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Project Runway, Week 8: Send in the Divorcées

Finally, the designers were untethered from their models. They were tasked with transforming the wedding dresses of recently divorced women into hip, cool outfits. (Tim Gunn's announcement, "Designers, I'm sending in your divorcées," was funny only the first three times he said it.)

Gordana won for a pieced dress made from the lining of her client's gown, which she dyed gray. Epperson was ejected for a garment that looked like a shortened wedding dress with a few strips of black binding sewn in the middle—it reminded one of the judges of "a pirate's wench."

Stats
Number of times Tim Gunn said, "Make it work!": Two. (Shirin said it twice, too.) This episode's theme was recycling, after all.

Number of crying contestants: One. Shirin, who had the least yardage to work with and a fabric that couldn't be dyed, wept through Tim's pep talk.

Logan sex object watch: This week no crushes were revealed or flesh exposed, but the only possible explanation for Logan avoiding elimination is that his pheromones befuddled the judges.

The Judges
Hallelujah, Michael Kors was present for the second week in a row! Marie Claire's Zanna Roberts and Jimmy Choo founder and president Tamara Mellon rounded out the panel.

Heidi must be feeling homesick: Epperson's and Logan's outfits both made her think of Oktoberfest.

The Results
Look of the week: The most striking outfit from this challenge was a bad one: Nicolas created green trousers, a brown top, and a white vest: an ensemble that would've looked passé at a Mormon Relief Society supper in 1975. He called his look "a hideous thing," and for once his self-assessment was accurate.

Should Gordana have won? Yes. As the judges said, her look was "edgy and chic," and her divorcée adored it. (So much for recent complaints that she's "just a dressmaker.") Shirin's dress, which used stitching to create a pattern, was creative and flattering, but her client found it a little too safe.

Should Epperson have been eliminated? No. His design was boring, but it was the least offensive of the bottom three. Logan's trouser look was poorly made and ill-conceived, and Michael Kors was dead on when he described Christopher's monstrosity as looking like "a metallic garbage bag tied in the middle."

Bold prediction for who'll be auf'd next: Nicolas. We're past the stage where contestants can be kept around for their loose lips.

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