● "I didn't have a childhood," says Katy Perry in this month's Vanity Fair. This might explain her candy fetish. [Vanity Fair] ● Someone taught Michelle Obama to dance the dougie and America's all the better for it. [RapRadar] ● Lindsay Lohan was so eager to get to community service that she forgot to put on her bra! [Gawker]

● Meryl Streep wore a dress designed by Project Runway’s Chris March to the Oscars. It did not involve a huge trannie wig. [Tom and Lorenzo] ● Jimmy Kimmel convenes a meeting of the Handsome Men’s Club, whose members include Patrick Dempsey, Rob Lowe, Matthew McConaughey, Sting John Krasinski, Ben Affleck and more.[Youtube] ● Sofia Coppola may make a movie based on Phoenix’s “Love Like a Sunset.” (Her baby daddy is the band’s lead singer). In other Phoenix news, the kids in Staten Island’s PS 22 choir follow up their cover of “Poker Face” with a rendition of “Lisztomania.” [Playlist, Hipster Runoff]

It’s finale week on Project Runway. I’ve watched all six seasons, and the theme that jumps out at me this year is copycatting. Logan copied Althea’s zipper collar. Althea copied Irina’s slouchy sweater sleeves. Irina copied some Coney Island artwork. (Carol Hannah hasn’t copied, but she just makes boring dress-dresses anyway.) I understand when you spend all day every day in the same room with people they’re going to rub off on you, but you have to do a little self-editing. If you repeat what the person next to you did last week, you have to expect to be called on it. Personally, I was rooting hard for Gordana. She may not have had that “wow” edge, but her clothes were all so beautifully constructed. She never sent anyone down the runway not looking their best. I thought her final piece looked like a Georgia O’Keeffe.

Project Runway alumnus (who will soon be returning to the tube via a new Valentino-esque reality series) Christian Siriano is just shy of the debut of his second collection for Payless. But the photos of his labor hit the web yesterday, promising quite a few very cute, very, very cheap styles for the line's launch in time for the holiday season. Styles include "two pair of flats with zippers on the toes, two boots with gold zipper details, and a pair of black and gold pumps and shiny black strappy sandals, both with little gold zippers up the backs," says Racked. All heels come in an attractive upside-down cone shape and are decidedly more demure than the talon-like shoes that made their way down Siriano's well-received SS10 catwalk. The best part: "nothing's more than $49.99."

● Now that Britney Spears is all productive and successful again, Lindsay Lohan has taken over for her on the meltdown train. First sign of impending doom: Lohan spoke in a British accent to the paps. [TMZ] ● Nicole Kidman will bring her fashion icon experience to the "All-Star Challenge" episode of Project Runway. [People] ● Twilight fans have nothing to fear; the fourth novel in the series, Breaking Dawn, will indeed be made into a film. [E!'

Last we saw Project Runway, she had fashioned a noose out of a surplus of tulle and had placed a stick of dynamite between her teeth, but not before saying, "Arrivederci cruel world!" We were sure that we'd creep into the cellar to find a mess of glitter and pincushions, perhaps even a cat or two mewing about. But no, it seems Lifetime is going to reap big from the sixth season of Runway. This also means that, once again, we finally get to enjoy Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum weekly -- a needed reprieve from the befuddling non-chemistry of Isaac Mizraahi and Kelly Rowland. But that's not all!

● Peaches Geldof would like Ed Westwick to know he’s no Pete Doherty. She says of the Gossip Girl star that he acts like “English guy with a poet soul and it doesn't really work.” [NYM] ● By now we’ve all seen the Lilo Fornarina ad where she does her best Small Wonder impression; the director has defended the ad by saying we just don’t get his subtle homage to Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. Huh? [WWD] ● Meghan McCain, as in John McCain’s daughter, was seen having lunch with Tila Tequila. What did they talk about? Evidently everything from politics to pop culture. [US]

I've never been one to follow fads. Okay, never mind. But throughout the shitshow that presented itself as the fifth cycle of Project Runway, where some jerk from my hometown decided to wear ill-fitting black denim and sling homophobic asides underscored with envy to the camera, I also had something of a soft-spot for finalist Kenley Collins. From her contrived Bettie Page bangs to her gratuitous floral hair accents to her vicious sneer, dear Kenley was what ultimately proved to be the fifth season's raison d'etre -- in a season with no fan favorites, brimming with bitchy villains, Kenley was by far the bitchiest.

Jen Egan, Gen Art’s ubiquitous It Girl and Project Runway’s eagle eye, on being perpetually “out,” decoding Japanese door lists, and why Beverly Hills fashion still sucks.

This may just be the final diamond-studded nail on the gilded coffin that's become Project Runway. Advertisers have withdrawn their money from the series' next run, which remains mired in lawsuits. And with waning advertising dollars across the board, Lifetime is trying all sorts of last-ditch attempts at keeping as much of that purported Runway cash in-tact. And with fare like this and this, both harder sells to advertisers than those dubious Runway spin-offs. But let's assume that Lifetime miraculously succeeds and this mess gets untangled sometime in early 2009.