I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Michael Kors and Nina Garcia. They tended to at least have a grip on the body of work the participants had created, even if sometimes they got a bit too stuck on that. With all these guest judges, it becomes rather more scattered.
I also was not thrilled with the description of this challenge. Maybe more was said that we television viewers didn't see, but they didn't say, "Make a garment for a character in this genre AND give it a modern twist," but some of the judges were acting as if that were the challenge. Except with Shirin's Can-Can/Saloon Girl outfit, which somehow did not get called out for unoriginality, while Gordana's did?
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll