Project Runway - A Fashionable New Beginning - Recap - Episode 8

Still no Nina Garcia tonight, but she's in the preview for next week's show (but maybe no Michael Kors?) Anyway...

Tonight's episode: A Fashionable New Beginning

Tonight's challenge: Design a dress for a divorcee using their old wedding dress. Yikes.

The challenge was extra difficult because the divorcees were also used as the models -- and a couple of them were "difficult" clients. Shirin's client for example wanted a "Cher Half Breed" look with peacock feathers -- which caused her to break down in Tim Gunn's arms. I was quite happy that it happened though because we got another "I love you Tim Gunn" moment. I want Tim to be beside me during those difficult times in my life when someone insists on peacock feathers that will never work. He just makes everything better.

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So Shirin cries. Tim soothes and gives advice. And Shirin shines! I thought she was not going to pull it off, but she ended up with one of the Top 3 designs.

Gordana (still my favorite) also had an emotional moment tonight when she called her family. The divorcee challenge triggered something in her since she was also a divorcee. I really loved the look she put on the runway, and for the first time, she won a challenge and gets immunity (the last) for next week. Yay!

In the Bottom 3:

Christopher with another hideous "this is who I am as a designer" embarrassment.

Logan with a pantsuit that was poorly made. He tried to follow the client's wishes too much that he lost his own design aesthetic.

And Epperson with an outfit Heidi Klum slammed as "Oktoberfest". It was brutal.

Because Logan is eyecandy and the producers want to torture us with Christopher's designs, Epperson is auf'd.

In Models of the Runway...

Some confusion with Gordana and her former model Tara. Gordana thought Althea was going to choose Tara -- keeping her safe -- so that Gordana could use Matar whom she chose the previous week but was not able to use because of this week's challenge. But Althea chose her old model, and Tara was out.

A lot of crying after.

Is it the Cher challenge next week???

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