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The challenge this week was to design a summer Olympics opening ceremony outfit for female U.S. athletes.

The guest judge, Apolo Ohno, seemed to have good comments at the end, but when the challenge is to design for female athletes, I wondered why they didn’t get a FEMALE ATHLETE to judge. Are their publicists just not as good as his? Apolo is sorta cute, in a hobbit-y kind of way, but wasn’t he a WINTER Olympian, anyway?

[At least this week, I understood the challenge right away. Last week, at first I thought they were all going to have to use green-colored fabrics. Odd choice, but whatever. Then they discussed hemp and other ECO-friendly fabrics. Ohhhhhh. Environment, NOT Kermit.]

This episode reminded me of when they gave designers normal to large sized models as clients last season. Several contestants were all, “I’ve NEVER designed for this siiiiiiize. (eyes roll) I guess I’ll drape.”

This time, several designers were all, “I do chic, not sportswear. Gag-a-matic!” (eyes roll)

Daniel made a boring cocktail dress after Kenley suggested he ditch the cape he was working on. He almost got the boot. Thanks, Kenley. Good tip. (She might be cute as a button according to SOME people-you know who you are-but I’d think twice on her advice.)

If you’re named Mary, have a flock of sheep and like clubbing, Jerell made a great outfit for you. What planet is he on anyway? And he put himself on the chopping block because he did NOT LISTEN TO TIM. Tim said the scarves alone were very “Lucy Ricardo” and not in a good way. So what did Jerrell do? Added a giant silly hat. (“My first hat!” he said. Let’s hope it’s his last. And what random Peter Pan thing was on HIS head??)

AGAIN, PEOPLE: LISTEN TO TIM!

Joe‘s outfit was cool, I thought, but with all his bragging you KNEW he wasn’t going to win.

When Jennifer finally got the boot for an outfit that made NO SENSE for the challenge, she said she thought she had brought a different perspective to the competition with her surrealism.

Did anyone ever get surrealism from her? No? Of course, my idea of surrealism is melting watches and floating umbrellas. Maybe her surrealism is being SO real that it’s SURREAL?! Ouch, I think I just hurt myself.

Most remarkable, however, is that the winner was the Liberian woman, Korto. SHE got the American concept best and blended it with her style.

I felt the top three were real close this week, but Kors clearly sneered at Joe’s, so that knocked him down to third.

Whose did you like best? Have you noticed the women seem to be dominating this season? Woo hoo!

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This week from Project Runway (spoilers included!):

My ears bled last night when Tim Gunn said “Holla!” Did yours? I think he thought he was ordering a sandwich, bless his heart.

Suede, Mr. blue mohawk man, Wendy thinks that Suede should either SHUT UP or learn about first person pronouns. Wendy does not like his running commentary in third person; it makes Wendy crazy and Wendy might jump off a ledge one Wednesday night.

HOWEVER, did you notice that Suede said “my” last nite? Yup. Wendy knew he was faking.

[Even writing this way for a few sentences makes Wendy unhappy.]

Leanne gets a gold star this week for listening to Tim and making what Wendy I thought should have been the winning outfit. Are ya with me on this?

I mean, Kenley‘s had more of the artsy-fartsy thing going on, but hello, does any woman want a dress that purposely makes her butt bubble out like the turkey in the Macy’s parade? Did anyone like this dress?

Then we have Emily, the loser. And what’s sad about her loss is her utter lack of awareness at the yuckiness of the dress she made. Nina called it: Carmen Miranda, Emily, Carmen Miranda.

Only worse. And without fruit for snacking.

Or did you guys like that dress and now I’ve insulted you? Did you think Emily should have gone home?

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They’re baaaaaack! Do we still love Tim? Yes. And Heidi? I guess so, but can we still hate her for those legs? Those LEGS!

I wonder if she’s going to forget to wear pants all season.

Her legs make my legs look like last year’s, freezer-burned pork sausages.

Anyway, not surprisingly, this season’s contestants have the usual nutso’s, egos and lame-o’s, perhaps heavy on the nutso’s.

Let’s discuss:
I’d already read about Blayne, the self-professed tanning obsessive who lives in Seattle and worked as a barista. Around here, he must have stuck out like Martian with that skin tone.

What WAS that creation he made? The word diaper was tossed about by the judges several times.

Not sure how long our friend Blayne is going to be around.

Then there’s Stella who decided to use garbage bags to make pants and a top and seemed surprised that her creation looked like “garbage.” She kept saying it over and over, “this outfit is going to look like trash! It’s not working….it’s just gonna be garbage.” Huh?

With all the build-up of her worrying about getting kicked off, I knew she would not get kicked off.

Producers, are you going to be SO obvious all season??

So if not Stella, who got the boot?

Jerry, who falls squarely into the “ego” category. Oh, yeah, this ego made something pretty. Pretty ugly. With ugliness on top.

Between Jerry and Stella, Stella clearly made the nastier, cheaper, slapped-together outfit, so why is she around and Jerry gone? I can only guess the producers think she is a more tv-worthy nutcase than Jerry, who had the personality of a cantaloupe.

My prediction for this season: after Stella goes, women might just dominate this time around! Woo hoo!

What do you predict? Who’d you like? Or hate?

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