You know how Tim Gunn is always saying, “This has great potential”?

That’s how I feel about this season. It had great potential but squandered it weeks ago, and even finally having Michael Kors and Nina Garcia back where they belong (at judging panel) can’t make me care much about the outcome of this sad season.

Reunited, and it feels so...Sorry, I fell asleep.

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Which blonde abused self-tanner more? You be the judge, it's your armchair challenge this week, since Michael Kors is M.I.A.

Is lots of feathers, sequins and more feathers. In black or white, preferably. Because if you’re in a stage show, and you’re Christina Aguilera, you need to be seen by the 92nd row, and only black and white will do. Feathered black and white.

Oy! I’m feeling dirrrty.

This week’s challenge featured not one, but two so-called fashion icons. The first was Mr. Bob Mackie, the Sultan of Sequins, and yes, he’s looking a little…plastique, but listen, if you grew up in the ’70s like I did, you can’t help but have grown up on a heaping pile of the man’s creations for Carol Burnett, Diana Ross, and of course, Cher. Now would have been the week to pull out the “Half-Breed” tribute, Shirin. Who among us doesn’t remember Cher at the Oscars, thumbing her nose in this little number? Read the full story

BERLIN (AP) — German-born model Heidi Klum has given birth to a daughter, Lou Sulola Samuel – her fourth child.

Klum, who is married to Grammy-winning singer Seal, says on her Web site that the baby was born on Friday.

In the message posted Tuesday, Klum says: “She is beautiful beyond words and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years.” Read the full story

Last night’s show. Oh, last night’s show. It makes me happy, and yet, it makes me so, so sad. And angry.

This biased, out-of-nowhere judging must stop! These substitute judges must return from whence they came! I need a drink. Is Oktoberfest still going on? Heidi seems to think so. But I get ahead of myself.

Our usual models are eighty-sixed in favor of several ladies in varying styles of wedding gowns. But these are not blushing brides. They are all divorcées, and their dresses must be remade to represent their new lives. Sort of like the Trash the Dress trend, only without mud and paint. But dye is allowed. Read the full story

First, the good news: Our beloved gentleman of the bon mot, Michael Kors, is back and a bewitching shade of persimmon. Laws, he has been missed!

Praise the tanning bed, Michael Kors is back, albeit with a bevy of blondes.

And now, the bad news: The designs produced this week weren’t fit for the bargain basement sale at Loehmann’s. Sorry, designers. Better step it up.

This week’s challenge was yet more product placement nirvana for Macy’s and the I.N.C. clothing line— make two looks that were cohesive and fit the brand. Oh, and make them both in shades of blue.

Now, blue is my second favorite color, after pink. And there are so many different blues you can work with. But the designers, working in teams this week, picked the saddest combos, and perhaps the shiniest, in some cases. Is L.A. Mood running another special on discontinued fabrics? Read the full story

Grandpa Fashion goes Western. Hey, it could happen!

Annie get your glue gun, because it’s time for a costume design challenge on Project Runway.

Taking note of the Hollywood setting, this week the designers are given a choice of film genres and must pick one and crank out an outfit that hews to their particular archetype, while also envisioning a character who will be wearing it. Some have more imagination than others, and some need remedial film scholar studies. Read the full story

Why hello, Eva Longoria Parker! More Hollywood guest judges. Who'd a thunk it?

If you guessed newsprint as the unconventional fabric of choice for this week’s challenge, you won the kewpie.

Although it injected some life into this season’s so far dull challenges, there’s still one huge problem with Project Runway‘s sixth season — the judges. Or should I say, the continued absence of NIna Garcia and Michael Kors. But more on that later. The headlines today are all about what you can do with paper.

Heidi appears in a darling black and white Breton top (and really, everyone should have that staple in their wardrobe) to tell the designers the answers will be found…in black and white. Tim loads them into the van and takes them to the Los Angeles Times building, where they meet with Times’ fashion critic Booth Moore. Amidst pallets of newspaper, the designers are given three minutes for a snatch and grab mission, and as usual in these type of challenges (remember the Gristedes challenge, the trash barge challenge, the Saturn car parts challenge?), some get greedier than others.

Back at FIDM, Tim gives a lecture on the history of the paper dress, and lays out the materials they can use, such as dyes, brushes, markers, and muslin for base, although it can’t show in the finished design. Which I agree with — muslin is a crutch for weak designers.
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Don't they look cute in their day clothes? And some will wish they'd kept them on when they see what's in store for them.

Thirteen beautiful princesses need an eye-catching look for an industry event. Some will get dresses that look as if fairy god-designers created them. Others will be going to the ball in outfits designed by rabid forest creatures. Or pants from their own closets.

But haven’t we heard this fairy tale before? Project Runway, please stop recycling challenges. Although the past challenge I refer to was creating a wedding gown for the designers’ model, and came in season one, this is getting a little too close for comfort. But it does prove a point: While models have great street fashion, they aren’t always so good at picking high fashion, or even simple evening looks. Read the full story

Tim, I don't want this image burned on my retinas forever. And why did they make you stand next to a trash can?!

It comes quickly in the Project Runway seasons, blowing in like a sandstorm. And if you can’t play nice in the sandbox, you’re going home.

I speak, of course, of the team challenge. Episode three, and here we go.

Everyone hops in the vans for a little trip to…the Santa Monica Pier! Oh, how I miss that place. Such delights I had there, riding the Ferris wheel, buying cheap jewelry, getting hit on by an off-duty cop. But I digress… You know, moving Project Runway out to the West Coast has actually provided a nice influx of sand, sun and fun. And today, the designers meet Tim, who’s doing something that I wish he’d never done. He’s wearing mandals. Yes, the dreaded man sandals. Tim, no — for the love of fashion, never again.

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Just a couple of very blonde, very tall, pregnant ladies.

Here we are at week two of Project Runway, hatchlings, and it’s getting easier to discern what the judges are looking for this season. To whit: sloppy construction will beat a freaky concept, so take your conceptual ideas elsewhere, designers.

But I get ahead of myself. You see, I’ve been sick in bed for two days with something much akin to morning sickness. Except it isn’t. So Mom, if you’re reading this, I’m not pregnant! Rebecca Romijn, however, was when this episode was filmed, and with twins, to boot. So the challenge was to make a design for her to prance around in. Let’s start the show!

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