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Oops, you are right seaguy. I should have gone back and found it. Here it is for others.

Tell us about your "meltdown" that Lifetime has promised us for the finale.
It was looney kajooney land, let me tell you. The backstage at Bryant Park is always crowded -you've filled the space to capacity, so we have a ton of hair people, makeup people, models, dressers and, because we couldn't have any of the designers revealed to the public at large, we had all 16 designers backstage. Thankfully we only had three people showing, and that's a record for us: It's always been at least four. That was the good news: There were no red herrings. Owing to the fact that we couldn't reveal to the audience who the finalists were, we wanted to tape their introduction before the audience came in. We had to do a pre-fashion show, and we taped the whole thing. Through the miracles of editing, it's going to look as though the designers are speaking to the audience, but there isn't one. We did the whole show; it was great. Then a volunteer at Bryant Park declared that the models should get out of their looks - it takes forever to get them into them, up over the head with the hair and makeup. I was distracted by something, then I'm paying full attention backstage and the models are getting undressed. I said, "Halt! What is happening here?" The head dresser said, "I'm getting them out of their clothes." "Why?" "Well, they're going to steam them." That's when I said, "I am about to lose it, and everyone's going to stay in her clothes! PERIOD."

Of all the seasons I only really remember a few designers, but very few of their clothes. The only one that I really remember, both as a person and for her absolutely wearable, quite distinctive (for this show) clothes is Uli (and even with her, I am not sure how she spelled her name.)

I just remember that she never made an ugly or unflattering ensemble, and some of her stuff was just beautiful, and would make the woman wearing it feel and look beautiful too.

I don't understand why making a model's body look misshapen or bunching fabric around the waist or making those pants with ballooning thighs and pencil thin calves is something "cool." Ugh. If even the model looks bad, what possible hope would a real woman, even if fashionably skeletal, have?