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Sorry bitches, you're just going to have to hear us gush a little more about the TRESemmé Finale party. Suck it!
When we told Alison we were from PRGay, she immediately said "Oh, you guys were talking about my boots!" Which of course, led to gushing about the fierceness of said boots. She told us a lot of people had been asking about them and that she had purchased them in Sweden.
Jay and Austin. Why these two don't have their own show, we'll never know.
First off, let us just say that Austin Scarlett is an exotic creature not of this world. Just gorgeous and ethereal and glowing. Austin and Malan are from the same solar system, but on opposite sides of its sun.
Jay is Jay. Exactly what you see on television, hilarious and over the top. This picture was taken at the exact moment that Jay told us to go fuck ourselves. We wear it as a badge of honor.
Note how in every picture, Austin is totally making love to the camera.
Malan darling. His outfit was stunning and by the end of the night he was adorably tipsy. Working our way through the dense crowd, we passed right by him and caught his eye just as he said "Darling, I'm so drunk!" He gave us a sheepish look and we said "Oh darling, you know we're publishing THAT." You could hear his distinctive laugh from all over the room.
Believe it or not, Emmett is actually better-looking in person. Such an incredibly nice guy and he won the Tom & Lorenzo award for most beautiful outfit of the night.
We complimented him on it and he told us he picked it up on his most recent trip to Paris, from which he had just returned. An absolutely gorgeous man. We hung out in the theater after most people had filed out and dished about the collections.
Okay, here's Tom's favorite exchange of the night. "Hi Daniel, I'm Tom from Project RunGay." "Oh hi! Did you color your hair? I don't remember it being so red in the pictures I saw."(blush)
Seriously, we thought Daniel would be standoffish but he is so friendly and open. He's another one that wraps you in a full body hug when he poses for a picture (making us the envy of half the gay men and teenage girls in America right now). Met his adorable boyfriend too, who graciously snapped this pic for us.
Okay, you can all hear Kara's voice and accent in your head, right? In perfect Kara Janxese, she said "Let's awll go doawnstaihs and pahrty!" All rubber facial expressions and slinky body. Kara's got quite a look and her outfit, hair and makeup were all perfect. Very stylish gal. The striking guy (the one who's not Lorenzo) is her ...fiance? Husband? We're not sure if they're married yet, but he's a stunner and the kind of guy you definitely notice from across the room.
TRESemmé has more fabulous pics from the Finale Party here (and we're in some of them) and believe it or not, we STILL have more pics from the party. Keep coming back, chitlins, we got PLENTY to talk about - and we haven't even started in on the episode yet!
Okay, let's get one thing out of the way first. Tom left the Garnier Nutrisse on about 5 minutes too long and that was NOT meant to be a Laura Bennett tribute; got it?
Honeys. What can we say? We'll tell you what we can say because we must have said it about 30 times to each other last night: "Ohmigod, this is so surreal." To watch the finale at the TRESemmé party with the final four - like a foot away from some of them - was just...so odd. We only started this blog a couple of weeks into the season, so to end the season sitting where we were...just, wow.
Give us a second to compose ourselves. Talk amongst yourselves.
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Okay, we're back. Let's get to it. First off, with the exception of Michael who is exactly as good-looking as he appears on TV, the rest of the final four are surprisingly more attractive in real life. It hit us later that of course this would be the case, since 99% of the time we saw them onscreen they were exhausted and stressed out.
Laura. Like always, we have a lot to say about Laura and since it was she who invited us to the party and then invited us to spend a couple hours at her place with her sitcom-ready family, we're saving most of it for a later post. Or the Enquirer. She is EXACTLY who she appears to be on television in terms of her personality. Funny, intelligent, blunt, take-no-shit, unpretentious and fabulous. She's also more than that of course, but we'll get to that later. Love her more than ever and LOVE her husband, Peter. They both sat directly behind us.
Michael is exactly Michael. Cute and cool and poised and polite as polite gets. He sat a couple seats down from us with a fabulous and stylish posse, including his dropdead gorgeous date, who was also quite sweet to us when we complimented her on her outfit.
You will never meet a more adorable person than Uli. Ohmigod, what a sweetheart. And quite the Chatty Katerina. Just talkstalkstalks in that airy germanic English of hers. You ask her for a picture and she immediately wraps you in a full hug, tilts her head towards you and poses, spouting Uli-isms the whole time.
"Uli, we heard you don't have an email address."
"I have one, I just don't give it out to people."
Jeffrey is taller, cuter and nicer in person. He was downright sweet. We can't say we ever had more than a fleeting conversation with him because for obvious reasons he was the darling of the press all night and the only time we didn't see him talking to the press was when he was watching the episode. He sat right in front of us, next to Uli.
You know how you watch the show with friends and talk over it or comment on the action while it's happening? We all do that, right? How weird is it to sit there and listen to the final four do it? To hear Laura cheering on Michael or complaining about how long the judging took or talking about the beadwork on Camilla's dress. There was a lot of "oooohhh"ing and laughing during the "scandal" portions of the show, exactly the same as there would be watching it in your living room, except it was Laura, Jeffrey, Uli and Michael doing it. Surreal, right?
The absolute strangest part of the whole thing occurred after Michael and Laura got eliminated and it was down to Jeffrey and Uli. The entire front of the theater filled up with press, all with their cameras aimed at the two of them to get a shot when the winner would be announced. We could barely see the screen and forget about paying attention when you've got this wall of cameras staring back at you. The pic above doesn't do it justice.
It was thrilling, as Tim would say, when the room erupted into cheering and applause at the announcement of the winner.
We have much more to talk about in the days to come and a ton of pics to show y'all so don't worry, we're not going anywhere. We actually need to watch the episode again, because we probably saw only about 30% of it. Our necks are killing us from whipping our heads around and staring at everyone else in the room like an antsy kid in church. But darlings, it was so worth it. The one thing that echoes through our heads is what Tim said to us as we bid him goodnight. "You two are in the inner circle now!"
Congratulations to Jeffrey Sebelia for winning
Project Runway Season 3!So, how about that one, hunh? DRAMA! SCANDAL! REDEMPTION! It was like a 19th century novel except with more sequins. Honestly? We saw this one coming and while Jeffrey's vision is largely not to our tastes, he is without a doubt a very talented designer and we look forward to seeing what he does next.
This is undoubtedly a controversial decision and some are saying they'll never watch the show again, but we feel the need to remind you all of our patron saint's favorite phrase: chacun à son goût. And y'know? This is nothing new for PR. Plenty of people were pissed that Kara Saun or Daniel V. didn't win. If PR runs for another 20 seasons, that'll be 20 years of pissed-off fans who keep coming back. For us, it's less about who wins it and more about spending time with fabulous people creating beautiful things (along with the occasional not-so-fabulous people and/or not-so-beautiful things). It's about the process and the people in the process. Jeffrey wouldn't have been our pick, but we have no problem with the decision, if for no other reason than it's practically a certainty that all of the final four will be moving to new phases in their careers within the next year. We wish them all well.
Now, girls? We are exhausted. We stopped by a friend's place tonight and hung out for a couple hours before heading out to a fabulous finale party. We'll be back after we sleep it off to dissect this episode to within an inch of its life, but for now, we're heading to bed. Here's a couple pictures from our night:
