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Shiny, tight and short spells “Auf” on Project Runway

Jul 24, 2008 13:59 EDT

losingdress.JPGThe shiny brown dress never had a chance.

Last night, 23-year-old Wesley got “Auf’d” from Project Runway after a dress made out of a satin fabric he detested got panned by the show’s judges. You had to feel a little bad for him, given that the environmentally-friendly fabric was chosen by his model and not him.

Still, the judges pulled no punches.

“Shiny, tight and short is the quickest way to look cheap,” judge Nina Garcia said of the dress.

Judge Michael Kors also criticized Wesley’s construction of the dress, saying it looked like it had been handled by 20 sets of hands.

Poor Wesley also got slammed on the show’s message boards for his own outfit — shorts paired with a blazer.

“Wesley looked beaucoup looney in those shorts of his onstage — what was he thinking?” wrote one viewer.

winningdress.JPGSuede, a 37-year-old designer from Ohio, won the week’s challenge — to create a cocktail dress out of environmentally-friendly fabric chosen by a model. His dress made of red and white fabric strips layered on top of one another really stood out for the judges — including guest judge Natalie Portman.

But it’s Suede’s penchant for talking about himself in the third person that makes him stand out among the contestants.

“Suede is a bisexual Sagittarius,” he said while making his garment.

And, after winning the challenge:

“Suede rocked it!”

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