Note from Emmett

"Dear Project Rungay boys:

I loved meeting you guys, who knew our event would get the special
Rungay recap treatment!

We have been overwhelmed by the LOVE for Tim Gunn and have been packing up bobble heads and t shirts and shipping them out! (So much for the glamourous life of designing!)

The shipments are on the way so look for Tim Gunn in your mail box!

Also the REAL Tim Gunn is coming by this weekend and offered to sign more t shirts and bobble heads for those "Rungays" who missed out the first time.

If interested place your orders and specify if you want a signed t shirt or bobble head in the comment field. Click here to purchase them.

Can't wait to see you at our next event!

xxoo
Emmett"

We love ours!
We dress it in little outfits and ask it for advice.

UPDATE: Emmett sent pics:



DAMN! You boys look HOT!

Edited to add (October 4th):

Dear ProjectRunGay:

This morning Tim Gunn was interviewed by Fine Living Network at EMc2.

Tim is a featured guest speaking on the history and fashions for cocktail dressing. Audrey Hepburn's appearance in "Breakfast at Tiffanys" exemplifies the classic, chic, fun and glamourous dressing for cocktail parties according to TIm. Tim is standing in front of mannequins dressed from the EMc2 collection. Afterward Tim autographed t shirts for fans who missed the Fall off the Runway event and want to have them before the season finale. Fans can order the last 50 autographed T shirts on line at EMc2.

Here are the exact available signed T shirts:

Black: 2 small
6 medium
20 large
2 xl

Pink 6 small
38 medium
35 large
16 xl

Heather Grey
7 large

We are trying our best to make everyone satisfied with their signed t shirts!

Look for Tim on tonights Project Runway Reunion show, he told me it was seven hours of filming and it will be very interesting TV!

I am off to Paris for Fashion Week!

xxoo
Emmett

Tim's Take

To tide us over until next week's episode, a new Tim's Take is up.



"Could Vincent have been any more smarmy while talking to Catherine Malandrino?

Ohhhhhh, I know. The horrifying thought is that, yes, he probably could have been smarmier."


Read more here.

Oy, What a Day We Had!

We had a fabulous time at EMc2's Fall Off the Runway event hosted by Emmett McCarthy yesterday!


This was what greeted us when we arrived around 1:30. Ew. We're SO not about lines.

Fortunately, an almost literal ray of sunshine appeared when Alison Kelly came out. We all said "There's Alison," followed by "She's really pretty" in almost perfect unison. And she is. Prettier in person, if you can believe it, with a tan to die for.

She's also very sweet and posed for us (and about a thousand other people).

Emmett came out shortly after and when we introduced ourselves, he yanked us outta that line and brought us inside. Fabulosity has its advantages, darlings!

No sooner had we entered, when what to our wondering eyes should appear...

KAYNEBOW!

He was being swamped with picture requests, so we barely had a chance to get this snap.

Also,

CHLOE!

Holy cow, she's tiny. And also really pretty.

The inside of the store consisted mostly of another long line to get out into the courtyard, where Tim Gunn was signing T-shirts, bobbleheads, and anything else not nailed down. While we waited in line, several of the designers posed endlessly for pictures. We were amazed at their patience and enthusiasm. We'd be terrible celebrities.

Nick came parading in a moment later, showering sparkles and starshine on everyone.

Nick is (no surprise) a SWEETHEART. Honestly. Supernice, superfriendly, adorable, and exactly what you'd expect. He also loves the blog and declared that we were "geniuses," after which, little hearts floated and popped around our heads.

Bitch has the smallest waist we've ever seen on a grown man. We tried to hate him for that, but it wouldn't stick.

Not long after that, we ran into none other than LauraK of Blogging Project Runway who, God bless her, yanked us out of line again (connections, darlings, connections!) and brought us out into the courtyard to meet Tim.

Laura is very sweet and her enthusiasm and support for Project Runway is simply unparalleled. She was rapidly unpacking bobbleheads for signing and then repacking the signed ones to take to the front of the store.

Tim was doing his Tim thing and trying his best to sign his name at least 10 or 15 times a second, so we kind of hovered around when Emmett called to us from the crowd and said someone wanted to meet us.


AMANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girl is TALL! And yes, she can really talk. We dished a little about other models and talked a bit about what she wore for the shows. Sweet and funny, she's another one who is exactly what you'd expect. Loveya, girl!

We also got to chat with Mr. Glamour himself,

Malan Breton from Taiwan.

Malan isn't exactly what you'd expect. He's more. Suave to the nth degree. Crazy Suave. James-Bond-would-feel-self-conscious-in-his-presence suave. Malan can spill his drink on you and make it sound like a marriage proposal. "Oh darling, I've spilled my wine down your back. I'm so sorry."

Yes, he really said that and yes, he really talks like that.

He is utterly charming and a little shy, which sort of makes him even more charming.

And then?

And then?

The GREATEST THING EVER happened.

LauraK saw her chance and (God bless her again) leaned in to Tim and said "ThePRGayBoys are here and they want to meet you."

As God is our witness...

We shit you not...

Bitch, do I look like I'm lying...

Tim jumped out of his seat and said "They are? I love those guys! Where are they?"

Now, we were planning to keep it all on the cool side, y'know? Well shit, that plan couldn't have collapsed any quicker as we both blurted out "WE LOVE YOU TOO!"

Hugs! Pictures!

Watch as these pictures literally get progressively gayer before your very eyes.





The gays love fashion!

Tim was unbelievably sweet and generous. Told us he loved the blog and checks it out whenever he needs a laugh. We gurgled something in response but all we really wanted to say was "No, seriously, Tim. What products are you using?" His skin literally glows from 20 feet away.

Tim Darling, you said you wanted to drop us a line but couldn't find our email. Upper right corner, Baby. We'll be sleeping at our desks until we hear from you.

Honestly, EVERYONE was so generous and friendly. This post is sounding uncharacteristically fawning for us, but everyone involved with the event was so nice not just to us, but the throngs of people there. Emmett was so gracious, making sure everyone in the crowd had water if they wanted it, going around and introducing us to people as "ThePRGayBoys" and hustling like crazy to get those signed bobbleheads and t-shirts into his customers' hands. Incidentally, he told us as we were leaving that there are still t-shirts and bobbleheads available for ordering, so hop to it, girls!

The nature of the event meant that we couldn't linger and talk to anyone for as much as we would have liked, but we got a chance to dish a little with the Nikolaki twins, Nick and his very sweet partner David just before we left.


Nick has a smile you can see from space. We could have just pulled up a couple chairs right there on the sidewalk and dished over a chai latte like old friends.

Update: gothamist has some great pics from the event, including our moment of TimLove (scroll down to the slideshow).

Tim Gunn has arrived in store!

Project Run Gay boys:

We are SO EXCITED that the Tim Gunn Bobble Heads and T Shirts are in BEFORE the Finale!

We are offering our Project Rungay fans far and wide who can't make it to the event, if they order on line

By Friday at midnight, we will ask Tim to sign the first 50.

Here is the URL for the announcement, if you could post a link to it on your blog, I would love it!

xxoo

Emmett



Edited to add: Since some of you have asked, here's a message from Emmett about the T-shirts:

"Yes, Tim is signing his Semi Automatic T Shirt.
If those who can't make it to the event want a T shirt autographed, have them buy it before Friday.
This will insure we can get it to them before we sell out.
We only have 100 t shirts for Saturday's event and it is an 8 hour day!"

Now, run!

Sing it, sister!

"Anything you want to say for the gays in general?
Absolutely. The world would be less of a place without us."

OUTzone has a fabulous interview with our hero Tim Gunn. Read the interview here.

Love Gunn

Dear Tim,

Oh, how can I express how I feel about you? You are my ultimate hero. What Superman was to me 30 years ago, you have become for me now. If they made Tim Gunn Underoos, I'd have a drawerful.

I want to be you when I grow up. You are every single thing a proto-fabulous gayboy wants to be when he gets older: respected, well-dressed, commanding, sexy, and younger-looking than his actual age. What are your secrets, O Silver Fox? Will you teach this rapidly aging no-longer-a-boy before it's too late and I slide into the inevitable bronzer, botox and inappropriate spandex hell awaiting all of us?

I want your bearing. I want to stand and sit ramrod straight, with posture so perfect that it could slice atoms and puncture upholstery. I want to have the ability to stand with my hands on my hips and my head tilted back as if I were on the prow of a ship and, against all reason, make it look commanding and dignified instead of ridiculous.

I want to talk like you. I want to be able to measure my words carefully and diplomatically while broadcasting every single thing I'm thinking on my face. I want your vocabulary. I want to use "celadon" when others would say "Light green;" "pomegranate" when others would say "purple;" "caucus" when others would say "have a little talk;" and "chacun à son goût" when others would say "What the hell were the judges thinking?"

I want to have anything I wear just naturally look good on me, from a classic black suit and tie, to a sports coat and jeans, to a hardhat and neon yellow plastic vest. I want to age beautifully, with the bearing and commanding presence that experience brings, coupled with a genuine warmth and sense of fun that experience can bring if you're smart about it. And flawless skin.

Please Tim, let me be your sidekick. You can be the Obi-Wan to my Luke; the Fraulein Maria to my Liesl; the Bruce to my Dick. Think what we can do for each other! You can teach me the ancient arts of being fabulous and I can teach you to loosen up and let your inner bitch shine. Oh, the fun we'll have!

We'll hold hands and skip through the Cloisters, shouting out "Shatangi!" to passersby and collapsing into each other with laughter. We'll go to Banana Republic, take thousands of dollars worth of clothes into the dressing rooms and after twenty minutes, loudly exclaim "Wow! This rash is really spreading! How about you, Honey?"

When someone comes up to us on the street and asks 'What happened to Andrae?" for the 300th time that day, you'll calmly say "I killed him and dumped the body in the East River. They'll never be able to pin it on me." Then briskly walk away. We'll sneak into the Macy's P.A. booth so you can loudly declare "Designers, you have 15 minutes. Please shove anything you're holding down your pants and head for the nearest exit."

The city will be our oyster and all who see us reveling in our happiness will feel a brief moment of happiness themselves, quickly followed by the wistfulness that comes when they realize they could never be like us.

At night, we'll put on silk dressing gowns and light candles. You'll open the ancient books and teach me the arts. It'll all be very Memoirs of a Geisha except with better shoes. We'll discuss skincare, the importance of the arched eyebrow, the perfect haircut, how to destroy confidence with a sigh followed by a long silence, and other such weighty matters. I will follow my studies dutifully and never use my powers except to serve the common good and ensure fabulosity for all.

So listen, think about it. I'm cute and funny and I think I could make you happy, Baby. Just say the word. You know where to find me.

Oh, and uh ... don't tell my better half I said any of this.

Love,
PRGayboy#1