This was a bad ending. I do not understand what drugs Kors and Garcia were taking.

What I don't get is that what they have previously complained about in designers in seasons past they praised the winner for this time around.

I don't get it.

from a comment on Twop:

That was as much about damage control as it was about fashion. Running Through Thunder indeed. I hadn’t planned to watch but my friend came by and insisted. She works as a crisis management specialist. Once we saw the mini-reunion before Fashion Week and the content thereof, she turned to me and said, “Oh shit. This means Gretchen wins. Damn.”

I think I can't see past the repetitive prints and what I think is a really muddy, sad palette to the shapes and the movement in her clothes.

I don't think I've really loved anything she's produced the entire season, and ITA on this take on her final collection. Just--blah.

At least Mondo's outfits were interesting to see, and if I were twenty years younger and thin, I'd totally buy that tunic dress--it was terrifically fun.

UGH. Just watched PR. She should have lost just for the outfit that she wore to the fashion show. I disliked most of her collection, although I really was not a fan of her aesthetic. I thought that Nina was full of shit about the collection being editorial. Mondo's looks will leap off the page, Gretchen's will fade into the background. Don't get me wrong, I didn't love everything in Mondo's collection, but I thought that it showed design and forward thinking and fun.

Frankly, I thought that Micheal and Nina were pissed that he left the polka dot dress in the collection after they told him to leave it out. I also thought that Jessica Simpson didn't get an equal vote, so her loving Mondo's dress was irrelevant.

I enjoyed Heidi and La Kors fighting. That shit got a little dicey.

Answer me this: wouldn't Heidi have looked stunning in that dress of Mondo's? I loved it. I do not understand why Nina and Michael hated it so.

Me neither. I thought that Gretchen's collection was really boring and that Mondo's was much more interesting.

I think Heidi would look great in that dress.

I do not get this decision. Nina and Michael were going on and on about, "Why should we have to edit his collection?" "Who would wear this?" "It veers toward clown clothes!" I just kept thinking of Alexander McQueen because that is who Mondo's collection reminded me of.

McQueen, motherfuckers!

P.S. Bite. Me.

I thought the polka dot dress was spectacular, and there were a ton of other really adorable clothes in Mondo's collection. I also loved Andy's collection, and am pretty pissed off that after specifically telling him "Don't do a warrior woman collection" they complained that the stuff he showed wasn't like his old stuff that they all loved so much. Um, mixed messages much?

Still baffled by the "this is the cutting edge, this is where fashion is going" comments about Gretchen. Her color palette looks like the basement of the house I grew up in, so apparently fashion is currently going to the suburbs in 1978?

After a bit of back and forth I figured Nina and Michael weren't going to vote for Mondo regardless. If Heidi or Jessica had brought up McQueen they would have just turned around and said, "See--Mondo's derivative."

And I don't know much about what other designers are doing, but if no one is designing like Gretchen, it's because no one is into designing muddy, poorly proportioned messes.

ETA: Yeah, if I had the figure there were things in Andy's collection I would have totally worn. Loved the gray, one-shoulder dress and the green dress with all the pleats. And my sister (who is 51--"aimed too young" my ass) said the same thing about several of Mondo's pieces.