Happy New York Fashion Week! It kicked off today at Lincoln Center. What better way to honor the occasion than to participate in our live blog of tonight's episode of Project Runway? Join us in the comments!

If you've never participated in one of our online fashion events before, here's all you need to do: Turn on your TV, position your computer nearby, and post a running commentary about tonight's episode—which starts at 9 pm Eastern on Lifetime—in the comments section below this post. The rest of us will be doing the same. It's fun! And unlike Fashion Week, this live blog is not sponsored by Mercedes Benz, so you don't have to have to be affluent to feel like you fit in here. We're very egalitarian that way.

Speaking of Fashion Week, the final runway show that will determine this season's Project Runway winner took place there this morning, although we won't see it on that on TV until the final episode airs at least seven weeks from now, which is kind of nuts. What's even more nuts is that all 10 of the designers who were still in contention at the end of last week's episode presented collections there this morning, even though only three of them were actual finalists. The others were there as "decoys" to avoid spoiling the identities of the real finalists. Gawker's own Brian Moylan was there to see it all, and posted this critique and picture gallery of the show earlier today. Among the revelations his post contains: The guest judge for the final episode will be (spoiler alert!) that exemplar of high fashion, Jessica "Mom Jeans" Simpson!

Brian tells me he plans to stop by this live blog thread before the show starts tonight to dish about what he saw at the runway show this morning—so get down there early if you don't want to miss that. Another thing you may not want to miss is the separate post I created containing a few of my favorite comments from last week's live blog—so go take a look when you get a chance. And when you're done looking at that, take a look at the following list of things to watch for on tonight's episode:

  • The challenge will be to create resort-wear for Michael Kors, who will visit the workroom and offer work-in-progress critiques. So now the designers won't need to wait until they've finished constructing their garments to hear Kors say things like, "Oh my God, that looks like something Ethel Merman would wear to a shuffleboard tournament!"
  • Each contestant will have to execute another designer's look. Some of them would probably prefer to execute another designer instead.
  • The guest judge will be actress Kristen Bell. Wouldn't it be great if she could put on her Veronica Mars detective hat and solved the mystery of why all the other designers hate Michael Costello so much? Sadly, however, she'll probably just sit there and judge clothes instead.

OK, gang, time to grab a drink, change into some comfortable clothes (maybe resort wear?) and get ready to start live-blogging. I'm already holding a beer and wearing my favorite pair of "dad jeans," so I'm good and ready. I'll see you down in the comments!