Bryant Park Collections

Doesn't Heidi look incredible? Nice to see she brought it after her "running errands" outfit from the last runway show.

Click to see the collections, darlings. We're reserving judgment until the episode airs, but we'd love to hear what y'all think. We don't have every dress up yet, so be patient, poodles! Done!


UPDATE: More pictures/Videos/Slideshows added to the collections!

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[Photo: WireImage]

Darlings, we're all aTwitter!

Darling minions, we are rushing out the door to catch our train so we can spend an evening at the Bennett-Sheltons before heading to the tents in the morning. Of course, we planned to leave hours ago, but wouldn't you know it, work got in the way. Frigging work. Sugar Daddies who want to see us blogging non-stop should please go to the Donate button to ensure our continued fabulosity.

Anyway, you may have noticed that we now have a Twitter account (See below). This is so we can provide you constant updates from our Crackberries right from the tents tomorrow. Here's how it works:

- If you choose to sign up to follow us on Twitter, you'll get these updates directly to your cell phones as text messages, or

- You can follow along on our Twitter page here, or

-You can wait for the messages to load on this post. The benefit of doing it this way is you can comment here so that when we inevitably text "J LO JUST WALKED IN AND HER ASS IS HUGE!" you'll be able to laugh and clap. The drawback is, only the last 20 twitters will show up on the blog.

We're very proud of the little community of bitchy PR fans that we've built here and this is one way you can feel like you're in Bryant Park with us. Every time one of you posts a comment on a post here, it shows up on our Crackberries, so it'll be like a big party. You can read about what we're doing and we can read your comments in turn. Technology is fabulous.

Remember, tomorrow's show will have the finalists as well as the decoys, so you won't have to worry about any spoilers. All six remaining designers will be showing in Bryant Park tomorrow. Over the weekend, we'll have pictures of the collections on page two so you can choose to look at them or not. And of course, we'll get back to blogging the surreal episode that aired last night.

Love you lots! Ciao, babies!

P.S.: We're not the only twittering queens out there. Bravo informs us that Nick Verreos and Daniel Vosovic will be twittering from the tents as well. Go to Bravotv.com for the details (but we know you'd rather read our bitchy comments).


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Judging the Judges: Monique Lhuillier Fall 2008 Collection

Season 4 judge Monique Lhuillier showed her Fall 2008 collection last month and Style.com was there:

"Lhuillier doesn't do excess. Everything must be just right. Therefore, heavy embellishment—richly embroidered velvet and all-over cabochon-jeweled embroidery—came in clean silhouettes. Alternatively, the exaggerated ruffle on a gold cocktail dress meant no embellishment."

"A flapper, one with a smoldering, smoky look, served as the inspiration for Monique Lhuillier's fall collection. The clothes she wore this time around weren't an exact copy of the styles of the 1920s but they had the right spirit: fun and sexy."

As for us, we like, not love. It's a very basic and basically pretty collection of mostly red carpet-ready, drapey-draped gowns and dresses rendered in rich fall colors with the occasional interesting embellishment. We don't really like the bedazzled bits. We didn't like them when they were the hot thing and we like them even less now that they're about a season behind us. She played a bit with silhouettes and we like the gathered skirts, the lumpy (faux?) fur coat and the tweed jacket and coat with the (faux?) fur trim. It's not reinventing the wheel and it's mostly the kind of fashion that bores us generally, but it's pretty and wearable.

What do our bitches think?

[Photos: WireImage/Getty Images - Slideshow: Project RunGay]

Judging the Judges: Zac Posen Fall 2008 Collection

Darlings, enough with these previous contestants (for now). Let's get ripping on the judges! Zac Posen's Fall 2008 collection was described thusly by Style.com:

"The models wore pompoms on either side of their tight chignons, and many of the dresses were sheer enough to reveal spangled underwear and black garter belts. After-dark options edged out daywear by a wide margin, which was too bad, because the most elegant piece here was, hands down, a herringbone-tweed sheath, and it would have been great if the focus had been more of the same. That isn't to say eveningwear is a bad thing, but crinolines—which he showed under a robe à la française and a mini-parachute dress—are quite another story.

Posen cut all of the sugar and spice with great tailoring, some of it in a soft-quilted cloque that his program notes dubbed "bubble wrap." On the harder side, a Prince of Wales schoolboy suit looked signature—it was curvy and fit like a glove—but it didn't have quite the sex appeal of a plunging Le Smoking jumpsuit."

"[S]o much of this collection looked designed not for grown-up women (ones with jobs) but for living dolls."

It's that last sentence that nails it. Look, we're all for exuberance and whimsy in fashion, which too often takes itself far too seriously. But looking at this collection, one word repeats itself to us: "silly." We have no idea what got into him, but he decided to put out a collection that looks like a joke. Oh sure, some women somewhere will plunk down the cash to wear these things, but for the most part, it comes across almost ... disrespectful. Like he's daring women to go out in these ridiculous outfits.

Granted, it's not all bad. We like the colors (when they appear), and one or two pieces are nice on their own, but all that bright, shiny tackiness or overly frilly foundation garments rendered in silhouettes that make the wearers look more like items than women just left us flat.

Et vous?

[Photos: WireImage/Getty Images]