Well, that's one less show I'm watching again

Dear Nina Garcia and Michael Kors,

You have lost all credibility with me. Seriously.

I've been disagreeing with your choices for a while, sure. But this season, not only have I disagreed with you, I've started to wonder if you actually do have any real idea what's going on in the fashion world.

You just gave Gretchen the win over Mondo. And I'm pissed off about that, yes, but it's not just because I think Mondo is by far the better designer. It's also because of the bullshit that came out of your mouths in justifying it.

You see... I've been paying a lot more attention to the runway and the fashion world in general since I started watching this show, and you know what I haven't seen recently? Anything that looks much like the 70's aesthetic animal print stuff Gretchen did. In fact, I'm looking at Marie Claire's web site right now, and do you know what I am seeing? Clothes that look far more like what Mondo did than what Gretchen did. In fact, in specific, on the Fashion News page, I see one thing using almost the same pink and aqua I saw in Mondo's collection, and another using a black and white print.

Whose finger again is on the pulse of fashion trends?

Apparently not yours.

Sincerely,

Someone whose Thursday nights look to be staying free for the forseeable future.

Wow Me or GTFO

I'm going to rant a bit about Project Runway now, and then I'm going to tie it in a bit to my feelings about Top Chef, and then I'm going to wonder if I should go back to watching neither of them and just sticking to the recapper's blogs as I did for S5 of both. Suitable warning: This is extremely long. If you don't want to read lots of words, don't clicky: