FUCKING Phenomenal

What the hell do we do when Project Runway is not on TV? It is hopelessly addictive and it manages to top itself show after show after show.

I just came home from work, 6 AM on a Thanksgiving morning. My mood is best described as tired, cranky, and wanting to go to bed. I turn on the TV quickly and see that my good friend Tivo has recorded last night's episode of PR.

Fighting my body's primal urge to sleep and rejuvenate, I start the episode. The teaser for this week had been that the designers would be designing for a "fashion icon". PR considered Nancy O'Dell a fashion icon in season one, so you cannot blame the audience at home and the designers for having low expectations. Who walks in, but Sarah Jessica Parker. There has not been a more joyous explosion of sheer glee, excitement, and hysterics in my recent memory anywhere in the world. Maybe when the Berlin Wall came down, but this might have even been crazier than that. The girls were freaking out, Tim Gunn was freaking out, the queens were FREAKING OUT. One of them burst into tears and I cannot say I blame him. If I were in his shoes, I would probably do the same. My best friend Eliot has had the pleasure of meeting Ms. SJP a couple of times at work and he confirms that she is as nice in person as she appears to be.

The challenge was to create a look that could be incorporated into her new clothing line. The designers all sketched, then met with SJP one on one. She then chose 7 of the 14 design concepts presented to her to be created. The designers paired up and began work on the designs. The other key element to this challenge was price. There had to be two pieces to each outfit and the budget for both pieces was $15. (The winning garment will be included in SJP's line Bitten and sold for around $40. It seems like everyone is going low cost these days. Isaac Mizrahi, then Vera Wang, and now SJP.)

I will not reveal the winners and losers in case some of you have not seen it yet. If you have not been watching PR the last couple of weeks, you need to start. Wednesdays at 10 PM and they have repeats throughout the week and weekends on Bravo.

Cuidate.