So tonight was the finale of Project Runway and as predicted Christian Siriano was the one who won top prize for his innovative and outlandish style: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/05/christian3.jpg. I like Christian, he is a queeny queer gay boy, who maybe, in some ways tends to reify stereotypes of gay men, but I think also manages to queer them. His over indulging self-confidence speaks volumes to this. Christian is not the poster child of politically correct gay-ness. His small body may not be intimidating but his attitude and model walk certainly are. That all having been said-I really wanted Jillian to win. I don't know exactly why I connected to her except that in her clothes I saw what Roland Barthes refers to in visual images as "punctum" an unexplainable subjective connection to her pieces. I don't think I would have worn anything but Rami's collection however odd the colorings were. If he is all about commercial appeal he will have help making better color choices in the future.
Above all I love BRAVO and their commitment to showing different aspects of gay and queer lives and different degrees of gayness. Although "we" have Logo it is really BRAVO that I think has a wider range of representations of gays really living their daily lives even if in a totally constructed reality show world.
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