The increasingly lazy Project Runway staff went straight for artifacts milked from VHS tapes of lost Dynasty episodes this week. Having already emptied its budget with Sarah Jessica Parker and Tiki Barber appearances, Elle's Nina Garcia took the reigns to deliver this week's challenge: Teams of three were asked to breathe new life into thankfully extinct trends ranging from shoulder pads to fringe to neon fabrics. Naturally, an epic fashion nightmare of Culture Club proportions ensued.
Only three of four teams managed anything interesting, with the crew of Christian, Jack, and Kit all but disappearing to make way for the real drama of the episode: the emergence of two front-runners for villain of the season—Jillian and Victorya, who sowed their bitch-on-wheels oats. Grateful producers were happy to chronicle both women's descent into cattiness and eventual, but hopefully temporary, redemption.