Today is (yesterday was) Blog Against Sexism Day, but as I’m sleepy and have no riveting comments on sexism ready to fly from my fingertips, I’ll be shallow and blog about Project Runway instead.

I’m a big fan of PR. Though I don’t have TV, I’ll never miss an episode of the show—I go over to Toni’s apartment every Wednesday night for a PR powwow.

Tonight was the season finale, in which the top three designers show their collections at Fashion Week in NYC. I was rooting for either Chloe or Daniel (I’m not a Santino fan). I wasn’t bowled over by any of the collections—underwhelmed, as Michael Kors would say—they all seemed a little cheap and poorly made to me, but I guess that’s what happens when you have to sew everything yourself. Still, I liked last year’s better. (Except for Wendy Pepper’s, of course—gross.)

I’m happy to report (though if you don’t already know, you probably don’t care) that Chloe brought the (figurative) trophy home to Houston. Woop woop!

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this here before (I think I’ve spent less time talking about Season 2 than I did about Season 1), but Chloe has had a boutique* in Rice Village ever since I’ve lived here. I drive past it every day on my way to the office, two blocks away, and marvel at all the pretty things in the window I would buy if I were rolling in money.

Last week they suddenly put tarps up over the windows with signs announcing that the store was closed for remodeling and would reopen March 3. It struck me as an odd date, less than a week before the finale—why didn’t they wait until the day of? Or the day after? It was clear when they reopened that somebody had gotten a trunkload of money from somewhere, as the formerly-tiny boutique had doubled in size. You’d think the producers wouldn’t have allowed that sort of thing to be public before the finale aired…but what do I know about television?

I drove past on my way home after the show tonight to see if anything newsworthy was going down, but the party was clearly somewhere else. Meh. Go Chloe. You done us proud.

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* Lot 8 is the name of the store, so I assume this is the website. I would’ve thought it’d be live by the time the finale aired.

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