I think that it has. I was surprised at first, but then I remembered that they lost two designers, and only replaced one with Raul. This was a good challenge to do this. Nothing was horrible.

I like the dress that won, although I think that it's going to be hard to reproduce. I'll bet that there are some adjustments to it before it is produced.

I really liked Fabio's dress. Yes, it was simple, but had some visual interest and was very versatile. Only thing is that the exposed zipper would have dated it quickly.

Yeah, I remembered two people leaving and Raul coming back and then last week they teased us that might send more than one designer home and I lost track of how many people are supposed to be there. But if they are doing teams of three next week, they need nine people. And you are right, none of them were awful - I was thinking that it must be hard to send someone home when none of the dresses are seriously flawed just before they told Gunnar he was safe.

I'm kind of meh on the winning dress. It's fine, I guess. It does go well with the rest of the collection. I'm interested to see what the production version looks like - his explanation of how it could be mass produced made no sense at all to me.

I liked Fabio's dress, too, aside from the zipper. I rarely like the exposed zipper.

Man, there are no Lord and Taylors in California, I can't go try the Project Runway dresses on. Pout.

Project Runway: I'd love to see a challenge forbidding anyone from using black fabric. Just once.

For reals.

I liked Fabio's the best, and I'm glad the girls pulled it together in the end. That was some drama in the workroom.

I wish they'd sent Gunner home just because I'm kind of sick of him, but I understand why they made the decision they did.

I thought Ven's dress was very well-constructed, but the only thing I could think of looking at that flower was, did an alien just pop out of her chest?

I seriously loved Melissa's -- I haven't had the right body for any of her stuff since Matilda was born, but purely from a design standpoint I utterly love the hell out of practically everything she's done (also, one of the TLo commenters outed himself as being a San Franciscan who works in some kind of retail and knows Melissa as a customer, and he reports that she's always been nice and friendly and fun and one of his favorite customers; people who treat retail drones like fellow human beings totally deserve bonus points).

I think I haven't mentioned in my rambling about PR, but Dimitri's dress was my favorite, and would have been an excellent addition to the collection.

I couldn't believe Dmitry's wasn't in the top three (or four). It wasn't black! And it was lovely.

Dmitry's was very lovely. And he finally got away from those godawful giant industrial zippers--I was beginning to think he just flat-out didn't know how to do a normal concealed zipper.

The exposed zippers drive me crazy -- unless it's on something younger and edgier, like Jeffrey's clothes that season's, or even Seth Aaron's, they just look like a mistake to me.

I did love the winning dress, but I'm a sucker for that ballerina pink and black.

My prediction is that it's just a pink chiffon top with maybe a couple of folds on the trim, when it's actually manufactured.

I'm always surprised when Dmitry isn't in the top. I always like his stuff and think he is going to wind up in the finale.

The whole cool-headed guys vs the melt-down girls dynamic is just weird this season.