The best part of the show this week never made it onto the show. It’s a clip you find on Bravo’s site now with Tim Gunn and Christian competing in a model walk-off. Christian, whose hips are made of ball-bearings, wins handily, causing Heidi to tell Tim Gunn that he needs to loosen up his sashay a bit. This is like telling Tim Gunn that he has to shop at Wal-Mart for the rest of his life. The stick up his ass is part of his charm. But Heidi won’t give it a rest and takes this opportunity to lunge at Tim Gunn and tickle him in a way that infuses fresh new jolts of sadism into the word merciless. Tim Gunn turns a deep red and giggles uncontrollably in the clutches of the Aryan Queen of Doom, who for her part doesn’t stop until she has nearly asphyxiated him. It’s staggeringly good. So of course it’s not airing on actual TV.
They don’t waste any time with the where-you-are-and-what’s-happening in this episode. The first thing we see are bottom-of-the-screen words:
3 DAYS UNTIL RUNWAY SHOW
Shit is all serious now. Christian says, “I’m nervous. I’m scared.” The next thing we see is Rami, on interview cam, talking about how he noticed Christian noticing his collection and becoming concerned. And he has no choice but to say this with an air of smug superiority, like, “Clearly I am the sophisticate and this child is a clown and now you at home can all see that I am the true number 1 man now. Triumphant!” Then he stares and stares as Tim Gunn comes in and tells Jillian that her muppety-striped-explosion-of-Raggedy-Ann-curls sweater doesn’t look like it fits in the collection. Christian concedes that both Jillian and Rami are great designers and that it “messes with my head.”
So now, after all this time, we get to see a touch of insecurity from Christian, even if it is just a way for the producers to make a last-ditch attempt at suspense now that everyone with a computer and reason to care has seen all five of the final designers’ collections at Fashion Week. We’re not going to see Sweet P’s or Chris’s here, by the way. The show has decided to pretend that they’re not in New York, in the next room even, getting their shit together for the shows, even though we all know they were. Did they have to room together? Or did the show just toss them out onto the street and say, “Decoy collections fend for themselves! Banished!”
The three of them go to a model casting and all of them want the same girls. “Let’s see the hair,” says Jillian to one of them. The model unravels her clearly unwashed, unstyled hair. This, I’ve learned, is common. Model pal Elyse said so, telling me, “You can go straight from the plane to the shoot. You just splash some ice water on your face. Easy. But there’s nothing you can do about your greasy-ass hair. That’s the hairstylist’s problem.”
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