Project Runway Recap: SOS in NYC!

Mondo's dress: A short, nicely fit collage of black, white, and gray prints. A Mondo dress.

Winning Comment: Michael Kors: "It's full of joy and full of Mondo."

Joy was dripping through the seams and shooting out the sleeves like little ferrets. Thank God Mondo was there to tame the joy and give it a nice wood-chip-filled home.

Gretchen's look: A basic leather jacket over a basic cream top and a brick red bordello skirt.

Winning Comment: Michael Kors: "I think it doesn't look uptown or downtown. It looks midtown. And secretarial."

Midtown! Ouch! Take your dumb skirt and go to a chain bookstore or something, Gretchen.

Andy's look: Skin-tight leathery number with sleek black embellishments. Harsh Robert Palmer girl styling.

Winning Comment: Michael Kors: "Is this Blade Runner? A Robert Palmer girl? I don't see Central Park at all."

OK, I thought of the Robert Palmer reference first. And I can't help that Michael Kors says all the funniest lines.

April's look: A black, fitted top with unusual cutouts and a full, diaphanous skirt with navy undertones.

Winning Comment: Cristian Siriano: "Interesting. She looks like you. There could be something further, a story here -- something that could be interesting in a collection."

April's look may have reiterated tricks she used on past designs, but it was mostly a fashionable ensemble that proved she knew herself as a designer. Lo and behold, Nina Garcia suddenly believed she had no range at all. Plus, she's not as dynamic a personality as Gretchen, so she should probably go to Loser Villa with Michael Drummond and Christopher, right?

Michael C.'s dress: A basic black gown with no back and a high slit

Winning Comment: Michael Kors: "You wanted a showstopper and you got a showstopper."

Oh, unintentional humor! It ranks among my favorite kinds. Because this comment is unintentionally uproarious. The dress was fine, but it was certainly no showstopper as anybody can plainly see. The judges were eager to place Michael C. in the final four, and because of it they oversold his design. Your bullsh*t is showing, Kors.

You see where this is going, right? Michael Costello essentially "won" the challenge and he's moving onto Fashion Week. Andy and Mondo performed serviceably this week, so they advance too. Now for the fourth spot, we're down to Gretchen and April. Let's see. Who's heinous and incendiary enough to make a good finale participant? I do believe that's Gretchen! So long, April. We miss your happening 21-year-old flair already.

Now, for one last moment of Grisdom, here's what Gretchen said to the remaining designers when she was declared "in": "I'm just glad they gave me the same second chances you guys all got." HA! Almost unfathomably elitist. I didn't not know she had it in her.

The last four designers will compete for three spots at Lincoln Center Fashion Week next episode. Who will survive? Who won't? Judging by the evenness of his disposition and general likability, I think we can expect Andy to earn the auf. You heard it here first -- the grisliest Grisdom of all.

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