Project Runway in Nutshell #4

Well, well, well...

Carmen fall-out is nothing more than more space in the girls' apartment and a Carmenic beeyotchslap for Ricky as Jack decided to "swap" his model for Ricky's.

Challenge: take three out-dated fashion trends and create a cohesive relevant-for-today collection of 3 outfits.

Each designer picked a trend...

Jack - pleather (a gay man's dream fabric, well, other than satin)

Victorya - underwear as outerwear

Christian - Zoot suit (go figure he'd pick the most structured trend)

Rami - poodle skirt

Kit - fringe

Elisa - cutouts (this is soooo up her alternate alley)

Jillian - overalls (this is soooo inside her comfort zone, she's been wearing nothing but jumpers which proves my first impression of her was right)

Ricky - neon

Kevin - 70's flare

Chris - Joan Crawford shoulders (nothing says costume designer like Joan Crawford - she was as exaggerated as her shoulder pads)

Steven - dancewear (you'd expect him to stay as far away from the baggy sweater as possible as that particular item put him in the bottom two group last challenge)

Sweet P - baggy sweater (for all her complaining about her button being stuck to the bottom of the bag and having to be last, she got the most versatile and easiest one to work with)

Monkey wrench - designers had to divide up into teams of three.

Team Chris consisted of Steven and Sweet Pea

Team Jillian consisted of Rami and Kevin

Team Christian consisted of Kit and Jack

Team Ricky/no, Victorya/no, Ricky/no, Victorya/no, Ricky! Okay fine...

Team Ricktorya consisted of Elisa (interesting power sandwich she's found herself being the filling for)

Team dynamics:

Team Christian was giggle fittin' and fabric fightin'.

Team Jillian had time crunch issues with Kevin taking 2 days to make a pair of shorts and Rami and Jillian agreeing to disagree about leadership - R's take is to breathe down minion's neck and J's take is said minion is an adult and should be able to handle a deadline.

Team Ricktorya squabbled back and forth about who was really the leader of the pack.

Team Chris each went their own directions but tried to keep the camel color as their cohesive thread drawing their designs together. Chris thought it was his opportunity to show he was more than "To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Love Julie Newmarr", which he's really not.

Day Two:

Steven did a really weak impression of Tim, not even close to Santino's which eerily sounded just like Tim. Victorya called herself "not a bossy cow". Frustration reared it's ugly head as Kevin discovered his model's butt was bigger than Jillian's so all his pleating was cancelled out and Team Ricktorya yet again explored the meaning of leadership and engaged in Bodice Wars over Ricky's black outlining of the harlequin pattern.

Runway Day and I think I've overdosed on gayboy lisping.

Kevin, the lone straight man, informed the Viewers he was going to have pull a magic rabbit out of his ass (hah hah) to get his shorts done. And he did to Jillian's relieved satisfaction. Victorya and Ricky went head to head in the Bosom Battle, a smaller skirmish in the Bodice Wars. Victorya prefers a flatter bust and Ricky likes to accentuate the positive. Victorya surrendered (maybe because her model said she was more comfy after Ricky's adjustments than V's).

Winner: Team Jillian - it was a very cohesive look, well finished and fitted if not show stopping, that incorporated all their outdated trends with modern flair in a pseudo-denimy fabric.

Bottom Two Teams: Team Chris and Team Ricktorya - both were told they were not cohesive collections and some team members had less-than-desirable work.

Bottom Two Designers: Chris and Ricky who had to endure scathingly truthful criticism for their really bad designs. Ricky coz his was poorly constructed (yet again) and Chris coz his was a poor choice jacket-wise (looked like couch fabric to me).

Auffed: Chris

Surprise Surprise Ricky no cries (tho he did look like he might have been ready to start during his backstage shot).