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11. Wendy Pepper - You loved to hate her; I just loved her.
  • Website - The word "timeless" keeps cropping up next to Wendy Pepper's name. Name of her clothing line? Perfume? Wendy as perfume? And is that Wendy giving us the double armpit shot on the main page, telling me about "Lollie Peppers"? Lollie Pepper -- cute, Wendy. Her site is enough to navigate, but I get the impression she hasn't updated in a while. Either that, or she just hasn't been doing a whole lot. Her bio stops right after her appearance on 'Runway.' She did do a collection for '06. Wendy, that's two years ago. Middleburg 4 life.
  • Judges Say - Fix your video. Pretty dress on the main page, but the model looks like she's part of the tablecloth.




10. Santino Rice - Season 2 finalist and all-around megalomaniac
  • Website - Doing nothing to disprove what Santino himself would no doubt readily admit -- he's really, REALLY into himself. I lost count of how many pics of his face there are. I followed a link to his merch, and found even more -- that's right, the stuff that he promotes most on his blog is the stuff that's most self-promotional: T-shirts and undies with the borderline psychotic motto, "What Would Santino Do?"
  • Judges Say - It's not that we don't like your face, it's just that there's so much of it. Or, to be asinine -- Santino, less is more.




9. Chloe Dao - Most forgettable winner ever
  • Website - We all gave Chloe a lot of sh*t for her shiny fabrics and business-spawned predictability, but the girl could sew. Too bad the girl can't update her boutique's site. Tweaking the date once a year to advertise the Lot 8 anniversary party doesn't cut it. The design is solid, even great, but the main page is going to smell like dust bunnies when the two biggest promotional pics hype a collection from '05 and a contest from '06. I can't even browse the shop because the link's broken. But who knew Dao owns a salon?
  • Judges Say - $40 bucks to cut my hair? Damn Dao! Auf Wiedersehen.





 8. Christian V. Siriano - Fierce season 4 winner
  • Website - But is his website as fierce as his Bravo performance? Nothing will ever be so fierce, including (but not especially) his website, which is effective enough at turning Christian into a brand but disappointingly impersonal about it. Like I'm sorry, but that font is not Christian. And a slate gray background color? Really? I do like the photos of him frolicking with Amazonian models, but it's only because it's him and he looks like a Pygmie standing beside them.
  • Judges Say - Did your daddy help you with your science fair project, Mr. Siriano? This doesn't look like your work.