The gays can do anything! Project Runway alum Jack Mackenroth joined forces with San Francisco's Project Inform, which fights HIV/AIDS, to create some - ahem - "Condom Couture."

Later this month - on October 15, to be precise - Mackenroth will unveil a custom wedding dress made entirely of condoms. Some may assume the project would be a breeze for a boy such as Mackenroth, but this project had some particularly sticky challenges.

One of the most pressing challenges sprang from the fact that condoms were heavy and had to be removed from the packages, an undertaking complicated by the fact that Mackenroth's allergic to latex.

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Since Friday's announcement that a court ruling would keep The Weinstein Company from moving Project Runway from NBC Universal's Bravo to Lifetime, where it got a sweeter deal, the TV press and most homosexuals have been wondering what, exactly, this means for the future of the series.

Is Heidi Klum going to lose her shit and auf everybody? Is Tim Gunn going to be able to make it work? Who will Nina Garcia stab with her heel? Time-sensitive questions, people! So given the current situation — which keeps Lifetime from airing the show, and leaves its status on Bravo with a very giant cursive question mark — here's how the decision is going to affect interested parties…

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The Project Runway finalists debuted their lines this morning at Bryant Park for the last day of Fashion Week.

Because Wednesday night's episode left six contestants in the competition, all six presented their showcases, although there are typically only three true finalists.

Pictures from each collection, along with our predictions, after the jump.

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Upsetting homosexuals everywhere, Lifetime will not air its first season of Project Runway this fall, but instead move the stolen series to a January debut.

It's a pretty surprising development, given all the hype Harvey Weinstein leveraged as he cajoled the B-list network into paying a higher fee for the franchise.

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West Hollywood's apparently not all happy and gay. From a reader:

Not sure exactly what started it, but last night at The Abbey in West Hollywood, last season Project Runway runner-up Rami Kashou was on the receiving end of a martini glass to the face.

After a brief scuffle, the guy who threw the glass was dragged out by security and Rami, drenched from head to toe in blood, left by ambulance.

Yow. That sounds terrible. Could this alleged attacker be a contender for cold bitches 3? Hitting someone with a martini glass is straight up icy.

In the meantime, anyone have more information?

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Ever since NBC Universal execs learned they would officially be losing Project Runway on Bravo, they’ve been working overtime to tear the brand apart. Why should they bother promoting a show that Harvey Weinstein ripped away from them to take to Lifetime, where he’s set to bag a bigger payday from production and product placement fees?

At first, the negativity was subtle. Bravo execs kept quiet as they stole Runway’s brilliant production team, Magical Elves, away from the show in an exclusive deal. And then the more obvious signs arrived.

Project Runway’s fifth season, and the last for Bravo, premieres on Wednesday. And by the time it arrives, and certainly by the time it wraps, its varnish will be worn, damaged, or gone altogether.

So just how is Bravo systematically sabotaging the Project Runway brand?

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How do you let the execs behind your show know that you’re pissed about all the sweeping changes that they’re making?

If you’re Cindy McCain critic Tim Gunn and have the uncertainty of what lies ahead for Project Runway, you start sniping away at the brand any opportunity you get.

While Runway’s fifth season begins the march to its end on Bravo on Wednesday, Gunn, who has signed to remain with the show when it moves to Lifetime, can be seen planting seeds of negativity…

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Project Runway winner Christian Siriano went from being gay media darling to GLBT nemesis in an instant after he compared transsexuals – the butt of his signature "hot tranny mess" line – and drag queens to the "white trash" of the straight community.

This week's Time Out New York asked Siriano: "Drag has always been part of our experience and always will be. What is its everlasting appeal? Why won’t it ever die?"

He replied: "If you think of heterosexuals, they have white-trash women and trailer parks, and we have drag queens and trannies. I don’t know if I’m the one who can explain it. It’s, like, drag queens are just there. These answers are hard!"

GLAAD, as it's wont to do, got upset. So Siriano clarified: "I wish that my words were not taken in that way. When I was speaking, some comments that I made were not used in the article. I completely support the fabulousness and amazing fashion inspiration that most transgender people provide."

So, is all forgiven? Should he stop using the "hot tranny mess" line? Or are some people overreacting?

Sad news, gays.

Project Runway season four contestant Jack Mackenroth, who had to leave the show after a staph infection, will not be auditioning for the show’s fifth season.

Wrote the designer: “During my short stint on season 4, I was never in the bottom three and I won the menswear challenge, which is my field of expertise, so I feel like I accomplished most of what I started.”

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Back in December, we heard Elle chieftess Robbie Myers, and creative director/hatchet man Joe Zee, were looking to oust fashion director Nina Garcia. Naturally, Elle spokespeeps refused comment, which, to us, confirmed our story, but behind the scenes they were denying things.

Cut to today: Elle is said to have “parted company” with Garcia, says WWD. Nobody likes a liar.

It was just last weekend (as in six days ago), we’re told, that she filmed her Ugly Betty cameo along with Runway winner Christian Siriano.

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