"Project Runway" has completely run out of corporations to host its challenges. The Hallmark greeting card company was the last name brand not already affiliated with the show willing to schlep their wares on camera and get the designers to turn their products into clothes. I wouldn't be surprised if episode 10 featured Tampax brand tampons re-imagined into wearable looks for the holidays. Which brings us to episode 9! This week, the designers needed to design a look for JustFab, the cheap online company that gives "Project Runway" free pleather purses and low-end statement necklaces.
Ugh, enough with you and your bangs, Candice. We get it.
Candice also gave "Trendsetter" to Boston Kelly, who interpreted the style much the way she interprets the letter 'r'. With only $100 to spend at Mood, Kelly naturally selected loud print spandex and blue fur.
"Yo, I could make a wicked awesome outfit with twenty dollahs." — Basically Kelly every day.
Edmond was displeased to be assigned "Bombshell" because he thinks his style is "upscale" and trendsetting, which it is neither. Still, Edmond's amazing attitude toward life and others seems to keep him happily afloat. His last minute red dress miraculously stole the entire show, proving once and for all that nice guys finish first, even if they have tacky taste.
You can now buy Edmond's design on JustFab.com for $9.99, which is exactly what it's worth.
Meanwhile, Tim Gunn appeared looking pale and exhausted. Tim alerts the designers that in addition to their looks for JustFab, they will need to create logos for their design labels and use some special machine to put said logo on a T-shirt. Everyone totally phoned-in the logo T-shirt things and it in no way impacted any part of the runway judging.
Beloved Ashley nearly trumped Edmond's boring red dress with her pleather jacket and "hospital" fabric turned into a skirt and crop top. When in doubt, which is always, Ashley whips up a crop top. Her "Girl Next Door" look was far more JustFab than anyone else's but the people from JustFab lack the self-awareness to know that they are pleather people, not stretchy red dress people.
Merline got stuck with "Femme Nouveau" and was immediately running around in circles happily freaking out. The only member of the season 14 "Project Runway" cast giving Merline more of a side-eye than Nina Garcia was Merline's red hat. Merline's hat is quickly becoming the sorting hat from Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Hmmm, this is stupid. This unfinished hem belongs in the trash." — Merline's hat.
But it was Laurie who came in last on this challenge. Her after-thought backless blouse once again encouraged a nip-slip and Heidi wasn't having it. Paired with a super-simple royal blue pencil skirt, Laurie's look was more "Obvious Done Before" than "Classic Modern." She was booted off the show and no one seemed to care.
"Later Laurie." — Merline's hat.