Booth Moore, the veteran fashion critic at the Los Angeles Times — and my old boss at the Image section there — made a guest appearance on Project Runway last night, which saw the designers cobbling dresses together out of newspaper (much to my husband’s delight, an old cover story of mine ended up being one of the most used “textiles”).

Moore, who’s a sharp, witty writer and strong public speaker, did a great job of introducing the challenge. But why didn’t they make her a guest judge? The guest judges this season have been totally unsatisfactory. Lindsay Lohan? Eva Longoria? Where are Nina Garcia and Michael Kors?

Tommy Hilfiger‘s quiet cool is no substitute for Kors’ biting sarcasm. And Marie Claire senior editor Zoe Glassner, who has exhibited questionable taste on more than one occasion, is certainly no shiny-shinned Garcia.

Without the O.G. team restored, PR is in danger of jumping the shark — and soon.