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September 18, 2008 at 9:26am

"Project Runway": Welcome homely

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Oh, my god. After last night, is there any doubt that Kenley is hands down the most insufferable contestant ever to appear on this show? And when you consider the likes of Vincent, Jeffrey, and Keith, that's a LOT of asshole to choose from. But I still think she totally takes the title.

So the challenge was to design makeover outfits for recent college grads, and their moms would be there to supervise. Kind of. After the first fittings the moms were totally out of the picture, which led to only a little drama -- stereotypical overbearing mother hemming and hawing over how Leanne's dress made her elementary school teacher daughter's chest look flat. (Because what elementary school kids really need to see is your daughter's luscious melon breasts bouncing around like rubber balls. Yeesh.) After that it was just the designers and the young women. And I feel awful for saying this, but: it was the homeliest bunch of people I've ever seen on any reality show. This show has used non-models in the past, and generally we've gotten some cute normal people. But this time, the daughters and the mothers...rough.

Anyway: the top three were Jerrell, who inexplicably won again (his cardigan/cocktail dress combo seemed incredibly simple to me, with a drab color palette; also, he was wearing a bird on his head); Korto, who managed to make burlap fashionable by turning it into a pretty cool coat (but again: Korto and her coats); and Kenley, who was unjustly in the Top 3 for her 1 millionth 40s-style dress. I don't understand how they kept ripping on Uli in Season 3 for making the same flowy print dress over and over, but Kenley keeps getting praise for spinning out the same look week after week.

The bottom was Leanne, who was dinged for having an amazing dress paired with a coat dubbed as "frumpy" by the judges (actually, it looked futuristic to me), Suede, with an ugly print dress paired with one of the most whacked-out jackets I've ever seen, and Joe, who decided to make his 22-year-old graphic designer look like a 40-year-old stadium usher -- specifically, an usher who buys unflattering, poorly made clothes. Even though Suede's look was deemed totally useless by the judges, AND this was his second week straight in the bottom 2, Joe went home. No big loss, but it's stunning that we're at F6 and two outfits THAT BAD came down the runway.

All that aside, the real fireworks came courtesy of Kenley, who was more petulant and smug than ever. She openly ripped on the other designers, crowed about how amazing her outfit was (it wasn't), and was dismissive of all of Tim's criticism (more on that in a bit). Then, on the runway, she AGAIN laughed at the misfortunes of one of her fellow designers (Suede, I think), just like she did with Daniel a few weeks ago. And then she nearly burst into tears when she didn't win, and you could tell she was PISSED when she stomped off stage. What an awful, spoiled brat.

And next week looks even worse, as the previews show her saying, "I mean, what does Tim know anyway?" CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! But it seems like the judges come down on her like a ton of bricks, and I CAN NOT WAIT. The predestined savaging of Kenley Collins is the only thing besides Leanne that keeps me watching this season.

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Bob said on Sep. 18, 2008 at 9:33pm

I have to agree with Eric that these girls were GORGEOUS! And by GORGEOUS I mean ugly. I'm convinced that one of the mothers was in fact a father that decided halfway through life to be a woman. A word to that father/mother... astringent. Another mother was a behemoth with a voice to match and I'm fairly certain that one of the young girls was S4 winner Christian Siriano back to get in the spotlight. There, I said it.

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