Oh, nurses! It's that time again! That time when my heart thrills to the wearable art that splurns down the runway and the naked insanity that creates it to collide in the hallowed halls of Parsons: The New School for Design and be beamed directly to my television. Recapping is a bit much when there are still so many designers; so I - after conferring with some of my fagulous colleagues, have decided to pick designers to watch - for a variety of reasons - and chuck them up on the Catwalk of Ideas that is the Fagulous Blog. Here's who we've got designs on:
It's zebra man capris! It's pink assless-chaps! It's
KAYNE!. Yes, girls, our first award goes to this native Oklahoman (hmm. . . I wonder if his #@&! is as high as an elephants eye?) is one of the cutest of the season, but he's here to receive our award for
MOST GAY.
What to say about MALAN? Other than that his whole demeanor is going over like a lead balloon. Now, I'm all for fun with cultivated accents and eccentricities, but . . . well, we don't want to be mean, so let's just say there's something not quite right about this package. We'll save the rest for when our very special friend of fagulous, a former beau of Malan's, makes a special appearance to dish the secrets. In the meantime, we'll just give him the LOVE TO HATE HIM award.
Oh, VINCENT! Please stop talking about how you cashed in your 401K. It turns the fun of enjoying your particular brand of I-Did-Too-Much-Acid-And-Peyote-And-Marker-Sniffing-In-College personality from enjoyably ridiculous to sadly insance. Well, here's your award for CRAZIEST; maybe you can pawn it and use the money for food.
Well, you may not yet realize why yet but there's no one more deserving of the award for MOST CONTROVERSIAL than first-challenge winner KEITH. Why? You may vaguely recall his sketches from the audition process on the "Road to the Runway" episode. You know who else those sketches might look familiar to? THE DESIGNERS WHO MADE THE ACTUAL CLOTHES. Yes, either Keith is clair-freakin'-voyant or he stole those looks right off the runway. Check out the sketches and the runway shots side by side at Best Week Ever. I've even heard that you can see Nina Garcia sitting front row in one of the runway pics! Oh, Nina! How could such a thing be going on right under your perky li'l nose?!
And welcome to our last award of the evening. The category is the coveted FAGULOUS FAVORITE and the winner is the beautiful, the talented, the woman with the eye for architecture AND fashion, the woman who's taking a break from her kids, the woman who runs around the workroom in a cocktail dress, the woman whose first piece of the season - a FAGULOUS faux-fur-collared coat reminded us of nothing more than our favorite Auntie Mame, the one, the only, LAURA BENNET. Laura, you're the fagulous pony this season, and we're hoping to be with you at the line for a photo finish. (JESUS! EVEN HER PICTURE IS FAGULOUS! WHERE HAS THIS WOMAN BEEN!?)
EVERYBODY'S SAYING IT: Our new favorite word? Auf'd! A contraction of "Aufwiedersehened," meant to emulate the verb "Ousted" and used to describe the latest designer to leave Project Runway. As in, Stacey was the first designer Auf'd from Season 3. FAGULOUS!
