Project Runway: Episode 9 Faites-lui le travail! (Make it work!)

Ah, Paris. This episode finds the designers all settled in to their new digs and getting comfortable with the Parsons Paris workroom. After an evening stroll of the city and a Parisian dinner after the Auf-ing of Angela, the designers meet the next morning to hear their new challenge: Couture. As Tim described on the show, designers in Paris must be ushered into the world of couture by way of a vote by the French government. These designers have innumerable years of training and are incredibly skilled in the arts of hand embellishment and patience, so to be told to create a couture evening gown from scratch in two days? The PR contestants were floored. Most of them managed to… well… make it work, and the results were quite an amalgamation of each designer’s unique tastes.

Jeffrey - Two wins too many?
Ashley: I do struggle with whether I like Jeffrey as a person or not, but he’s really beginning to prove what an excellent designer he really is. I absolutely loved his couture creation this week – very much of the voluminous plaid and menswear trend of the season now. As Catherine Malandrino mentioned on the show, it was not only a daring color choice but to use a cotton fabric to make an evening gown was also a gutsy choice. Cotton doesn’t move in the same way as the silks and chiffons that are usually chosen do.

What was the deal with the egg toss?

Ashley: L’enfant terrible! I’m sure it was some kid in the nearby apartment building trying to entertain himself. I was so annoyed by Richard Tyler’s comment during judging that Michael “should have been watching [his dress] every second. Um, he had linked arms with his model. Could he be any closer than that? Grr.

Au revior Vincent!! Thoughts?

Ashley: It’s about time. And, might I add, we called it.