This is the week when the "Project Runway" designers are given $9000 and four months to design their collections to show at New York Fashion Week. You may recall that Emilio and Seth Aaron are definitely showing collections. Mila and Jay must show three pieces, and then the judges will decide who proceeds to Fashion Week. Which is really sort of a slap in the face. Four months of work and you're told to beat it.
Despite the unfairness of it all, it is my favorite episode of the season: lots of Tim Gunn giving his best critiques, spouting impressive vocabulary and sitting at uncomfortable dinners with relatives and mothers-in-law.
The show starts off with quite a bit of braggadocio. Mila claims her "point of view is better" than Jay's. Emilio is "going to Bryant Park, bitches" with yet another show-stopper. It would be nice to see a bird poop on him. Or for him to trip. Something mildly humiliating. Seth Aaron says something that gets so bleeped out that I can't even understand what it is. Fuck yeah, Seth Aaron.
Fast forward three months, and we see Tim on his rounds. First stop: Vancouver, WA to visit Seth Aaron and his rather ordinary-looking wife and children. No black nail polish or faux-hawks to be found.