Benefit's Annie Ford Danielson Joins the Judges on this week's Episode of Under the Gunn

Tune in this week on Project Runway: Under The Gunn, to see real women’s biggest fashion & beauty blunders solved in seconds with Benefit Cosmetics. 

Benefit Cosmetics, the San Francisco-based makeup brand Known for FUN, instant beauty solutions has swept the world with one-of-a-kind cult products that solve real women beauty-dilemmas. 

This week, Benefit leads the designers in a ‘Real Women’ challenge where designers have to help solve in an instant some BIG fashion dilemmas…from fashion faux-pas, to fashion-fabric emergencies, the designers are put to the test to come up with their own quick-fashion-fixes! 

Annie Ford Danielson, Benefit Global Beauty Authority and panel judges for the season, presents the designers with this week’s Instant Fashion Solution episode with their Real Women challenge!

More about Tonight's Challenge

Judges Bonnie Brooks, Nina Garcia, Rachel Roy and Heidi Klum

Tonight on Project Runway, Lord &Taylor will host the show's ninth episode challenge at its iconic Fifth Avenue flagship store. For this episode, the designers are instructed to draw inspiration from Lord & Taylor’s signature “American Beauty Rose” and create a design with the retailer’s customer in mind, finishing the look with pieces from the L&T accessory wall. 

The winner of this week's challenge has had their piece produced, which will be sold exclusively at select Lord & Taylor stores and on LordandTaylor.com starting tomorrow, as well as displayed in the store’s legendary Fifth Avenue windows.

Rachel Roy can't Recall Who Gretchen is

Project Runway Season 8 Episode 10 judge admits in an interview with Heather Staible for Culture Map Houston that she doesn't recall who Gretchen Jones is:

Because of her schedule, Roy hadn’t seen the season finale and didn’t know who had won. When I told her it was Gretchen Jones, she had no reaction. Not because of any personal feelings about her, but because she had no memory of her on the runway. Ouch.

Roy also admits that April was her favorite designer and that she wasn't opposed to Valerie's design at all - BUT VALERIE WAS ELIMINATED ANYWAY:

Roy praised Mondo Guerra and confessed her favorite designer on the episode she guest judged was April Johnston, who favored dark and modern designs and a constant blonde top-knot. Surprisingly too, Roy says she wasn’t opposed at all to Valerie Mayen’s “napkin dress” the way the other judges were.

“I hadn’t seen the designers work like the other judges had, so I didn’t have anything to compare it to, but I like the way she worked with the fabric,” Roy says.

More support for our suggestions that guest judges be given portfolios of each designer's prior looks. Also more evidence of a lack of respect for guest judges. Seriously, why even have them if you aren't going to honor their opinions?

"Crazy Judges!" Video From Justin Couture

Click here to watch this Dvolver film. Thank you Justin!

The Judging...

Dear BPRs,

We have read each and every one of your comments and suggestions for the future of Project Runway and I am going to try to re-articulate your thoughts in a couple of more posts. The first topic is JUDGING.

For the challenges we need clear and specific criteria. What exactly does "avant-garde" mean? Does a red-carpet dress have to be a gown? Do you mean what Jackie Kennedy would have worn if she were alive today, or do you want a modern interpretation of the Jackie Kennedy Style? Please make it clear and specific.

AND THEN USE THE SAME CRITERIA FOR JUDGING.

If a designer falters during a certain challenge and is clearly the loser, then eliminate that designer. If you say that you are keeping the designer "because you want to see more" from him or her, then you are playing favorites.

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