TFS: Final Collections/Taping (Spoilerish)

Bitches, we had such a busy day yesterday!

As many of you figured out, we dashed off to NYC yesterday for the taping of the final collections for The Fashion Show. This was a very different experience from attending a Project Runway Bryant Park finale.

For one, it wasn't held in Bryant Park. It was at Cipriani, a club/restaurant/event space on Wall street. Unlike Bryant Park, this was, in effect, a set for a television production rather than an event in itself. They took a long time setting up and they did a couple retakes for various reasons. Isaac and Kelly came out to applause three times because of some sound issue.

We're going to have to apologize right now for the quality of the pics. Our invite strictly forbade cameras of any kind, so, being the obedient boys that we are, we didn't bring one. When we noticed that everyone else in the room DID bring one and were whipping them out at the drop of a hat, we were forced to resort to our primitive, hand-cranked iPhone for the pics. We arrived with Laura and she was quickly whisked off to the green room, where she was forced to interact with the 200 or so Housewives in the Bravo Stable of Stars, much to her chagrin.

To our surprise, Andy Cohen made a beeline over to us and gave us a big hug. Don't get us wrong, Andy has always been very friendly to us, but we sensed something of an urgency on his part this time. "You guys have pretty much given up on this show, right?" We assured him that we haven't and that we have a post coming up with suggestions on how to improve it. He was very grateful for our support. You have to understand, Andy is ALWAYS the belle of the ball at these events, so for him to come over to us and spend a good 5 to 10 minutes chatting in the midst of all this media and crowd attention left the people in our section wondering just who the hell we were and why the hell was the Senior Vice-President of Production and Programming so intent on hearing our opinions?

Laura, dripping in Chanel, with Cory from New York Model Management and Bravo's Make Me a Supermodel. Cory was very sweet. We thanked him for supplying the models for the Fire Island event last weekend.

When Laura took her seat, way down at the other end of the hall, she waved frantically at us and pointed at the person next to her, who was also waving frantically. We squinted and wondered, who is this white-haired person next to Laura? Then, both Laura and the white-haired one started mimicking cutting hair and a lightbulb went off. It was Tabatha Coffey from Tabatha's Salon Takeover! We were so jealous, because we wanted to sit next to those two bitches during the show just to hear their bitchy comments. Unfortunately, in the jostle post-show, we got only one lousy, blurry pic of Tabs. *pout* She told us that the next season of her show just finished taping and she said it was "insane." We were in the midst of chatting with her when Lorenzo spotted...well, you'll see in the next picture - and dashed off. "Well!" said Tabs. "I guess he just told ME to fuck off!"

Betsey Fucking Johnson, y'all! She was apparently the guest judge. Before we went up for a picture, Tom turned to Lorenzo and asked, "You're not gonna cry like the time you met Catherine Malandrino, are you?" He didn't. She was all bubbly and fun and very approachable. She also looks AMAZING. She's got the body of someone 30 years younger and the face of someone 20 years younger. If she's had work done, it's not at all noticeable.

Keith and Jonny Day. To a person, every single one of the designers was friendly and grateful for all our work covering the show. We kept telling them, "You guys are nothing like those Project Runway bitches! They all HATE us!"

Lidia and Angel.

El Pollo Loco, who was on an adrenaline high after his show. So much so, that Tom had to yell, "QUEEN! Stand still!" just to get this shot.

Haven. One thing we can tell you after meeting so much of the cast: the editors really worked overtime on this show to remove their normal personalities and make them all appear dour and nasty. Haven could NOT have been sweeter. She is nothing like the girl we saw on TV.

Oh, and she looked fabulous.

Strawberry Shortcake! WHAT. A. DOLL. And surprisingly pretty. Not that she didn't look pretty on the show, but in real life, she's actually beautiful. And (forgive us honey, we're gay and we can get away with it) she's got a KILLER rack on her.

Miss Breton.

There was no getting close to Isaac as every time we turned around, he was giving another interview.

Andrew.
Markus was so sweet and told us he loved the blog. He told us that his friends all noted that his was the only designer interview we conducted that didn't conclude with a "Thank you" and his friends all assumed we hated him. Sorry, Markus! We forgot!

Kelly, not exactly approachable, but she lit up when we asked who she was wearing. Answer: Dolce & Gabbana. This makes the second of Destiny's Children that we've met (we interviewed Michelle Williams for Metrosource). Next stop: Beyonce!

Alright, as some other reality show hostess used to say, "Let's start the show."

We're not going to get into critiques of the collections. That's for much later. We'll say this, though: Merlin clearly just wanted to put on a crazy show and he succeeded. He said his show was "Like the Phoenix." Unfortunately, the combination of his thick accent and the mike echoing off the marble walls made it sound like "Ees lie de feeniz," forcing all the tight-assed white women in our section to turn to each other and mouth "What?" and then shrug.

Johnny was very nervous. He said he was influenced by the '90s and Jody Watley videos, which caused Kelly to dance a little in excitement in her seat.

We have to say, we LOVED Anna's collection. As far as we're concerned, it's down to her and one other.

We died a little inside for poor Reco. The reason he's carrying that model off in the end? She had a dress malfunction and literally could not walk a step down the runway. There were several moments of pure embarrassment for him before he scooped her up to the applause of the crowd.

It was Daniella's birthday yesterday. We didn't love her collection. While it does seem very modern (something she clearly prides herself on), it didn't really grab us. It did seem the most like a real collection, though.

James Paul is the other contender. It's a shame these don't photograph well, because they were beautiful and fascinating in person. He said he was inspired by "indigenous people wearing western clothing" and there is definitely that vibe. A highly conceptual and interesting collection.

We'll be updating all of the collection pictures with higher quality pictures as soon as they become available, kittens.


[Photos: BravoTV.com/WireImage/Getty Images/Projectrungay.blogspot.com]


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