Project Runway 406 Recap: "Eye Candy"

After their candy store spree, the designers went back to the workroom, where Tim told them their candy outfits had to be "wearable." He concluded by telling them to work hard, and for the first time I thought Mr. Kind and Cool might possibly have been laughing at them deep down inside.

Christian had to unwrap more than a thousand peanut butter cups. Sweet P had to cut up teddy bears. Chris, whose background is in costume design, said he had already learned never to make clothing out of food. Jillian, lacking his hard-earned wisdom, decided to make her outfit out of Twizzlers. I admit I didn't know what a "Twizzler" was, but for anyone else living similarly under a confectionary rock, it's a red rope candy.

Elisa took another little trip to the moon, and said she wanted to make some sort of "fairy tale-esque" dress for her daughter. What she came up with was, by her own description, dark and macabre (and let me add, ugly), which really scares me, given her inspiration.

After working until midnight disemboweling teddy bears and peanut butter cups, the designers went to bed, returning the next morning to meet with their models. Elisa asked hers, "Can you breathe?" I guess that's what's meant by "wearable" in this kind of challenge.

Jillian's decision to make her outfit out of food was biting her in the butt, and as Chris said, "I felt for Jillian, because I have been there, working with real food, and having it fall off." Since I'm not a blood-in-the-water kind of gal, I loved it when Jillian's model offered to help her and hand-sewed candy onto the outfit.