Project Runway Season 8 Finale Recap

Oh great, another show to upset me this week. I love my job.

So last night was the last night of this 8th season of the Runway Projects, and we got to watch our final three and their collections. First there was a reunion, and that was fun. Gretchen cried when everyone called her a big meanie, and then they all backed off. Nobody would say who they wanted to win, and it was all very very lame. Except I got to see my beloved Nicholas. Ivy just sat there sucking her lemons, and Casanova was...well Casanova. Not much to report there.

Off to the workroom we go, and it's all the same song we've sang before. Andy has a bikini fashioned of pubes that activates Uncle Tim's gag reflex. Mondo should've put that black dress in the collection and taken out one of the op art outfits, and Gretchen was going to work her "styling" magic. Which I guess...she's some kind of genius at? Wavy hair, bronzer, coral lips and high heels is genius. Let me update everything.

And there's the requisite model drama we have every year, where a couple of them walk past a hotel breakfast buffet, never to be seen or heard from again. Gasp! Whatever shall we do? Where ever will we find a tall, skinny, pale girl during fashion week?

Whatever. One always magically appears before the curtain call...lamest plot line ever. How about something better like they waxed the runway with vaseline and they drop like bowling pins or something. Maybe they put Nair in the Garnier Fructis bottles? Now THAT would be drama.

Let's also discuss Heidi's ill fitting red pantsuit from The Limited. Wow. I am convinced her stylist truly hates her after seeing that. Who puts on bright red pants with a bunchy butt and pockets sticking out and says..."Hey, that looks goooood!"

So the fashion show begins with Andy. Andy's stuff always looks like he glued cupcake papers to a dress. Bikini's or Cupcake paper dresses. And then he made those hats out of Slinkies and it just didn't work at all. The color palate of that dirty green and silver only reminded me of a can of sardines breaking free and flopping around with fishing lures stuck to their heads. But hey, congrats for getting this far.

Then there was Gretchen in her Stevie Nicks for Holly Hobbie's Dominatrix line. Ugh. Everything about it was hideous. It was just so brown. Everything the color of mud. Mud, mud, everywhere. The those hood ornaments she put a chain on and slapped around teh necks of her models was supposedly 'genius'. I don't get it, I never will, but yay Gretchen.

Finally, Mondo. Oh how we've grown to love our little color sprite. His collection was fun and colorful. I thought that colorblock tunic everyone loved was something out of an 8th grade home ec class, but again, I shop at J. Jill so maybe I should stop commenting on fashion. Overall, I thought Mondo's collection was much better than the other two, but the judges didn't. I think had he stuck with the black dress this would've ended differently.

So the judges deliberated, and it was very much the usual. Queen of Fashion, Michael Kors wasn't impressed with Mondo, Nina 'I hate you all ' Garcia was almost a human, Heidi practiced a few new idioms, and Jessica Simpson just kind of nodded blankly.

In the end Gretchen was crowned, and I threw the remote at the TV. You know, i didn't watch the show for a very long time when insufferable Jeffery Sebelia won, and I'm about to boycott again. I guess 10 looks inspired by mud is what they were looking for. Grrr. Outrage! Call the cops cuz Mondo was robbed!

So what did you think of the finale? Did Gretchen deserve the win?