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PiMC: Project Runway Review Season 4 - Episode 12
Episode 49 should be up in the next few days. In the meantime, please join Taylor, Taffy and guest cohost Peter from Atlanta, who requested we continue doing these Project Runway update (i.e. Blame him if you don't like them.) Only one more to go, kittens! Who will win Project Runway?!?
D.C.'s Project Runway! Hi everybody, this is Taylor, and thank you for joining us for the Project Runway Season 4 Part 1 Season Finale Update. I am joined by head bitch Nina Garcia, otherwise known as Taffy Carlisle-Huppington. Hello lovers. And we also have a guest commentator tonight, all the way from Atlanta, Georgia, where it is currently 28 degrees, as I just saw on the weather channel a few minutes ago. Do you have one of our listeners, Peter? I wish I could talk, but my lips are frozen. Not one of our listeners, Peter's, one of our listeners, whose name is Peter. Thank you for that clarification. So how are you doing tonight, Peter? I am pissed off, beyond all reason. Okay, well we're going to get to that in a second, because I saw you're in some messaging before you used to be signed in. So Peter, just real quick, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself, other than the fact that you love Taffy and I? Well, aside from loving Taffy... What else would there need to know, really? Aside from loving you and Taffy, I guess I live in Atlanta, Georgia. Was born in Maryland, went to school in North Carolina, so I figure I'll be in Key West by the time I retire, because I just need to keep creeping south. Where did you go to school in North Carolina? I went to high school in Charlotte, and then I went to Duke University for college. Wow, a blue devil. Yes, indeed. That's the butchest thing I've said all day that I know that Duke is the blue devil. I'm so proud of you. You're such a boy. I'm too much of a butch. Let's talk about Project Runway now. I need to gay it up. Before we start about tonight's episode, I wanted to talk about one thing very briefly about the reunion show last week, at both of you seen it? Yeah. Yes. What was up with Victoria? Well, I hated her on the show, and I think everyone else hated her in the house, because every time anyone said anything, even Tim and Heidi even said, "Wow, apparently, you know, there's Anamasi. You're so negative." I mean, they called her on it a couple of times. I think she just was hated by everybody. And then when they called her on it, she just kind of rolled her eyes and smiled as best she could, because if she said anything, she would have instantly been perceived as bitchy, and it was wonderful. Yeah. And she kind of was being perceived as bitchy, even by not saying anything. True, but what can you do? I never liked her. I didn't care for her at all. No. She was the poor man's Chloe Dow. Chloe wasn't she in the top three in the first season or something? She was the second season winner. Winner. Okay. I knew she was really up there. Yeah, because the first season was Jay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. All right. So let's get to it. Can I start off with my first observation? Uh, sure. Twelve outfits for $8,000, give me a fucking break. That's $750 address or ensemble. Come on, $8,000 for 12 outfits. That is even ridiculous by my standards, which are quite high. I thought that their budget was going to be around $5,000. I was really surprised when they said $8,000. So that was my first thing. And the second thing was Tim Gunn driving around in the Saturn in New York City. Yes. It was ridiculous. Poor thing. Or the lower. Not only was it a Saturn, it was a blue Saturn. Now, I, a present company, excluded, I have a thing about blue cars. And the fact that we put Tim Gunn in a blue car was blasphemous. I'll let it go this time. Sorry. Okay. Go ahead. There you go. Um, I was, let me just say, okay, well, let's go down the list as far as they went to, they had their final thing. They decided to keep their models, they all went their separate ways, then Tim Gunn went in his little turtleneck and went and visited everybody and drove around in a Saturn. And drove around in a blue Saturn. Wait, wait, hold on. You're talking about the visits, Jillian's visit? Okay. Wait, wait, wait. We're going to go in order. We're going to go in order. Okay. All right. Christian. I thought his look was very high end, except for the feathered pants. Yeah. The feather, I wrote feathered pants, really? Really? Yeah. That's pretty much. Yeah. I had no friends. He didn't take Tim to meet anyone. He was just in his little shoebox apartment, and apparently he's friends with the dresses, and that's about it. He is the littlest Huffington. The dress is my friend. You know what? That's a really good observation. I didn't realize that until just now. You're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. The one thing that I did say is this is the first time that I actually kind of liked Christian, just because it was the first time that he wasn't all. I'm fierce. I'm fierce. This is fabulous. It was where he was really listening to Tim Gunn, and he was like, you know what? That makes a lot of sense, and I understand what you're saying versus the whole. I don't care what he says. I like it, and I'll put it up there. I've said since the first episode, Christian was my pick, I think he... I think the stuff that he makes looks very high end. I just... I think it's amazing. The fact that he apprenticed under Vivian Westwood as any of his 21, it's astounding. I mean, I think the stuff he does is awesome. I don't know. It's kind of bad that he didn't do it. He usually did to Tim Gunn, because every other time he went, I don't care what Tim says. I think it's fabulous, and it's going to do well. It did well. So I think he's starting to get... He's starting to get a bit scared now, and I feel like it's going to end up shooting him in the foot, because he's going to remove some of the stuff that was really wild in him, and then when the judges see it go, we didn't see anything that was wild in you, and therefore we're going to give you second place, and dah, dah, dah, dah. But you know what, though? And if you'll notice his entire collection, actually, and I wrote this down, and Taylor's going to yell at me because I'm jumping ahead a little bit, I thought that Rami and Christian and whatever her name is, I can never remember, they, all their collections looked like they could be the same collection. They all had the big giant jacket that's really fitted, and then the big giant neck, and then the kind of weird sleeve with all the... They all looked like the same collection, and they were all almost the exact color scheme. Well, all right. We're going to move into Gillian's nest, so... All right, and the only thing that I wrote down two things, and the first was jackets, jackets, jackets. Yeah. And she makes a beautiful jacket. And that's going to be, she's going to end up being like a design, that's going to be her thing, like the whole Kate Spade purses, and that sort of, it's going to be, she's going to have, she, that's going to be her thing is jackets. That's going to be what she's known for when she becomes famous one day. And I'm going to lose enough weight to wear one of those jackets someday. That is my goal. I can wear one now as a lovely hat. And funny you should mention hats, because that was my next thing, not with her, but with the dad, like the dad's going to be on national television, and he's got the baseball cap on because he doesn't want to show everybody the fact that he's balding, yet they show a picture of him with the family, and he's clearly got the receding hairline. And I wrote down under Gillian, how is it that a hick knows who Tim Gunn is? Because he goes, "Forget Santa Claus, Tim Gunn's here," and I went, "Really?" I mean, I realized his daughter's on the show, but... Now, are they Jewish or Greek or Italian? What nationality are they? I don't think they're Jewish, but I don't know, I would, I don't know, she's very pretty to me. I think it was interesting that Gillian, her boyfriend and Tam were the only ones without babies in the room. You have very good observations. He doesn't have good observations. They probably had to stop taping six times so that like, you know, ladies could put their breasts away and not have lots of screaming children. But you know what though, Taylor and I have to stop recording many times so I can put my breasts away, so that makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, there's never anybody in the room, she just whips them out for her own enjoyment. Exactly, they are here for my pleasure. So you just start hearing like, "Bongos against a microphone," and we put your breasts away. Okay, Rami, alright, I want to say, who was the hottie in Rami's ass? And Jeff, his friend Jeff, that was, "Hello!" His friend Jeff was Rami with hair, I was just kind of like, "Oh, it's before shave, after shave." Okay, Miss Banner's Tiffany's Guide to Manors, you have a guest, the three of you are sitting on a couch and he is sitting on an ottoman against a little coffee table. Are you kidding me, really? And they give him a little plate with cheeses and the fruits that roll around. Yes, too. And he has absolutely no place to put it because he's stuck on this tiny little chair, which is almost as demeaning as riding up in a Saturn. Exactly, it was the human equivalent of the Saturn, sitting on the ottoman pulled up to the coffee table. I think this was an entire test just to see how gracious Tim Bion was. You know they're going to have an outtake reel where he tries to get into the Saturn and get it adjusted to his height, and he's like, "What the fucking, what kind of car is this? Is this? Is this even made in a country that has tall people in it? God damn it! Ow, my knee!" I've had a drymer since I was 17. Funny you should mention fucking because when he said the heavy duty Eppencoat, they need to have an outtake special where they just showed Tim Gunn saying to word fuck. Just once. That would be a ratings bonanza. Designers. Designers, designers, get to fucking work. Rommie stuff was, I don't know, at that point I thought it looked like Gillian and Christians, and it was stuff I had seen before, and I didn't really pay much attention to it. Yeah. Rommie stole Gillian's jacket and then put Christian's puffy sleeves on it because, as I said, do something different, and what's the only thing he's seen for the last couple of months? It's been... Yeah. I did like the one black dress, but I did agree that it didn't do anything for the girls. Okay, we're going in ahead, we're getting ahead, we're getting ahead. We still have to go to Chris's house. Oh yes, I have several things on Chris, so please. Okay, I only have written two things. I thought the idea of using human hair was awesome, even though it was kind of creepy. I thought his stuff looked amazing. The apartment that they went to afterwards was horrible. But you know what though, that is an actually very kitschy, famous apartment in New York. I mean, it is something that many people have, I have heard, I have actually heard that apartment mentioned before, and I have been in coffeehouses in Manhattan in Times Square where they have pictures of it on the bulletin board. So that's actually kind of a local, famous place. That apartment exists solely as proof of why you need to let gays move and gentrify. Because if you let them sit, they will just keep coding and coding, and it will become like a pearl on the inside with gaudy, creepy things that just add layers and layers. Yeah, that is one thing I thought, I thought, how did those people sleep in that house? Because all the cherubs and the, it was, I expected to see glitter magnolias, and I don't know. Gold leaf. Gold leafing and everything. He wakes up screaming, "No, the baby's going to eat me!" Oh, oh God, it was another nightmare. No, I thought the human hair looked cool on the jackets. I don't know if I agreed with him, I didn't like it on the skirt, but I liked it on the jacket. I thought, I actually thought Chris's collection was much better than Rami's, I was very sad that Rami liked it. Okay, once again, getting ahead. We haven't gotten that far yet. I liked the human hair, but I think he overdid it. If he had left it to just the collar or just the wrist fringe, it would have been perfect. But I think he was going for 95% fashion, 5% costume, and he ended up more 70/30. Okay. But, I mean, otherwise everything was just gorgeous, and I still think it was wonderfully done and beautiful, and when the camera panned out and I saw the room, it was like, "Oh, I kind of want to wear that, and I'm not interested in drag." Skin tight, black velvet dress with the roosting all the way down the front from the top of the neck all the way down. If I had a dick, I would have had a hard time. It was incredible. Well, if that's not a thumbs up, I don't know what it is. That's a winning endorsement, taffy style. So all of the designers get back together in the hotel, and they're all sitting around and talking and laughing, and then they go all to the work room the next day, and taffy, you touched on this earlier, what the hell was that hat that Gillian had on? I don't. That's one of those things that she had on, so someone would say, "What the hell's Gillian had on her head?" I cannot imagine a grown adult woman putting that on that isn't, you know, Betsy Johnson. I don't know. I just didn't understand that. It was a jacket that was a little bit too small, so she had to use her as a hat. Exactly. She had a very small don't. You know what? Rodan's out. Peter's the third host of the show. Rodan has never listened to the Project Runway episodes anyway, so he'll have no idea. It'll be fine. I need to write for Rodan, because I think he has a much sexier voice than I do. Okay, so there was the fashion show. And it was Rommy versus Chris. I didn't like Chris's, the whole dark purple makeup lipstick I thought was a little much, but I think Chris's was much better. I would love to have seen all of Chris's show. The only thing that, well, I think you're going to be able to see, you can see all five, because Sweet Pea actually did a show as well, because they just had the final five designers do a show, and there's places all over the web where you can see everybody's shows. I liked Chris's stuff better than Rommy's. The only thing that I had for Rommy that I wrote down was JCPenney's catalog 1982. I think everything that Rommy did had ass-hand smit. Just every single girl walking down that runway looked like she had a gigantic Badonka-Dunk booty because of the way he flared the hips on it and pulled his Greek goddess thing. And that's why Heidi said what she said, you know, some of these things, they're not flattering. No woman wants her ass to look bigger, except me, because I have no ass, but that's beside the point. Well, then you can buy one of his dresses. I'll buy one of his dresses, and then I'll be an hour of shape like an hourglass, a 18 hour hour glass, because it would be shaped like an hourglass nonetheless. The hourglass on Days of Our Life. Exactly. All right, so then they had their final say, and Chris is out. And once again, Nina Garcia showed that she was like, wanted to mount Rommy on the runway. She was otherwise eye-humping in the whole time, and Michael Coors called Chris's stuff costume a big surprise. So, I don't know. I hate both of them, because I didn't all- Clearly. Well, I don't know. I feel like the first episode was foreshadowing for how the season would go. Hey, everyone, we put fabric in these tense three football fields away. Now you have to run and grab it. Oh, that kind of sucks for you, fat guy. I thought about that tonight when I was like, "They may, you know, run, fatty, run." Run, fatty, run. Oh, you're kicked off. Oh, you're back, but you only have four hours to make the dress starting at midnight. It's just kind of like they throw them around, they throw them around, they throw them around. Oh, we're not going to kick you off this episode. We're going to wait until the next one, after you make an entire collection, and everyone gets to see how awesome you are. It's just, I'm tempted to just not watch the finale and just kind of read what happened on Wikipedia, because I don't want to even have a chance of being interested in one of their sponsors, because of this whole thing. I thought that- Oh, Chris, you know you'll watch it. Which means, of course, that Peter will be teavowing it and watching it at the same time. Yeah, and well, it's just kind of like, I think Chris was really robbed, and I thought Chris's stuff was better. I thought Chris was a better designer. I think that Rami was kind of floundering at the last second going, "Oh, God, I can't do draping. I can't do draping." Still did a little bit of draping, but at least did so much other stuff, but the other stuff was copied directly from his competitors. It was shocking off. Do you think that Rami's going to win, because I don't- I mean, I hate to say I still think Chris is going to win. I've said it since day one. I think Gillian might sneak under the radar, because she just- she does have some kick-ass jackets, but if Rami wins, I think they're going to have- I mean, they had a lot of shit over last year when the guy with a guacamole recipe on his neck was- The way I see Rami winning is Project Runway always seems to reward the most self-aggrandizing asshole. And it looks like Christian's kind of faltering, and will be a bit scared next week, and Gillian never really had a lot of confidence. So I think that like Rami might sneak in a win by like going, "Oh, I've prepared for this. I'm obviously the one who's supposed to win. All my stuff is awesome. I have the best construction. I'm the one who has it the most together." And because of like that, he ends up winning, because like, you know, Nina Garcia ends up convincing everyone else when they're tired or something. I don't know. That's how Jeffrey was last year. Jeffrey thought that he was the best designer, and he was the cocky. He broke 25 rules, and they still let him win, so yeah, I agree. And all he's done since then is the Bratz movie. He was the costume designer. That was his, that was his big thing, was that he was the costume designer for the Bratz movie. Which made him a slutty. Yeah. Whereas the one that we liked last year, Laura, you know, with that, I still think about that dress, that gray dress with the green gems in the middle of it. There were several dresses of hers. I can, I can, when I hear her name, I instantly think of several outfits she made, but I'm just the same way with Kane. I can think of several outfits Kane made last year, and you know, here he goes. Well, I just remember, I just remember that one dress and just thinking, God, that dress is so pretty. Of course, that's why I'm a faggot, but Laura seems to be running Project Runway now. She's just behind the scenes everywhere, still making stuff, still being awesome. Excellent. Good for her. All right, we are twice as long as I said, we were going to go. We're only going to go for 10 minutes. We're already at like 18 and change, so we're double the pleasure, double the fun. Awesome. Peter, thank you so much for being on this week. We appreciate you giving Taffy and I the kick in the ass that we need to start these up again, and thought that you should be duly rewarded. And I think that being dragged on to the show with short notice is the perfect reward, and finding out that my computer likes to crash sometimes. Oh, God, well, that's okay. We managed to get through this, and that's fine. So, all right, guys, as always, you can go to our blog, which is potismycoapilot.com. 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