Anyway, I really dug Uli’s collection, especially her show at Bryant Park. And the One-trick ponies are acceptable as long as they keep adding new twists. Jennifer (Frumpy sweater outfits), and Terri (women’s pants) just ran out of challenges where their one-trick could save them. Daniel and Keith never understood the challenges, and what about Keith crying like a bitch and being rattled after the criticism he got.

IT’s always interesting to see what these folks can do when there’s not a challenge involved. Some of them use that to confine them where as others rise above it to use it as a guiding force to create something original. I feel this way too when I watch Top Chef. I’d just love to see Korto really pull out some of what we saw earlier in the season and something we never saw before like Jillian last season. She’s got the most potential for that POW in her line, Leanne’s may look like an actual cohesive collection. Kenley, I have no idea what to expect… and that scares me.

I didn’t get into Leanne’s car dress. Neither did Dylan but he correctly predicted the judges would love it.

This season seemed to have a high number of people who sucked but were likable. Like Suede. And Blaine (”-licious”) and Stella (”leatha”)… I kept thinking Stella would get a challenge up her alley and make something cool, but it never happened. Meanwhile I kept waiting for Blaine to get eliminated and get off my tv, and then the same thing with Suede.

Leanne’s flown under the radar but the last couple of weeks has done good work. Her standout dress was that thing she made in the automobile challenge. The season’s had more lows than highs mostly because of that spaced out guy with the dopey surfer look, and the leather & grommet geriatric chick. Their names escape me…

I think I liked what I saw of Korto’s collection more than you did because I thought it was looking promising. I always believed Korto would have a good collection, and I even thought Kenley would at least have a vision to build around — but Leanne (and Jerrell) I wasn’t sure about. Happily, Leanne came through :) I do like her — and not just in a “anybody but Kenley” way. She just hasn’t given me as much reason to have confidence in her as Korto has til now.

Kenley’s wedding dress looked great (her model had a huge smile on her face) but it kind of disturbed me that Michael Kors basically said she ripped off Alexander McQueen. Not that I know what he’s talking about, but I don’t think he’d mention that if there wasn’t some basis for it.

But back to her attitude — she really needs a big smack upside the head :( The big problem is that she doesn’t understand that *she* is the problem. She always feels like it’s her versus the world, and completely fails to recognize the reason she always feels left out or hated on is that she causes it and everybody around her is just reacting to her.

Normally in the home visits you see some wow factor and Jerrell didn’t have that. Same with Korto and I loved her early season work. I’m eager to see Leanne’s collection as a whole, but like you as long as Kenley doesn’t take it home.

But give her credit, she deserved the kudos on the wedding dress. Korto’s was a mess and Jerrell’s bottom half was damn good, but the bust up was a mess.

Korto’s story would be great, I hope she’s got more rabbits left in that hat…