'Project Runway:' Leather and Suede

Sorry it's taken so long to get to this week's "Project Runway;" Wednesday nights are suddenly busy, y'all. I first have to say that I'm glad, and wholly unsurprised, that the judges let Leathah-fixated Stella stay last week despite her garbage bag fiasco. Like Natalie Portman, I wasn't so nuts over her asymmetrical cocktail dress. But the woman makes good TV.

As for the winner: I like Suede. I loved Suede's cocktail dress. I'm glad Suede won the challenge. But if Suede is going to spend the entire season referring to himself as Suede -- or, worse, if the producers are going to make him keep referring to himself as Suede because they think it's appealingly quirky -- I might have to boycott the show.

I also like Leanne, who has a nice wry sense of humor that you don't always get from the women on this show. I like her frumpy-chic personal aesthetic. But I thought her dress was disastrous. It looked as if someone had toilet-papered her model with brown satin -- though, in her defense, that fabric didn't help. It irked me that the designers kept ragging on their models for their lack of shopping skills, but on the other hand, oy. Are these women color blind? Or is "green" fabric by definition mostly champagne-colored or brown? If so, sorry to say, we're going to have to keep ravaging the Earth. Bring on the petroleum-based polyester blends!