"Previously on Project Runway..." "I am honored to be standing in front of photographs of" "Jacqueline Kennedy, how is Mondo?" "I'm just going back and forth between two different ideas." "Do you feel strong enough to stand up on that Runway for it?" "I-I really like it." "If they're gonna send me home, they're gonna send me home on something that I believe in." "I'm surprised that this is what you have to deliver." "I feel like I'm on a different planet." "It has no impact at all." "It's just sad looking." "Well, I wanted to keep it really simple." "Simple doesn't mean boring." "They were, like, in bad moods today, man." "Mondo, you are the clear winner of this challenge." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "Michael, I'm sorry, that means 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 vision and run their business, and the opportunity to design" "and sell an exclusive collection on piperlime. com." "fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine and $25,000 from" "L'Oreal Paris Studio Secrets Professional." "Project Runway 8x09 Race to the Finish Original Air Date on September 23,2010" "Another big day." "Another one bites the dust." "Michael D. was a presence that was very light." "Not having him there makes this feel more like a competition." "Where you going now?" "Dude, we got to move into the other room today." "I decided not to go." "I'm staying." "So Christopher Collins and I have to move in with Andy and Michael costello, which should be very interesting." "Yeah, interesting." "You know, I'm not even gonna give in to the judges anymore." "I'm gonna just, you know, design the best designs I can make." "Valerie was really broken by being on the bottom." "And I just hope she can overcome this." "Ivy's my best friend here." "She's a good designer and she's passionate about what she does." "People might think she's opinionated." "At the end of the day, she is a really great person." "Hi, guys." "Sorry for barging in." "We're the new roommates." "It's been just Michael costello and myself in our room for a while now." "I really enjoy Mondo and" "Christopher." "It's nice to have people that I can trust." "Okay, let's go." "We should do, like, a thing before we leave now." "Like, a powwow thing, you know." "Come on." "Hello." "Hi." "I'm going to let Tim fill you in on all of the details for your next challenge." "But I will give you a little hint." "If you win the next challenge, you will be taking home a big chunk of change." "Good luck and I'll see you all on the Runway." "Bye." "Good morning, designers." "I am delighted to introduce" "Collier strong, consulting makeup artist for L'Oreal Paris." "Collier is here to work with you on the makeup aspect of your head-to-toe look for this challenge." "Hi, everyone." "Morning." "For this challenge, you will be designing a high fashion look that will appear in a" "L'Oreal Paris advertorial." "When I say high fashion, I'm referring to something that would be perfectly at home in" "Paris couture week." "In other words, a serious, wow moment." "To get the l'oreal advert, this is huge." "Millions and millions of women will be seeing this ad." "My dress to be featured in it..." "I like this challenge." "You can really do something over the top." "That's who I am." "This advertorial will appear in Marie Claire magazine and the winner of this challenge will receive something unprecedented." "$20,000." "What?" "From L'Oreal Paris." "$20,000." "I haven't made over" "$12,000 a year." "And to win $20,000, wow, that's amazing." "Ivy, you look stricken." "I almost started crying." "Right now, I'm struggling just to live." "So the $20,000 win would be amazing." "Exciting, yes?" "Yeah." "Wow." "This advertorial not only features your design, but it also features I'oreal's studio secret eye shadow duos." "They come in five fantastic" "Metallic, crystal, bright, matte, and velvet." "So the point of departure for this challenge is to use one of the studio secrets finishes for your inspiration." "So the challenge today is to create a high fashion, couture look that incorporates one of those eye shadow combinations." "And considering that there's a $20,000 incentive, risking big could come with big payoff." "I will say this about velvet, unless you're really adept at using it, it's very difficult." "And, Mondo, you won the last challenge so you get to choose first." "I am going to pick bright." "I'm gonna choose the next designer from our velvet bag." "And that designer is Christopher." "I'm going with crystal." "I chose crystal because I think a woman that's wearing my clothes is probably wearing diamonds." "April." "Matte." "Michael." "Love me some metallic." "Ivy." "Bright." "I don't want the judges to think that I'm only capable of using muted colors." "And I really don't think that a muted color would read well as an advertorial." "Valerie." "Crystal." "Gretchen." "I'm gonna take a serious risk and go velvet." "Velvet to me is risky, which is right up my alley." "I think it's a boring fabric and Gretchen designs boring clothes." "So it'll work perfect." "Andy." "I will go with metallic." "All right." "So after you come up with your design, I'll meet with each of you individually and we'll come up with a great look that'll really highlight and bring your design to life." "Way cool." "You will have 30 minutes to sketch, then we're going shopping at mood, where you'll have a budget of $300." "Wow." "Yeah." "We have $300 to shop at mood." "But we also have to do a pretty big look." "More money means more work." "And you have two days for this challenge." "Yes." "Finally." "So sketch away and I'll come back for you in 30 minutes." "Good luck." "Off we go." "Thank you." "Bye." "I feel like what the judges-- they're looking for now is, can we be true designers?" "We all are going to have to step it up." "Looking at the l'oreal makeup, I am going to go very literal and do something bright." "I'm basing my design on a kaleidoscope." "When I think of the word bright, Hawaii comes to mind." "And I am designing this very beautiful electric blue gown." "I'm going to create waves on it." "I'm thinking big kimono sleeves." "I want to do a wrap that has kind of a plunging neckline." "I don't want to stray too far from, like, the elements that the judges know me for." "All right, everyone, let's head off to mood." "All right, designers, you have your $300 budget and you have 30 minutes to shop." "Be strategic." "And, swatch, yes, you can be part of this." "All right, everyone, your time starts now." "How much is this per yard?" "I thought of doing an evening gown, so I'm looking for flow-y and fine fabrics." "Eew." "I just, like, tried to get a whole bunch of materials that I'm attracted to." "I mean, who wants to play with a box of crayons with one color?" "Ooh, it's traffic jam" "I wanted teal." "This time going in, I knew what textiles I was looking for." "The only thing I was very concerned about is the color." "Thank you." "Everyone, that's it." "Time is up." "Come on, everyone." "Let's go back to parsons." "Thank you, mood." "Bye, swatch." "The concept behind my girl is that she's, like, a modern, but futuristic type of warrior girl." "Definitely a hard look, though." "I'm excited to see it." "We'll see." "Two days." "Two days." "When Tim said that there was a two-day challenge, a lot of people were, like, "oh." "Let's just lean the chair back, take our time, just cruise through it. " I want to get knocked out because you never know." "♪ I'm so excited ♪ oh, why did I pick silk?" "Cutting silk is hard." "Sewing silk is hard." "Finishing silk is really hard." "I think that I'm a very good designer and I really need to showcase what I'm capable of doing." "I'm going to have to do a lot of hand pleating, so I'm just hoping that I get everything done on time." "I'm not really paying attention to any of the other designers because I am so focused on trying to get my stuff done." "But I know who has issues." "Ooh, is this all yours, Gretchen?" "This pink tool?" "No, that's Michael c's." "Okay." "Oh." "Hmm." "You using those colors too?" "Those are my colors and he's using them as well." "Did you show him your sketch, girl?" "Seeing Michael c." "With colors that I've used in this challenge frustrates me a little bit because this is a competition about who you are as a designer." "I don't know what it is about" "Gretchen and I that we're both very addicted to this bordeaux whatever-you-call-it color." "Wow." "I love that color." "I'm guilty." "I'm gonna do it better than she can." "I don't feel threatened by him." "I'm just insulted that maybe some boundaries were crossed." "It's cool, though,'cause mine looks good." "I love this color." "Ugh." "Somehow I've created a monster." "Coming up on" "Project Runway..." "This could be one of my strongest pieces." "That's the ripple of the wave." "And then that's the waters crashing." "No." "I have to start this whole bodice over." "I'm basically." "What is that color?" "I don't know what I would call that." "Like, lavender?" "Michael c." "Replicates." "I don't see a point of view in his work." "I see other people's point of views." "Hey, I think that your color palette may be similar." "But what you're doing is..." "Worlds apart?" "But what's his is his and what's mine is mine and I gotta let go." "I still have to figure out what the I'm doing with this skirt." "I don't know." "The challenge today is hard because it's create the most complex work you have to date." "And create something that complements these eye shadow duos." "Whew." "That's a lot of pressure." "Hi." "Hey." "The makeup finish that I picked was metallic." "Uh-huh." "The concept behind this is kind of a futuristic warrior woman." "Almost like war paint." "Uh-huh." "I think that looks great." "I want to give the illusion of a really dramatic cat eye almost." "We can turn her into anything we want." "I like the idea of keeping" "Cassie pale because I don't want her to look like a regular human being." "I kind of want her to look like a hybrid." "I'm using this infallible." "Makes it really dramatic." "That's perfect." "Looks really good." "All right?" "Good luck." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Here's the pink, and then the yellow, and the blue will be draped out of all these colors." "So you're not afraid of color?" "Not at all." "I love this." "I do like to do overboard stuff with my styling." "So here's my opportunity." "I think it's so fun." "So you were the brave one that picked velvet." "I took the velvet." "It's gonna be good or bad." "We'll use double extend lash boosting mascara." "The makeup is here to take my look over the top." "I love it." "It's perfect." "I think it's great." "I'm so glad I got to talk to you." "So I'm doing blue on blue." "See, like, how great-- oh, my God!" "It's perfect." "Uh-huh." "So I'm using the darker of this duo..." "Okay." "Which is called "showy."" "You're not just selling your dress so you want to be conscientious that the entire look fits well together and it tells a story." "I think it's beautiful." "It's gorgeous." "Good luck." "Thank you, Collier." "How is everyone?" "Good." "I'm here to check in with you and see what you're doing." "How's Valerie?" "I'm doing all right." "So tell me what you're doing." "So what I want to do is I'm gonna do a shoulder that's raised over the shoulder." "And then these pieces are all biased strips." "It's gonna be very structural." "And you have crystal." "And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut them off the chain and hand-sew them." "Valerie's does not look avant-garde." "I can't see that on a Paris Runway." "This is incredibly ambitious." "This could be one of my strongest pieces." "I'm really hoping this will redeem me from the last challenge." "I'm gonna let you get to work." "Thank you, Tim." "My concept was kind of thinking about kaleidoscopes." "Hmm." "So this is what I'm coming up with so far." "I think my toughest competition are Gretchen and" "Mondo." "Go big." "Be you." "Thank you, Tim." "And possibly April." "I don't want to do an evening gown." "I don't want you to do an evening gown." "It's not you." "Yeah." "I feel like April has maintained who she is and she's been doing really well." "I have some ideas." "I believe in you." "Okay." "So I have to come out on top of one of these last challenges because I've been in the bottom way too many times." "I feel like coming out of last--the last challenge, I feel like a fighter in me has been awakened." "Good." "And that's kind of what's coming out of my designs." "I'm on the fence about" "Andy's." "It's kind of, like, "wow."" "But then it's, like, "well..." He's literally making a warrior costume." "Are you taking it far enough?" "I don't know." "So think about that." "Thank you, Tim." "Initially, I thought very kimono or, like, caftan-y." "Right now, it's looking very much like a robe." "Really?" "Yeah." "Ah!" "Okay." "Gretchen..." "Oh, my God." "I don't like what she's doing." "When I think of bright, I think of a day at the beach." "So how are you using the strips?" "That's the ripple of the wave and then that's the waters crashing." "No." "This is when it's getting too literal." "Okay." "Keep your critical eye on it so that it doesn't become a pageant gown." "It could go pageant very easily." "Thank you, Ivy." "Thank you, Tim." "Did you hear Tim and mine?" "He was, like, "I really think this challenge is going to solidify some people's futures. "" "Probably." "In the challenge, in that if you don't..." "Show a show?" "Do a wow, why would they let to go to fashion week?" "We have to work hard, girl." "Mm-hmm." "I really believe in my heart that I'm supposed to be at fashion week and I believe in my heart that you're supposed to be there too so..." "I hope so." "We gotta do it." "I really hope so." "Yeah." "I have to go." "I have to pee." "Team." "Go team." "Is anybody else worried about time?" "Kind of, yeah." "Have you sewn anything yet, though?" "Not a piece." "Hey, what's up?" "I have a lot of work to do, girl, a lot." "Go ahead." "Walk for me." "Oh, wow." "It's beautiful." "A lot of the other designers are still working in the muslin and they have nothing for try-on." "15?" "Waah!" "I'm ready for this fitting." "I likey." "It's chic." "When Cassie comes in, I have to fit her head..." "For a skullcap to do my headpiece." "Yay." "Is that tight enough?" "Uh, a little loose." "A little loose?" "The bodice is huge." "Let me take some measurements." "I've been worried about eyen being substantially smaller than my size 6 form." "But she's my muse." "I'm just being loyal." "Bye." "Bye." "Bye." "I have taken it in so much that it t looks like crap." "I tried to salvage as much as i can of the original bodice." "It's, like, ruining the entire shape. ." "Did you--so what happened when you fit her?" "It didn't have the boning or the face in it." "And I tried to put in the boning face in it and..." "It was not working it at all." "It's 11:00 at night." "And..." "I have to start this whole bodice over." "I wasted 12 hours on this avant-garde look." "And now I'm basically." "Coming up on Project Runway..." "Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me." "You can't forfeit." "I just lost a day and a half of work." "Val?" "Designers, can I have your attention, please?" "Oh, my God." "Even I'm shaking over this." "We couldn't open our eyes this morning." "I think it's that we got four, five hours of sleep." "I think it's the exhaustion, girl." "We're worked to the core." "We're creatively, emotionally, physically spent." "Kind of nervous 'cause I've got a lot to do." "Well, if you get up and get crackin'..." "Are you still worried?" "Would you be worried if you..." "I would be." "Lost an entire day of work." "I've already dropped the ball on this challenge." "I'm way behind." "And I'm freaking out." "Let's go." "♪ On my way ♪" "♪ to the mothertop ♪ that weally bad." "I need a red bull." "Got to get this done." "What are you doing right now?" "Are you gonna bead or what?" "I have three more pieces of my skirting to finish up and then I'm gonna bead onto this." "Well, get cracking." "It's nice to have two days." "I feel like I can actually execute things absolutely perfectly." "We had a bigger budget." "We have more time." "It means we have more fabric, which means we can really take it to the next level." "Such a fine line of, like, don't do the expected but still be you." "I'm afraid they're gonna say mine's, like, not enough." "'Cause I might have to edit some stuff out and I don't want to." "I'm not going to." "I'm just gonna go full tilt on this one, honey." "Even though she does walk down in panties and a bustier, girl." "Would they let her?" "Designers, I want you to know, on the one hand, I am loath to present what I'm about to present." "On the other hand, I sincerely believe it will help each of you." "Oh, my God." "You are currently designing a high fashion Runway look." "There are very few if any designers who can sustain a brand based on this genre of work." "Great." "Rather, they build their brand based on ready-to-wear collections." "So for this challenge, you will be creating a second look." "This look is to be a ready-to-wear companion to your high fashion Runway look." "This is terrible." "You will have 15 minutes to sketch." "Then we're going shopping at mood where you'll have a budget of $100." "You will have until midnight tonight and the usual amount of time in the morning to complete both works." "So this means you need to run, not walk." "Even I'm shaking over this." "I think I'm gonna pee my pants." "It's just so much to slam into one more day." "I mean, really." "Your sketching time begins now and I will return." "I'm so stressed." "Thank you." "I can't believe this." "I can." "I'm in a good place." "There are several people that aren't in a good place." "Ivy still has a ton of things to do." "Valerie still has a ton of things to do." "Gretchen thinks she's gonna hand-bead the whole back of that dress." "Mondo has to redo his whole top." "I mean, there's a lot of people that are sweating in there." "Oh, my gosh." "Okay." "I'm trying not to freak out." "What do I need?" "Well, my game plan now is probably going to..." "I don't know." "My ready-to-wear a look, I'm gonna adapt it from the patterns I've already drafted because I really have no time to create another set of patterns." "I'm just hoping that my speedy sewing abilities will definitely be beneficial to me at this point." "I believe in myself." "I can do it." "All right, designers, let's go to mood." "You have 15 minutes." "Go!" "Go, go, go." "It's a good thing I have long legs and I run a lot 'cause mood is a workout." "Can I get some help?" "It's exactly what I need." "Hello!" "You know, I'm just thinking" ""stretch fabric." I need, um, two yards of that stripe." "Six yards of that." "Oh, this is the one yesterday?" "Yes, same thing." "My plan of attack is to just get the same fabric that I got yesterday." "Surgical stripe." "Yeah." "A yard, please." "Designers, you have five minutes." "Um, you had anything a little thinner with a better drape?" "I am moving like a snail." "Where's the black ones?" "I'm a little overwhelmed." "Yeah?" "Yeah, I'm a little freaked out." "All right, everyone, time is up." "You need to be at the counter." "Andy, where are you?" "There he is." "Time's up." "Living the good life, swatch." "Don't have to make any dresses today, do you?" "This is crazy." "I'm gonna need five friends today." "I'm gonna try not to cut corners, but I am making it easier." "Like, and originally, I was hand-embroidering the lace on." "Pshoo." "Forget that." "I am very ahead of the game." "I'm really not worried with timing at all." "Two looks, 20 grand." "It's huge." "Andy, what would you do with 20 grand?" "It'll probably go towards..." "Debt?" "Some of it." "Yeah." "I hope I win because $20,000 would not only help me pay off my student loans, but I could also get a miniature pony." "I want a Miniature pony so bad." "I want credit card companies to stop calling me." "I've been so poor for so long it's funny to think 20 grand would change everything." "But it literally would change everything." "What about you?" "I need some drinking money, man." "$20,000 is definitely leaving some money signs in some of the designers' eyes." "And I think that might blindside them a little bit." "So hopefully they'll drop the ball and, uh," "Go home." "You know what, my second look is just gonna be ready-to-wear off the rack even if it's the clearance rack." "I just need to get it done." "Damn it." "Oh, did I just really do that?" "I just did, didn't I?" "How is everyone?" "Eh." "Eh?" "I've seen better days." "Talk to me." "The bodice looks okay." "It--it doesn't--I mean, I had to put a lot of layering in it and boning for the construction." "But I just don't feel confident sending this down the Runway, Tim." "But you have to send two looks down the Runway." "So like it or not, fake it." "Well, I think that's my hardest thing is that, like, if I'm going to be slated on the" "Runway for something that I'm not wild about..." "You can't forfeit." "Forget about your original design." "Make this work." "Right." "Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me." "This is an issue that every designer faces." "You have a vision." "You don't want to compromise it." "Right." "You don't have the time." "So you're now released from it." "Okay." "All right, Valerie." "You can do it." "Thank you." "I had just lost a day and a half of work." "I sewed things that I really wouldn't use." "I wasted time." "Val?" "What's wrong?" "I've--I just spent, like, the entire two days cutting on all that For nothing." "I just don't want to make an ass of myself." "Like, I don't want to have to defend something that..." "You don't love?" "That--well, not even that I don't love, that I don't like." "Coming up on" "Project Runway..." "Oh, I need you to take it off." "I'm freaking out right now." "This is major, major." "Crossing my fingers on this one." "I think you're just exhausted." "I am so exhausted." "We're all exhausted." "I've been bottling it up all day." "I really felt loved that they came to talk with me and see how" "I was doing." "They didn't have to come in and talk to me 'cause they had other things to do too." "My work is better than this." "Like, I've done evening wear, women that go to the cannes film festival." "Valerie tends to complain a lot." "I understand that she's going through a rough patch right now, but we all are." "We just deal with it differently." "And, ugh, it's just very wearying." "It's just so frustrating when you spend all that time working on everything, and, like, you had this idea of this, like, beautiful thing that you were gonna make, and then everything just falls to pot." "Like, it just blows." "So I have to start over, get my head in the game, stop talking, and focus." "So who's gonna wear this second look?" "One of the other eight models that got eliminated." "Oh, gosh." "Oh, there she is." "Hi." "How are you?" "So it's just a really simple Jersey dress." "Okay, cool." "How's it going?" "I'm--I'm almost--I've kind of been--um, yesterday I was finished." "You what?" "Oh,." "My fitting is going horrendously." "The measurements that I got for the model are smaller than her actual measurements." "So I'm really, really freaked out." "Do you want me to take my bra off?" "Yeah, could you?" "Okay, models, see you later." "It was nice seeing you." "Bye, model!" "Ah." "The end of the second day, I'm really worried." "I don't even have my dress done for the couture look." "I'm just really, really hoping and praying that I can finish and execute it in the two hours that we have the next day." "Let's go home." "♪ Wow wow ♪" "I'm feeling pretty nervous." "Yeah, I'm nervous about my crystals." "I've got to crystal my whole dress." "Yeah, but at least you have a dress finished." "I just feel like I definitely bit off more than I can chew." "I'm just hoping to try and get it together." "What about you, Valerie?" "I just have to put crystals on, which I think might take a while, though." "I'm over feeling sad about what's gonna happen." "So I'm just trusting that I'm a good designer despite my flaws." "Has Valerie had, like, an emotional crisis yet?" "Oh, yeah, Valerie freaking out." "I saw her black dress, ready-to-wear, and it's..." "Black." "Is it nice?" "Is it black?" "Well, the thing is, like, she always-- is it wool?" "It's wool, girl." "It's always wool." "I think this might be the week that they get tired of it, I think, though." "I think Valerie just ran out of time and just had to get something done." "And same for Ivy." "I think that's kind of what's gonna get them in the end." "Well, guys, it's time to hit the Runway." "Let's go." "Single file." "Let's do this." "It's gonna be a long one, girl." "There's a lot to do." "This is major, major." "I am going to have to time management myself like crazy." "That's just the name of the game and, uh, I don't want to lose." "This morning, I'm thinking, like, how long is it gonna take me to do the jacket and then to do the headpiece so it looks finished and well-made, but still huge?" "And that's kind of Scary." "Good morning, designers." "Good morning, Tim." "Good morning." "All right, you know the drill." "You have two hours to send your models to the L'Oreal Paris makeup room and the garnier hair salon." "Please use the piperlime accessory wall very thoughtfully, okay?" "Thanks, everyone." "Thanks, Tim." "Thank you." "I still have a lot of work to do." "And I'm nervous because my stuff is really different than everyone else's in the room." "That velvet dress with beige feathers looked dated and old, and just dreadful." "Oh, thank God." "Oh, how are you?" "Mm!" "I'm just finishing your dress." "Back up this way." "Michael c's train is just like trouble." "Trouble." "Trouble." "It's so stiff and rigid." "It just seems weird to me." "Hey, Scott." "Hi." "Hey, Ivy." "How you doing?" "So I'm really excited." "The finish, I had this metallic." "So just a little bronze around her eye." "Yes." "Maybe just, like, a soft little bit of light on the eye." "We're doing Audrey hepburn via my fair lady and breakfast at Tiffany's." "Alien without being green alien, but, like, abnormal." "Beautiful." "Yeah." "We're gonna accentuate the eyes a little bit more, right?" "Okay, perfect." "Have fun, girls." "Be good." "I'm gonna get a report." "Could she have a lot going on right here?" "I want it to be messy." "Yes, it's beautiful." "Love, love, love, love, love." "There's gonna be two of these going like that." "Cool." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "No." "Designers, in ten minutes, you and your models and I are going down to the Runway, all right?" "Ten minutes." "Thank you." "I'm freaking out right now." "I need to make sure that I get the dresses on, put the mod]Ls in them, and send them down the" "Runway." "Oh, I need you to take it off." "I think sometimes when you're under a lot of stress, you, uh, do your best work." "So crossing my fingers on this one." "Oh, my God, this is so not normal." "Designers and models, we are going down to the Runway, everyone." "So please follow me, all right?" "Go ahead, girls, go." "Just go." "The construction is completely a disaster." "So I'm hoping that I just get by on this one." "Whoop!" "Tim, I had some shoes set aside for my model for her dress." "Mm-hmm." "Let's just leave." "Uh..." "Coming up on" "Project Runway..." "I mean, she looks like miss Guatemala." "You have to choose either boobs or legs." "The dress is like a Xanax." "It's a disaster." "This was tragic." "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 big stakes for this challenge." "The designer who wins tonight will receive $20,000..." "And will also have their design featured in a L'Oreal Paris advertorial." "We asked you create a high fashion Runway look that will really wow us." "And then just to keep you on your toes again, we threw in a ready-to-wear look." "All right, let's meet the judges." "First we have cfda lifetime achievement award winner Michael kors." "Hey, guys." "Fashion director for" "Marie Claire magazine, Nina Garcia." "Hi, everyone." "And guest judge, American fashion designer, who dresses many celebrities including the first Lady, Michelle Obama, naeem Khan." "Hello, 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." "Okay, let's start the show." "♪ ♪ when millana walks out on the" "Runway, I feel that I definitely accomplish the challenge in a way that is new, and innovative, and still true to who I am." "And I think it looks beautiful." "And it's definitely high fashion." "When the ready-to-wear look follows it, I'm so proud of myself." "I couldn't ask for anything better." "And I feel like it's really reminiscent of who I am as a designer." "Her makeup's really pretty." "Mm-hmm." "I think I got a lot of work done in such a short amount of time that I'm pretty amazed that it looks so good." "I am definitely proud of this look just because I accomplished everything that I wanted too." "So the ready-to-wear look is coming down the Runway and my model hasn't looked better." "I feel like I really, uh, nailed it." "I'm happy that it's kind of the look that I was going for." "But I mean, it's definitely still true to me." "And I'm still happy with it" "I still think it looks very beautiful." "Pretty." "Oh, what a beautiful color." "Overall I think I'm safe I don't know if I'll win this one, but I thinking that I'm safe at this point." "I'm overall very happy with the dress." "I love it." "My model she looks gorgeous." "I'm kinda glancing over at the judges right now, and sure enough Nina Garcia is looking at that train, and she's like" ""what the hell is this?"" "Wow...." "She looks hot." "She is stun gun." "And then here comes my ready-to-wear look." "I think it looks so cool." "It's the mini-me version of my, you know, couture look." "I feel really great seeing my pieces on the Runway." "Rose is happy." "I'm proud of her." "This week for how she's pulling off this dress." "She looks very smooth." "Ify is confodent and strong so..." "It looks great and I like the styling" "I like, I like the concept." "I'm very happy with it." "Yeah." "Nice." "What I'm noticing, really, is the styling." "I just feel like it's a little not me." "I'm not in love with the hair." "But the dress is so pretty." "It is probably the best work I've ever done." "Watching kaven come down the Runway, I think it looks good." "I feel like I've done the best job I can." "Ooh, I love the side slit action." "Holla." "I look at her gown on the Runway." "It kind of reminds me a little bit of an angel with the missing wing or rainbow brite on crack." "You know, I'm glad it's finished." "It's a finished look." "You know what, I'm human." "And hopefully people will appreciate the fact that I pushed on." "And when all hope was lost, I could've stopped and I didn't." "I'm proud of myself that I stuck to my guns and I finished it." "Beautiful or not." "It's a dress and it fits her." "She looks so good coming down the Runway." "I stand out not only because of my voice and my aesthetic, but also because I'm the only one that did separates." "In the end, my look was perfect." "This week is about redemption." "Amare looks beautiful." "The dress is super clean." "Super streamlined." "Fits her so well." "And it's just really good to know that I did a good job on this one." "Yes." "Looks great." "Yeah, girl." "Work, Lady." "Christopher, April, congratulations." "Your scores have qualified you two to move on to the next round." "So you can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "The six of you had the highest and the lowest scores." "One of you will be named the winner of this challenge and you will receive $20,000 from L'Oreal Paris, and your look will appear in the L'Oreal Paris advertorial." "And one of you will be out." "The six of you had the highest and the lowest scores." "One of you will be named the winner of this challenge, and one of you will be out." "Ivy, Valerie, Michael, you have the lowest scores." "We're gonna talk to the designers with the highest scores first and then we'll bring you back out." "You can leave the Runway." "Not good." "We're on the bottwm." "We're on the bottom." "So how are you feeling right now?" "I didn't think that I was gonna be in the bottom." "I think I just felt like I took on too much." "But I thought the concept was really beautiful." "I'm kind of surprised that Gretchen got in the top." "I mean, I knew that Andy and Mondo would be up there, but, like..." "I didn't know if Andy would." "I thought Andy would." "It was just so unique." "I think with Gretchen's, the reason I don't think she's gonna win is because I think they're like her ready-to-wear more than her high fashion look." "It's a huge prize." "It's 20 grand, man." "Yeah, it is." "It's amazing." "Yeah." "That's crazy." "Gretchen, tell us about your look." "I chose velvet as my finish." "And it was really important for me to be a fantasy version of who I think I am as a designer and the type of woman that I want to create for." "And then as I translated that into my ready-to-wear, I really feel like it's really taking everything you love about this and creating something that's very accessible." "I think that your high fashion dress--I actually think is very wearable." "Did you do the feather work yourself?" "I did." "That's all hand applique." "I love the back." "I wish there was more of this beading in the front somehow." "I almost want to turn it around and have the front be the back and the back be the front because that to me brings it to another level." "It's always a rule of thumb that I believe in, is that when you're wearing something like this, you sit across a dinning table, you meet people, it's always this front part is very important." "So I would've liked a little more emphasis in the front." "But it's beautiful overall." "Thank you." "I don't love her hair because I think that the look is so not costume-y." "And I think the hair makes it feel a little costume-y." "But I think her makeup is extraordinary." "It's perfect, actually." "I like both looks." "Thank you." "Andy, tell us about your looks." "The finish that I picked, um, was a metallic finish." "I wanted to create a silhouette that was very strong." "Still keeping my woman feminine." "For the ready-to-wear look, I wanted to maintain that strength so I maintained the--the same armor on the arm and on the side." "And this is actually the same fabric as this." "But I did a sheer overlay to make it more wearable." "I like it." "You've kept to your vision." "And as a designer, you have to stick to your vision." "I like that you've got so much technique going on in there." "I like all the detailing." "And I love that cocktail dress." "It's real." "It's wearable." "Good job." "I like the idea of it." "It's not so obvious, the metallic." "I think that the translation works brilliantly." "And my favorite thing, I think that those boot pants--that those could translate into something actually quite wearable." "I love the boots." "How did you make this?" "The shoe had to go into the pant and then she slipped it on as if it was one piece." "It's a pair of pumps inside." "It looks great." "The affect is fantastic." "You did a wise choice in choosing this blend of metallics." "Gives it a little depth." "I also like that you went into the fantasy makeup." "The ready-to-wear, it looks great." "It feels like it belongs in the same collection." "I liked it." "Thank you." "In terms of craftsmanship," "I think that you've done a great job." "The day look, I like." "I think that that's quite beautiful." "But I don't love the high fashion look." "Okay." "Mondo, tell us about your two looks." "I chose bright." "And so I kind of went back to my childhood and thought about a kaleidoscope." "You turn it." "You know, you get all those beautiful shapes and it always changes." "So I just wanted to give it interest from the front to the back." "With the day look, I just wanted to go completely opposite and have kind of an absence of color." "But still be relatable to this look, but very clean and just very easy to wear." "First what I want to know, you made this hat?" "I made this this morning." "That is a great hat." "Thank you." "I love the hat." "I love the frizzy hair." "Love the makeup." "You were very bold to use all those stripes." "They're tricky when you work with stripes." "There's only one thing to me." "The gown is too short." "And I also think that the fabric choice looks inexpensive." "Okay." "Can I see the back of the dress, please?" "I think the back is really kind of dreamy." "I think it looks a little like a Kentucky derby horse ribbon exploded." "I think it's really a very, very, very glamorous, exciting, and original design." "I'm not surprised you picked bright 'cause I know you love color." "And that's phenomenal." "I love to see that." "And I love the cocktail dress." "It's simple." "It's wearable." "It's beautiful." "Good work." "Okay, we've heard what you had to say." "Now we're gonna talk to the designers with the lowest scores." "And then we'll bring you back out." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Hey, guys." "Hey." "What's up?" "Yeah." "What do you think about the people that are in the bottom?" "Do you think all three of them deserve to be in the bottom?" "Yeah." "I do." "Ivy, tell us about your two looks." "I chose bright." "When I think about the word bright, I thought of the beaches in Hawaii." "So for the couture look, I did biased strips." "I kind of wanted to really play with the idea of the ocean and the waves." "So I styled her hair also to look like a wave." "And for the ready-to-wear piece," "I did just a simple cocktail dress that kind of replicated the, um, the ocean spray on the couture dress." "I think they look like bridesmaids under the Sea." "Everyone up here has a bridesmaid pageant problem." "I think the necklines on both of the dresses are really..." "Nurse-y on top is the only word for it." "You know, I think that the colors could've been gorgeous, but they needed to be alleviated, you know, with a little bit of lightness." "So they just don't make it for me." "I think you had problems with the fit on both dresses." "Yeah." "Your model is a very young girl and she looks ancient." "You tried very hard." "Thank you." "But it's overkill." "Okay." "In every way from the colors to your technique to your, you know, the way you laid out your bias strips." "Not a good dress." "Will you show us the back?" "I thought the back is better than the front." "This is a little bit messy." "One strap is thicker than the other, then all those stripes." "If that would've been resolved a little bit better..." "But this is just a little bit all over the place." "But I didn't hate it as much as as the others." "Hmm." "Valerie, tell us about your looks." "The element that I received was crystal." "My initial inspiration was Audrey hepburn." "Audrey in both breakfast at Tiffany's, but also in my fair Lady." "For the high fashion look, i wanted to do something that was classic, but still regal, and elegant, and light, and buoyant." "And then for my ready-to-wear look, I wanted to go kind of the opposite." "I wanted to have a contrast." "So something that's a little more versatile, a little more accessible." "The number one thing you learn in fashion is you should let the fabric talk to you." "You were not imaginative enough." "You forced the fabric." "And that's when everything starts going crazy." "You're trying to do a structured dress out of soft fabric." "Right." "It's like trying to make a winter coat out of kleenex." "Wow." "I think this looks like a beauty pageant dress." "I mean, she looks like miss Guatemala." "There's where my family's from, actually." "No offense to you." "No." "It's okay." "It's okay." "But the hair and the makeup are not helping your cause." "I mean, I really question your taste with this." "It's just--there's nothing modern about it." "I think that this metallic, weird diamante hoop at her shoulder is just wacky." "I mean, the only possible accessory that she could use with this is a wand." "I mean, it literally looks like" ""I love you and you and you."" "I mean, it's just--it's wacky." "And then you went the other way around." "She just came from the office and someone said "oh, by the way, it's a crystal challenge. "" "And she went into her handbag and she sewed three crystal buttons on it." "I mean, it's not even--it's not even in the ballpark." "No, I-I agree." "Your points are very valid." "Michael, tell us about your looks." "The category that I had to choose from was metallic." "I love the color." "And I did the shape of the dress first." "Was kind of digging, like, the shapes that was going into it." "And then for the ready-to-wear, i just wanted to do something, you know, just simple and easy and not too over-the-top." "Maybe like the mini-me version of the evening gown, so to speak." "I'm not good at this." "I've been in the bottom before." "I'm kind of nervous up here." "In this instance, the fabric spoke to you and you did work well with the fabric, I think." "Proportions in this dress need a lot of work." "I'm not a big fan of that bordeaux color." "But I like the cocktail dress." "Could be a little longer." "I think you have to choose either boobs or legs." "Because now it's, like, I don't know where to look." "The amazing legs or the amazing boobs." "And, therefore, I would've made the skirt longer." "You're the only one standing up here who the clothes are constructed well, sewn well, and tailored well." "I think you had a big problem with this gown--a ball gown." "You know, it's not the most modern thing." "So to wire the hem like that and give us this ridiculous train, and then to style her like like Scarlett o'hara in gone with the wind, you know, it's not a costume challenge." "Make her turn around, please hello!" "I mean, she's got all the curtains from tara ripped off the wall and put into the one dress." "Okay." "Okay, we've heard what you had to say." "We're gonna have a little chat and then I'll call you back out." "You can leave the Runway." "Okay, let's talk about Andy." "You guys loved Andy." "I love the fact that he did pants." "Me too." "You know, for me, Andy grew on me." "When the first thing came out," "I was not so sure." "I felt it was over-the-top." "There was too much going on." "But I just feel that once you look at it and the details-- and the man has really put so much effort into it, there's something going on there which is good." "And I think that his day dress is really chic, sleek, sexy." "I like the day dress." "Great." "You would wear that." "I would wear that dress." "Oh, yeah, I like the day dress." "It's a beautiful, black, simple dress." "But I like that he had the metallic under the sheer fabric." "Yeah, which was smart." "I think it was smart." "Yeah." "That was." "I like the choice of fabric." "And I like the way he kind of mixes it together." "I-I definitely do." "Let's talk about Mondo." "It's refreshing that he-- he embraces color." "And with all this mishmash, it could go really, really wrong." "But he always makes it work." "Part of that, honestly, the guy knows how to construct clothes." "So he can take something that could look quite honestly like a train wreck and turn it into something that actually, I think, is quite beautiful." "His high fashion look was so over-the-top, but it was still working." "And then you look at his ready-to-wear look, which was really commercial." "Yeah." "It's very commercial because if you put it on, you'd look skinnier." "Oh, yes, very slimming." "Such an important point." "And that's a big thing." "Very slimming." "A very, very smart, commercial, but still chic dress." "Yeah." "Okay, let's talk about Gretchen." "I like her bohemian flavor." "It was Gretchen just elevated." "I thought the back detailing was gorgeous." "I love the degrade with the feathers." "And I loved all the layers of the fabric." "It looked effortless." "And I really--I do think that for a beauty shoot for the advertorial, the fact that this velvet has so much richness would be perfect." "Would be great." "The ready-to-wear dress is nice." "But she could've done a little bit more here." "I like the silhouette, though." "I do too." "I think that the dress-- it's interesting that when you first look at it, you think it's kind of demure and conservative." "But, in fact, when she walks, and you get those panels moving on the side, I like the surprise of that." "Yeah, I mean, it was quite sexy." "It's a sexy dress." "It doesn't look sexy standing." "But when she's walking, I mean, the slits, they went right up to here." "They were Heidi high." "I was, like, "mm, I'm liking that one. "" "Let's talk about the designers that we didn't like." "When you look at the three lined up, it's a shocker." "No, it was my fair Lady..." "Gonewiththewind." "And the little mermaid." "I mean, it's just so old-fashioned." "I don't get it." "Yeah." "When I look at what happened with Michael, he just kept going and going and going." "I mean, it looked like she was dragging a bolt of fabric behind her." "Yeah, I didn't love that train either." "But I thought that there were a few things in that dress that were actually not so bad." "One could salvage these dresses." "I mean, if one had to, he could retune it and he could really make them easily better." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Oof." "What about Valerie?" "The wedding dress, you cannot salvage." "Oh, no." "There's nothing right about this dress." "No." "It's awful." "The styling on top of it is horrific." "Oh, my God." "The fabric truly, like, got away from her." "There's a lot wrong here." "I mean, the fabric is-- this dress is the black dress." "It's, like, nothing." "I mean, it's..." "The dress is like a Xanax." "I mean, it's such a bore." "With the sloping..." "I think the biggest problem, honestly, I think there's no idea there." "There's no possibility of executing it well." "And she really has no understanding of fabric at all." "None." "Sad." "What about Ivy?" "This was tragic." "If you look at this gown, it is doing everything bad that a dress could do to a woman's body." "Totally." "And all those asymmetrical lines on the top of the bustier, I mean, it just makes the woman totally wrong." "It just..." "It just looks like a mess." "And the color." "I mean, it's like they used primary colors like this." "It's, like, really a disaster." "And then the same bad neckline twice." "Yeah." "You know what else really worries me about Ivy, I think she pretty consistently bites off more than she can chew." "Yeah." "What's worse, Valerie or Ivy?" "I say Ivy." "Ivy's worse?" "I think Valerie." "I--ugh." "I, uh..." "I think it's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today." "Okay, let's bring them back out." "One of you will be named the winner and one of you will be out." "Mondo, your high fashion look was bold, playful, and interesting." "Your ready-to-wear version was graphic and commercial." "And your signature is really coming through." "Congratulations, Mondo." "You are the winner of this challenge." "Yes." "And you get $20,000 from I'oreal." "Thank you so much." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Yay." "I left Colorado with $14 in my bank account." "So I have $20,014 in my bank account now." "Thank you so much." "Your look will also appear in the l'oreal advertorial." "Wow." "This is a big win." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you so much." "I won." "Yay." "Oh, my God, look at your face." "Yay." "Congratulations." "I'm so happy for you." "Will you buy me a little pony?" "Are you, like, tripping out?" "You just won $20,000." "Sit down." "I'm so happy for you, Mondo." "Good boy." "Totally." "It's amazing." "It's really--it really is amazing." "I'm so excited, I..." "You know, like, this is what I came--this is what I came to do." "Oh, man." "Andy..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Gretchen, you're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Michael..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you." "Valerie, Ivy, one of you will be out." "Valerie, we don't think that you had a clear concept." "From fabric to styling, your choices were unfortunate." "Ivy, your blue dresses really disappointed us today." "The color choice was way off." "And your silhouettes were extremely unflattering." "Ivy..." "I'm sorry, you're out." "Valerie..." "You're in." "You can leave the Runway." "Thank you very much." "I really appreciate the opportunity." "It was a pleasure to meet you." "I am stunned." "You're safe?" "Are you okay?" "I don't think so." "Like, I was prepared to leave." "You know, I really was." "I just felt like she had more fight than I did." "And I felt like it should've been me." "I really do." "Auf wiederesehen." "Thank you." "Thank you for the op--for the opportunity." "Oh, man, Ivy's gonna get lots of..." "Love." "Hi." "Ugh." "No sad faces." "Can't handle this." "I don't even know what to say." "I'm shocked." "I think, if anything, I'm just gonna really miss designing 'cause I don't think I've ever loved anything else as much as i do." "I'm really gonna miss designing." "But it doesn't stop here." "Though." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You just won't be designing here." "Yeah." "Ivy, um, I wish I could go home for you." "I really do." "Oh, Jesus." "Ivy, you know what makes me sick, though?" "The looks before the judges just weren't finished." "Yeah, I know." "They just weren't." "And it was very evident to me." "No, tota--same here." "But c'est la vie." "Well, I have to send you to the workroom to clean up your space." "Yes, bye, guys." "Oh." "Gonna miss you." "It sucks because I just felt like I still had so much more to show of me and I think I have a lot more creativity than some of the other designers out there." "You really inspire me." "Stay strong and stop complaining so much." "All right, girl." "I will." "I love it so much that I told myself that if I moved to new York, that I would sacrifice whatever I could just to fulfill my dream." "So I'm definitely gonna keep on going." "Good to see you." "Congratulations." "Thank you so much." "20 grand." "It's always amazing to work with somebody as great as" "Collier." "He's a makeup genius." "Cool." "Can't wait to see you out there." "Hold it." "Right there." "Beautiful." "Good." "Walking into the advertorial shoot is intimidating." "Finding it again." "Your hand's on your hips." "Do you want to smooth the train?" "In a second." "All right, attitude." "Stop." "Turn." "Beautiful." "Right there." "Attitude." "I mean, I've never done anything like this in my life." "How are you envisioning this?" "Eyen, will you do what you were doing earlier with your arm?" "That looks cool like that." "But you know what, I could get used to it." "I love what you've done." "These designs are beautiful." "I never thought that I would be here, but I'm a dreamer." "Oh, wait, that's cute." "Do that again." "There you go." "Ha ha ha." "And winning this just really makes me know that I can do this." "That's it." "Good." "Thank you so much." "It's good to dream and work hard because it does pay off." "Thank you so much." "I'm out of here." "No." "Next time." "All right, next time." "See ya." "Bye, everybody." "Thank you." "Bye." "Next time on Project Runway..." "Designers, we are bringing back the hp challenge from last season." "Yay." "Wow." "You will be creating a textile design that would be placed on fabric." "And that fabric will become part of your garment design." "I think that Mondo's print is very Mondo." "But I don't know the story behind it." "He won't talk about it." "I'm about to send in some special guests." "And be nice to them, please." "Oh, my God!" "It's unwearable." "Fashion is not for sissies." "I wish I knew what the story was." "Visit mylifetime." "Com to learn"