Project Runway Season 5 Finale: Ding dong, the witch is dead

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Project Runway Season 5 Finale: Ding dong, the witch is dead

POSTED: Friday, October 17, 2008, 5:10 PM

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Season 5 winner Leanne Marshall

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CP fashion platelette Rebecca Grites covered this season of Project Runway right here on CritMass. Check out all her recaps HERE.

The finale episode of Project Runway Season 5 could not have gone better. Not only did the meek-in-attitude/mighty-in-design Leanne Marshall take home the winning title, 100 Gs and a new Saturn — but Kenley lost!

:: doing my victory dance ::

I'm sure those pro-Kenley freaks out there will claim it wasn't a fair fight because Tim Gunn — Bravo's "really hot hottie," as Heidi refers to him — had to step in as guest judge since J. Lo opted out (due to a foot injury?). I don't care how the bitch lost. I'm just glad she did.

The episode in its entirety was pretty uneventful. Only Korto's last-minute decision to create two new looks caused any drama. And I guess that small dog that took a crap about 4 inches from Leanne's clothes caused like .3 seconds of nail-biting. Anyway, Korto pulled it out in the end, and to be honest, I think she deserved to win more than Leanne purely based on diversity, color choice and overall vision. The judges always say Korto's looks are "overworked," but I guess through a television screen, they never appear quite so garish.

Leanne, the newly crowned "petal queen," did produce some gorgeous sustainable couture looks that I'd wear in a heartbeat. Her collection was beyond cohesive, elegant yet modern and just my aesthetic. Kenley's collection was all over the place in vision, color palette and style, and even though it looked like a rainbow was vomiting down the runway, I was still bored. And talk about overworked! OK, whatever, it's cool you painted your own prints — but big blotchy flowers? Didn't D&G do that like 15 years ago? That girl needs a fashion history lesson. I like to call Kenley's collection "'80s impostor chic." Yeah, that sounds right.

So now that my Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. are free again, I guess I'll have to come out of hibernation ... or maybe I'll just tuck in and watch Top Chef New York. Either way, kudos Leanne, Korto and (I guess I have no choice in this matter) Kenley on a job ... well-done.

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