At any rate, we are COMMITTED TO YOU and despite the dark circles under our eyes, we just HAVE to tell you about our day. Get your coffee and come here and sit down.
When we got to the tents with Emmett at around 8:30 in the morning the line to get into the PR show had easily 500 people in it. Emmett was having none of it and walked straight up to a clipboard person and we were on the other side of the rope within seconds. Connections, baby.
We saw Valerie Brown, Director of Marketing and Events for Bravo, walking by speaking into her madonnaphone and waved her down. She handed us over to another Bravo person with a clipboard and we were ushered into the almost-empty tent. We stood on the runway kind of milling around with the 50 or so people who were in there. Workmen were applying the Project Runway logo to the scrim.
We saw Laura talking to some reporters and waved from across the tent. A couple people came up to us and asked if they could take our picture, which has yet to get old. All the while, the tent was filling up with more and more people. We stuck close by to our personal Bravo clipboard person because we weren't going to relax until we knew exactly where we were sitting. We even turned down a frikkin interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Bitches, we were GETTING those seats and nothing was going to distract us from that.
Eventually, we got our seats and were THRILLED when we realized we were sitting directly behind the judges, about 3 rows back. We parked our asses and watched the tent fill up. People were coming in in dribs and drabs, but after the scheduled start time of 9 am came and went, the crowd suddenly got thick and then completely impassable. Sitting from our little perch, we watched the place erupt into controlled chaos for about 20 minutes as the crowd of celebrities and beautiful people made their appearances, air-kissed each other and found their seats. We saw Padma Lakshi giving Andy Cohen a kiss on the runway, towering over him. We saw Nikki Taylor and Tyson Beckford enter with much fanfare and saw a very pregnant Ana Gasteyer get ushered to her front row seat. We found out later that Meryl motherfucking Streep was in the hizzouse but left after the lights went down. It's probably a good thing that we didn't see her because our double gay gasps would have been so loud you would have heard them several blocks away.
Then, as if they appeared out of a hole in the floor, Nina, Heidi, Michael and Posh were standing right there. They're all thinner than you realize. Posh is, believe it or not, very pretty in person. We expected her face to be harsh and severe, but it's soft and she's got the tiniest little delicate features. Granted, she paid good money for them, but still. Her dress is getting a lot of criticism on line but the color doesn't photograph well. In person, it was a striking yellowish tangerine and really stood out in the tent.
We have to apologize for having no pictures of all of this, but the place was in chaos and we weren't budging one centimeter of ass cheek off our hard-earned seats. Besides, we wouldn't have been able to get anywhere near any of these people and the milling crowds around them prevented any clear pictures from a distance.
After the show was another story as anybody who was anybody strolled around the runway posing for pictures and giving interviews.
Kayne and ...friend? Boyfriend? You make the call.
Haughty competition.
[Photos: Project RunGay]
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