<p>To quote my teen D:</p>
<p>“Epic Fail”.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice Mondo’s facial reaction when Gretchen’s name was announced? I think he was as shocked as the rest of us.</p>
<p>+1 to Mondo was robbed. Gretchen’s clothes were butt ugly (and yes, that is an insult to the butt ugly clothes). I am confident that Mondo will land on his feet and will continue to do great things.</p>
<p>Just read the interview.</p>
<p>He is a class act, pure and simple.</p>
<p>But we knew that.</p>
<p>To quote my teen D:</p>
<p>“Epic Fail”.</p>
<p>I totally agree, I love this show and I loved the way Mondo’s designs were original and not in the box. I was so dissapointed. They missed the fact that we know what a b…h she is and many will not buy her clothes for that reason. I find her clothes to be matronly. At least they would look matronly on me as I am short , they might look better on tall people with long legs. and at my age I do not have the legs to wear those short panities even if I wanted to. Not everyone looks like Heidi after having kids. heck not everyone looks like her to begin with sheesh!!!</p>
<p>From someone who taped the finale and has yet to see it - the title of the thread was enough to spoil it for me, gee thanks!..just “Project Runway Finale Reactions” or something like that would have been nice…</p>
<p>That being said, the look on my D’s (who I am visiting this weekend) face when I asked if she watched it would have given it away anyway.</p>
<p>The main impression Gretchen’s collection made on me was: BROWN.
That, and too many (even one would have been too may) models walking down the runway in skanky “boy-cut” underpants that you can pick up at any Target (and dye brown).</p>
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<p>Here’s a link to Gretchen’s website. There are two collections of clothing pictured there. The one called Harvest Moon is incomprehensible to me – is it underwear? The other one, Rose of Cimarron, is similar to some of the stuff she created for the show. It’s all pretty ugly, at least in my unschooled opinion (I’m a candidate for What Not To Wear, so I’m nowhere near qualified to comment on fashion!).</p>
<p>I think it’s funny that she names her collections. “Running Through Thunder”? Looks more like Running Through Sears.</p>
<p>What a strange website. Mothlove? abbreviated ML? I don’t know. Moths aren’t my favorite image.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how short everything is or why the bottoms are cut on the bias so that the crotch area is shorter than the leg area.</p>
<p>They look really strange.</p>
<p>Although Michael Kors said he “knew” Gretchen’s girl I can’t imagine who would wear this odd mixture of dowdy and vulgar. Even Gretchen doesn’t. They make one’s lets look huge (with the heavily textured leggings.) But of course, Gretchen herself has the build of a model.</p>
<p>^^^^Oh wow, what a bunch of bland nothingness. Nothing there that I can imagine my 21 year old daughter, my 57 year old self, or my 87 year old mother wearing.</p>
<p>Nina and whatsisface must be so proud.</p>
<p>Do you think that “whatsisface” is perhaps threatened by a stupendously talented designer like Mondo? That would explain his choice of Gretchen.</p>
<p>^^^ Ha. Love it. Yep, maybe he is afraid of some awesome competition.</p>
<p>Mothlove = moths = that bletchy brown color Gretchen uses all the time. Maybe? :)</p>
<p>Maybe MK is promoting an esthetic that would help his own stuff sell. Likewise Marie Claire.</p>
<p>MK’s own aesthetic is really pretty bland, so far as I’ve seen. Did you notice his reference to Galliano during the judging? It wasn’t intended to be complimentary.</p>
<p>So MK wanted to reward a pedestrian designer like himself and punish an exciting one. Makes sense.</p>
<p>And another odd thing. They kept saying Gretchen’s clothes look(ed) cheap. Even if someone would buy one of her pieces, how much would they spend?</p>
<p>On the other hand, Mondo had pieces for ready to wear, but he also had pieces that even the cheapskate like I am might consider paying more for.</p>
<p>I wanted to buy my D the little strapless bubble dress on the spot and I wanted the color blocked tunic.</p>
<p>The look-by-look critique of Gretchen’s collection is up at that same website I mentioned earlier. My God, it’s even uglier than I thought. They use the word “appalled” to describe their reaction, and they’re absolutely right. I think the second look is pretty (not that I could wear it), but everything else is awful. Just look at the close-up of the pants in the fourth look. Just look at it! And all the giant underpants? Oy.</p>
<p>The tomandlorenzo blog? I just when and read it. Pretty funny. MEGAHIDDY!!! NINA PRAISED THESE PANTS!!! IT’S A CROTCH GRETCHEN!! lol.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s what I meant. I was afraid that if I mentioned it specifically again, people would think they were paying me! </p>
<p>On another blog, the blogging project runway site, there are some video excerpts from Tim Gunn’s question and answer session at an appearance he made a day or two ago. Apparently, Heidi was so upset at Nina’s and Michael’s obstinate support of Gretchen during the judging, that she recruited Tim to help in trying to get them to change their minds. He did go speak to them, reluctantly – because he favored Mondo as well – but they wouldn’t budge.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I’m still annoyed by this, three days later. So I’m going to stop reading about it now!</p>
<p>Thanks for the TLo blog introduction (you can send me a cut of your cut 
). I went yesterday and was disappointed that they didn’t have a look-by-look critique up for Gretchen. Headed there now to check it out.</p>
<p>Could be my off-season addiction to replace PR.</p>
<p>Ok, now that I’ve seen the looks in close-up…</p>
<p>The Signature Look? (final dress) I’m pretty sure I saw it on about a baker’s dozen of attendees at my first Renaissance Fair (ca. 1970-something).</p>