Project Runway-Whoa is Chloe

Now, I have been a HUGE Project Runway fan since the first season. I have never missed an episode and watch it like a religion. I even marked my calendar with big red letters so that I would remember the debut of the second season last year.

I have to say, overall, I was pretty disappointed in the decision to make Chloe the winner. I have to say that there were some ingenious sparks that I saw in the beginning of the season, but as the season progressed, I saw her frustration and road blocks more than I saw that original spark. I will say that her dress in the "nature" challenge was ingenious (and I felt the clear cut winner over Daniel). I was an original Santino Rice fan because I thought that his first two projects were just fantastic, beyond words....but as the season progressed, his demons started to show and it wasn't pretty. With exception to his Tim Gunn impressions, he was downright mean (which the impressions were technically "mean" but also extremely funny, classic...and always left me in stitches-no pun intended).

Now I am no fashion maven. I'll just get that in the open right now. But I do know what the common person finds acceptable but Chloe's line was not that impressive. And I wanted to like it. I was actually feeling bad for her because I thought she didn't have a chance in hell to win after seeing Daniel and Santino's collections. Now, I wasn't all that happy with Daniel's collection either...I didn't see the military/asian fusion thing either. Regardless, his performance over the course of the season was flirting with genius more often than not and I figured that he was the frontrunner in the eyes of the judges. As for Santino, if the decision was based *only* on the collection, despite what they said about safe (which I wanted to smack Nina and Michael with a sewing machine...after harping on Santino all season for never following directions, they then harp on his for being too safe...don't get that), I thought it was beautiful. The dresses, though ill fitting in the upper chest area, were delicate, flowing and the colors were appealing and delicate. I was beyond impressed and I wanted to hate it. I guess that's what they meant by safe...if it would appeal to an overweight stay-at-home mom then it wasn't meant for the fashion world.