Oh, it is ON.

[trinityvixen]

Last night's Project Runway was probably the freakin' greatest episode of all time. Why? THEIR CLIENTS WERE DRAG QUEENS.

Trinity loves drag queens. I love everything about them. The make-up, the hair, the costumes. Man, I went to a gay bar in Sydney only for the promise of drag queens. One of the ones I saw was probably the prettiest girl in the whole place. Including the actual females. Fuck yeah, I love drag queens.

Not so freakin' great? The loser? MADE HIS DRAG QUEEN LOOK BORING. That's gotta be a goddamn sin. Look good, look bad, baby, but don't make your queen look DULL. If she's not in sequins and pleather, in a corset and high heels, darling, YOU ARE NOT TRYING.

Don't get me wrong: drag queen fashion is hardly "fashion." I'm sure that most of the designers were like "WTF?" (Except one, who said she'd worked on drag couture before and she made the most STUNNING entry. That, of course, did not win.) But drag fashion is a few pieces of sculpted plastic add-ons and some extensions away from proper couture. Far as I can see, the only difference is that the drag queens have penises while the high fashion models are just disfunctional XYs with undescended testicles. (No, I'm not kidding. How do you think some of those "women" get bodies like starved pre-pubescent boys? THEY ARE BOYS!) Plus, drag queens have more fun and are allowed to fucking eat.

Yes, you could argue that Bravo is doing its damnedest to ruin the show before Lifetime gets it, but they almost managed that last season with the challenge to design for the female wrestlers of the WWE. This, at least, has the pretense of fashion. One of the queens, my favorite, Hedda Lettuce, basically went to her designer and rattled off a littany of typically bad-fashion pieces she wanted--lace, sparkles, shinyness--but demanded that she look good, look classy. THAT FABULOUS BITCH, I LOVE HER.

This was more fun in an episode than most of last season all put together, so if they're trying to destroy the show, it's backfiring. They need to do a drag episode EVERY YEAR.

Comments

[mclittlebitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Hedda Lettuce is fabulous beyond all sense. I've seen her live, so funny!

Most of the PR fans I know have been waiting for the drag queens since season 1, so Daniel and Keith were particularly buzz-harshy with the lameness of their designs.

I kind of liked the wrestling challenge.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hedda Lettuce stuck out like nobody's business. She was just fabulous. She knew what she wanted and was a better bitch about it than anyone. I guess there was a lack of drama with any of the other clients (I know: WHAT!? No drama?! WITH DRAG QUEENS?) that they focused on her because Suede wasn't in the top or bottom. Usually, when they spend that much time on a thing, you know that person is going to win or is going home.

My god, Daniel and Keith are so joyless. They're like VictorYa and Rami from last season. Daniel keeps going "this isn't my thing, this isn't my thing" when his "thing" appears to ONLY be cocktail dresses. You came on THIS show thinking you'd make dresses all day and night? And Keith is the one-trick pony with his shredded garments that look like--what was it they said? "Wookie-wear" I believe. They neither of them will change anything or adapt. Say what you will about Stella and her leath-uh, she can adapt her personal preference and style to the challenge at hand (look at her belt for the last one!).

My god, Keith and Daniel wanted to RUIN it for me. I'm looking at sequins, big set-pieces on backs and shoulders, friggin Acid Betty was a fabulous kabuki nightmare, and they do...THAT!? I almost wanted to kick Keith off because his was just ugly and formless and Daniel's was a decent-ish dress. But that's why Daniel had to go. BECAUSE BEING NORMAL WITH A DRAG QUEEN IS WORSE THAN BEING "BAD."

Also, I haaaaaaate Daniel. When Kenley laughed at him on the runway, I eventually got to the part where I was like "Oh, that's rude." It just took me a while to get past "She is so awesome for mocking his stupid ass to his face."

The wrestling challenge was interesting. They need to do something like it or the drag challenge every year just to give the crazies an outlet. What I liked about the wrestling challenge was that it forced them to make art out of the body as much as of the clothes. And healthy bodies, moreover. (Ain't none of those models would have looked half so good in those suits with their stick-skinny asses.) I would love a good bathing suit challenge like the one they had on PR: Canada. Because bathing suits show up in most of the runway shows (not the ones from last season because it was a different fashion season when they showed).

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

That was fantastic. And Hedda Lettuce was right. That outfit did look like Godzilla. I loved the kimono, but I'm kinda glad the hot pink sequined cat suit one. That was awesome.

Also, I looked in Time Out NY last night and Hedda Lettuce has a running show in Chelsea where she hosts movies. This week is Some Like It Hot (though apparently Hedda Lettuce is out of town at the moment). This sounds AWESOME. I WANT TO GO.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hedda Lettuce strikes me as Nina-esque: don't question her, she knows she's right. The cat suit won because Ann Margaret showed the shit out of it. Also because she told Joe how to make his design actually cute instead of it being a 70s ABBA retread in pink. I just can't get away from Terri's design for Acid Betty because she turned the least attractive queen into the most stunning one even with the hair and makeup staying virtually the same. She said at one point she'd worked for drag queens before, and you could tell. She knew how to give a good show and still cater to her client's showy aesthetic.

WE NEED TO GO TO HEDDA LETTUCE'S SHOW. See, this is what I'll miss about it not being in New York next season--I won't be able to enjoy the landmarks as much. We must go.

[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Never heard of this show, though I do find your entire comment rant about drag queens to be highly highly amusing ;)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

DRAG QUEENS ARE MADE OF WIN.