Project Runway last night, where the challenge was to craft an outfit (a dress?) from recycled materials (largely paper goods). Laura was upset that Angela Alison was cut instead of Vincent. Vincent Vincent is insane, and had — as usual — a lame dress which he kept insisting really “turned him on”, because it was supposedly so avant garde, with pieces of trash glued all over it. “You call that anything close to a walk that her model was doing out there” on the runway? shrieked Laura, when they returned backstage right after the judging. Vincent must have been falsely claiming his dress was flexible and wearable, when truth is it was stiff as cardboard. “Oh, why don’t you shove some Harry Winstons up your nose?” was his snappy retort. Harry Winston i.e.: shove it, snob. (Harry Winstons are apparently diamonds.) Heh. Still, Laura’s design was sharp! Jeffrey’s was probably the best; aesthetically it was pretty brilliant, and he managed to make the paper fall like fabric. Jeffrey is our favorite contender, even though he’s completely arrogant. After all, Bryna tells me he is friends with Santino Rice, who ruled the show with hilarious arrogance last season — and should have won. I think I like Jeffrey’s design style even more than Santino’s, but he’s less of a character.

6 Responses to “Why don’t you go shove some Harry Winstons up your nose?”

  1. tgaw said

    You has a typo in this post. You meant Allison instead of Angela.

  2. beaverman said

    Whoops! Thanks, tgaw, for catching it: Alison was cut, not Angela! (had it been Angela, I doubt Laura would have been upset, tearing into Vincent that way — after all, no one likes Angela much!) Then again, Vincent was being pretty defensive, and annoying, and Laura has been generally pretty bold about her opinions…

  3. tgaw said

    Haha. Yeah, you are probably right! Oh wait– Laura did make a snide comment to Jeffrey the other week when he was yelling at Angela about breaking sewing machines…

    Hmm…

  4. beaverman said

    Yeah, Laura hates Jeffrey! And vice versa. They are both favorites of mine, tho.

  5. Ankhorite said

    Hi… like a lot of (older?) people, I thought it was a slang reference to Winston cigarettes. However, apparently there was a diamond designer named Harry Winston, too, whose shops still bear his name. It may have been Vincent making a nasty reference to Laura’s wealth. Perhaps she has some earrings or something that are Harry Winston, and the other contestants know it. She lives in New York, Vincent *used* to design in New York, and Harry Winston’s flagship is in New York.

    Here’s the jeweler site:
    http://www.ny.com/shopping/jewelry/harry.html

    and see:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Winston

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