"Hey, everyone." "It's Season 11." "This is my favorite season ever." "This one has a little twist." "I'll say." "As always, we have a whole group of new designers ready to compete." "But none of these talented designers really know what we have in store for them." "Now this is what I call a real twist." "Teams." "Teams." "Yes, you heard us right." "Teams." "This season, every challenge is a team challenge." "But there will only be one winner." "Every successful designer works as part of a team." "This season is what fashion is really about." "Everyone has to work together and collaborate." "Communicate." "Work it out." "It's just like the real world, and this is exactly why this is my favorite season." "Mm-hmm." "Welcome back to Project Runway, Season 11." "It's all about teamwork." "This is Project Runway." "My name is Layana Aguilar." "I'm 28, and I'm originally from Brazil, but I've been in New York for three years." "I couldn't sleep last night, having dreams about garments that I'm gonna make, and I'm freaking out." "Oh, my God, this is real." "I'm so excited to see the Runway for the first time." "My name is Richard Hallmarq, and I'm from Sacramento, the other fashion capital." "What's your name?" "Layana." "Nice to meet you." "Nice meeting you." "I'm Richard." "I love your pants." "Oh, thank you." "I have always been the kind of person that likes to push the envelope, but because of that, my menswear is like drag wear, so I'm a womens wear designer." "Hey." "Hello." "This moment is definitely a dream come true." "Oh, my God, you guys, we're here." "I'm really a type "A" personality." "So as a preference, I'm a lone wolf." "But as a bridal designer, I have my own company, so I have to delegate." "If I had my way, I'd just clone myself, and I would do everything." "Sorry to interrupt." "It's okay." "This is kind of crazy." "Michelle Lesniak Franklin, 30-fedora-ble." "It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be." "My point of view as a designer is what I like to call "geek chic," a very vivacious, confident woman that could recite the periodic table of the elements." "This is my first time here in New York City, and this is crazy." "I'm really excited to be here." "Hello." "My name's Daniel Esquivel." "I'm 48 years old, and I'm from Austin, Texas." "Being bullied, I did drop out of school in the ninth grade." "I am not formally trained." "I'm self-taught." "Oh, my God, this is crazy." "Hi." "It's never too late to start, and it's never too late to pursue a dream." "Your mustache is everything." "Isn't that amazing?" "Amazing." "I want to go like this." "Oh, okay." "My design aesthetic is simple, elegant, and glamorous." "Hi." "Hey." "Hi." "I'm Patricia." "I'm Kate." "Oh, nice to meet you, Patricia." "My name is James." "I'm 29 years of age, and I'm from Dallas." "Way to make an entrance." "Hi, I'm Michelle." "Hey." "Very nice to meet you." "Being here is a big dream, and I feel like I've reached mount Everest." "I feel like I have to just walk over and just kind of mark my territory." "Oh, you already did?" "Hey, there." "Hi." "I'm Jim." "I'm Kate." "Nice to meet you, Samantha." "Hi." "My name is Emily." "I'm 24 years old, and I'm from" "Falls Church, Virginia." "Hi, Ms. Emily." "Daniel." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to finally meet you." "I know, finally." "People may underestimate me because of my age, but I am used to not sleeping." "Right now, I work full-time, and then I get home, and I sew, and I sew, and I sew." "I live in Falls Church," "Virginia, right now, like, outside of D.C., but I'm from" "Ohio." "I'm sorry, but I'm gonna win, so everybody else might as well pack their bags and go home." "Stanley." "It's good to meet you." "Hi." "Kate." "Hey, Kate." "Stanley." "What's your name?" "Hi." "James." "Tu." "Tu?" "Yes." "Take two." "Hi." "I'm Cindy." "Nice to meet you." "Layana." "Layana." "Hi." "Yes." "Hi, I'm Matt." "What's your name?" "I'm Richard." "Richard, nice to meet you." "Where are you from?" "I'm from New Orleans." "Where are you from?" "I'm Benjamin Mach." "I come from Sydney, Australia, but at the moment, I am living in London." "Hello." "Hi." "How are you?" "Good." "What's your name?" "Benjamin." "Stanley Hudson." "Hudson." "I moved there with £300 in my pocket and following a dream to pursue my fashion career." "He's taller." "He's taller." "Even with your hair." "Even with my hair." "Yeah." "I'm quite drawn to meta-romanticism." "I like faded glamour, something that's beautiful, but there's a little bit of a tarnish around the edge." "Good." "My husband and I own a funeral home." "I'm a funeral director." "Oh, how cool." "After 23 years of running a funeral home with my husband, I was really feeling a creative void in my life, so in enrolled in design school, and I graduated this year." "I would never guess that." "You're so cheery." "Oh, I'm cheery?" "Oh!" "It's a cheery business, in a way." "But there is absolutely no link to my work in fashion and my work at the funeral home." "Being here is like a rebirth to me." "It almost feels religious in a way." "Guys, guys, everyone." "Look at that shadow." "Oh, my God." "Well, I guess we should let our designers in on our little twist." "I'm not sure if I should throw my underwears at them or have them sign it." " Hi, there." " Hi." "Welcome to season 11 of Project Runway." "Oh, my God, this is really happening." "This is beautiful." "It's such an honor to be here." "Well, we're thrilled to have you here, and we want to welcome you to Parsons the new school for design." "And also, congratulations, because thousands of people wanted to be in your shoes, and you were chosen." "There are 16 of you here now, but at the end, there will only be one winner." "You're going to be competing in challenges to prove to the judges that you have the talent and the distinct point of view to be the next great American fashion designer." "Tonight, you will move into your apartments, Project" "Runway's original New York home at the Atlas, Gotham's luxury apartment building in Manhattan's fashion district." "But this season, there's a little twist." "Okay." "Okay." "Oh, God." "It's like, we've just walked in the room, and there's a twist already." ""We have a surprise for you." And I'm hoping for a Martini." "This season is Project Runway..." "Teams." "Okay." "Oh, hell, no." "Like, this can't be happening." "Lord have mercy." "Not that I'm not a team player, I just like to be on my own team." "Every challenge will be a team challenge." "Sad face." "You guys like working in teams?" "Yeah." "It can be done." "Really?" "Let's see about that." "I want no hair-pulling, no kicking sand, no sticking tongues out." "I do play nice with others, so actually, I think this is kind of cool, working in teams." "I'm very excited about this because the real world is about teams." "And especially in fashion, no one works alone." "And as we begin this season, you're going to be divided into two teams of eight." "If I call your name, you will be sitting on the left." "If I don't call your name, you'll be sitting on the right." "And these will be your teams." "Daniel, Amanda, Layana, Richard," "Patricia, Joe..." "Stanley, Kate." "The rest of you, have a seat on the right side of the room." "Thank you." "One side, ooh, really cutting-edge." "The other side, not so cutting-edge." "But I don't think you can judge a book by its cover." "As far as the people on my team, I'm not really feeling Cindy." "I don't feel like we have a lot in common, style-wise, so I don't know what to expect." "Now that you're in your teams, do you want to hear about your first challenge?" "Yes." "We don't play around here on Project Runway." "We get right to it." "Your challenge is to create a garment that shows us who you are as a designer, with the input of your team to guide you." "We want you to have a good, comprehensive understanding of the overall design aesthetic of each member of your team because you're only as strong as your weakest link." "We still want to see who you are as an individual." "You know, you have to just do that in a team setting." "There will be a winning design team and a losing design team, and one member of the winning team will be the winner of this challenge, and one from the losing team will be out." "All I really need to do is make sure I get my design complete and help anyone that needs help 'cause I don't want to lose." "Honestly, I don't." "Your inspiration for this challenge is New York City, but each team will have a different perspective." "The team over here will have a point of view from afar." "You will take a boat out to the Hudson and look back onto the city." "The team over here will have a view from New York City from above." "You will go to the roof of the Atlas, which has an amazing panoramic view." "So I'm going to see all of you in the morning." "And I have to say, I'll see you back here on the Runway." "Let's get out of here, Tim." "All right, honey." "I'll go anywhere with you." "Bye, designers." "See you tomorrow." "Holy cow." "Getting onto the roof is amazing." "I mean, we have the greatest view of the city." "Wow." "I'm so happy to be just here." "To the wind." "Yes." "Right now, everyone's being really giddy, but I'm thinking to myself, "I don't know if I want to work with these other people." See how that goes." "We have the view from the top." "Yeah." "And to lose, we would lose that." "I mean, because the view from the top is already winning." "Exactly." "You're already on top." "Yes." "They're already at sea level, you know?" "We can't get much higher." "Our inspiration for the first challenge is New York City from a far distance." "Oh." "Bon voyage." "So we are so happy to be on the boat." "Yeah." "And there will be no fighting." "We love each other." "Yeah." "Oh, you know what?" "I think that's it." "Our team name is "Keeping it real." I thought of it on accident." "I said it out loud, and all of a sudden, some of the people around were like, "that's it." "We're keeping it real," and I'm like, "we're keeping it real." Yay." "Yay." "Whoo!" "Yes." "This is very exciting." "I know, tell me about it." "We got to do it." "Right now, my profession is," "I am a costumer." "I work on productions to provide all the wardrobe for the talent involved." "Now, what are your... what is your strength?" "I don't really have a whole lot of weaknesses." "I'm gonna just keep it real that way." "Yes!" "I'm in costume design for film and television background, so you pretty much have to make everything, and you have to know how to make patterns on the fly." "You have to know how to sew on the fly." "My point of view is bringing the essence of couture into ready-to-wear and actually bringing it to the masses." "Whoo!" "Okay." "Here's to getting to know everybody and..." "winning." "Success." "To success." "Whoo!" "Salute." "Salute." "Other as..." "teammates." "Right." "Our team name is "Dream" "Team" because I came up with "teamwork makes the dream work,"" "and everyone's cool with it." "This looks so yummy." "It's like a big, warm hug." "So far." "Where are you from, James?" "Um, Dallas." "Dallas, Texas." "All my life, every instructor that I had told me they don't believe whether I'll make it or not." "It's a matter of just winning." "I believe now is my time." "It's all about the Benjamins." "Right, Benjamin?" "Do you get that a lot?" "I bet you're tired of that, huh?" "Where are you from?" "Sydney, originally." "Sydney?" "Wow." "I love your accent." "I'm thinking, "wow, you're kind of... you've got a lot of energy."" "This is the only time we're gonna be up here." "You do men's clothing or no?" "You get to model your own stuff?" "Eh?" "But does he have an off switch?" "Our first challenge is to design a look inspired by" "New York City." "That's so awesome." "Being up there, I feel like you get to see a different part of the city." "You're seeing the rooftop gardens." "You're seeing the sequins of people milling around, all of the glass and the aqua." "So it's really hard for me to come up with a focused point of view, I guess." "I think I take in all angles." "Is that Brooklyn bridge?" "Hello." "My name is Patricia Michaels, and my native name is water lily." "As far as I know, I'm the first native American designer to get to Project Runway." "It's got some beautiful, old architecture on this side." "I went to college at the institute of American Indian arts, and then after that, the Chicago Art Institute, and I never stopped." "I'm more than honored to be a strong voice for native Americans, as far as design is concerned." "I love that." "There we go." "Whoa!" "Whoo!" "That's our prayer." "Patricia is clearly strange." "She needs to take it easy a little bit." "That's a lot to take in, right?" "You know, it's... it's very overwhelming, but it's very cool overwhelming." "Oh, my God." "My head is swimming with ideas." "I'm really digging the domes, not just the stark lines of the buildings." "I see more round." "Everything is breathtaking... the detail, the craftsmanship of the Bridges, the buildings." "And then..." "You guys, we're gonna pass the statue of liberty." "It finally hits me." "I'm in New York City." "How beautiful is that?" "Gorgeous." "It's such a good feeling to see the statue of liberty in person." "I almost shed a tear for a minute." "I'm really having an American moment." "Wow, everybody's really nice to each other right now." "How weird that that will probably change." "Oh, this is beautiful." "This is that good real estate." "This is a city that I've dreamed about, you know, for most of my adult life." "Kind of lucky." "Are you nervous for tomorrow?" "Mm..." "So, yes." "I kind of had a feeling when" "I saw Michelle that we'd be friends." "Like, of course I'm gonna be friends with the girl with, like, bones in her ear from Portland." "And I like the fact that we're on different teams for some reason." "What do you think of this whole group?" "Well, I'm just a little bit of a lone ranger, so..." "it's a good way to really realize who you don't want to work with again." "I know." "I'm already starting to feel it, and I've only met these people for a couple hours." "My team dynamic seems okay, but I'm a little worried that we haven't all talked about what our aesthetic is." "Wow!" "Wow!" "Ah!" "Ooh!" "Crazy." "Wow." "That's cool." "To be in the workroom, it was like a big wave of fashion hit me." "Oh." "Oh." "Yay." "Each team has their sides." "You can feel the excitement in there." "Cool." "I never thought I would make it here, and I've dreamed about doing this forever." "This is good." "I like sparkle." "I'm a bit of a magpie." "I'm like..." "Oh, you're addicted to the sparkle thing." "Yeah, yeah." "I'm afraid I'm going to gush all over Tim gunn." "Profusely." "Hi, everybody." "Wow." "What a lovely reception." "Tim comes into the workroom, and all the emotion and everything that you fought for to get to this place hits you." "This is the moment." "I want to welcome you to your workspace at the 1407 Broadway building." "This is gonna be your home away from home for a while." "We have the brother sewing room." "It's behind the Lord  Taylor accessory wall, which will be very important for your styling." "And down the hall, we have the L'Oreal Paris hair and makeup rooms." "And we're thrilled to be partnering with hp again." "You each have an hp tablet." "And I just want you to know, the hp and intel technology will really help elevate your creativity." "It's a wonderful tool to have." "I have to also tell you, one of the things I'm most excited about with season 11 is the fact that you are working in teams." "I love the whole concept." "Remember, it's your design, but part of this challenge is to get to know your teammates and take advantage of their feedback and support." "We are going to be shopping at mood, our first mood trip." "Each team will have $1,200." "That translates to $150 per designer." "But if you, as a team, want to distribute the money differently, that's your decision to make." "Your Runway presentation is tomorrow." "So you have one day for this challenge." "I'm quite a perfectionist." "Perfectionism sometimes is not the best friend of time management, and I think that these challenges really involve good time management." "So we'll see how that rolls." "Sketch, caucus, huddle, and then" "I'll come and get you, and we'll head off to mood." "Thank you." "Thank you, everyone." "So our challenge is, we have to each make something that symbolizes New York City." "I feel like we should all spend as much as we need." "And then, if we have leftover, then there's, like, a "hands up," do we need more money?" "And, like, if I've got it..." "I think so too." "Yeah." "Right?" "Working in a team is going to be hard." "I know I'm going to feel like I'm babysitting." "So for me, it's kind of like in an airplane, when they're always like, "help yourself first and then help, you know, the child that's, like, struggling for oxygen next to you."" "It's gonna be like that." "We're gonna have to have a bit of a plan before we..." "everyone needs to count how much they're spending." "So let's... everyone should try to keep at 150." "We're having this chat, but I think that we should also... we're gonna go in 15 minutes, so we should use this time to just do a little bit of a sketch to get it back in our heads." "All right, let's go." "I like all the bindings from the bridge and all the straps." "So I'm making a dress that's ready-to-wear." "I noticed a lot of the women have really nice dresses here in New York." "I want to make a dress that a woman could wear to work and, after work, put on her heels and meet her significant other at happy hour." "This is a great challenge for me because I am so inspired by architecture." "I'm really impressed by how much the buildings and the patches of... of greenery all fit together like a beautiful quilt." "My design is a little dress over cigarette pants with a lot of quilt-pattern details mixed with fabric." "I pretty much know what I want to do." "I'm making a high-waisted skirt, simple blouse, nothing too showy." "So I'm just trying to keep it minimalistic as I can." "Kind of cheesy, but... all right, design teams, let's head off to mood." "This is a good one." "Where would, like, silk gazar be?" "I drew inspiration from all the different heights of all the buildings, so I'm making this pieced dress." "And then, I'm making this really awesome boxy kind of a coat with multiple sleeves, and it's gonna be really cool." "Do you have this super black?" "No, no." "The garment that I'm making for this challenge is a wool and silk suit." "Is there something that's, like, a little stiffer?" "I am taking a risk with this outfit because it has a lot of molding on it." "So I don't know what the judges are going to think." "Designers, you have ten minutes remaining." "Ay-yi-yi." "Fusible interfacing." "I'm running." "I'm hyperventilating." "I'm kind of in a panic." "I think this is good." "This guy right here." "This is it." "Time's up." "Everyone needs to be at the counter." "Thank you so much." "Whew." "I'm like... kind of pull everything out, and you're like, "it's totally not what I meant to get." I know." "Right now, I don't really know that much about the competition, but I do think I'm one of the better designers." "I can't wait to see it." "I'll at least be in the top three." "Conquer and divide." "I'm creating the New York window cityscape look." "So I'm painting different sizes of these squares." "I think I've been designing since I was about five years old, seriously, because being native American, all my Barbie dolls..." "I changed their skin color from cream to brown." "I feel like Patricia's going down the wrong road." "Her garment looks too crafty." "Okay, you've got this little Jack horner." "I'm not sure what to think of Patricia at this point." "I don't know if I would be painting and dyeing things, given a really tight deadline." "Fortunately, she's not on my" "The team structure changes everything about the game." "You never had to worry about anyone else before." "Now you have to worry about everyone else." "Your team can't bring you down." "The other team can't be stronger." "You can't be the weak link." "It creates a lot of folds." "Fold it, like, there's your pattern, actually, like, there." "Yeah." "Okay, cool." "Go with that." "All right." "My biggest concern about working in a team, I know some other designers are a little bit weak in the construction department." "You can do a dart if you wanted to, and you take in through here." "It's so cool." "Looks great." "And take in the legs." "Simple." "So we need to keep our eyes out for that because the losing team does lose somebody." "So we all have to work together to move forward." "You know, helping my team." "Daniel's my jam." "The one thing I've noticed about the other team is that a few of them are helping out as more of the leadership designer." "So you can borrow this if you want when I'm done." "Our team is working more as individuals." "And we're all there, making sure everyone's doing okay, but it seems to be more solo on our team." "That could come to bite us in the end." "How are our design teams?" "Hi." "Well, I'm here to check in with you, and I'm very excited about it." "Yay." "All right, dream team, I just want you to know, we've never worked this way before on Project Runway." "We're all going to participate in this process together, giving good, honest, thoughtful feedback." "And I'm here to moderate, to participate, and to facilitate." "So, Michelle, tell us about the look you're creating." "My sketch that I had done was very sort of structured." "And then on top of it, sort of a modern take of a pinafore." "I'm really favorably..." "I'll use the word... wowed." "Oh, thanks." "There's something very, very interesting happening here." "Yay." "This is planned to be a short dress over a slim pant." "What do you all think?" "Do you really need a pant?" "I mean, so far, it's looking like a beautiful dress." "Yeah, I think so too." "And do you think it should be long?" "It seems to me to make more sense when you see the full length of it." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Cindy's piece, I don't really understand at all what inspired her when we were on the rooftop." "See, this would look really good with a top and then doing that with the black, right?" "So we could say either the panel should be matted, or the whole top will be matted." "I do have a slight concern that this might not be enough." "If it's very fitted on the bottom, think about perhaps more volume on the top." "Okay." "My gut feeling is to stick to what I originally designed, but I'm going to continue with making the changes because I want to be able to say that I work as a team." "There's gonna be lots of strips of the chiffon." "I'm working with a few different colors to break it up." "This is good." "I gonna do a raglan sleeve." "It's gonna look like a building." "It sounds very architectural and sculptural, which I think is very cool." "You have to have a lot of backbone to make it in this city, so I really wanted to focus on the actual vertebrae of the girl." "Oh." "There's just so many people here with so much experience and so much going on." "And, you know, I'm starting to get a little nervous." "So, Emily?" "Well, I'm making a really built-out, like, architectural jacket." "And then, as far as the dress goes, I like black and blue together." "So I'm gonna panel them so that it mimics the buildings." "Do you have too much happening?" "Is there too much going on?" "That's what I'm kind of struggling with right now." "Well, let us help you." "If you needed to lose one of the ideas, you can lose the jacket, but you can't send someone down a Runway wearing just the jacket." "With just the jacket." "I've got a lot of work ahead of me." "I think the idea is there." "It's just about getting it done." "I'm really impressed with you all, as individuals and as a group." "All right, thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Now, keeping it real." "Kate." "What I did is, I created this really soft-textured, like, sweater dress, basically." "If you take the sleeve off, it'll, like, sex it up with the sheer." "I feel like this makes it more sophisticated, though." "No sleeve, no sleeve." "It's so hard with my team in my ear, drilling in what they" " have to say." " And I don't give a what they have to say." "I just want to know what Tim thinks." "If you think I should get rid of the sleeve, I'll get rid of it." "Oh, yeah." "It's not a conservative dress." "Okay." "So I was gonna do this tubing almost that looks like this." "And it will start on this side and actually cause it to pull around." "I just don't know whether you need them." "I love to play with, like, the line, and I like sharp and va-va-voom but in a very classy and feminine way." "But then, boom." "I love molded shoulders." "And then, peplum is gonna be like this all the way around." "Wow." "And then, of course, it's just with a slim pant underneath 'cause I want to leave it very simple." "Excellent." "It's really strong." "It's on trend." "And he is impeccable." "I have this, and it's gonna be a simple shift with slashes." "How much slashing are you doing?" "I would do it all over." "Okay, so just have fun with it, yeah." "I mean, yeah." "I like Patricia." "Usually people who have that little touch of genius, they're very eccentric." "But I like her." "This is very compelling, all of it." "Time to get back to work." "Yes, thank you!" "All right." "Thank you, everyone." "This is our power hour." "I hope." "After our powwow with Tim," "I'm getting a little nervous for my team." "There's a lot to do." "Just to make it easy, just serge around it." "Maybe..." "And then do that, and then just roll it in and topstitch it." "I'm looking at some of my teammates' designs, and there are some pieces that are really worrying me." "I'm quite a born leader, and I like to be able to get in there and help people if I am part of a team." "I can't wait to see these modeled." "Oh, my God." "Oh, hello." "Hi." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "Let's hug." "Let's hug." "Oh, I'm so lucky!" "I love the way this looks." "I feel like I've seen" "Daniel's before." "About 30 years ago." "Oh, my gosh." "I'm gonna cry." "Cindy, she has just had a career change, and so I feel like she's kind of at a disadvantage." "The way I'm looking at it, I only need to do better than, you know, one person." "It's okay." "The length of the dress that we decided upon may not have been such a good choice." "It's just going way too long." "When you come out, I need you to walk for your life, honey." "I'm okay." "Yes." "I feel really good about myself because I have my jacket and pant on the mannequin." "And I already know what I have to do to finish." "That's looking so beautiful, Patricia." "Oh, thank you." "Patricia, it looks like something that could either be in a museum or, like, a student craft project." "I'm a little concerned about her being on our team." "I look up at the clock, and I barely have anything." "It's really time to reevaluate everything that I'm doing." "I don't want to be the person that keeps our team from winning." "I'm, like, making up as I go right now." "Emily, she has nothing besides her muslin there." "Uh-oh." "I am not in the position to help her because I'm still trying to help myself." "Emily, when we... we get finished, we'll come help you." "Oh, my God, what the hell is wrong with you?" "Like, we told you in our critique, don't get bogged down trying to figure out multiple pieces." "Just work on something, get a dress made." "Hey, everybody, time's up for the night." "It's time to pack up and go." "I don't have a single piece of clothing put together." "I think Emily is just way over her head." "The time is ticking, girl." "Time is ticking." "Piecing the dress together is taking too long, and I can't send her down naked." "So I'm gonna have to think of something..." "Today's Runway?" "I'm really nervous, and I think I might end up going home." "Right now, the only thing on my mind is, make something." "I really like my outfit, and if I can't win because Emily can't get her stuff together..." "Are you going to help Emily?" "I don't know if I'm gonna help Emily." "We need to weed out the herd anyway." "You are cutthroat." "Wow." "Good luck, guys." "Let's do it." "Emily is in desperate need of help." "I'll be done in about 20 minutes, and I can help." "If you want to make me a really simple stretch skirt, no zipper or anything." "All righty." "That may not be the best strategy for me personally, but my heart is just stopping for her." "Thank you so much, Cindy." "Yeah, you're welcome." "You're seriously saving my life right now." "I'll never judge again." "I mean, she's completely different from what I thought she would be, and I'm eternally thankful for her help." "I can't believe that I'm using glue right now." "Good morning, designers." "How is everyone?" "Good." "You all have two hours to send your models to the L'Oreal" "Paris hair and makeup rooms." "The styling of these looks is very important." "So of course, for your styling, you'll be using the Lord  Taylor accessory wall." "Use it very thoughtfully, all right?" "Okay." "Thank you, everyone." "Thank you, Tim." "That I would rate at the top, but I don't understand James as a designer, and his design point of view is standing alongside mine." "We're ready to rock and roll, sister." "What?" "Oh, my God." "Why do you seem panicky?" "Emily only has part of a jacket." "Just a very pale face." "Maybe a rosy cheek." "I like super clean, beautiful, flawless skin." "Kind of coral lip." "The muse's kiss is a gorgeous color." "That one's really beautiful." "I like the orange in there." "Some nice lash eye makeup." "It's going really '70s." "Yeah, we don't want to pigeonhole... especially me... in the '70s." "I'm thinking, just really beautiful blowout." "So we'll put a little, uh, root lift in there, just to get" "Really, like, slicked-back ponytail 'cause I need to show powerful, chic." "Okay." "The everstyle shine serum will give it really nice Polish." "Give her a part, and then slick it back, so it's still styled but sleek." "Yes." "Looking over the dream team's designs, we have some real hits, and we have some real misses." "Low scores, they'll just bring you down." "And that's the last thing the dream team needs." "My team's not going down." "This ship is not sinking." "I think it's good." "You are gorgeous." "I didn't understand what" "Cindy's checker piece was doing in there." "It kind of reminded me of an Asian candy wrapper box." "I don't know if this is gonna work." "Ben's garment, I'm puzzled by it." "I'm just glad I'm not on the other team." "Designers, you and your models and I are going down to the Runway for our first Runway show." "It's very exciting." "So please follow me." "So my heart is pounding in anticipation because this is the first time that my look is gonna hit the Runway." "James, Daniel." "Let's go." "Thank you." "Majority of my team has really, really beautiful, nice pieces, so maybe we can win this." "Hi, everybody." "Hello." "Hi." "Welcome to the Runway." "As you know, in fashion, one day, you're in, and the next day, you're out." "There are 16 of you here, and after tonight, there will be 15." "For this season of Project" "Runway, every challenge will be a team challenge." "You have to collaborate, communicate, and work together to be successful." "For this first challenge, we divided you in two teams of eight." "Your inspiration was none other than New York City." "We asked you to create an individual look that showcases your point of view as a designer." "The winner of Project Runway will receive $50,000 in technology and office space from hp and intel to bring your creativity to life and run your business, a fashion spread in" "Marie Claire magazine, a 2013 Lexus GS..." "Wow." "Oh, my God." "That's crazy." "$100,000 from L'Oreal Paris advanced hair care to start your own line..." "Wow." "Wow." "And the chance to design and sell an exclusive collection at" "Lord  Taylor." "Wow." "Cool, right?" "All right." "Oh, my gosh." "Yes." "And the model paired with the winner of Project Runway will win a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine and $25,000 from L'Oreal Paris advanced hair care." "Okay, let's meet the judges." "First, we have a new judge to introduce." "We are very excited to welcome acclaimed fashion designer Zac Posen." "Hey." "Fashion director for Marie" "Claire magazine, Nina Garcia." "Welcome, designers." "And our guest judge for today, who was once in your shoes, fashion designer Christian Siriano." "Hi." "Hey." "We will score your designs as they come down the Runway." "One member from the winning team will be the winner of this challenge, and one member from the losing team will be out." "Okay, let's start the show." "She looks amazing." "It looks so good." "I am so confident about my direction, my point of view." "In this design, and it's flawless." "My model is walking it out." "I'm just so happy." "My dress looks beautiful coming down the Runway." "It just glows and flows." "I realize I have achieved my" "Perfect." "I'm completely excited." "Little slight, subtle movement to it, and I'm loving it." "Down the Runway, and she feels like she's almost my girl, almost." "I could've taken it to a little punchier level, but I finally feel like I might not go home." "And it does represent myself, but I feel like it just doesn't stand out." "I know I could've done so much better." "I was playing too safe." "I hope we win, so I don't have to worry about it." "The Runway, I'm feeling a little better about the dress 'cause it looks decent." "I am seeing that it has a different point of view than from the other designers, and I'm hoping that the judges can see that in a positive way." "Point of view as a designer and my aesthetic and my tailoring skills." "I made that outfit in one day, and it totally rocked." "The other team, there's some pieces that I don't love, but the majority of what they do, I really, really love." "They definitely have more drama, and they definitely look more finished than my team's." "I'm getting a little worried." "I'm super excited." "This is probably the most" "I'm feeling good because it's, like, floating." "And looks like something I feel the judges like." "I hope, like, the judges, they're gonna like it." "Runway, I feel really good about it just because it's clean and" "I'm just very eager to see what the judges have to say about it." "That I put together." "I can't believe that I sent that down the Runway." "My team has to win this challenge." "If we don't, I know I'm..." "It just couldn't have represented me any better as a designer." "And I'm so ecstatic that this is what the judges are seeing first off." "Runway, I am really happy with it." "I'm using a material that no one has used before." "It's this waxed denim." "It's got a really strong, um, conviction and will of character for the woman that's wearing it." "I think that it's the strongest look of our team." "The other team definitely had a few struggles in their collection." "And I would've had to have said something if I was on that team." "There was, like, several strong pieces within their collection, but I'm still" "Designers, there will be a winning team and a losing team." "One member from the winning team will be the winner of this challenge, and one member from the losing team will be out." "Designers, one member from the winning team will be the winner of this challenge, and one member from the losing team will be out." "You are the winning team." "Yes." "Yay!" "Thank you." "Thanks, you guys." "Dream team, you are the losing team." "We're going to talk to the top three designers from the winning team first." "And then, we will talk to the bottom three from the losing team." "Dream team, thank you." "So..." "I'm not surprised." "When you saw their stuff go down the Runway, most of it looked very clean and finished." "They definitely had a lot more collaboration going on from the get-go." "Yeah." "We only did that, like, once." "What if the worst person was on their team, but because our score was lower, someone's going to be leaving that might have had a fairly decent score." "Yeah." "You have the highest scores." "Oh!" "Yes!" "Thank you." "What?" "Yeah." "Daniel, tell us about your look." "We had taken a boat ride on the river." "And I got inspiration from the shapes of the buildings that were along the river." "And so I just did a really simple, classic, silk wool crepe suit with a skinny pant." "And here it is." "I am very impressed." "She looks super chic, and it looks super expensive." "Zac, what do you think?" "It's nice." "You have sportswear structure and drape." "It's all black, which obviously, is a New York symbol." "And it looks beautifully made." "I like the fact that you gave her a shorter sleeve, the shorter pant." "And it could be done in many colors." "Colors, yeah." "There's no zipper in the front, right, or can it open?" "No, it just fold... it just crosses over." "I think the neckline is really beautiful but very subtle." "But I think it's really, really chic." "Did you like the team dynamic?" "Oh, yes." "Everybody here, we all get along 'cause we have to work together to move forward." "Thank you, Daniel." "Richard, tell us about your look." "I'm from California, and upon landing at the airport, all I saw was buildings and concrete, and I'm used to trees and stuff everywhere." "So immediately, when we got this challenge assigned to us, I thought of gray and balanced it with black." "I think it looks very urban." "It's easy." "It's sporty." "But I also see the influence of" "New York." "I like that you played with asymmetry." "And it's flattering, which through asymmetry, is not the easiest." "I liked your dress a lot." "I like it that it has one short sleeve and one long sleeve." "It's like a great basic, but you don't look schlumpy in it." "I don't know if this is kind of your aesthetic, which is very different from what, you know, Daniel did." "I think that's why I liked it so much because it was so different." "Was anyone in your team particularly helpful?" "Yes." "Actually, every one of them were." "I'm so curious." "What were the critiques?" "Um, I was going to do these bindings on the side." "And upon the suggestions of the team, they were right." "I was gonna tone it down versus trying to go over the top and overdesign." "Well, I think your team helped you out." "Yeah." "You made the right choices." "Yeah, they did." "Thank you, guys." "Thank you, Richard." "Thanks." "Patricia, tell us about your look." "As we were leaving the city, and we were on the boat, I started to see the different shapes of the windows." "And then I thought of the cubist artists." "And I said, "okay, maybe if I work in my design aesthetics of hand-printing fabric..." and then, it was really important to keep the blue, um, coming through, because in fashion, you want something that's exciting and electric." "So I chose that really strong cobalt blue." "And then, when they turn around..." "She's a talker, yes or no?" "I know!" "Sorry." "She's a talker." "You know the show's only 90 minutes, right?" "And that was it." "You don't even need to speak that much." "I feel that your dress speaks by itself." "I really love how you manipulated the leather." "To have the idea to do that, I think, is genius." "I like that they look like little cityscapes." "But I think the... the time and the effort of all the handwork, I think, is why it's such a great piece." "I like that it's tactile." "What I think you need to work on is taking that emotional, tactile quality, and bring it into the shape of your dress." "I think it was a good idea to keep the shape very simple, because otherwise, I think you would have missed on all that work that you've done." "And I think those little panels gives it a movement, which that shape doesn't really have." "Thank you." "Okay, we've heard what you had to say." "You can leave the Runway." " Thank you." " Thank you." "Losing team." "James, Cindy, and Emily, the three of you have the lowest scores on your team." "Okay, let's bring out your models." "James." "Tell us about your look." "I personally love doing a lot of color-blocking." "And initially, the top was to be color-blocked as well, but the team decided that it would be too simple and that I needed some more detail." "Do you think that they steered you maybe in the wrong direction?" "I just really wish that I would've stuck with my gut feeling on the first, initial design that I did." "What do you guys think about James?" "For me, personally, I don't mind it terribly." "But it wasn't exactly what the team had necessarily offered." "To me, the pleating on top looks a little chewed up." "The whole thing feels a little pedestrian." "There's nothing wrong with your outfit." "It is just not inspiring." "It doesn't say anything to me about what you're about." "If you want to have that great, simple tank blouse, it has to be the most sought-after tank blouse that everybody wants to buy." "There were actually some great pieces that came down the" "Runway from you guys." "Like, tu, for example, I really liked yours." "The black and white was really cool." "Loved it." "And, Benjamin, we actually liked yours as well, where there is really, like, something really that we hadn't seen before." "You know, when you make a pencil skirt, there is just not enough there." "Thank you." "Emily, tell us about your look." "Okay." "Well, originally, there was going to be kind of a fitted dress that was gonna be out of this fabric, and I just, I think I realized I was drowning way too late in the game, and just, I really ran out of time." "I don't know what went wrong here, but it looks like my eight-year-old daughter made it." "It looks like the sewing machine just ate it up." "Can I see the back?" "For a second, in the sleeve and in the shoulder, um, I'm kind of thinking that you have some type of sculptural innovation idea, which I kind of would've wanted to see." "Can we see what this looks like when you take this thing off?" "I mean, it's like a shredded piece of..." "Yeah." "I have to say that, in 11 seasons that we've done this," "I have never seen such an unfinished garment walk down the" "Runway." "Is there a zipper in the back of that blouse?" "No." "It's... it's a tie." "It's a..." "I can do that." "And, team, could anybody have lent her some fabric?" "Yes, and we helped her construct this." "I mean, as of this morning, she had nothing." "She really had good ideas, and it's just... it's unfortunate to see." "The design's there." "The sketches were amazing that we saw." "I see what you and your team members see in what's happening right there." "I get it." "But I think it's really important to have your craft ready to go." "Obviously, taste, a design eye, craft, and a hand, are what it's gonna take to win this competition." "So, you know, I think you have to find at least something within that that you are strong at and bring it." "I agree." "Thank you, Emily." "Okay, Cindy, you're next." "From the rooftop of the Atlas, I saw a building that, um, had a checkerboard pattern painted on the side." "And when I saw this print at mood, it reminded me of the colors of the city." "It's all just kind of jumbled and muted and running together." "Did anyone give you thumbs up, thumbs down, sideways?" "This was planned to be kind of a long top over narrow, Navy pants." "But the team thought that this print was so beautiful that I should extend it and show more of the print." "Can you guys raise your hand who thought this print was so beautiful?" "I actually thought it was really pretty." "Well, pretty compared to... it was gonna be a shirt that went to her knee with pants." "And, as a team, we felt like if you're gonna do that, you might as well use as a gown because you can see the whole, entire print." "It makes more sense for what you're trying to do with that fabric." "To me, this dress is not attractive at all." "I love mixing pattern." "But they kind of gotta go together." "There is nothing New York about this." "There's nothing urban about it." "I actually think maybe I'm the only one that's a little bit excited that it is a gown, because I think with, like, a" "Navy pant, then you would have had four different fabrications, and it would've been even worse." "But I do think that it has, you know, no kind of designer quality to it." "I want to know who you are as a designer." "And this is confusing to me." "This is not me." "Well, this is the first challenge." "So, I really, you know, I want to see who you are as a designer." "I don't think the construction is that interesting, and the prints are sort of jarring together." "It's hard for me." "Thank you, Cindy." "The sad thing is, I gave your team a lot of high scores." "But the low ones really overpowered the highs." "Keep that in mind." "You have to look out for your team." "If you have one hole in a boat, the whole boat sinks." "Okay, we're heard what you had to say." "We're gonna have a little chat." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Before we start talking about specific designers, I just want to talk about the team challenge, which I think is kind of great." "I mean, it's a little scary, because you're really dependent on other people." "I like it, because it's another set of eyes that are going to be giving an opinion, and hopefully, the bar gets raised." "They judge them before we get to judge them." "They have to decide if they're being truthful with their advice." "'Cause when it gets down, like, what if they're telling each other it's not so good or if it is good?" "They're gonna be like, "this is great, what you're doing." Wah-wah-wah." "And as the competition goes on, the good souls and good hearts will come through." "Okay, let's talk about the designers that we did like." "Keeping it real was the winning team." "I really like this team." "I liked how collaborative they were with each other." "They loved each other." "They loved each other." "They felt comfortable with each other." "You could see new friendships form." "Let's talk about Patricia." "We don't really see that that much, that people actually go and manipulate the fabric to that extent." "She painted it." "She did an interesting overlay." "I think she brings an artistic element." "Absolutely, which I love." "Yes, we love." "I like that she has a strong female point of view." "We'll see where it goes." "Let's talk about Daniel." "What he did in one day was pretty amazing." "Beautiful." "That shoulder, to do that shoulder is tough." "That jacket is interesting, and it was beautifully done." "I want to say something about the originality of it, which is that, you know, looks like this did just go down the Runway at Paris couture, though it definitely is of the moment." "But he achieved a lot." "Good cut, desirable, modern." "I love seeing that on the first Runway show." "It was exciting." "It is exciting." "Let's talk about Richard." "It's straightforward." "It's a Jersey dress, and it worked." "And that's urban and New York." "You can dress it up." "You can dress it down." "You could wear it with your combat boots." "You can wear it with your ballerina flats." "You can wear it with high heels." "It's got a versatility to it." "It's kind of a no-brainer." "It looked effortless and easy, and I think that sometimes can be harder than creating something like Daniel's, which is sculptural and tailored." "Sometimes the most effortless dress is the hardest to create." "Okay, let's talk about the dream team that wasn't so great." "Well, the team wasn't that bad." "It's just that there were some lower moments in the presentation." "Let's talk about James." "I mean, James really didn't do a whole lot." "It was very mall." "It's a grab and go." "It was like intern couture." "It was the shell." "The chewed-up shell." "The shell was bad." "Chew it up." "This was boring and sad." "Let's talk about Cindy." "Am I wrong with, how is this inspired by New York?" "It's straight up from the '90s." "But, you know, if you go to the '90s, you have to make it now." "The dress felt old and sad." "Yes." "It was not necessarily the most tasteful." "It looked like Coming to" "America." "Emily, really..." "I don't know." "Really, that was butt-ugly." "I mean, it really..." "I agree." "I mean, wow." "It was a hot mess." "I mean, a shredded hot mess." "But I have to say, I thought it was interesting when I asked the designers if they thought she had any potential." "That's what I was asking them." "They said yes." "And I saw what they were seeing, which was a fabric and a storyboard." "And her team liked her, so..." "Yeah." "You know, where the other two had no creativity at all, I don't know, maybe she had something there at the beginning." "Okay, so we've made our decision?" "Mm-hmm." "Great." "Let's bring them back out." "And the lowest scores." "One of you from the winning team will be the winner of this challenge." "And one of you from the losing team will be out." "Team will be the winner of this challenge." "And one of you from the losing team will be out." "Daniel..." "Congratulations." "You are the winner of this challenge." "First challenge." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Oh, God." "Words can't explain how..." "Happy I am to win this first challenge." "They took notice of me, out of everybody." "Yay." "I knew it." "I knew it, I knew it, I knew it." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Patricia, you're also in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "James, you're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you so much." "Cindy, Emily, one of you will be out." "Cindy..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "I'm in." "Yay!" "I'm sorry." "That means you're out." "Thanks for having me." "Aufwiedersehen." "It sucks being out first." "I'm just kind of sad that I didn't even get to show the judges what I could really do." "You tried and..." "it's just really" "You know, as wonderful as it is to be on the Runway, this is always gonna be an outcome." "What I'm so struck by is how close all of you have become so quickly, and I feel the same way about you." "Oh." "So, I have to send you to the workroom to clean up your space." "Okay?" "Bye, guys." "Bye." "Dream carefree." "Dream team." "Dream team." "I feel like this whole experience is gonna help me get my priorities straight." "It's definitely given me a lot to think about as far as what I want to do and what I am even able to do." "I came here looking for direction, and I came through this." "I'm gonna be able to find it." "This season on Project" "Runway..." "We're sending each of you to a different European country." "What?" "Holy crap." "We're in Paris." "I am so excited." "Ooh." "I think you're in trouble." "Scrap the shirt?" "It's a mess." "Your own teammates don't support you." "You're really trying to micromanage." "Watch it." "Please don't let me down." "I just want to cover myself." "I'm sensing ego." "You can feel the spiral begin." "Daniel, what are you doing right now?" "Michelle, Layana, and Amanda are bitches." "It's time to change things up a little bit." "Damn you, Heidi." "What's the matter?" "I've been second-guessing myself the whole day." "We have a very special guest judge for today." "Emmy Rossum." "John Legend." "Miranda Lambert." "And please welcome Bette Midler." "This was one of my favorite" "Project Runway shows." "I'm very impressed." "It's so charming." "You guys should be really proud." "I was just knocked out." "The mushy bust looks trashy." "I would die if someone asked me to wear that." "She looks like she's been shipwrecked." "Mayday, mayday." "It's just bad." "It sort of looks lumpy and dumpy." "This is like, "where is my whip?"" "He makes too many excuses." "Now we're done bitching." "Say bye, Fred."