Stylista: Thank GOD it's Over

What a yawner of a finale that was. It seems strange to even use the word "finale," which connotes something more grandiose than this whimper of an ending.


Apparently, Elle is staffed almost entirely by brittle women with bad hair who can't walk in heels. This one had all the charm of a wire hanger.

And boy howdy, were those interviews painful or what? In the real world, none of these people would have gotten the job.

"I didn't know much about ELLE before I got here."

What? How could anyone possibly think that was a smart thing to say?


"What are you looking for in a reporter?"

Aren't you applying for a job as a junior editor?


"I'm not going to be really intense about it. It's an interview."

Oh, Megs. You fucked that one up. You don't walk into an interview acting like it's not a big deal; you walk into an interview like it's the most important event of your life. ESPECIALLY when you're forced to admit that you dropped out of college and got "bored" with your last venture.


Getting rid of one person in the first ten minutes was actually a nice little twist even if we weren't happy with the end result.


Unfortunately, we can't really argue with the outcome. Despite the fact that Megan, in our opinion, would have been the best person for the job, there's no denying that she really crashed and burned during the interview.


And while bringing back eliminated contestants at the end of the game is fairly common in reality TV competitions, bringing someone back hours after their elimination was pretty damn cold.


"I played the game and I'm done now."

So disgusted were we with this show at this point that we actually cheered Megan's refusal to participate. Good for her for not wanting to humiliate herself. We're curious what kind of carrot the producers dangled in front of her to force her back. We're assuming they waved her contract in her face while the word "lawyer" was uttered.

As for the final challenge...

...wait, was there a final challenge? Had we fallen asleep at this point?


Oh, right. Eve on the cover. Well, we only sort of liked Dyshaun's entry. The styling is great but the backdrop looks cheap.


On the other hand, we LOVED Johanna's. Sure, her backdrop wasn't exactly inspired either, but the styling was fantastic. Eve looked gorgeous and she looked so different from her usual self that this kind of cover would definitely catch the eye of any rack-browser.

Magazine rack, you perverts.


The "Inside the Cover" pages....well, we have to say that Dyshaun excelled at that one. Johanna's wasn't bad, but Dyshaun's was better. Still, Johanna's cover was so unexpectedly good that we can't argue with the judges' decision.

Although to be perfectly honest, the judges could have given it to anyone and we would have shrugged our shoulders and said "Whatever." By 9:50 last night, we just wanted it to be OVER.

So, congrats, Johanna. Hope they don't fire you after a year!

[Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

Home Stretch, Bitches!

Darlings, the bitchery comes to an end tonight as one of these bitches gets rewarded with a low-paying job and enough H&M clothes to choke a college student. Strangely, that doesn't make it feel like the stakes are very high.

So which bitch is it gonna be? You tell us: Gay Bitch, Entitled Bitch or Military Analyst Bitch? In the following previews, a bunch of Elle editors sit around a fake conference room pretending like they haven't already made up their minds.







[Photos:CWTV.com - Video:YouTube/CWTelevision]

Stylista: Strike a Pose on a Cadillac

Congrats to Megan for winning the assistant challenge. She's definitely the one to beat for the big prize. For all her week-to-week bitchery (which, admittedly, has been toned down in recent weeks), she's the only one who consistently shows that she knows what she's doing.


Incidentally, did anyone else think the dress was kind of bleh?


Megs rightfully decided that the only thing that was going to make that dress pop was a bod bodacious enough to make any boring dress look good.


Danyelle shoutout!


Y'know, we can't say that we loved Richard Ruiz's line that much...


...but Johanna, honey, you don't go around saying stuff like that right in front of the designer. A far more diplomatic "I don't think that works for what we're doing" would have been a better idea.


Once again, though, Megan smooths things over. Let's face it: she's the only one that actually acts like a junior editor at Elle. If she doesn't win this, the show will be seen as an even bigger joke than it already is.


As for the fashion show, it seemed to go off fairly smoothly.


But we have to say, we don't love the page they came up with. For one, the layout was kind of uninspired.


And that header makes no sense.

Let's look at his Fall 2008 collection, shall we?

[Pictures removed by request of designer]

It's alright. Some decent pieces, but for the most part it's a little boring. We have to say, that Egyptian print looks tacky as hell.


[Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

Stylista: We Protest!

Well, it's always nice to see the show veer unexpectedly towards the actual fashion world. Not that this was the most realistic challenge - editorial assistants, after all, aren't in the habit of mounting fashion shows all by themselves - but it did really put the contestants through their paces and gave them some valuable hands-on experience.


So, everybody wanted Jolibe.

There's a reason for that: the clothes are to-die. Just ask Natalie Portman.

















Not that we love every single piece, but the overall look is structured and tailored and very urban and modern. We approve.


Anyway, they got the best designer and still managed to fuck it up. Let's examine how, shall we?


THAT's how.


Oh alright. Sure, Ashlie deserves her share of the blame, but Dyshaun was being his usual pushy self and the decisions they were (he was) making were pretty lame.


Although they both deserve blame for snatching up all the shoes. Sure, you could argue that it was fair game, but if you're making that kind of argument this late in the competition, then you're supporting the idea that strategy is more important than talent.

Anyway, back to the bad decisions.


"We're totally thinking out of the box with hair and makeup."

Uh...no, you weren't. That look couldn't have been any more standard and boring.


And for all the smack talk about how they knew what they were doing, that fashion show didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Lots of dead air and lots of instances of models looking dazed as they're shoved out on the runway in poorly styled outfits. Color us underimpressed.


Unfortunately, the lameness continued back at the office.


To be fair, this page was bad due to a team effort.


Once again, Ashlie shows no ability to visually edit and she shoved too many small pictures on to one page.


We're not all that crazed about the big block of black, either. Your eye doesn't know where to go.


And once again, Dyshaun makes an egregious error in the copy. This is...what? The third or fourth time he's done that? And he's applying for an editorial position. You couldn't get a job as a proofreader if you did that once, let alone 3 or 4 times.


In other news, Zac is cute.


And Ann is wearing slightly better outfits although the color does nothing for her and we don't think she can pull off heavy jewelry.


This was a bullshit blue-boxing. Dyshaun has made so many mistakes and showed so little talent for the position while Ashlie has been a frontrunner from day one. Besides, "too many pictures" is a problem that can easily be fixed while "typos in everything" is way more of a red flag.


[Photos: Jolibe.blogspot.com - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]