The 20 Worst PR Looks of All Time

You heard us. Twenty. Because there was no way in hell we could have narrowed it down to just ten. We tried, kittens, but it was far too Herculean a task for two l'il ol' bloggers like us.

Besides, we get to wring more posts out of it.

Except for the Top 5, you're going to have to take any of the rankings with a grain of salt. There was such a hairbreadth's difference in awfulness between some of these looks that we practically had to flip a coin to decide what goes where. And unlike the Top Ten lists, where we actively tried to represent a range of designers instead of having the same designer appear 5 times, this time we said "Screw it. If they're bad enough to appear on the list more than once, they earned it," so you WILL see some designers make more than one appearance on the list.

Alright! Let's start the crapfest!

Number 20

Season 4 - Episode 1: "Sew Us What You Got"
Designer: Carmen Webber

When Lorenzo showed Tom this picture, he completely blanked on which episode it was from and said "So...what? She had to make it out of garbage? Old clothes? Help me out here." When Lorenzo reminded him that it was from the first episode of Season 4, when they ran through Bryant Park to snag fabric samples, Tom's jaw dropped. "Oh right. She had FREE REIN to do whatever she wanted! And she did that!"

We think that sums it up.

Number 19

Season 2 - Episode 5: "Social Scene"
Designer: Guadalupe Vidal

LUPE! The highlight of Season 2. Oh don't get us wrong, there were your Santinos and Uncle Nicks, and Danny V's, but for us, Season 2 is fondly remembered for its LUPEness. This concoction, desperately offered up to guest judge Nicky Hilton as a cocktail dress, is awesome in its LUPE-osity.

Number 18

Season 2 - Episode 2: "Clothes Off Your Back"
Designer: Kirsten Ehrig

We still think this was kind of a shame. Kirsten didn't manage to stay around long, but we had a feeling she was a better designer than she came across on the show. Some people just don't "get" reality TV competitions and what's being asked of them. To her credit, she knew she had a loser with this NASCAR Slut look, badly repurposed (like Frankenstein clothes) from the clothes off her back in S2E2.

Number 17

Season 2 - Episode 2: "Clothes Off Your Back"
Designer: Marla Duran

Two in a row from the same episode! Why it is that two adult women, dressed appropriately, couldn't pull together enough fabric from their own clothes to dress a size zero model without making her look either freezing cold, or slutty? Whoresicles.

Number 16

Season 3 - Episode 5: "Iconic Statement"
Designer: Bradley Baumkirchner

Ah, yes. The moment in Season 3 when every gay man watching rolled his eyes and said, "He's straight." Kittens, he DIDN'T KNOW WHO CHER WAS. Apparently, he got just enough information from his model about the legendary performer to conclude that she buys all her clothes in Walmart's Halloween costume section and offered up this highly flammable result.



[Photos: Bravotv.com - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

PRG at the TRESemmé Finale Party, Part Zwei

More picture dumping from the TRESemmé finale party, darlings. By the way, Bravo's press release informs us that the season four finale became the network's most watched broadcast ever (3.754 million). Congrats, Bravo!


The Fab Four


Jay. Being Jay.


Andy Cohen with Jay's publicist, Nancy Kane


Tim and Emmett. Judging by the picture and knowing Emmett, he probably just said something very droll and slightly inappropriate.


See? We told you there was a lot of drinking going on.


Gorgeous Things and Tim. Check her blog for even more pics and her take on the evening.


Carmen. She told us that she did not design the pants she's wearing but she's had them since she was 18 and only wears them on special occasions.


Miss Emmett. Poor girl's a trooper. He literally stepped right off the plane from France to come to the party with us. He was exhausted.


Kara Janx and her husband Sharone. Y'know, it's not always easy to tell from season 2, but Kara is an absolute RIOT. She came up and gave us a big hello and we asked how the baby was doing. Her face lit up and she started gushing about what is obviously the great joy of her life. Gorgeous Things asked her if she had a boy or a girl and before Kara could answer, Lorenzo piped in with "A boy." Unfortunately for Lorenzo, she had a girl. Kara reacted in mock anger and play-smacked him, saying in her inimitable South African accent, "You know what? I'm not going to read your BLAWG anymore!"


Kaynebow is about to open a menswear store, believe it or not. And Emmett will soon have a line of accessories on QVC.


M. Malan. Fabulous as ever.


Fabulosity cubed. Lorenzo and Malan look they're about to make out, don't they?


Jillian and Lauren. Jillian showed up wearing one of her signature coats, but unfortunately we didn't get a picture of it. Hey, the Cosmos were calling us.

UPDATE:



Tim and Sweet P


Zulema. Gotta say, the girl looks gorgeous.


Lovely Marla. She's really sweet.


Nora and her sister. Hotties, am I right?


Here's a better shot of her dress, which is part of her upcoming line.


And the gorgeous Miu Miu boots she was wearing. Yes, we're fags. We take pictures of fabulous shoes.


With Victoria Brody, Senior Press Manager for Bravo. We had been in weekly contact with her since before the season started, but this was the first time we met her. A total doll. Please disregard Tom's wonky collar.


With Valerie Brown, Director, Digital Marketing & Events for Bravo. Valerie is fabulosity personified and if there's such a thing as reincarnation and we come back as women, we want to be just like her when we grow up. Valerie and Victoria are so smart and so professional and they were such a huge help to us throughout the season that we simply have to give our girls a shoutout. As we told Faran from Fashionista, Bravo treats bloggers very, very well and Victoria and Valerie are a huge part of that.

Tom is not an alcoholic, he's merely holding Gorgeous Things' drink while she takes the picture.

And to wrap things up, just for the fun of it, let's play "Where's T Lo?"

We heard rumors that Posh tried to have us thrown out for taking the attention away from her.

Now darlings, we can't thank you enough for all the kind words you said in our previous post, but stop talking like it's our funeral! We're not going ANYWHERE. We have to rip the collections of the finalists, PLUS the collections of the decoys, PLUS we've barely even scratched the surface of the Fall 2008 collections from all the judges, PLUS we have swag bag giveaways coming up, PLUS we're going to finally return to our T Lo blog. Casting for Season 5 of PR starts NEXT MONTH and we'll have the scoop on that, not to mention Top Design Season 2, Shear Genius Season 2, Musical Mondays, Dames & Divas, and any other bitchery and fabulosity that pops in our heads. As always darlings, Watch What Happens!

[Photos: WireImage/Ann Steeves - Project RunGay - Screencap: Project RunGay]

Ciao, Ladies!

Sometimes those judges can be a bunch of drama queens.

Don't get us wrong. For the most part, we agreed with their assessment that this was too severe, too retro (neither of which was helped by the styling) and just not the Banana Republic look. Add to that, some issues of poor execution and a stupid window display and we can't really dispute the outcome.

Although we did kind of like the blouse.

We just think the judges overreacted a bit to this one, as if it was some horrid crime against fashion. This is a fairly classic look that goes in and out of style constantly, with practically the only change being the hemline. We didn't get or agree with the Duchess's crack that this looked like a stewardess. Keep your eyes peeled. We can practically guarantee that at some point in the next 5 years, Michael Kors will send something that looks remarkably like this down the runway.

We'll miss Diana. We know she gets on the nerves of some people, but we always thought she was adorable and we thought she produced surprisingly interesting designs. Marla, well she never produced anything that we could find a way to compliment, but it's to her credit that she knew all through this challenge that the design wasn't working, even if she didn't really demonstrate enough self-confidence to actually speak up about it.


[Screencaps: projectrungay.blogspot.com]


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One we loved and two we absolutely HATED

Y'know, we've given Andrae a lot of grief in the past, but credit where credit's due, this is a really beautiful dress.

It's feminine, chic and understated, which is ironic because we wouldn't have used ANY of those words to describe his previous entries. It's also beautifully fitted. The bodice hugs her just enough and the skirt flows beautifully. Kudos to him for not going overboard on the detailing, offering just enough sparkle to bump it up without overwhelming.

We love the trim on the bust and the double straps too (although they don't look so hot from the back), which could have come off gimmicky but doesn't . The way the fabric gathers and droops in the back is sexy and makes this as much a "walking away" dress as it is a "walking toward" dress. Nice job, drama queen.

JESUS.

What a stunningly ugly dress this is. Zulema, enough with the white and black. It's boring as hell. The leather is too heavy to be paired with whatever that fabric is she used for the rest of the dress. We kept thinking poor Rachel was going to fall over.

It's once again an amazingly poorly constructed garment. Amazing because she's still in the game after sending so many half-assed (or in one case, full-assed) garments down the runway. Not that perfect execution would have saved this dress. It's an ugly design no matter how well it's put together.

A simple "Jesus" won't suffice here. We're afraid we're going to have to call down Mary and Joseph on this one too.

Let's get this out of the way first. We really feel sorry for Marla. She's in WAY over her head and she knows it. We can't remember when she said it but she admitted at one point that she'd never seen the show before. We have no idea what she sells in her boutique or whether it's any good but based on her work on the show, she is, sorry to say, not a designer at all.

Because a designer (at least one competing in a design competition) would have never attempted what she did here. It's really stunning to look at the two dresses side by side. They're almost indistinguishable.

And God, Marla. If you're going to rip off a dress, at least rip off a dress that isn't hideously ugly to start with.

We met Marla once and she's a very sweet, friendly woman, but she never should have been allowed to stay after this. As ugly as Lupe's dress was, it was in fact, Lupe's design and that should have counted for more because as we said, this is a design competition, not a sewing competition. And frankly, Marla wouldn't even have been able to win a sewing competition. It's harsh (and we're surprised Señora Harsh herself didn't say this), but she really does not belong here.


[Screencaps: projectrungay.blogspot.com]


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Dirty Diana

Like so much of what Diana does, this definitely had something going on even if the end product is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

There was something about the concept that we responded to. It was definitely different and it had the potential to be interesting and sexy, but unfortunately, it fell short.

The combination of tight, skimpy, somewhat fetishistic underwear coupled with light, flowy fabrics was a good starting point, conceptually. In fact, it was probably the best starting point out of any of the teams.

We love those sleeves, but those thongs are poorly designed and don't do the one thing a thong is supposed to do: make your ass look better.

This piece was the true clunker. But then again, so is the model.

Oh, just stop. You suck.

It's hard to judge this outfit because we don't really know what they had to do to please the model, but it doesn't appear to fit with the rest of the collection at all.

Okay, then! Good luck on that Burger King job, bitch.

Surprisingly, she's much prettier off the runway. Her sourness whenever she has to actually, you know, model clothes, makes her look less attractive than she is.

SHE'S. A. MODEL. Who gives a shit what she likes and doesn't like? Either she wears the clothes provided for her or she goes home, end of story.

God bless her, our little Asian mouse isn't as mousy as she appears:

"I feel like you can't just be that picky if you're a model because your job is to achieve different looks and if you don't want to do that, you should probably get a different job."

Amen, sister! Too bad you didn't say that to her face, though.


[Screencaps: projectrungay.blogspot.com]


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