"Previously on Project Runway..." "For this challenge, you will be designing a high-fashion look that will appear in a L'Oreal" "Paris advertorial." "And the winner of this challenge will receive $20,000." "What?" "This is huge." "Two looks, 20 grand..." "I have just lost a day and a half of work." "Val?" "What's wrong?" "I just don't want to make an ass of myself." "The only possible accessory that she could use with this is a wand." "Your model is a very young girl, and she looks ancient." "Mondo, your signature is really coming through." "Congratulations, Mondo." "You are the winner of this challenge." "Yes!" "And you get $20,000 from" "L'Oreal." "Oh, thank you so much." "Thank you." "Ivy, I'm sorry, you're out." "This is Project Runway." "The winner of Project Runway will receive $100,000 from L'Oreal Paris to start their own line, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, a $50,000 technology suite from HP and Intel to create their" "and sell an exclusive collection on piperlime. com." "The model paired with the winner of Project Runway will receive a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine and $25,000 from" "L'Oreal Paris Studio Secrets Professional." "Project Runway 8x10 There's a Pattern Here Original Air Date on September 30,2010" "Round ten, girls." "I know." "Isn't that crazy?" "You know, I really did not expect to be here still after last night's travesty." "I will say that I was shocked that I wasn't sent home." "I'm hoping that the judges maybe saw a little more potential in me." "I kind of want to fight for Ivy." "You know, like, I mean obviously do it for myself." "I was kind of like, you know..." "I know she would have loved to be here just as much as I would." "I hate that Ivy's gone home." "She was my best friend here." "She's the other half of Latasian." "She's really the only other person that laughed at my jokes besides me." "And she encouraged me." "It's now or never." "Like, proving to the judges that what you do is interesting and fresh." "And I think that's really what Mondo did yesterday." "I really feel like Mondo is my biggest competitor." "It makes me feel like I've got to really push it on this next challenge." "Bitch, how does it feel to win twice in a row?" "Well, it was unreal." "I didn't think I was gonna get it." "Honestly, I didn't feel like I was going to win." "I looked at Andy's, and I thought he's probably my biggest competition in this season." "I loved your piece, Andy." "It was so creative." "It feels really, really wonderful when you get praises and good comments on something that's so much of yourself." "You guys ready?" "Let's get it on, girl." "Right." "♪ You can't go home ♪ ♪ till Heidi says so ♪" "♪ doo doo doo ♪" "Hello." "All:" "Hi." "It's time for your next challenge." "Bring it." "There's seven of you left, but only three of you will compete at Mercedes-Benz Fashion" "Week." "For this challenge, I want you to start from scratch." "Tim is gonna meet you in the workroom to explain." "Good luck." "And I'll see you on the Runway." "Bye, everybody." "Oh." "[Exclamations]" "I'm gonna cry." "Oh, my God." "Then I arrive at the workroom." "We see these big desktop" "HP computers with pictures of ourselves when we were children." "The first thing I see, it's a picture of me in my underwear." "I look just like my son." "I didn't see it before, but I see it in this picture, so this is hilarious." "You know, it's pretty emotional." "We haven't been with our family for weeks." "Some of us, you know, don't live with our families, and it's just been really hard." "Walking in and seeing pictures of us all outside of the context of Project Runway, i got emotional." "It makes me miss my mom a lot." "Good morning, Designers." "Good morning, Tim." "I am delighted to introduce our special guest, the Executive" "Director of Global Marketing for HP Worldwide, Tracey Trachta." "Tracy, welcome." "Thank you." "Designers, we have downloaded pictures from your life because a personal dossier will be very important to you in this challenge." "We are bringing back the HP challenge from last season." "For this challenge, you will be creating a textile design that will be placed on fabric, and that fabric will become part of your garment design." "Yay!" "Wow." "I remember last season they had the chance to create their own textile, and ever since then, I've been wanting to do it even more now than ever." "As we all know, technology is playing a greater role in fashion today, from the initial sketch to what you ultimately see on the hanger." "This is especially true with the latest generation of" "Designers like you all." "With this challenge, we're proud to bring your our powerful Touchsmart technology to help you be as creative as possible." "The point of departure for your textile design is to be a moment, a period of time, that you found to be especially profound, important, and inspiring to you." "Your garment design can be anything that you choose, but your textile design must evoke something that's deeply personal." "We are our own muse." "It's pretty exciting, but at the same time, also very daunting." "Designers, you have one hour to create your textile design." "You have two days for this challenge." "Your fabric will be delivered tomorrow morning, so you'll have all day tomorrow to work with it." "In the interim, we're going shopping at Mood with a budget of $100 for supplemental fabric." "So design away, and thank you." "It's my mom's favorite photo of us." "Look how beautiful you are." "You look hot." "[Laughs] I think this is my favorite." "That's awesome." "That's a really beautiful photo." "I'm such a mama's boy." "Very Hawaiian." "My mom caught me outside twirling like this in the skirt." "It was a little round skirt." "And she ripped it right off of me, and I was crying." "I remember this day when she took pictures, but I had to take the skirt off." "My mom has been there with me since I was a kid." "For a little while, you know, we had a moment where we were as not connected as we were, but, you know, we got close again." "I think I'm probably, like, five in this one." "I love that picture." "Didn't you wear that outfit first challenge?" "Right." "The little matador." "Brought that with you." "And the mustache, you know." "Um, the one photo that I love the most is the one of my sister and I in the driveway of the very first house that my dad built for us." "We had to share a bed, and this is the bed my dad made us." "This was our first bed." "I literally used to think my dad was Superman." "And he's really inspired me." "Inspired me to, you know--hard work gets you places." "And my textile is based on him." "Whenever he would come home with his blueprints and his plans, he would lay 'em all out on the table, and I just remember loving the way the paper felt and the way the lines looked on the paper, so I kind of wanted" "to create a textile that did that, that had these blue lines, and they would intersect each other, and they would cross to make up a pattern." "It's kind of cheeky." "That's my brother with the mullet." "[Laughter] We're pretty close, all of our family." "My brother Spanky, my sister" "Peaches, you know, we have crazy names." "We each wear a red string on our hand that looks like an eye, and they call it the evil eye." "So I want to find a way to bring that into my textile." "We're dark, we've got secrets, we've got issues." "So I want to bring some black into it." "[Laughs] It's based--'cause I grew up in the Southwest, it's my mom's jewelry." "It's a sun bonnet." "I grew up with a lot of" "Southwestern influence." "What I wanted to do was kind of a graphic interpretation of a squash blossom or a sun bonnet." "Yay." "Cool." "I know." "I love that." "The Touchsmart system, it's very easy to be yourself." "Not to mention you could just print it right out immediately and then there's your concept." "It was really easy to work with." "I choose to design a print that represented my parents' divorce, that is dark and somewhat romantic." "It's definitely like..." "I don't know." "Sorry." "It's good." "No, I like it." "I feel like this is what it's all about." "When the divorce happened, that was like my first taste of, like, reality." "Kind of really seeing that life is not a walk in the park." "Yeah, I came out to my mom when I was 17, and she told me not to tell the rest of the family and that she wasn't gonna tell my father." "I think that's been instilled with me, you know." "I can't tell a lot of people a lot about who I am." "It's not that I don't love my mom at all." "You know, I love her dearly." "But I have to be myself." "And I have to allow myself to let people in." "I feel like that one's more of you." "This one?" "Mm-hmm." "And that's really hard." "But that's, you know, just my opinion, not knowing the story or anything." "Just kind of looking at it." "Mm." "I think that Mondo's print is very Mondo, but I don't know the story behind it." "He won't talk about it." "All right, Buddy." "So the textile that I'm designing for this challenge is based on a plus-sign that represents, uh..." "You know, my HIV-positive status." "Um, and I've held this secret for ten years of my life." "You know, this has--this has been so hard to keep a secret from my parents, because I feel guilt, and I feel shame." "I feel like if they knew, I don't know if they would know how to deal with it, and, um, i've just realized that I can't--I can't live that way anymore." "I can't hide anything, because i am such a better person than just being a coward." "So how was your design session?" "Lovely." "Good." "Excellent." "I'm thrilled to hear it." "Okay, then, your textile designs will go off to dynamics so they can manufacture your fabric." "It will be delivered tomorrow morning, so you'll have all day tomorrow with it." "And we're going to mood." "Let's head off." "I end up playing with circles and layering them on top of each other." "And these are like bubbles to me, memory bubbles." "Okay, cool, I'll commit." "For this textile, the blue in it represents my mom, because she loves sapphire." "The green lines in it represent" "San Francisco where I'm from." "I can't reach." "I can do this." "With the last challenge..." "Why is it not here?" "But moving forward, I'm just going to focus, and I'm going to design the way I did in the beginning of the competition." "Thank you." "Thank you, mood." "Thank you." "Have a good one." "Let's do it." "[Laughs]" "Designers, keep working." "I just want to give you a heads-up." "I'm about to send in some special guests." "All right?" "And be nice to them, please." "Thank you." "Is it old contestants?" "Oh, right." "I'm immediately thinking, oh, no, it's a client, who's-- probably might not like the print we've just designed." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my freaking God!" "Oh, my God, mom." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my goodness." "Holy mack-a-noley." "It's my mom." "She's really here." "I turned around and..." "[Whimpers] Yes, I am that girl, okay." "I cry at Hallmark commercials." "Oh, my God." "I am a blubbering fool." "My mom walks through the door, and it's overwhelming." "I cannot let go, and, oh, man." "It's so nice to lean on somebody and feel that kind of connection." "By the way everyone's bawling like little babies, these have to be their mothers." "Which is kind of scary for me, because my mom has a really hard life, and my stepdad is in a wheelchair, and I don't really get to see my mom very often, 'cause she can't leave." "We're, um, not very well off, and she has to take care of him." "So I kind of had a panic attack, because my mom wasn't gonna be there." "[Screams] Hello, gorgeous." "I got so scared you weren't gonna be able to come." "Oh, of course I could come." "I kind of freaked out when I got to see my mom." "Oh." "So now I'm a blithering idiot." "Oh, I'm glad to see you." "It's my mom." "And I just, like, lose it." "I can't believe you're really here." "I'm, like, so happy to have her here." "'Cause when I saw her come through the door, I knew I was gonna be okay." "And I'm just, like, so happy to see her." "Oh, my God." "Juannie." "The first person I see who comes in for me is my son." "And I lost it." "I have no guard up right now or anything." "I can't be a man and be strong and not cry." "Hi, son." "I missed you so much." "My son means everything in the world to me." "Everything I live for is for my son." "I wouldn't ever think that you were coming." "And my mom is one of my biggest supporters." "I was prepared for it to be my mom, but it's my partner JJ." "Oh, my gosh." "We've been together almost ten years, and he's the most important person in my life." "I missed you so much." "You want to meet other people?" "Nice to meet you." "This is Andy." "Hi." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "So was this a nice surprise?" "All:" "Yes!" "Well, I have an additional surprise to add to this surprise." "I knew it." "I am suspending the workday." "Yay!" "So you will spend the rest of the day together." "[Cheers]" "Oh, my gosh." "Oh, yeah." "Smooth." "Yeah, this has really been a phenomenal experience." "Like, as hard as it's been and as stressful as it's been and as crazy, ma, like, I will not forget this for the rest of my life." "It's easy to be praised for your work at home, but when you get put into the big pond, you know, you've got to compete." "You kind of have to stick to who you are, not trying to be like everyone else." "No, you have to be you, yourself." "Being the youngest here has been crazy." "People have definitely underestimated me, but I think that they acknowledge that I'm a good Designer and that I have talent." "Well, as long as you stay true to yourself and your design." "That's why I think I'm still here." "The first couple of days, I just felt like really--I guess I was just scared more than anything." "I actually had a breakdown." "You did?" "Like, yeah." "And I just--I actually wanted to go home." "The group challenge, they all threw me under the bus, one by one, and said I didn't know how to sew, I couldn't create, how I didn't help." "Don't let that get to you." "No, it got to me." "It should give you more encouragement." "It got to me." "It's competition, okay?" "That's all it is." "Just try to make friends with everyone and let them know you care for them." "I do." "I try." "You want to work together." "I just get real sad when I find out that some of them talked about me behind my back." "I've been bottling up so much emotion because I--literally," "I have no one here to talk to." "To me, you're always a winner." "Thanks, mom." "This is what I'm focusing on." "That's all you have to do." "Is, like, fashion, fashion, fashion." "I'm proud of you, and I love you for what you're doing, and it's probably, like, the hardest, craziest thing you've ever done in your life, you know, but..." "It's so much better seeing you, though." "Having JJ here right now is just like fuel." "I mean, it's like engine fuel." "He's like spaceship engine fuel." "I can do it." "I'm ready to stay, and I'm ready to keep going." "And then the last one was the L'Oreal challenge for $20,000." "$20,000." "And I won." "Whoo-hoo!" "[Laughter]" "So I won the Marie Claire challenge." "That's what we were wanting." "Someone to..." "A little exposure." "Yeah." "It'll give you some exposure, and to see your..." "See my talent." "Yeah, 'cause you are talented." "See my potential." "I really think I'm a strong contender to be in the top three." "And I'm gonna work as hard as I can." "Whatever happens happens." "Whatever you set your mind on, you will do good." "I know that." "Thanks, mom." "I'm your last baby to leave the nest, so you don't have to worry." "But I will still feel guilty that I didn't give you enough." "You know what I mean?" "But you've given me everything." "My mom's a single mother of five." "And you sacrifice so much for your kids." "My concern is, you know, don't worry about anything except yourself." "Just a little something." "Oh, cool." "Like it?" "I'm not gonna guarantee that i'm gonna wear it, but..." "No." "[Laughter] Thank you, mom." "I love you." "When we were talking in the park, I felt very close to her." "And, you know, I wanted to tell her about my HIV-positive status." "This has been so hard to keep a secret from my parents, because I love them, but growing up in a religious," "Catholic family that--it would be an issue of morals and disrespect." "Oh, I'm so proud of you." "And I just felt like if I said something, I would have ruined the moment." "And I didn't want to ruin it, because it was her first time in New York, and I just didn't want to bring her any pain at that moment." "I love you so much." "I love you too." "Coming up on Project Runway..." "Seeing my mom took me way off my game." "You're overdesigning the pant." "It's a c-plus." "It's looking like an ice skating outfit." "I'm kind of just stunned." "Happy Birthday." "[Laughs]" "Today is my 29th birthday." "I'm excited, but it's also kind of bittersweet." "So weird to, like, see 'em and have so much fun and then be taken away." "Yeah." "It just reminded me of, like," "I'm here for more than just me." "Mm-hmm." "You can't think about it too much." "You have to, like, appreciate that you got to see them, but don't let it consume you." "Everybody was with their moms or their husband." "And it was just a really good feeling." "Seeing my mom took me way off my game." "It kind of really got in my head." "I have to pull it together." "Focus today." "I think I'm still living in yesterday and last night." "Like, I'm kind of just done." "It was distracting that my mom stopped by, because it brought back a lot of memories, and I've been thinking about a lot of things that weren't the happiest times." "I'm so excited to see the fabric." "Me too." "Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited." "Fabrics are here!" "Ooh." "Awesome." "Cool." "I am going bolder than I normally go." "I wouldn't normally do, like, major, huge prints." "Are you gonna pin me?" "A little something." "Thanks, girl." "You're the nicest queen I know." "Happy 43rd." "[Laughing] Shut up." "Aw, thanks, Mondo." "This is, like, the best birthday present ever." "Yours looks like a true texture." "I'm loving it,'cause I've always wanted to make my own fabric." "This is cool." "It's really, really beautiful." "It's very vibrant." "This is beautiful." "Thank you." "I'm so proud." "Thanks." "The last challenge, I didn't do any paper patterns." "I just used my muslin, so I'm really taking the time to do my paper patterns and sure everything up." "I'm really not sure what I'm doing with this print, and it's probably because I'm so off my game." "My mind's not even in the competition." "Is that for a pant?" "Mm-hmm." "I thought you were gonna do a dress." "I'm going back to my original plan." "You know when you are working on something and you're just, like, not even excited about it?" "Yes." "That was the dress." "I feel like I was forcing a dress out of me that wasn't gonna happen." "'Cause, honestly, I'm not really inspired by the color." "I'm just gonna get something done." "Andy couldn't really deal with all the emotion of the visit, which stopped him a little bit from being able to work the way he normally does." "How is everybody?" "Doing good." "Good." "I'm just here to check in with you, okay?" "April, hi." "Hello." "So my print is reminiscent of when my parents got divorced." "It's like me being torn between two family trees." "I have the greatest respect for the emotions that you have for this." "The judges won't." "Mm-hmm." "Step away from the emotions if you can, and look at it critically and analytically as a Designer." "Okay." "I feel like it's fighting against the print, kind of." "Mm-hmm." "Take it out." "I guess I was just kind of obsessed with this fabric." "Look." "Yeah, it makes a big difference." "Already." "I think that it was right for him to point that out." "How's Michael?" "I'm okay." "I've edited a lot,'cause there was a sleeve with a yellow piping, and I took it away." "I was not happy with it." "I'm glad you've already edited." "It's very beautifully done." "Mm-hmm." "This needs to fit exquisitely." "All right, Michael, thank you." "He didn't really tell me to change anything." "It was just good to finally get some positive feedback from Tim." "Christopher?" "My inspiration was where I grew up." "There was water everywhere we went, like the Bay or the ocean." "I was thinking I could create kind of some, like, Shell piece, like outerwear." "I really love Christopher, but I don't really love what he does." "I think you're overdesigning the pant." "Like I should just let it be just a simple pant?" "His look, I think it's a c-plus." "My recommendation is work like there's no tomorrow on this top, so you can fit your model." "Okay." "Okay, thanks, Christopher." "Thanks, Tim." "How is Andy?" "Making decisions." "I have a lot of work to do." "I haven't even started the top." "I don't know what I'm doing with the print, and that kills me because that's the main focus of this challenge." "I had this concept of just moments in time." "And that's why I've called it, like, the memory bubble." "I think Andy's is not looking very Andy." "I'm also keeping the option of cropping the pants to a short." "And if you make it into a short, how do you style the whole look?" "I am so not sure about that." "But if I shorten it, then it's not gonna go where it's going now." "That's true." "It's gonna be a little bit of a struggle to focus." "I would rather be with family, which is Scary to me, because I don't want to give this opportunity up." "Coming up on" "Project Runway..." "It doesn't work." "It's perfect." "Let's take it off." "I don't know if that says fashion." "No sweater." "Just okay is never good enough." "So how's Gretchen?" "Hi, my print is inspired by where I grew up." "Mm-hmm." "Gretchen seems to be doing really well." "I really like the printed fabric." "Does this look too much like a flap?" "Tim doesn't really like the yoke that I did in the back." "But I'm not really keen on getting rid of that until I see my model in them." "Valerie." "I wanted to create a dress that was more structured." "My only concern, though, was that the top was looking a little '80s." "Yeah, and I don't want that." "It's looking like an ice skating outfit." "Valerie is making a dress that just doesn't read fashion to me." "You don't want too many construction details happening." "I don't want it to become like a pu pu platter of different construction methods." "Right." "Well, Mondo." "Hi." "What inspired the print?" "I'm very, very deeply connected to this print and the symbolism." "It's not like I'm trying to keep a secret from everybody." "I'm just not ready to talk about it." "Just kind of pulled from who I was and where I've been and who I am going to be in the future." "So that's..." "I think it's beautiful." "Thank you." "Thank you." "With this challenge, I am creating a look that I am very proud of and emotionally attached to, but beyond that, there is a real story that has lived for 32 years." "And you're coming out of a big moment." "So keep it big." "All right, cool." "Okay?" "All right, thank you." "Thank you, Mondo." "Thank you so much." "All right, Designers, I'm really excited by what you're doing." "I love your prints." "And you're on a wonderful trajectory." "So there are only seven of you left--I'm getting--sorry." "Um..." "Yeah, this gets harder." "Um, your models will be coming in soon." "And I will see you in the morning, okay?" "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "Hello, hello." "You really created that design?" "Yeah, I made this." "I like this, but I'm thinking it's a little too '80s." "Okay." "They actually look good." "I'm staring at my pants, and" "I decided to cut it to shorts." "I just need to keep it youthful and not get frumpy." "Busy?" "Ah, it's so cool." "We show this much pant, I need to do something." "So my pants fit Rose beautifully." "However, it just makes her look really old." "It's like we're almost there." "Oh, my God, it's Runway tomorrow." "At the end of the night," "I'm not in love with it." "I'm just hoping to be safe." "Are you ready for the Runway, Andy?" "I have a lot of work to do today." "Because any wrong choice will send me home." "I don't like my look." "I think it'll be okay." "And just okay is never good enough." "Andy's doesn't look like Andy at all." "No way." "Especially from the last challenge to this one." "Mike c's print, it looks very similar to Andy's, but, like, black." "It looks very, like, witchy." "And there's a tie in the middle, huh?" "It's gonna be interesting because someone's gonna go home today." "Yeah, but all four of us boys are coming back here." "Word." "I wouldn't mind just being safe today just so I could feel like I've redeemed myself, but" "I would like to just win one." "I think that you're gonna be in the top, Valerie." "The judges said last time that my concept was not clear." "This time, it is definitely ringing like a gong." "Let's go, guys." "Parsons, here we come." "Thanks, homie." "Homes." "I just ripped it, and look it." "The pressure's on, but I feel like if you allow yourself to be overwhelmed, then you're just setting yourself up for failure." "Oh, well." "Can't win 'em all." "Good morning, everyone." "Morning." "You have an hour to send your models to the L'Oreal Paris makeup room in the Garnier hair salon." "Please use the piperlime accessory wall thoughtfully." "Work hard, everyone." "I'll see you a little later." "Thank you." "Bye." "Hey, what's up?" "Do you think it-- does it look weird right here?" "You know, I'm nervous about today." "Let's take it off." "There's nothing wrong with it just being the way it is, I guess." "Let me see the back." "Yeah, fit's perfect." "I'm really feeling very confident with the overall look, given that last week I was in the bottom." "I know your body." "Yeah, you do." "Sing it, Michael." "Michael made up a country song." "♪ Chopped off the hair ♪ ♪ that I loved ♪" "♪ oh, you wouldn't believe ♪ ♪ the stuff, the stuff ♪" "♪ the stuff I've done ♪ ♪ to get this far ♪ that's crazy." "Yeah." "Michael costello has grown on me." "I've kind of watched him be the one that everybody hated to becoming someone who opened up and really gets along with everyone." "That's a beautiful fabric." "For some reason, I'm getting a little more, you know, respect from my fellow Designers, and" "I'm kind of digging it right now." "I love Michael c." "He's not afraid to grow." "And a lot of people, you know, they're not that humble." "Hey." "Hey, hon." "How's it going?" "Really good." "You want to keep it modern and clean." "We don't want her looking like a street Walker or a figure skater." "Just, like, a little baby pink rosy cheek." "And lashes." "Lashes." "Oh, it looks so good." "It's totally right on, and I love that color." "I want to do big curl." "Really shiny and then I just want the ponytail holder wrapped with her hair." "We're just gonna pull it back like she just did it herself, you know, and just do a nice little sloppy bun." "Actually, like, a beach towel aesthetic is the outfit with, like, a downtown kind of hair." "Well, when she's walking, she's gonna have a little bounce today." "Kind of goes like that." "[Laughs]" "Will you throw the sweater on?" "That sweater, I don't know if that says fashion." "I think no sweater." "I think my garment looks really good on Cassie, but it doesn't really look like me." "That's my concern." "I'm really hoping that we can maybe win this one." "I feel like what I've brought to the table is fashion-forward, it's me, and it looks good on her." "Designers and models, this is it." "We're going down to the Runway, all right?" "Valerie?" "Coming!" "Wouldn't be a Runway day without you at the end." "Coming up on project Runway..." "It's unwearable." "What happened?" "It makes it look funny like a joke." "I wish I knew what the story was." "Hello." "All:" "Hi." "Welcome to the Runway." "As you know, in fashion, one day you're in and the next day, you're out." "For this challenge, you were given an opportunity that many Designers dream of." "Using hp technology, you were able to start from scratch and create your own signature fabric." "This fabric was to be inspired by a moment from your past." "Okay, let's meet the judges." "First, we have top American" "Designer Michael Kors..." "Fashion Director for Marie" "Claire magazine Nina Garcia..." "And guest judge, who has dressed first Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, American fashion" "Designer Rachel Roy." "Thank you." "Hi, guys." "Hi." "We will score your designs as they come down the Runway." "One of you will be named the winner and one of you will be out." "Let's start the show." "It's super exciting to watch this garment moving and rotating and telling a story as it walks and it's kind of reminiscent of how I've hidden and then kind of shown what I've been through with this situation in my life." "I think the look looks fine walking down the Runway, but if" "I said I didn't have any regrets, I'd be lying." "I probably regret the entire thing." "I would have loved to start all over." "Whoa." "Wow." "I'm very, very proud of this look." "It is truly a part of me." "Get it." "[Chuckles]" "She looks really sexy, and I would wear that dress, and if I saw that girl on the street, I would ask her where she got that dress." "And I feel really proud of it, because it's me." "I feel like I'm risking it a little bit, because it is, um, relatively simple." "But I really want the judges to be able to see the print." "Well, props to you, my friend." "Yeah, man." "We'll see if that's enough." "My look is inspired by my family." "It's got hard edges to it, but yet there's also some softness to it." "It looks like something that you could go in a store and pick up off the hanger." "I like it." "Oh, she's so California." "Oh, my God." "She is the California dream girl." "But, like, a classy one." "Not a trashy one." "She looks like a cool breeze." "She looks like she's enjoying herself and it feels relaxing." "You know, she looks like California, so I feel good with it." "As you know, fashion is subjective, and we had a lot of conflicting opinions." "So we're gonna talk to all of you today." "Wow." "One of you will be named the winner..." "And one of you will be out." "Let's bring out your models." "Gretchen, tell us about your print, your inspiration, and your look, please." "I grew up in the southwest, and the single most influential memory I have is my mother's sun bonnet in a necklace form." "And I wanted to use that to create a look that was different for me." "I like it." "I like the print." "I like the silhouette of both pieces." "I like the little detail that she has in the back of her pants." "That's the shape of the sun bonnet." "Mm-hmm." "I think the pants are great." "It's stretchy, black satin, skintight, more Olivia newton-john in grease than very Gretchen..." "Right." "But I think that the addition of that saddle-colored suede gave her a little earthiness." "So she's kind of disco-earthy..." "Right." "Which I think's a good thing for you." "I actually think you have a hard time there with how the print is placed." "I think that she looks a little like fried egg on the boob." "Maybe they're too big." "They're too spaced." "They could have been varied in size." "I would have had smaller ones..." "Yes, that's a great suggestion." "Bigger ones." "I like the motif very much, and" "I'm happy to see you try something that isn't about, you know, a Lady of the canyon, flowy moment." "Yeah, I like the print very much, but I'm really disappointed in this outfit from you, Gretchen." "I really expected more." "It's just fine, but it's not, "wow!"" "Okay." "I wrote down "almost,"" "because I think the print is almost there." "I think the outfit is almost there, but what I love about it is the earthiness and the rawness and how organic it is." "So almost." "Thanks." "Michael." "For my inspiration, I had to think of the evil eye that protects you from those who wish harm against you." "So you have an evil eye on there that I can see?" "There is and I have a magnified version for you." "And the darkness of the fabric comes from my family, because, you know, they're kind of crooked and they have a bunch of secrets." "I just had a little bit of fun with it." "You were smart enough to know that the print wasn't exactly a "wow," so you kind of sliced it up and you thought about how to design into it." "Unfortunately, she literally looks like she's wearing kind of a men's foulard, old-fashioned tie that kind of got belted and then cut off." "It makes it look funny like a joke." "I actually like that it is-- the shirt's open and she has a tie on." "I think that's actually pretty cool." "Yeah, the print could have-- maybe a little bit more punchy." "I would have styled it differently." "She has pumps that are in the same color as your piping." "Matchy-matchy is just not what's happening." "I mean, I'm telling you." "The wrong shoe, wrong hair, wrong makeup kills whatever else you're doing." "Absolutely." "You could have helped this outfit..." "Okay." "With the proper styling." "Christopher?" "I'm from California and there's been a water influence throughout my life, so when I was designing, I was thinking of something fluid." "I wanted it to look like movement in water and I was very happy with how it came together." "I don't necessarily see the waters in the print." "I love wearing off the shoulder." "I think it's a very flattering silhouette, but I almost feel like it's an afterthought." "I think these are fine clothes, but this is not fashion." "And this doesn't necessarily go only to you, but to some of the others." "I want to see outstanding clothes." "I want to see fashion here." "Okay." "I wrote, "nice, safe, boring. "" "I don't necessarily think that every time somebody is dressing, they need to be that loud voice of popping." "It's a show about design." "I'm not sitting here in my jeans and a t-shirt either." "No, I understand that." "That's not what this is about." "And the emotion that we're getting happens to be a very bored one." "The outfit is really what you'd have in the showroom to sell, but what would walk down the Runway would be something that would just take it further." "And that doesn't mean that it has to be, you know, a warrior woman with thigh-high boots and a whip." "It's just, you know, the last thing you want anyone to say was, "you know, it was nice." "It was nice. " Memorable." "Memorable." "And quiet can still be memorable." "Andy." "I wanted to focus on the emotion of just memories that fade in and out and what I used were these bubbles that are like bubbles of memories and I wanted to do something more relaxed than what you've seen from me." "I like your print." "I like that there's a painterly moment to it." "I think that the print itself is quite wearable." "I think it would look beautiful mixed with another print, but the outfit itself is just so odd and confusing and upsetting to me." "I just don't understand it." "With a girl wearing shorts this short, if anything, it should be sexy, and there's nothing sexy about her." "The emotion that I get from this print is a very sad one." "The emotion that I get from this design is a very sad one." "And I'm disappointed in you, of all people, because I have seen things from you that are very interesting." "So I don't understand." "What happened?" "You know, although I was really happy to see my mom, it brought back a lot of memory of people that I really miss, which is something that I kind of put away for now so that I could focus on what I was doing and" "really be in the right mindset." "And I was really scared to present this to you, because I know that it's very far from who" "I am and I know that." "Whether you are feeling emotional or not, the show must go on." "Correct." "Doesn't matter what's going on." "Mm-hmm." "I actually like the print." "There's something interesting about it." "What worries me here though is you've really dumbed yourself down and sent something out that's very banal." "Those pleats are very odd, what it does to her chest." "It looks like she has kind of sleeping eyes on her boobs." "The boobs being the eyes?" "Yeah, look." "She's got her eyes sad, shut." "She's got a long nose." "Oh, my gosh." "Forget that I see a face in it." "I think you were probably more excited to see your mom than you were by the challenge." "I hate to put salt into the wounds, but I really think it's unwearable." "You know, I'm not gonna lie." "I do admit that I got kind of lost with what was going on." "Um, it's not an excuse, but-- it shows." "Yeah." "April." "I was 13 when my parents got divorced, so I was a really emotional little girl, and the print represents a family tree and then kind of a self portrait of me torn between two sides and not knowing really who's right and who's wrong, so that" "was the inspiration." "As soon as the model turned the corner, I got this friction, the pulling, which I think is actually something that is pretty consistent in your best work." "I very much like the bodice and" "I like the idea of the print." "It's just the softness." "Looks like scraps of fabric just inadvertently tacked, but I do like the push and pull." "It is a connective thread in your work, and I think that that's so important." "I thought this was a very charming print." "I love the silhouette you chose." "The overall effect is very interesting." "Thank you." "Your print was my favorite." "I felt that it had the most unique voice." "I also liked your use of print." "Hiding it and showing it." "I liked that." "Can I see her sleeve, please?" "I loved how you put the tree up her arm and what that symbolizes." "Thank you." "April, this is also my favorite print." "I love that there's a story to it too." "I think that's great." "I agree with everyone else that this poofiness just doesn't make it flattering." "But otherwise, I think it's quite beautiful." "Thank you." "Valerie." "I really wanted to honor my father by creating something that is inspired by him and he's a home builder, so my textile is just all these lines juxtaposed to hint at the blueprint of a home, and I kind of wanted to" "create these shapes and these pieces that are structural and textured, but they also kind of equate a sense of familial unit." "Valerie, when we had the challenge to go to the party store, what did you design?" "The party glitter dress." "It's a black and white dress." "With a napkin?" "Yes." "I thought this looked familiar." "I definitely see a little bit of resemblance, but I feel like here, the shapes are just so different." "But they're still napkins." "I mean, the first thing I wrote down was, "napkin apron." Hmm." "When you're gonna manipulate fabric, it's wonderful to do it, but you want it to actually look beautiful on a woman..." "Right." "Yes." "And this looks literally like paper that you just went, "boosh!"" "I mean, you took all the life out of the fabric, and then the blue underslip or--what is that?" "The blue is, um, a wool knit and then there's also a cotton tulle over that." "An overlay to diffuse it a little bit." "It's an odd choice of fabrics to layer." "It's low-waisted on her, so it's rippling." "I mean, there's just nothing appealing about it." "Well, I'm--gosh." "I'm really sorry that you guys feel that way." "The overall effect of your design is very heavy." "I haven't seen the napkins before, so I like it and it's not redundant for me, but the blue coming out underneath is just so poorly attached and with so much going on, if you could just get the top just to fit" "just right and maybe simplify it, maybe the beauty of the fabric manipulation would have shown a little bit more." "Okay, thank you." "Mondo." "I used to take construction paper home and cut shapes out and make collages for my mother and paste them on the wall, so when she woke up, she had this collage of color." "And this print is also just symbolism for who I am now." "It's just very, very personal and it tells a story." "I wish I knew what the story was." "Mondo." "This print is symbolism for who I am now." "It's just very, very personal and it tells a story." "I wish I knew what the story was." "Um, you know what?" "It's terrific." "Thank you." "It looks really good." "This does say fashion to me." "I love the way that you're not scared of mixing prints or colors." "I think she looks sharp." "I think those pants look great." "They're a tad high-waisted, but she looks phenomenal." "Thank you." "You know, this fabric and color and pattern mix is really something that you excel at." "There's a sharpness to it and it has Joy." "Can I see it without the jacket?" "Oh." "She looks fabulous just bare." "Thank you." "I love the pant." "I love the fit." "It's something that I personally would love to wear and I think you've styled her beautifully." "The one thing that holds me up is the inspiration." "So things that he's been through in his life, and yet, the print that you created is so kind of perfect, and I would assume that no one's life is perfect, so that just mentally got me kind" "of started off on the wrong foot." "So just in the future, as you're thinking of inspiration, think of it with the garment in mind." "Okay, thank you." "I think it's great." "Thank you." "It is so well put together in a kind of kooky way." "They make a statement." "And it's editorial." "I mean, if I had to shoot something, that would be it." "Cool." "Nina..." "Uh, you asked me what my story was and, um..." "The symbolism in the pant actually are, um--these pluses are positive signs..." "And I've been HIV-positive for ten years." "And when I saw these pictures of my family, it brought back a lot of emotion, and so I wanted to pull from the past, but I also wanted to give something back of who I am now..." "And that I've been so scared of and hiding from, and that's just-- that's the story." "Thank you for sharing that with us, Mondo." "That was very brave of you." "Thank you." "I--you know..." "I feel a lot better." "I feel free." "We love you." "Okay." "We've heard what you had to say." "Gonna have a little chat and then I'll call you back on the" "Runway." "Good job, man." "Yeah, way to go, man." "Thanks." "I feel really grateful to have been able to be here and take part in you opening up the way you did." "You know, I wasn't planning on saying anything." "I've been holding on to this for such a long time, and you know what?" "I just felt like that was the moment that I could just tell everybody and, uh..." "Maybe help somebody else that's in the same situation, so..." "It was funny when Nina said, "I wish I knew the story, " you know, 'cause I was really kind of just avoiding it, you know?" "I held this secret for ten years of my life and it came out..." "On that Runway because that's the time it was supposed to be revealed." "I really feel like somebody was guiding me and I was supposed to speak." "At that moment..." "I was free." "After my critique, you know, I had to." "It was like, "all right, you have to do this or you're never going to get this out. "" "Do you feel like you feel better?" "I feel so good." "I can tell." "I feel so good." "Good." "Well, we love you for it." "Maybe I'll start being nicer." "Thank God!" "[Laughter] I think, overall, this was a very emotional challenge for a lot of them." "Totally, very personal." "Rachel, which one was the worst one?" "The worst?" "Um..." "Go right to it." "Oh, well, yeah, the go-go dancer." "Andy." "Andy's was very sad." "Andy's is unwearable." "I just can't imagine he would actually put that down the" "Runway." "You couldn't have cut a more unflattering blouse." "Right." "Well, I don't think he does wearable well." "Wearable's not his thing." "But the print is not bad." "Had he used that print in another silhouette, it could have been beautiful." "Unfortunately, today, it sounds like he just basically fell apart." "Yeah." "Yes." "I mean, he fell apart." "But you can't fall apart, like, so close to the end." "I always say, "fashion is not for sissies. "" "I mean, you know, you've got to be tough." "You know, everyone's like, "oh, fashn, " you know?" ""Oh, God," you know?" "It's like, "hello!"" "You know, you've got to, like, produce no matter what." "Valerie's, for me, was the worst one." "There's nothing interesting about the print." "Nothing interesting." "It's just so bland." "I think the bodice on the top was ill-fitting." "Looked like a bad ice skating costume, and the blue at the hem drove me crazy." "See, but, you know-- at least she had some fabric manipulation and some design to it, where some people didn't even have that." "But I just feel like Valerie copped out and did something that she had already done." "Right." "If it's something that you're gonna repeat over and over again-- stand for it and do it well." "What about the boredom here on the others?" "Christopher?" "Oh!" "The pants were so beyond basic." "I didn't really love the color combination, and then I agree with you about that off-the-shoulder blouse." "Off-the-shoulder should be so easy and simple, so put a new voice into it." "The only thing is though, he knows how to sew." "But does he sew very, um, unmodern pieces?" "You know, they're unmemorable." "I mean, do we remember it?" "Do you remember anything maybe?" "No." "I can't remember." "That's a problem then." "Let's talk about Michael." "Of all the wonderful prints that you could create, that's what you create." "Then you give us a dress that, quite honestly, is this odd mix of, like, tie, vest, weird thing." "I like that though." "I do too, but not if you're dressed up as a country club matron." "She's Annie hall going to the country club." "Years ago." "Old-fashioned styling." "Old-fashioned." "The three who I think really did the best job, all three of their prints were very personal." "Mmm." "Mm-hmm." "You know, I look at Gretchen." "I really liked the idea of her print." "And the colors were joyful, weren't they?" "Yeah." "I definitely like the vibe of the print." "She looked great." "I was a little disappointed." "It wasn't enough from her." "It wasn't from-- no, it wasn't." "She can do more, but hands-down, she's the best stylist." "April's print is beautiful." "I liked how she used the print also." "Yes, her placement was perfect for the design." "I very much like the bodice." "It's--the silhouette is very beautiful." "It feels very geometric." "She always seems really unhappy when she stands there too." "But, you know, there are a lot of tortured Designers that come up with beautiful things." "Exactly." "But I like the idea of it and I like the print." "You know, then Mondo, I actually loved the mix of prints that he dealt with, and I think the cut on the trousers is fabulous." "I agree." "The choice of fabrics was fabulous." "And I think it's actually photographical and wearable." "It looks smart." "It looks chic." "It looks fashion." "Then we find out what, in fact, he's basing this print on, and when you look at these trousers, they come off as very joyous." "Yes." "And he's taking something that could really be an incredibly difficult situation and he's saying, "no." "You know what?" "I'm gonna find the positive in this. "" "The message was great." "And that's something we want to believe in, yeah." "Everyone in life, regardless of what you do, you're gonna have difficult moments." "And I think he showed us today he's gonna work with the difficulties in his life and not let them stop him." "Right." "If anything, they're gonna propel him." "It gives me chills, and he will inspire people watching him through his design." "Yeah." "Okay, let's bring them back out." "One of you will be named the winner..." "And one of you will be out." "One of you will be named the winner..." "And one of you will be out." "April, great job." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Thanks." "Mondo, you went for it with the joyful print, and we responded to it." "It was smart, chic, and beautifully put together." "Thank you." "You worked with a difficult inspiration, and instead of giving us sad, you gave us something gorgeous." "Congratulations." "You're the winner of this challenge..." "Yet again." "Thank you." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Congratulations." "I'm so proud of you." "You did such a good job." "Oh, my God." "This is amazing." "I don't know what to think." "You deserve it." "You're such a strong person." "Wow." "I'm revealing this dark secret, this thing that has been haunting me for such a long time now." "That definitely takes the prize, you know?" "And winning the challenge is just-- it just feels good." "It's--oh, man." "It's overwhelming, you know?" "I'm so grateful for this whole experience, you know?" "Yeah." "It's, like--it's just like" "I'm so, so happy." "I'm not crying because I'm sad at all." "Yeah." "Oh." "Gretchen..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Michael..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Christopher..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Hey, Christopher." "Andy, Valerie, one of you will be out." "Andy, we liked your print." "It had depth and it was interesting." "But your look confused us." "You admit that you lost your way and it showed." "Valerie, your outfit looked like two bad dresses glued together." "The print itself was sad." "The dress was a repetition of something that we've seen before from you." "Andy..." "You're in." "Thank you." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Good job." "[Indistinct] All right." "Thanks." "I'm sorry, Valerie, that means you're out." "Auf wiedersehen." "Hastaluego." "Bye, senorita." "{y:i}Ciao." "I was very proud of my garment." "Don't say a word, okay?" "I made it well." "I worked hard on it." "It was what I wanted it to be, and I know I honored my father." "I don't have my family near me." "I rarely get to see them all together at one time, and I really felt like a family with you guys." "And I get to create with my family, which never happens, you know?" "So, um, Christopher, your stuff is wonderful." "I would wear your stuff." "You are such a beautiful, kind person and I really valued you." "And, Andy, you are so funny, and your technical level, it just blows me away." "Michael, I'm really glad you came out of your Shell." "I'm really glad that people have been able to gel with you, 'cause I was worried." "Sorry if I was ever unkind to you in the beginning." "I misjudged you." "Um, and, Gretchen, I've been your roommate since the beginning and it's been so much fun, and even though we're so different, it's been fantastic getting to know you." "I think you're gonna go really, really far." "Mondo..." "I love the way you design with reckless abandon, and it inspires me to want to do more." "Your courage and your bravery and your circumstances just bewilder me." "I really think you are a wonder." "I wish you all the best." "Thank you." "You better make it to fashion week for me." "Okay." "And, April, you're just such a helpful, kind person underneath all that, like, badass exterior." "[Laughter]" "And, um, I'll be the first to say that I really underestimated you in the beginning because of your age and shame on me for it, because you are so skilled." "Thank you." "You guys are all worth your weight in gold." "You too, Valerie." "Thanks." "Hi, Tim." "I know emotions are running high." "I know." "Thank you." "You know, I just have to tell you, your qualities of character are extraordinary..." "Thanks." "And you have a huge heart and we love you." "Thank you." "And I trust we're going to hear more from you." "Yes, of course." "How could you not?" "[Laughter] So I have to send you to the work room to clean up your space, all right?" "Say good-bye, everybody." "Being able to be here with people that inspire me that I can design with and work alongside?" "That never happens." "Always stay luxurious." "Of course, girl." "So saying good-bye to them is the most difficult thing I think i've had to do." "[Indistinct]" "Keep on going, girl." "I love you guys." "Take care." "Bye." "Bye, Valerie." "Bye, Tim." "I've never laughed so much or cried so hard or been so stressed or had such a crazy good time all in one experience." "No one can take that away from me." "This is locked forever in the vortex of memory for all who see it and all who lived it." "Mondo, I feel so proud and..." "Proud of what you said on the Runway." "Thank you." "Thank you, Tim." "Thank you." "I will admit I'm scared to go home and tell my family, but it'll happen." "This is my life and I have things to do." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Listen." "Congratulations to everybody for still being here, all right?" "Yeah!" "We move onward." "The final six." "Final six." "Next time on project" "Runway..." "For your next challenge, I will be your client." "Hi, everybody." "I'm nervous." "I don't like Heidi in the work room." "This could be a hard one." "I want to win, so if this is a major concern, it's out." "Get it out of here." "There's no reason for you to be rude." "I am not being rude." "Really?" "I got here for a reason." "Drama out the wazoo." "It's so pathetic." "Designers, I hear that there is an accusation about cheating." "This looks like a pajama party." "These clothes look so cheap." "Ugh!" "It hurt my eyes a little bit." "Visit mylifetime." "Com to learn more about the fashion you've seen on tonight's show."