While we concede that Project Runway is a good-to-great show (even if you include this current supes boring season), isn't it a bit troubling that it's utterly failed in its mission to produce a great designer? You never see anyone sporting a Jay McCarroll outfit or a Chloe Dao handbag, do you? Perhaps the show is better at creating personalities than people who can actually cut the mustard in the fashion industry. At least that seemed to be the case until everyone’s favorite gay mullet-headed pixie unleashed his Spring 2009 collection on an unsuspecting New York City. That’s right, Christian Siriano just had a runway show and people cannot stop raving.Using a predominantly gray color scheme, Christian wowed the crowd with his ruffled, flowing masterpieces. They looked similar to his work on P.R., but even more mature and wearable. It wouldn’t be surprising to see women all over the world donning his duds. But then again, I’m just a straight dude who knows nothing about fashion. So, what did the experts have to say about it? Runway judge Nina Garcia chimed in: “Not everybody at his age could pull this together so effortlessly. I am blown away and proud and excited and happy—I feel like a doting mother." “It was very classy and beautiful," Hedi Klum teutonically intoned. But there could be no more ringing of an endorsement than the one from Tim Gunn, who said of Christian, “He really is the next great American fashion designer." High praise, indeed. Shocking as it seems, maybe something good can come out of reality TV once in a while. Maybe. [Photo Credit: Getty Images]

[Movie czar Harvey Weinstein with stylist Rachel Zoe at the "Project Runway" final runway show in Bryant Park this morning; image via Getty] Meg's Harvey Weinstein Scans Room For Someone He Can Blind.

The pickup artist Mystery defined the "sniper neg" as an under-the-radar insult or backhanded compliment. Paging Nina Garcia! Her new boss, Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles, just sniper-negged her to Fashion Week Daily. Well, it's probably just an example of British no-nonsense bluntness, as opposed to the American tradition of blowing smoke up someone's ass (so to speak). What has Nina's presence done for the magazine? the Daily asked. "It's not clear what it's done so far, other than give us a ridiculous amount of attention..." Hey-o!Nina however, in the same issue, doesn't seem to worried:

» Zac Posen showed the kind of pretty dresses that made him famous. What has also made him famous, of course, is his dazzling knack for networking, which was in full effect with a starry audience of Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, Marisa Tomei, Leighton Meester, Venus and Serena Williams, Anna Wintour, André Leon Talley, Bernadette Peters, Diddy, Julian Schnabel, Bette Midler, Juliette Lewis, Kate Mara, Jada Pinkett Smith, Veronica Webb, Joy Bryant, Rachel Zoe, Ingrid Sischy, and Fern Mallis. [WSJ, Wireimage]

[Socialite Tinsley Mortimer (on the right) with Aubrey O'Day, CEO of the Danity Cane Company, at the Custo Barcelona show; image via Getty]

From yesterday: Your vote for the English coke fiend was none other than Queen Elizabeth! And who got a blowjob backstage at Fashion Week in exchange for drugs? Y'all were mostly unsure, but one person suggested Mr. John Mayer. Today we have a star who loves threesomes and has an "ample tackle," and a singer/actress who is secretly in rehab. 1) "Which star likes to indulge in threesomes with women he has just met? The cheeky fella in question chats them up by bragging about his ample tackle." [Mirror] 2) "One of the more noticeable absences from Fashion Week is this former B list pop singer and now sometimes actress who used to be a mainstay at fashion shows around the world. Seems she has been missing, not because of money issues, but because she has been spending time in rehab. Yes, someone you never thought would be in rehab." [CDaN]

Google-backed startup 23andMe is working on fixing the Bay Area beauty gap by convincing the pretty people at New York's Fashion Week to submit genetic samples for the new, low cost of $399. As non-California residents, Manhattanites represent a genetic talent pool untouched by regulatory agencies in the startup's home state. 23andMe cofounders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey, pictured here, see fashionistas as runway dilettantes, and therefore brick-dumb.But by figuring out the single-nucleotide polymorphisms which lead to chiseled features and a high-powered metabolism, Wojcicki might figure out how to make sure her next child with Google cofounder Sergey Brin is healthy, smart and ravishingly beautiful according to media norms. My suggestion? New York's models should be making 23andMe pay them for saliva samples. It's not like Wojcicki, whose startup is already backed by her husband's employer, can't dial for more dollars from Google's new venture investment arm whenever she feels like it.

[Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg at a Fashion Week event today; image via Getty] homobot v3.0's new line beats the original, "When You Get To Be As Successful As I Am, All Of Your Credit Cards Are Enormous."

New words making the rounds at Fashion Week: "glamit" (something that's gorgeous) and "prune" (something hideous). Words that are no longer hot: "cool," according to Project Runway's Tim Gunn, "trendy" (better to say "on trend"), and "fierce." Are you listening, Christian Siriano? [Reuters]

["Project Runway" judge Nina Garcia at the Vera Wang show this morning; image via Getty] belltolls's new line beats the original, "Just This Morning A Small Child Played Me Like a Xylophone."

» The scene at Michael Kors was inevitably the central portion of the fashion industry/magazine world/reality TV venn diagram: Nina Garcia, Rachel Zoe with her client Joy Bryant, Heidi Klum, Joanna Coles, and Joe Zee drew the limelight away from Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Blake Lively, Bette Midler, and Kors' mom Joan. On the runway the (smiling!) models, who were told "you are the most glamorous beach bums in the world," showed off middle-of-the-road, cheerful outfits with polka dots and gingham aplenty. [NYO, NYDN, IHT]

One hundred or so people finally got to give notorious Vogue editor Anna Wintour a piece of their mind at Fashion Week. Well, via a painting at least. An artist named Geoffrey Raymond (who aims to become "the pre-eminent American portrait painter of the 21st century") painted what he calls "The Annotated Anna" and set it up at Bryant Park this week with a request for people to write a little note to the Devil Wears Prada inspiration. Oh, and you can buy it! (Hear that Anna?) Starting bid on eBay is $3,500. The artist tells us more about his work after the jump.

[Stylist Rachel Zoe and some fruity dude at Fashion Week yesterday; image via INF] SidAndFinancy's new line beats the original, "Oh Mr. Chips and I Are Having Just a Lovely Week."

Natasha Singer's beauty trend beat at the Times has hitherto seemed like a pretty sweet gig: She finds out about the best wrinkle busters, talks to liposuction experts, and no doubt gets a bunch of free skincare and make-up. All in, it's hardly on a par with risking life and limb in Kabul, or even risking the will to live by interviewing monstrous celebrities. But with her latest assignment she has truly earned her stripes as a brave, intrepid journalist: She joined a manicure/pedicure team catering to Fashion Week and actually scraped dirt from models' finger and toenails.

[Lauren Conrad of "The Hills" with the wicked Lo at Bryant Park today; image via Getty]

Backstage at the Michael Kors fashion show, Hollywood legend Bette Midler offered a bit of advice to up and coming Gossip Girl star Blake Lively. Midler knew that Lively was probably wearing a Kors design, but mentioned to her that her hemline could've been a bit longer. Midler said, "Honey, it's far too early in your career to pull a Julianna Margulies. You don't have to be a old lady who's in her thirties just yet, but right above the knee is nice length for you to wear. Classy and sexy." Lively chuckled as she told Milder that she was going to write that bit of advice down on her Blackberry.

[Model and "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum front row at the Michael Kors show; image via Bauer-Griffin]

[Fashion designer Marc Jacobs leaving the Waverly Inn with famous celebrity Victoria Beckham last night; image via INF] miasma-protege's new line beats the original, The Sashay Parade Emerges From Its Cave And Begins Anew.

[Legend of stage and screen Bette Midler with "Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively at the Michael Kors Fashion Week show; image via Getty] CodePink's new line beats the original, "And Right Over There Is Where I Boffed Norman Mailer in 1972. He Was a Writer, Dear."

Cityfile compiled a booklet of Faces at Fashion Week and posted it online so people like you could have your own glamorous little liquid crystal menagerie to admire right at your very own venue of indentured servitude. Look, Carine Roitfeld! The Ronsons! Andre Leon Talley and Kelly Cutrone and two separate Hearsts! And the most startling realization upon clicking and resetting text size enough to read the goddamn thing…