Back to the competition at hand. The results are in and it's just like last year!! Sort of!! Except they all four have to compete for the final three after they create their collections, instead of just the two that barely made it. Why the distinction we wonder? What’s different about Rami and Chris as compared to Kenley and Korto? Anyhow, let’s rewind to the beginning of the episode.

Leanne calls Kenley rude and disrespectful. That’s the understatement of the century. Kenley’s not talking to Leanne because of how she didn’t sell her outfit during the last challenge. Argh, she’s so infuriating.

Jerell has his little apple and syrup dolls for former contestants. Awww. He’s so lonely.

No one was surprised to see Joe go. Including us.

Their challenge is designing for each other and they must each create a look inspired by a specific musical genre.

They get paired up as follows:

Suede for Jerell (rock n roll), Kenley for Catpower (hip hop), Korto for Suede (punk), Jerell for Kenley (pop), Catpower for Korto (country)

This is going to be crazy and hard, but fun.

So the special ladies and they're college graduate daughters show up and the designers are relieved that they don't have to design old lady dresses.

Korto's a "hip mom", so she thinks she'll do okay. We bet you are and we know you do.

Catpower gets stuck with a schoolteacher and her overbearing mother. Ugh. At one point the woman tells her, "If we tried this on in a department store, we'd look for something better."

“Will I miss Stella? No.” – Terri right at the beginning of the episode. Geeze.

The previously eliminated designers show up. Those left will be working with them as teams of two to create an avante garde look inspired by astrological sign of one member of the team.

Terri hates Keith. And she’s being a biyatch. We used to like her. So that blows.

We’re glad Jerry’s back. We really liked him and we barely got to hang with him.

Stella doesn’t know how to make coffee… in a bikini.

Blayne hopes the fashion legend is Mary Kate… we're pretty sure she's only legendary as a baby twin.

Diane walks down a long staircase to greet the designers. Kenley cries and cries.

Kenley’s sad that Daniel’s gone. But we’re not. Keith doesn’t know how to handle being in the bottom two.

Models coming and going. Whoop de doo. Then all the designers are walking down the street Reservoir Dogs style and did you see Suede’s outfit? He reminds us of a weirdo, Goth teenager.

The episode opened with a great shot of Stella in the morning. Seriously, we are so charmed by her for some odd reason.

Throughout the episode we get some dissing on Keith and his “swatches.”

Chris March shows up with “disco balls on his tits” and fills them in on the challenge.
As the queens file out in full color, Stella deadpans, “This is a real tough one.” The queens are all pretty fabulous, except we just have one question for Acid Betty– what’s a hybrid drag queen?

Nothing against Hillary though. But Brooke Shields is a whole nother story.

It’s harsh for Nina to just all out accuse people of not having any taste. Can’t we just say we all have different taste? Ah well, we thought Kelli’s animal print fascination was a little lame anyways.

And for some reason we’ve developed a tiny soft spot for Blayne, even though his outfit was very Target. And we do like Catpower, even though we call her Catpower.

Daniel for one, never played any sports, and seems confused. Catpower (unsurprisingly) was a cheerleader. (–Speaking of Catpower, we’ve recently found out that, though we came up with this nickname independently, others had the same idea. Also, one of our friends calls her Joanna Newsom.)

Stella did modern dance – but no Stella, that’s not a sport, per say. Joe played football and both his daughters play softball (uh oh, we know what that means) and he’s going to make a skort. Keith was a competitive gymnast! No wonder he’s so humorless!

Tim supposed to take them somewhere and for some reason they are all excited and think they’re going out clubbing and drinking. Wrong. Blayne isn’t happy about the pancho, “I wanna get all dolled up and go dancing.”

Instead they get driven around in the rain in an open air tour bus and dropped off at the very worst places in New York: Columbus Circle, Times Square, and we can’t remember the others. Blayne: “Are there any tanning salons down here?” Probably.

But then after the torturous part, the challenge is actually pretty cool. Take pictures of New York at night to use as inspiration for an outfit. Sweet. And sort of too easy. The whole episode we were waiting for the twist. $100. A day. Seriously, they should have all made freakin’ amazing stuff.

Right at the beginning of the episode, when they're choosing models, Jerell said something we didn't get: saucey? salty? Anyone know?

Anyhow, they send those salty models out to go shopping and we really felt for the designers. It was a train wreck over at Mood.

Suede continues to talk about himself in the third person, only now other people start noticing and make fun of him. Thank god. "Suede is a bisexual Sagittarius who talks about himself in the third person."

Each of the 16 contestants in a phrase:

Jerell – Hot former model
Blayne – obsessed with tanning
Stella – what’s up with her voice?
Jennifer – girl next door
Jerry – well it doesn’t matter anymore now
Suede – talks about himself in the 3rd person
Leanne – silent fashion assassin
Joe – straight guy
Emily – Smoke & Mirrors (a song we like by the Magnetic Fields)
Terri – Aerosmith meets Lauryn Hill meets Michael Jackson?
Keith – thinks he’s “born gifted”
Kenley – flower in her hair
Daniel – worships Chihuahuas in nature
Korto – do they have kale in Arkansas?
Kelli – tattoed from Ohio
Wesley – creepy white guy

The whole interview is short and worth watching but we had a few favorite parts:

1) He disses crocs as worse than sandals and socks. We agree! But of course being Tim, he puts it all very eloquently. Something about how "the era of the croc" is a harbinger of the "sloppification of America."

2) An apt description if we ever heard one, “Cindy McCain looks like someone has twisted her ponytail into a knot and tried to give her a facelift.”

3) He describes Vincent Libretti from Project Runway Season 3 as the "most kickable."

What do you think it is about Project Runway that draws the gays?
The gays like Project Runway because it’s a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It’s a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That’s just like the culture. We’re not all into politics necessarily. We’re more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she’s so fabulous. I just think it’s a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that’s fun.

We ask every season: Any hanky panky backstage? Did you have a crush on anyone?
I was so tired during the show I don’t think I thought about sex one day! Are you joking?! I was tired! Just no. No way. Not one day, I was not even interested, I didn’t even want people to touch me I was so tired.

Did you just know that Victoria Beckham would like your collection?
In the back of my head, I’m not going lie, I was like, “Victoria’s the judge. This is me.” She’s who I design for! She’s English, she’s from Europe, she’s very very into high fashion, and some of her favorite designers are McQueen and Chanel and Lagerfeld, you know? I knew there was no way she was not going to like what I did. It was amazing because she’s someone I would actually want to try to dress. I actually think I said when we first started and Bravo asked us all who we’d want to dress, I’m pretty sure I said Victoria Beckham. Well, and I said Britney, but actually I said I wanted to save Britney! My new goal in life is to come up with my new reality show called Project Britney where I transform her and I save her life and make her the most fabulous person ever! She needs a gay! She has no gays! Have you ever noticed that? She has no gay boys helping her! She only has straight people and, no offense, but straighties don’t know how to fix the divas! It’s so weird! I’ve never seen any gay stylists working her.