Woot! So last night was the big Project Runway Season 5 Finale episode where the 3 remaining contestants battled it out on the runway to determine who would become this season’s big winner:

Kenley, Korto and LeAnne went head-to-head-to-head in a battle royale for ultimate fashion supremacy. After the jump, find out who was in, who was out and who was named the Project Runway Season 5 Winner …

YAY! WOOT! HOLLA! and all other happy exclamations!!! Somewhere mid-season I kinda got it in my head that quiet little LeAnne might go on to win the title in this season’s Project Runway competition. For me, it was really between LeAnne and Korto and in the end that’s exactly how it turned out. LeAnne won the whole shebang, Korto came in second and Kenley, I’m not sorry to say, got the boot:

The ep itself wasn’t all that interesting. I seem to recall in seasons past that there was much more drama interjected into the eps when it came to model casting. Gone are the days of bitchy in-fighting over which designer would get which model. Tho, Kenley did try to stick her nose in and tell LeAnne which models she should be picking … I’m glad that LeAnne spoke up in her confessional to put Kenley‘s bitchiness on blast.

Seriously, Kenley really annoyed right up until the end. The look on her face when it was announced that Tim Gunn would be the guest judge was PRICELESS. You KNOW she unloaded into her undies when she got the news. Poor girl. Karma does have a funny way of gettin’ ya in the end. She should’ve been nicer to Tim from the very beginning. That is not to say that I believe that Tim Gunn used any prior experiences with any of the designers color his judgment in the end but … well, I’m sure it didn’t hurt to be on his good side. I can’t believe that Korto ended up making 2 new designs for her final runway show … and they were amazing! I really, really love Korto and I wish she could’ve won. But I do agree with the judges that LeAnne deffo deserved to win … her technical skill is superb. Korto‘s design aesthetic is just beautiful tho. She was this year’s Uli (who came in second to Jeffery Sebelia when he won PR Season 3). Both Uli and Korto have a beautiful eye for design, they know how to dress different kinds of women and they, I think, make clothes that many women would love to wear. LeAnne, like Jeffery, has a bit of an edge that put her over the top. Kenley‘s collection had great color but it didn’t feel cohesive and looked really costumey. When Nina Garcia told her that her painted dresses looked a lot like Balenciaga‘s fashion collection, I about fell on the floor (click HERE to see a comparison of Kenley‘s dress and the Balenciaga dress … thanks Mo). Kenley may be inadvertently copying other designers and I think it would behoove her to study other designers more to make sure her inadvertent copying doesn’t remain a problem. Something tells me that Heidi Klum enjoyed it a bit much when she was able to deliver the line, “Kenley, you are out!” I know I enjoyed it :)

In the end, I think the right person won, the right person came in second and the right person lost. I think this is the first season where I have been in total agreement with the judges.

One last thing, I must send props out to Bravo TV — the home of Project Runway for the past 5 seasons:

Even tho we aren’t entirely sure what will come of the lawsuit between NBC and the Weinstein Company, my gut tells me that Project Runway‘s tenure on Bravo has, indeed, come to an end. When next we see Heidi and the gang it’ll prolly be on Lifetime TV. I think Bravo did an amazing job in the first 5 seasons … and I just hope that Lifetime can carry on the tradition.

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