Designers headed to the Los Angeles Times for their next challenge on "Project Runway" Season 6.

"Fashion is news," Tim Gunn said, and the remaining 12 contestants were directed to fashion their next garment from newspaper. Huge piles of each section of the paper were stacked around a warehouse and the crew was given three minutes to gather their "fabric."

As they rushed to grab armloads, an outtake showed Irina Shabayeva quipping: "What are you guys doing? You're dressing a human, not an elephant."

This was a challenge that stumped many designers, who headed back to the workroom, and while ideas were slow in coming, the catty remarks were not. The talkative Shirin Askari was getting the cold shoulder and glares --- not that she noticed, chattering on, mostly to herself. "I don't think I've ever met a woman who's so small who makes so much noise," Logan Neitzel said.

As they cut, ironed, sewed and shaped paper, designers quickly gravitated toward origami-esque themes, and a couple scrapped their original designs. Johnny Sakalis didn't trash his by choice.

"It looks like a craft project gone awry," Gunn said. "And birds are attacking your dress." Nicolas Putvinski, who has been trashing Johnny since the show started, snickered in delight. Sakalis dealt by throwing together another dress and then doing the crossword puzzle as other competitors gazed in disbelief. Classic!

While most of the garments fell into the simple shift category, Chrisopher Straub broke away from the pack with a full-length evening featuring a stunning skirt of paper feathers. However, guest judges actress Eva Longoria Parker, and designer Tommy Hilfiger both preferred Shabayeva's trench coat with scrunched paper that looked like faux fur on its lapels, and Shabayeva walked away with the win. "It's like Coco Chanel meets St. Laurent meets Givenchy," Hilfiger cooed.

On the two bottom rungs, Sakalis and Putvinski faced off. As Salakis concocted a story about how the steam from an iron had ruined his first dress that draped like a Dior, Putvinski made faces and told Heidi Klum that the dress was "not Dior" and instead "a red mess." "Thanks, just throw me under the bus," Sakalis retorted.

As it turned out, Sakalis' garment was bad enough to throw him under the bus without Putvinski's assist and Sakalis was out.

Following his departure, Gunn, in a rare moment, told the designers: "I am incredulous at that utterly preposterous spewing of fiction that Johnny did on the runway."

Meow! And auf Wiedersehen!

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