Project Runway Episode 402 Recap: "I Started Crying"

Rami, who won last week with a dress so beautifully made it hurt, crafted a brown shirtdress that was just a big yawn. It was so non-descript I had to replay that part three times because I kept going, “What did Rami do this week again?”

Victorya, oh, my Victorya. She designed the cutest, Frenchiest little smock dress with a racer-back plaid vest. I want it. If Audrey Hepburn were 22-years-old today, she would wear this dress. And that, by the way, is my highest compliment. And she won and I knew she would and I am so going to buy this dress.

SJP clearly didn’t see last week’s episode and also didn’t know about the spitting on fabric thing, and chose Elisa to make a tight little knit dress with a cape over it. I don’t mind people who march to a different drummer, but when they constantly talk about it and even brag about it… can you say pretentious affectation? And when you’re pretentiously affecting to be all new-agey and earthy, the cognitive dissonance makes my head hurt. Although seriously, if she made clothes I liked, I might not mind so much.

Marion is the first member of Team Gay to get sent home, and this week, I don’t see that there was any choice. Yes, Christian blew off Tim Gunn and for that, he should suffer. And Marion designed a gray skirt that I wanted a closer look at. It looked like it was horizontal panels in front with vertical pleats in back. (I may have mentioned I like skirts with something going on in back.)

But then he put this horrible knit fringed poncho over it and it was just bad. Bad design, bad fabric choice, bad execution. And now he’s gone, and it’s all, oh Marion we hardly knew ya. I’m so sad. Now there are “only” six gay male contestants.