Image Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime TelevisionSomehow I just caught up on last Thursday’s devastating Project Runway finale, and even though I knew Wretchin’ Gretchen had won, I am currently filled with new, more profound rage about six days late! Will you let me in to your Mondo Obviously Should Have Won support group? I can whine. Wahhhhhhh!
I don’t need to harp too much. Missy’s been through it; ‘it’ obviously being ‘the apocalypse.’ I have but one request: Heidi Klum needs to sack up and wear Mondo Guerra’s black-and-white polka dot evening gown to a red carpet event. Halloween is over, so she missed the boat on that. (Just kidding; Heidi’s Halloween costume was awesome.) It doesn’t have to be the Golden Globes. Any old event will do. And considering how eager she was to pair this wacky shirt with a sleek black pencil skirt, Heidi should also be required to wear at least one of Mondo’s separates on every talk show appearance until the end of time. That’s how long it’s gonna take to pay this off, Klum! Sorry! You like it shiny and short? Here you go!
Do it, Heidi, do it! Everyone tell Heidi to do it! Tragen Sie das schöne Polkapunktkleid!
(Also: Do we need to set up a ‘Season 8 Support Group’ category and do a post like this every week until the healing begins?)
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I actually missed the finale last week because I was out of town. I found out what happened the next day (because I stalk an entertainment site) and I just haven’t had the heart to watch it. The only reason I haven’t deleted it is the promise of that reunion thing where people apparently ripped into Gretchen.
Anyway, I’ve read that Heidi was actually the one who was on Mondo’s side, so I don’t see why she would be the one to do penance. Instead, let’s think of a way for Michael and Nina to pay.
me too- I couldn’t watch the finale live, heard the result, and now can’t bear to put myself through actually watching the decision unfold
me three, As soon as Heidi said “congratulations” I said a stream of obscenities and switched the channel.
Us too — the instant Wretchen was declared the winner, my partner screamed “Change it! CHANGE THE CHANNEL!” I did instantly. Because we were NOT going to watch the no-doubt-vomit-worthy “I won!” reaction from her. Ugh. I love PR and have watched it faithfully even when Why-rina won, but this is a new low. This show is flaming out. I was really pissed that during the oh-so-fake time-stretching judging ‘argument,’ they kept saying “Mondo needs time, he’ll have time to grow” and stuff like that. He is HIV+!! How do you know how long he has?! Uncalled for and insensitive. I think I’m done with this show for good. They’re only recycling lame-o challenges from before anyway.
me three. Actually, even our DVR rebelled and didn’t record it.
If you have looked at the PR photos, there are two that I think tell the difference between who Mondo is as a person and who Gretchen [SPIT!] is as a person.
The one of Mondo, he is sitting down (like in front of the runway), looking up, and he has the most calm, angelic face I’ve every seen on a human.
Then there is the one with Gretchen and Heidi, after Heidi announced it. There are a couple of shots of Gretchen making this most cloyingly simpering looking-up gaze. It was SOOO fake.
It wasn’t as good as it sounds. However if you go to Lifetime’s PR site there are individual interviews with Poison Ivy and April where they go into detail.
The only way to redeem this travesty of the Season 8 finale, is to FIRE Nina and Michael Kors. That would be the only way that they could pay us (fans) back for their egocentric judging and awarding Gretchen the win.
I agree!
Here! Here! All in favor say Yeh!
I do think that Nina and Michael have overstayed their usefulness on the show. Their fingers aren’t anywhere near the pulse of fashion anymore.
Uh hell no! You all are so one sided I’m almost surprised you are actually into this show at all. Fashion is a mixture of everything and to act like just one person should of won shows how narrow minded you all are about fashion.
Fire Nina and Michael, and force the to wear Gretchen’s orthopedic granny-panties (without any garment over them) FOR A YEAR.
Didn’t they say everybody would be wearing Gretchen’s collection?
It’s time for those to blowhards to pony up and pay the price of shooting off their mouths without thinking.
Well that’s just plain UGLY! No, not the posts… GRETCHEN’S ENTIRE ASTHETIC!
Just PLAIN and UGLY. Receiving accolade for something my toddlers could’ve concocted from a junk sale and a mud puddle is ridiculous. From the supposed “Fashion Elite” no less? Get Nina and Michael to a tongue specialist fast because they just lost their “TASTE”. Mmm… just twist the knife in poor geniuosly talented Mondo a little further why don’t you? And sit idley by and let it happen Heidi. shame shame.
The ONLY way Nina and Michael could do penance would be to be forced into wearing Wretched’s horrid designs.
Love to see that shriveled cougar and Sir Quips A’Lot in Wretched’s granny panties!
Granny Panties must become the fashion industry’s nickname for Gretchen. Come on, let’s make it happen.
And “granny pantied” is the new “jumped the shark”.
On the red carpet, perhaps?
Michael Kors in the granny panties and Nina in the butt hammock romper. As if either of those already do not sound appealing, they have a lovely color pallet of poo brown and puke green to choose from.
They weren’t just granny-panties. They were orthopedic granny-panties.
Add that to her huge brown loaded panty-thing, and I think she’s catering to the geriatric crowd.
I can see her bio now:
“Gretchen Jones, winner of 2010 Project Runway for her Incontinence Couture collection…
It’s really worth watching just to see the awesome debate between the judges. Seeing Heidi relentlessly defend Mondo made the episode for me.
I didn’t care for the judging, especially with Kors being so incredibly rude to Jessica Simpson, who is there as a guest judge, just because she doesn’t agree with Michael and stands behind her opinion.
He was totally out of control at that point.
Good luck to PR in trying to get guest judges for next season.
i deleted the episode from my recorder. then i taped it again and just watched through the runway show. i’m done with runway. it’s sucked since it moved to lifetime.
Wait, why would wearing Mondo’s clothing be “doing penance”?? I’ll wear it!!
Still very very angry. Can not imagine acceptance. I can’t imagine wasting any more of my life on this show. I was getting sick of it, so didn’t watch last season or the beginning of this one. A few months back, a friend said how great it was to see a reality show where talented people were challenged. I thought, ‘maybe it’s back! Maybe PR is about design, talent, fashion again!’ So I started to watch mid-season. I was loving it. Mondo so cute, like a real-boy Pinocchio! So talented! I figured they were keeping Gretchen on for her awful clothes and misplaced belief in her abilities. After all, it is TV. Then the end! Mondo doesn’t win! Wretchen wins????!!!?? With those brown, hippy (literally and figuratively) baggy, depressing clothes. Really, why bother to waste more of my time on this hideous show? It broke my heart that Mondo didn’t win.
Oh, and it would be lovely to see Heidi wear that beautiful (not circus-like) “polka dress”. Maybe to a Marie Claire event featuring Michael Kors? It won’t make me watch again, but it would be lovely.
I love your idea-Heidi should wear Mondo’s clothing to an event featuring Michael Kors–and for the first episode of Next Season too.
Well, we have to allow Nina Garcia and Michael Kors show the strength of their convictions, too. If they return as judges, they must wear Gretchen’s granny-panties (without outer wear) for all of the judging seasions.
It was beyond awful. She probably went to her local St. Vincents in Portland found a box in a corner full of dirty 70′s clothing and used it as her inspiration. If she had gone glam Halston that would have been one thing…but granola chic….and the one dress with the attached diaper part….yuck!!! Conceal the poo.
i’m still screaming!
So ridiculous to fulminate endlessly about this. Give it up and move on.
No, Allan, you go elsewhere. The rest of us MUST fulminate endlessly about this. That’s why blogs exist. There’s plenty more for you to read. Go ahead, move on.
I think Heidi would look amazing in the polka dot dress.
I was very upset that Gretchen won. Mondo is the true winner. He will definitely become more famous because of this travesty of justice. Several people on the internet said the judges were hipocritical they accused Emilio of being too commercial yet this year Gretchen is on target for ready to wear. She should not have been in the final three. I really think its time to change the judges. First they call her outfits granola and soon as she puts heels on the models its a masterpiece. Gretchen should not of been in the final three.
Mondo should of won. I am glad he stuck to his guns and kept the polka dot dress in. It looked amazing on the model. I think Micharl & Nina took revenge on Mondo because he did not get rid of the polka dotted dress. They wanted him to have a black dress really. The judges were critical of Mike C & Andy for a one pallette collection. Gretchen used the same fabric and by the way what average customer is going to wear the panty shorts. I have never seen such a fury about a PR result. We will see what happens and if any changes will be made.
I want to see Michael in Mondo’s polka dot dress and Nina in Gretchen’s granny panties and midriff top. Heidi makes anything look fabulous and she should be wearing Mondo’s clothes as we speak. Then maybe we can talk about forgiveness…
ON THE NEXT RED CARPET!!!!
Nina needs to wear nothing but Gretchen Jones Fashions for awhile. I am they could knock her off her fashion icon post and maybe we can get rid of Micheal Kors along witrh her and get some fresh judges on the panel. They did a good job for awhile but they made it quite obvious this season they are bored with real fashion and are both looking to seel out to Walmart or possibly the big Kohl’s label!
Gretchen won because of the capricious and subjective whims of the judges. She obviously didn’t win due to any extraordinary creativity or beauty of design.
She, unfortunately for her, probably won’t get too much farther than she is now.
Mondo, on the other hand, has the wit, the creative muse, and the intelligence to go as far as he wants to in the fashion world.
His character–as opposed to Gretchen’s–was that of a pleasant, dedicated young man whose sense of honor was never compromised throughout the series.
Gretchen’s character showed her to be a back-stabbing, duplicitous know-it-all who valued the win over personal ethos.
Gee, I wonder who the industry will back on that one? (snort and hrummph)
@darby I’m with you. I will watch PR again if–and ONLY if–I see Nina G. in the gray grannie panties on the red carpet.
The pregnant Nina Garcia in that outfit.
@Pennagirl Oh I am a very patient person. I can wait.
But…THERE WILL BE GRANNIE PANTIES in her future before I’ll go back to PR.
I agree about the weird granny panties, but since we are adding in ridiculous why don’t you wear the head pieces in mondo’s collection and I’ll wear the granny panties and we will all have a pajama party where I will proceed in starting the pillow fight where I can pop you in the face with my pillow! Can’t wait to see you all there!
Oh, but NK and MG kept talking about the WEARABILITY of GJ’s collection…
They should both be happy to wear all of her looks, especially the granny panties.
That’s a very cleverly written poll, Annie! Kudos!
Yes, It is one of my all-time favorite polls. It took me a while to figure out I was still in denial that Gretchen won.
Hmm…or even better, MK wearing the grannie panties on the beach…
I wonder if he spray tans his whole body ooompa-loompa orange?
Come on, y’all. Gretchen’s designs were very stylish — in a 1980s high school home economics class.
Think Andi in Pretty and Pink. But at least her designs had some color!
No I believe that was polka dots hun…get your fashion decades straight!
You know if you shorten it to mid calf length it elminates red carpet only events and it would be easy for Heidi to find an appropriate place to wear it.
And no, it wouldn’t ease the pain. But it would be friggin awesome just the same.
I don’t want to be considered part of the Lifetime demographic that Nina G. and Michael K. were pandering to, so I won’t be watching again…3 strikes and you’re OUT Lifetime. The thought of the 2 of them parading around in those big girl undies wouldn’t be enough to make me tune in to Lifetime again ! Sorry Tim.
Are the lambs still screaming, Heidi? And by lambs, I mean irate Project Runway fans. Of which I am one. Nina and Kors need to eat crow, with some fava beans and a nice chianti, of course.
Loved the video posted of Tim Gunn’s talk after the final episode. However, that doesn’t delve deep enough into the true travesty of the outcome. Heidi and MK and Nina all need to have a sit down with fans and discuss in order to gain credibility back. Otherwise, it’s just a big hypocritical bunch of fashion snobs who “think” they know what’s best in fashion. IMHO
Have you seen the new “rewrite history” video of Gretchen, called “10 things you don’t know about Gretchen Jones”? It’s up on Lifetime and bloggingprojectrunway.
Apparently, it was produced by Marie Claire.
Talking about adding insult to injury. You would think they are trying to drive us away.