It’s cute. But it’s not transformative and needed many more swabs to make it better.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Johnny Wujek says it’s cute, and loves the cotton swab fringe, but he hated the belt until Valerie revealed that it was a stethoscope. Isaac loved the cotton swabs, too, and called the look flattering but the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said it wasn’t really unconventional, though it was lovely, and Alyssa wanted more cotton swabs.

KEN 

Does he tire easily or what? About a minute into the five-minute grab he’s breathing hard and saying he wants to rest. But that might be because he filled his bag with heavy fire hoses and there’s nary a hot cop around to help him.

In the workroom he sees Sam working with fire hoses, too, so Ken cuts his open to reveal the insides which look like black patent leather; he’ll use those to make what he tells Zanna is a straitjacket dress. Zanna thinks he’s onto something, though I wonder: after Ken’s season on the PR and his breakdown, maybe his straitjacket dress is an omen?

WHAT HE SAID

I hope the judges notice that I top-stitched that skirt.

WHAT I SAID

Very cool, very edgy, and I love the underside of the skirt where you see the printed hoses.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac said the length was fresh and that his favorite part was that “it looks like she’s wearing white crinolines with a black dress…nothing more naughty and chic than that in this world.” Johnny Wujek thought it was fantastic, and loved the concept, and if the boob dents weren’t there he’s put it on a client. He’d also like to see an entire collection of this style. Alyssa was bothered by the neck-piece, but that was all while the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loved the back and the lines but hated the dented boob area.

SAM

He has fire hoses and gauze and hospital gown, oh my. And he’s set to make a jacket and a pencil skirt, but scraps that idea for a hose coat, though it might be sleeveless if he runs out of time; he does not which Zanna liked because she really wanted sleeves. In fact, he has the time to make quick bandage dress for the model to wear under the coat. Smart, lucky, move.

WHAT HE SAID

Ain’t nobody gonna tell me that that jacket is not fabulous.

WHAT I SAID

I will. The sleeves seem like an afterthought and it looks like the model can’t even move her arms. And it looks like a box.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called it original and quirky and restrained and said it reminded her of London couture — funny, because Sam hates couture. Johnny Wujek called it Hunger Games meets Paris couture, while Isaac called the coat boxy and ill-fitting until Sam smartly opened it up and showed the dress beneath; Isaac instantly liked it better … and so did I. Alyssa was once again impressed with Sam’s designs and said she liked his little “flirty” gestures. That was when Sam started to get flirty with Johnny Wujek — “I keep fixing my hair for you” — and I got a little … a lot … sick to my stomach.

Well, it was clear when Stella wanted to make an alien ribcage coat that she was going home, and if it wasn’t clear then, it was when she scrapped the coat halfway through and started over. Bye Stella.

It was also clear Valerie would not win, so it was down to Sam and Ken; impeccable black dress with boob dents or boxy coat with odd sleeves?

Boxy coat and odd sleeves; Sam gets another win.

I was watching the models try on some crazy, and some ugly, clothes and I wondered what they’re really thinking during the fittings besides, you know how hungry they are …

And Stella! She wears such crazy things herself — spikes on her sleeve during her confessionals! If she’d taken her own sense of style to this challenge and created something she would wear, she might have won.

Sam kinda reminds me of the gay kid in that new show The Real O’Neal’s, only not as funny. And when he was getting flirty with Johnny I was kinda grossed out by it, though not as much as Alexander, who, in previews for coming weeks seems to suggest Sam won because he flirts. Sam annoys me — I’m still shuddering at that awkward backwards flirt gesture thing — but I don’t think he won because he flirts. He probably gets laid because he flirts.

That said: Ken should have won.

Kini is still pissed at Sam for taking credit for his work last week, so it’s Kini snarking non-stop about Sam at every turn. I didn’t necessarily mind it, but I knew that with all the shade he was throwing Sam would end up on top.

LINE OF THE NIGHT

Mitchell, seeing Valerie’s use of the cotton swabs: 

“Val’s using her cotton swabs in a way that’s boring and basic … maybe she should have used them to clean out her ears so she can listen to what the challenge is.”

What did YOU think?