Project Runway 407 Recap: "What a Girl Wants"

***SOME SPOILERS*** 

Team Gay emerges triumphant again… if by triumphant you mean, technically not defeated. We went in with four of our original seven members, and we finished this challenge with those four still alive – three of them somewhat battered, to be sure. Still, go us! And go Chris March, who is the only one who really did Team Gay proud.

As far as winning goes, it was girl's night on the runway. Which makes sense, since this week's challenge was to design prom dresses for the realest girls of all: a bunch of New Jersey high school seniors.

In introducing the challenge, Heidi Klum described prom as "one of the most important days in a woman's life." If there is anyone out there – male, female, queer, straight, young old – who actually believes that to be true, I'll eat Heidi's dominatrix pumps.

The girls, who had been allowed to review the designers' portfolios, got to select the designer they wanted to work with. Each designer had a budget of $250 for fabric and frills, and they got to shop at a – gasp at the daring – fabric store.

The clients came into the workroom, and we met someone even more fierce than Christian Siriano: his model, Maddie. Maddie knows what she wants. Christian doesn't agree. And lest you think he stands up to her and overwhelms her with his arrogance and sense of style, no, dear fans, he does not. He basically nods a lot and even lets her take his pencil away and draw on his sketchpad.

"I can't let a 17-year-old high school girl overpower me," he meeped in a voiceover. Apparently, Christian, you can. And you did.