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Belly up!

Ladurée Le Bar, Paris, courtesy of Fabulon

How fabulous is that bar, kittens? The lighting looks very flattering so there's no excuse for not picking up a stranger for the night.

Okay! Business: Congrats to SUZY, who won last week's Uli dress. Suzy was one of 5 people who managed to get 5 out of 6 guesses correctly. All five people had their names put in our homemade Project Runway button bag and Suzy was the lucky gal who got picked.

This week, we have another stunner of a piece for all of you to drool and fight over, generously donated by our pal Emmett McCarthy.

Are you ready?


Just in time for fall, the winner of this week's contest gets the "Ruth" coat from Emmett's Fall '09 collection. This gorgeous coat comes in gray, navy or black and is made from Loro Piana wool with an iridescent lining and retails for 725 bucks. Wow! Show Emmett the love, ladies! Visit his page and check out his new collection here, buy a Tim Gunn bobblehead (he still has some signed by Tim) here, and if you're in NYC today, go and visit his shop because he's participating in the Fashion's Night Out event tonight. You won't regret going. His shop is cool and chic and both he and his staff couldn't be friendlier.

Also, for no other reason than because we want to, check out this picture of Emmett and his sister Kathleen, taken at a recent photo shoot for his fall '09 collection:


Okay, don't you hate them both for their genetic superiority? Kathleen is a former model and she is STUNNING. Hate them along with us, won't you?

You know what you have to do to win that coat: name the top and bottom three in tonight's episode. You get three entries. And MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS or it WON'T COUNT.

To help with the guessing, here's tonight's preview:




Let's recap the contest rules again:

1) Pick the top 3 and bottom 3 designers of Episode 3.
2) You can have up to 3 entries in the contest.
3) If more than one person picks correctly, we'll pull the winning name out of a bag.
4) You must post with some way of contacting you in order to confirm the win, preferable your email address.
5) No entries will be accepted once the show starts.

Okay ladies, GO AND WIN THAT COAT.



[Video: myLifetime.com - Photos: planetfabulon.com/emmettmccarthy.com]


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Fire Island, Part 3: Backstage, Bitches!

Let's watch models getting dressed!

Actually, it's not as titillating as it sounds. The pre-show fittings went like clockwork but if someone wanted to shoot a documentary about it it would be 2 hours of "Try this on." "Ok, now give me a walk." "What shoes go with this?" etc., ad nauseam.

The real fun, as we said yesterday, was getting all the models out on stage in a timely manner. There were no pictures of that little struggle because everyone was manning their battle stations. All the pictures you see in this post were either from Saturday's fitting or from Sunday morning, hours before the show started.

It went like this: Tom was positioned at the top of the stairs leading to the runway. His job was to pace the models to make sure that they were going slow enough to give each one a chance to run back down the steps and into their next outfit. Lorenzo, all the designers, and their designated assistants were down in the dressing room, ripping clothes off the models and hurriedly throwing the next outfit on them (which wasn't easy with Stella's lace-up getups). Only once during the show was there a moment when there were no models on the runway, which caused Tom to run down the steps, burst into the dressing room and shriek "Empty stage! Empty stage!"

A special shoutout must be given to the hair and makeup people as well as the photographer, all of whom were giving their time and expertise to the event gratis:

Photographer: Koitz
www.koitzphoto.com

Makeup: Christopher Drummond
www.christopherdrummond.com

Hair: Louis Tedeschi, Tom DeGrandis, Anthony Linzalone, Robby Nelson

They were all incredibly professional and quick. At the very last minute, it was decided that, since there were fears that the weather wouldn't hold out, we would simply show one collection after the other with virtually no breaks in between. This meant that the original hair and makeup changes for each collection had to be scrapped. Still, somehow the hair and makeup folks managed to make minor changes to each look while the models were getting dressed and even managed to slap on some smokey eyes for the rougher look that Stella's collection required.

All in all, we had a blast and we have to say, there is SUCH an adrenaline rush when you're doing something like this. We can't imagine what it would be like to mount a major show but we definitely have an appreciation of the work all the behind-the-scenes people do to pull one off just so bitchy bloggers like us can sit at our desks and critique it.














A special shoutout to Virginia, who is one of our readers and won one of the VIP passes to the event. She came up afterwards to introduce herself and she was a total doll. Plus, she provided us with a couple pictures from her camera to round out our post yesterday. Luvya, girl!


More pics:

[Photos: Koitz/Virginia Z./ Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

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