the Broadsheet Gals haven't been invited to give us their enlightenment on Project Runway, or tell us if they secretly (or not so secretly) like to watch it.

Seems a shame Salon forces them to toil and spin in that dank pink ghetto.

Sweet P's looked like the circus.

Jillian's was ad douless as sh, herself, came across on the show, It looked like she had made her designs out of cement: cold, hard

Chris. Tim Burton will be calling him

Rami. Really beautiful. He designs for rich Hollywood girlsm and doesn't care whether Nina Garcia and Michael Kors like it or not.

Christian will win. More than anyone there. He had a signature on everything.

I went online and saw the piccies. First I saw Sweet P's. Okay, not bad, but not wonderful. Then I saw Rami's. And I thought "He's in the competition. Nice designer stuff." Then I saw Chris's. I thought "Okay. He's won." A little too Goth here and there, but over all. V. Nice. Next I perused Gillian's collection, and I thought "How very Ready to Wear." Nice, but. Very, very classic. I would happily take her collection home and put it in my closet if I had the money. But is it the best collection for a designer to show on the runway? Hmm. Not really.

Then I saw Christian's collection.

Oh. My. God.

Every single damn piece was better than the last. I gaped. I'm no great fashionista, but wow. Even dumb little ole' me knows Genius when she sees it. Memorable, exciting, innovative, beautiful, transforming. Damn.

Christian's silly and young and arrogant and he has talent oozing out of his pores. He's the best designer who's ever gone on Project Runway. I was prepared to HATE Christian before the season started. I still don't LIKE the kid, to be honest. But as a desinger? This kid IS the Next Big Thing.

If Christian doesn't win, something is seriously amiss in Project Runwayland.

So what? - nothing is more exploitive of women than the fashion industry.

Its the original business model for generating angst and insecurity in order to generate purchases which do nothing to alleviate angst and insecurity which leads to more purchases intended to alleviate angst and insecurity.

I love a well dressed woman as much as the next hetero male, but there is little real substantive value in a $10,000 dress or $6,000 sweater.

And Posh Spice in this year's Guantanamo colors isn't chic or shocking, it's just tasteless.

Thanks for... nothing!

do they really go on oprah when they win?

Dear Salon Staff,

By telling us Project Runway viewers that all of the contestants showed at Bryant Park you're spoiling one of the plot twists in shows that have yet to air on PR.

I've only read pieces of Cintra Wilson's story and couldn't figure out, when I was a few sentences in, why there wasn't a giant SPOILER ALERT at the top of this page, similar to what is in Heather Havrilesky's TV coverage.

What is up with you giving stuff away?

The final folks who show at fashion week are totally splashed everywhere. NPR, Slate, Yahoo, MSN. They have a major highlight on BravoTV.

It's not a big secret that the final whatever number get to show at Fashion Week. It's become one of the rites of the show: everyone gets to see the top designers show their stuff, which everyone then discusses and vivisects for a week or two, then we eagerly tune in to find out WHICH designers are actually in the competition to win. . .and then spend another week or two happily discussing how horrible it is that the auf'd designer isn't in the competition as he/she obviously had the best collection and critiquing the collections that are left.

Finally, people who haven't even watched the show up until now tune in to see who wins.

It's just good marketing and it's become something of a tradition at this point.

But if you really don't want to know what any of the collections looked like, I guess you could turn off the TV and the internet and not talk to any friends, neighbors or co-workers who watch the show for another few weeks.

But don't blame Salon for publishing what every other major on-line news-type-service has published.

Cintra, baby, where have you been? Nobody styles a sentence like CW. You almost make up for Paglia.

Okay, snarlingcoyote, you're right. I've been spoiled here by I Like to Watch and Havrilsky's dutiful warnings about not giving things away without telling you beforehand.

I've been careful this past week not to find out who showed at Fashion Week when reading the news, which has taken some doing in that I'm living in the same small apartment with someone who does logistics for the Bryant Park shows.

I didnt know they were going to show five finalists this year the same way I didn't know that Austin was run as a dupe until after he was eliminated.

Maybe you're someone who also expects plot twists to be revealed in movie reviews, but I'm not.

Cheers,

What in the world is the point of calling out Sweet P for being ( in the author's estimation) "chubby"? What's with that curiously dismissive label? What does her body mass have to do with her design talent? Maybe Chris "roly poly" March could tell us?

Not even going to read this. Just in trying to post this, I've already seen information that is going to spoil some surprises when we go to watch the last episodes. Cintra, you're fabulous, but it was a bad call on Salon's part to run this now.

Just as anonymous posted, I, too, saw more than I wanted merely in trying to post this comment. I agree with Jen, as well. I'm kind of amazed at the disregard Salon has shown its readers by the lack of a spoiler alert. I'm certain that Cintra has written a good article but I'm just not going to read it, at least not for a while.

Also, I don't buy into the "well, everyone else is doing it" as a reason for this journalistic decision. Wasn't it part of Salon's original mission to raise the bar?