The Fashion Show: Episode 4

Last night’s episode of The Fashion Show highlighted one of my favorite things in the entire world…shoes. The end result of this fantastic episode was a series of dresses that were the strongest collection so far in the series. Well, except for Merlin. But we’ll get to that later.

There was no wasting time – the designers met with Laura Brown from Harper’s Bazaar magazine and immediately started in their challenge…create a pair of eco-friendly shoes for Elizabeth Olsen of Olsenhaus pure vegan shoes from a box of organic materials and plain ankle boot. Reco’s team was super strong and Johnny was declared the winner with his risky (but actually kind of cute) coverted wedge.

Next the group of contestants headed over to Bergdorf-Goodman…heaven for lovers of high fashion. The challenge: create an outfit inspired by one pair of super fabulous shoes. Around this time we also get a sense for just how suspicious our dear designers are…everyone seems to think everyone else is stealing their ideas and designs! Daniella…what have you started?

The cattiness and arrogant antics ensue back at the design studio – life would certainly be more interesting if we were all allowed to behave like this, right? Of course, it’s down to the wire with people panicked all the way up until the runway show. Let’s just take a minute to ooh and ahh at how lovely Kelly Rowland looks in this gorgeous black cocktail dress…

Reco, Angel and Daniella’s designs are declared the best…and Reco ultimately wins the challenge. Greeeaat… this isn’t going to make his ego grow any bigger…no, of course not…

I will hold off commenting on the designs in more detail until I have photos to share with you (coming soon!) but I think I have to disagree with the judges this week and pick Angel’s design as the absolute best.

But with winners…there must also be losers. This week, Lidia and Andrew are sweating bullets at the end of the show, while Issac lists off all the reasons they both failed this week. Lidia cries, Andrew looks pensive, and in the end…Andrew goes home.

The show is picking up and I can’t wait to see what’s up next week – word is there might be some plus size fashions on the runway!

The Fashion Show airs at 10pm ET/PT on Bravo and don’t forget – after each episode, check out Tresemme’s Style Seeker for hair style tips and don’t forget that the winning design is available for purchase on BravoTV.com!

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