Previously on Project Runway: All Stars...
Your challenge is to create elegant resort wear,
and you must also design a swimsuit
to go under your outfit. [All screaming]
Oh, I love it. Kevin, can you
do a backstroke, please? As long
as we've got no nipples hanging out, then we're all good.
It's gonna be really high cut, like baywatch.
Really focus on the glamour aspect.
Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh. Is that the back
attached to the front? Time wasn't allotted
for such a big mistake. It's exemplary of asymmetry.
Congratulations. That dress is so versatile.
It moves so beautifully. The winner this week is...
Justin. Dmitry, you just need to find
that extra something to score the win.
When she revealed this bathing suit,
i thought, "well, there's another crazy moment."
She takes it off, and I get flashdance.
[Gasps] I just got, like, bad '80s,
who's the boss? Flashbacks. Samantha.
The designer eliminated tonight is...
Sam. [Exhales sharply]
14 of the best designers from Project Runway are back...
And this time the competition is bigger than ever.
Each week their skills are tested to the limit,
as they compete for the largest prize
in runwahistory. Who will be cut...
And who will have it all sewn up?
This is Project Runway: All Stars.
My gosh, look, fabio. Oh, wow.
Oh, my gosh. We are arriving
at the long island aquarium. I've never been here before,
so I have no idea what's in store.
I see Alyssa with the cutest little
African penguins I've ever seen. Good morning, all-stars.
Good morning. Prepare for a voyage
of "under the sea" discovery. This is
the long island aquarium, home to over 5,000 species
of marine life, and my new friends here,
Kevin and Pam... Perfect inspiration
for your next challenge. Some of you may know
that I was the inspiration for Ariel
in Disney's the little mermaid, which is kind of cool.
No big deal. No big deal.
[Laughs] So this week
i want you to choose your own underwater life-form
for inspiration, and this is
the avant-garde challenge. Once I heard avant-garde,
i was kind of like, "oh, [Bleep]."
I did not so hot last season on my avant-garde challenge.
It looks like a pumpkin fest. It's so orange.
It sort of felt like a carrot,
you know, in the grater. This is my opportunity to
redeem myself from last season. It's obviously a lot
of pressure. As well as sketching here
at the aquarium, you have cameras
to take pictures for reference back
in the workroom, and since this is
the avant-garde challenge, we're giving you two days
for this challenge. Hallelujah.
Finally. Your fabric budget is $150.
Ooh. Oh.
Nobody can do avant-garde for 150 bucks.
But I have a little proposition for you.
I'm willing to increase your budget
by giving you all an extra $100 each...
If? If one of you volunteers
to sketch in the shark tank.
Wow. You guys...
You're taking one for the team.
That's so awesome. Really?
Okay, girl, do your thing. I mean, come on.
If I can buy more fabric, it's kind of like, "oh,
I'll risk my life for that." Good job, girl.
Yeah, get your last hugs in now.
That's $250 each for the challenge,
and I will see all of you on the runway in two days.
At least, Helen, I hope to see you back on the runway.
All of me. Enjoy your underwater
experience. Get creative and good luck.
Both: Thank you. Oh, I love that fish.
I love that one. This is our hard coral.
Are you more interested in the shape?
I like the shape. That's a good picture
of the sea horse. I choose sea horse.
The whole body of the sea horse is made
of these geometrical scales, and that's inspired me
to create this long coat with very complicated patterns.
I love it. I want to get up on this and
take the photo from up above. I'm choosing
the red bubble anemone because it reproduces asexually.
I really like to play with genderless shapes in my design,
and I also want this to be the most conceptual piece
out there on the runway. He's a cuttlefish.
So I see this flamboyant cuttlefish,
and he captures my heart. He's, like, really big
at the front of his body and these beautiful fins
that kind of taper off towards the back,
and I want to capture that shape somewhere in my outfit.
Follow me on in. Watch your step on these holds.
Oh, ho, ho. We're only going to do this
if you're comfortable. Are you ready?
I mean... What did I get myself into?
It's gonna feel cold. You'll warm up, I promise.
Ohh! Helen, are you okay?
I'm freezing. I'm scared [Bleep]less.
Quite another world down here, right?
It's so beautiful. [All yelling and cheering]
[Laughter]
It's really hard to sketch underwater.
[Laughs] I'm just sketching a cloak.
I mean, when you think shark, you think, like, sleek and sexy,
and if you take inspiration from something that's so,
like, vicious and intense, you want to do something
that complements that. How are you doing, Helen?
Uh, I don't know. This is scary.
I want to show the judges that I'm gonna take any risk
i need to to win this entire competition.
What does that say? "Let's go to mood!"
"Let's go to mood." Let's go to mood!
30 minutes, guys! This is amazing.
For my dress, I chose a piranha. They're covered in,
like, these beautiful, like, glittery sequins, and I thought
it's amazing, because, you know, you think of piranhas
as really vicious fish, and they're kind
of really beautiful. This is cool.
Yeah, that's really pretty. I chose the yellow scroll coral.
It's very structured. It's very grand.
I want to make a dress focusing on the structure of it.
I pick out this interesting textile fabric
that has fringe in it, which reminds me of the coral.
Oh, this is nice. My fish is called the lionfish.
It's very ethereal, and yet the fish had a sense
of volume and weight to it, and I really want
to juxtapose those two ideas together in my look.
I find these two beautiful black and white vinyl.
I've never played with vinyl before.
Five minutes, guys. Five minutes.
Ooh, this is cool. I'm grabbing a textured organza
and a silk crepe for the body of my dress
that just screams shark at me. Time is up, guys.
All: Thank you, mood! Oh, boy.
This is the first day of our two-day challenge.
I am inspired by the sea horse, and I'm making
this beautiful coat out of million of pieces
and geometrical forms. Dmitry, you're very quiet.
No, I just had a lot of math to do, kind of.
It's like being an engineer. So you have to engineer
the pattern, but then you have to make sure
all those cutouts, they connect. So I want it to be fitted
and then gather, gather, gather up from here.
I have not won a challenge. This is, like, driving me crazy.
I love avant-garde. So this is something that
i feel super comfortable with and is probably
my favorite challenge thus far. The Wilder, the more flamboyant,
like my cuttlefish, the better. Time is up.
Okay, great. Good night.
I might have picked the wrong fabric for this challenge.
There's no life to it. It's definitely set me back
for this challenge, because I don't know
what I'm gonna do with it. What?
You okay? I'll be fine.
I definitely like to hold it in a lot,
and from time to time, i do have, like,
bursts of, like, emotion. It's getting to a point that
i don't know how to handle it. I don't really know
what's going on with Justin. He seems just
not his spirited self. When I think of avant-garde,
i think of Justin, and I think that this is
his challenge to win, and I'm just a little worried
that he's not feeling it inside, and he needs to find the joy
in this artistic, fun, creative process.
Are you having fun? [Voice breaking] I just have
to try... And not stress out.
It's sad to see Justin struggle,
because, like, he's my friend. He's from my season.
Like, I don't like to see anyone upset, and it's not cool.
Hey, do you want these? I might.
I'm not using this at all. Cool.
I'll keep that noted. Thank you.
I'll put it on your table, okay?
Okay, cool. Thank you. I had plenty of extra fabric.
I would hope that people would do the same for me.
The higher the pants, the closer to God.
Right? I'm just going full-on
asexual with this and taking this idea of a tuxedo tailcoat
and then flipping it around and making it back to front.
So pockets are going to the back.
The lapels are going to the back.
The pleats are going to the back.
I'm really, really excited.
I've been waiting for an avant-garde challenge
all season. I'm thankful
that Helen donated the fabric. It definitely made a big
difference. That's pretty cool.
I think I'm trying to make it not look '80s.
That's my only thing. This doesn't look '80s.
[Laughs] Now that I have Helen's fabric,
i know exactly what I need to do.
This is the kind of fabric i like working with.
Good. Well, you're welcome.
Thank you.
How's it going, Helen? It's going.
Avant-garde fashion is when you take something conceptual
and create a look that's fashion forward,
but also forward thinking. There is no balance
with avant-garde. You go really big,
or you go home. It looks like intestines,
in a good way. Like tripe?
Yep. I hope
they say that tomorrow. I'd fry that and eat it.
Hi, designers. Hi.
The avant-garde challenge-- definitely my favorite.
For you as designers, it pushes you.
It makes you think outside the box.
So I'm gonna come around and hope that that's the case.
Hi, Jay. Hello.
How was the aquarium? It was good.
It was really fun. What's your inspiration?
It's this lionfish. Yeah.
I really wanted to do something, like, really graphic.
I need to know what in this makes it avant-garde for you.
Basically the whole idea is to make the front look
like it's approachable and wearable,
and the back is gonna be where the drama is.
Okay. Congratulations
on your win last week. Thank you.
Epic. Tell me about your inspiration.
My inspiration is a yellow scroll coral.
What caught my attention is the texture of it.
This is the shoulder piece, which I don't want to be fitted,
but I don't want to be too over the top.
I know it's avant-garde, but I like to control my design.
But don't go too quiet with it.
Yeah. It has to really
push the boundaries, you know. I want to see something
I've never seen before. Yeah.
You're on the right track here.
Justin's look-- the structure is a little wonky.
I think he managed to accomplish an avant-garde silhouette, but
execution-wise, it's not there. Keep positive.
Will do. It's called
a red bubble anemone. It's a asexual-reproduction
life-form. My idea was to take
this asexual kind of reference and play it off on the outfit.
I don't want you to get so lost in the asexual thing
that you forget the fish. Right.
I have a red-bellied piranha. Let me see him?
His name is brocade. [Laughs]
We had an issue with brocade once, didn't we?
Trend-wise, I'm all for the double-layer skirt,
but this is not about trends. This is about an avant-garde
look. Yeah.
You've totally got it in you, design-wise and technically,
to be able to blow this out of the water.
Excuse the pun. My fish
is a flamboyant cuttlefish, and they are quite "volumous"
in the front... Yeah.
And get a little bit smaller and tapered toward the back.
And I actually have done it longer in the front
and shorter in the back. We don't want it to look
like a maternity gown, though. You could take an entire family
of four camping in this. Well, at this point,
Michelle's dress kind of looks like a maternity fish costume.
Sharkskin is smooth on one side,
and when you come the opposite, it's like jagged.
So I wanted to, like, interpret that as something kind of soft
and in a larger proportion. This is reminding me
of the entire conversation we had on your couture
challenge. Right.
This reminds me of a shower loofah...
Again. Okay.
It needs some more definition.
It needs some shape to it. This is just like a block
of ruffle. It should be attractive.
It just shouldn't be weird. Mm-hmm.
But you have to edit down. There's way too much here.
Right. I think Helen is making
a high-priestess outfit for some vanilla planet
that only serves soft serve. I think I need to crop it.
See, even this... Right.
Having this extra flesh here, seeing some curve
to their natural body, instead of just a block
of ruffle is great. Thank you.
I chose the sea horse. So it's right here.
Beautiful. So I'm making a coat,
and I am playing with all these skeletons, pretty much,
because the sea horse, the whole body,
it's almost like a skeleton. It has all these geometrical
forms. You have been consistent,
and you've delivered on every challenge.
You just haven't won, and that is massively
frustrating for me. So it must be massively
frustrating for you. It is frustrating,
and sometimes I felt like... I deserved to win,
but again, it's a matter of opinion,
and I have my opinion, you have your opinion,
and judges have their own opinions.
Well, you can't be so arrogant to say,
"this is my opinion, and you have to like it."
No, I'm not being arrogant. I'm just being direct,
and I love what I do. Yeah.
That's all that I need. No, you need a win.
That's what you need. Okay, all-stars,
i know you think I'm being really tough on you,
but it's tough love, and I don't want
to see any one of you go home, but there is only going
to be one winner. So, for that reason, I'm gonna
give you a little bit of help. I'm gonna introduce to you
the ceo of Lauren b nail care, Lauren b herself.
Hi. Hi, Lauren.
Hi. Hi, designers.
Hi. I'm here today
with my team of experts to help you collaborate
on a fun nail-art twist. We have lots
of great embellishments to jazz up
the traditional manicure and to complete
your model's look to take it to the next level.
And I believe you have quite a wonderful prize.
Yes, the winner of this challenge
will receive a year's worth of products, polishes,
and supplies from Lauren b beauty nail couture--
a $5,000 value. Wow.
Whoo! [Applause]
So you guys better nail it. [Laughter]
Good luck.
Hi, Helen. Hi, how are you?
Good to see you again. This is Gerry holford,
my consultant. I'm Gerry.
Nice to meet you. My jaw is, like,
on the floor. I love nails.
I'm actually lacing that one. Oh, that's nice there.
Oh, how cool. So, to have, like, Lauren b--
the girl knows her stuff. Do you like
any of the embellishments? Oh, I like everything.
The sequins, the studs. I want her nails to look
kind of deceiving-- like, feminine, but reeow!
Okay. Models are here, guys.
Hi. So it's an avant-garde
challenge, and we went to the long island aquarium,
and my dumb ass got in the shark tank.
During my critique, Zanna insisted that I give this dress
some sort of element of fit. My dress looks
like my grandmother's nightie. She's really cute
in her pajamas, but it's not a good look
for avant-garde. So I need to, like,
just bring the sex up in it and hack that dress.
Butcher, butcher, butcher, butcher.
Shark attack. So I just wanted to take
the idea of, like, a tuxedo tailcoat
and then literally flipping it back to front.
Fabio's backward tux is really interesting.
I'm not sure if his craftsmanship is there.
Okay, let's try the coat on. My fitting goes well.
I need to tack and fix little things there and there,
but, in general, it looks pretty good--
not to sound arrogant or anything.
[Chuckles] Okay, good.
Thank you, thank you very much. Okay.
When I think of avant-garde, i think of something
I've never seen before, and although dmitry's work
is absolutely exquisite, i saw it probably three times
in my season. I am hella discouraged.
Zanna seems to hate my design. I start to second-guess myself,
which is a very frightening, terrible thing for me.
I wonder if it's too short. I start putting the garment
on her, and she looks amazing. I mean, I'm so glad
she's six feet tall, so she's able to carry
this statement piece. I think the more I work on it,
the more inspiration I get. Yeah, right.
I'm excited. Bye.
I'll see you tomorrow. Maybe her arm
will come through here, and then I'll cut maybe a neck facing
here. Michelle's fitting
didn't go that well. It's kind of different
to see her second-guess herself like this and change
her look completely. I was thinking
of doing something like this. As a side.
Like, the before and after, you know?
My look looks like maternity wear.
I absolutely hate it. Who knows?
Guys, it's time to go. Oh.
Time's up.
Morning of the runway, and there's a lot to do.
How's it going, Michelle? Hmm.
I'm not, like, super frantic, but my dress is gonna
require a Mountain of work. I need to open the sleeve,
and I'm in such a rush, i just pull it open.
What the [Bleep]? I don't have enough time
as it is, so I'm just hand-sewing
everything and trying to hide all the imperfections.
Hi. How are you?
I put the look on my model, and I am obsessed with it.
I think it's a really strong concept,
and I think it's different than everyone else's in the room.
With fabio, pink is a common theme in his work.
I just hope the fabric will read nicely on the runway.
How are you, dear? Good.
Hi, gorgeous. At the Mary Kay
color design studio, my approach is really simple.
The vinyl has some kind of, like, a silver glitter,
and I want to incorporate that shine.
A little bit of that glacier gray to start?
Oh, I like that. Her lips
will be totally white and then bring the lip
over and cross over here. Holy Picasso, Batman.
So I want it pulled back over to the front
and just give me, like, bangs. At the chi hair care salon,
my vision is, since everything is back to front, think of a
pony and then flip it up and do it in the front.
Make a rounded Bob for her. Okay, tuck it,
and we'll give her, like, a belle Bob, nice and round.
Maybe something that screams "shark."
I could go really crazy breaking the mold
in the nail world, but I'm trying to find
the essence that is aquatic.
I pick up two bracelets from the QVC accessory wall--
just the right amount of sparkle.
I just want to make sure your shoulders looks good.
I need to fix little things there and there...
Damn. Right?
But, in general, it looks pretty good.
I really like Jay's look. I feel a little bit
of a disconnect between the jacket
and the dress. One is too hard,
and the other one is too soft. I'm pleased with the outcome.
I mean, this is definitely a statement look.
Designers, we have ten minutes left.
Oh, Helen... I wish she didn't
bring the ruffles back again. I just don't know
how avant-garde that feels. This challenge is
intimidating because, you know, I'm not an avant-garde designer.
So here's to hoping my concept translates.
Designers, time's up. Runway.
Let's go. Avant-garde, here we go.
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be given the chance to create their own capsule collection
with QVC and will appear on QVC's spring fashion week,
a fashion spread in Marie Claire and a position at the magazine
as contributing editor for one year.
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to stay at a luxury spa resort as a special guest
at their international conference in Cancun, Mexico,
plus product and staff for an entire year of runway shows.
From Mary Kay, an entire year's worth
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to launch their line, and $150,000 in cash.
Whoa. [Light laughter]
Hi, designers. Hi.
Hello, hello. This week we had you
sketching with the sharks... As we took you under the sea
as inspiration for an avant-garde challenge.
Let's meet tonight's judges. First, co-founder and designer
of luxury brand Marchesa, Georgina Chapman.
Hi, designers. Next, one of the most iconic
names in American fashion, Mr. Isaac Mizrahi.
Hi, kids. Our guest this week rose
to fame with the pussycat dolls. After collaborating
with missguided on an urban-chic collection,
she's now returning to her first love,
music, with a new solo album. Please welcome
the multitalented Nicole scherzinger.
Hi, designers. [Applause]
The winning designer will receive,
from Lauren b nail couture, a year's worth of nail products
worth $5,000. Have a great show.
Good luck. Thank you.
I'm feeling pretty good. My dress looked flattering
and beautiful. I'm just hoping that my concept
translates to the judges.
I love the lip. I think it's
really beautiful and feminine and, at the same time, has some
really strange dramatic things.
I love the colors. I love the concept.
I love the placement of everything.
I really think it's the most conceptual piece out there
on the runway.
She's absolutely beautiful in it, and I'm really,
really proud of myself. I love how the sequin
comes from the skirt and travels up.
I am feeling very confident with my concept.
I could see my vision. I could see graphic.
I see black and white. I see lionfish.
I am happy with the outcome. It's definitely out there,
almost like a walking piece of art.
I feel like my vision came to life completely.
I love it.
Designers, you really raised the bar this week.
Thank you for a spectacular runway.
One of you is safe, and that designer is...
Sonjia. Oh.
Good job. Do I take a step forward?
[Laughter] Thank you, sonjia.
We'll see you next week. Okay.
Bye, guys. Good luck. Bye.
Beautiful job. Thank you.
The rest of you will all receive critiques.
That means one of you is the winner this week...
And someone else will be going home tonight.
Helen, you're up first. Well, I offered to dive
in the shark tank so that we would have
additional budget, and-- wait, wait.
You sketched with the sharks in a cage--is that what happened?
Yes, and then she doubled everyone's budget on fabric.
Wow. She took one for the team.
But the experience was really intimate,
and their skin is made of dermal denticles.
If you were to touch it one way it's soft,
and the opposite it's jagged. So I took something
that was microscopic, and I just blew it up.
So what I did was, i made this cape silhouette,
like a bird's eye view of the shark,
and I added this embellishment just to give it
a little shimmer, and I wanted to go
from the smooth to the hard. Before I get started
with Helen, i wanted to just say
congratulations to everybody. This was definitely the best
runway we've seen all season. And I think there's something
about the words "avant-garde" that are especially important
for designers. And I have to say, Helen,
you did an amazing job. I don't get shark
from this dress, but who cares?
Okay, good. One issue with the dress
is the trim on the armhole. It's a little too little
of the trim. I think this is so beautiful.
I feel that you had an emotional connection there,
and it tells a story. You can see the work
that went into it and the heart that went into it.
What I love most is the restraint that you showed.
I actually like the embellishment on the arm.
I think I would have liked to have seen a little bit more
of that as well. It's very chic.
It's very classy. Thank you.
Okay, Justin, let's hear from you.
My inspiration is a yellow swirl coral.
There was a lot of variation in color,
and I wanted to play with the silhouette,
and the material is supposed to bring out the color.
I like the tones, the gold and the iridescent,
and I did immediately get coral. However, I don't think
it's very avant-garde. I think that it's turned
into almost sort of a luncheon dress.
Those pieces at the bottom coming out in the peplum,
they're unresolved. Something about
the silhouette is just off. I don't like the shoulders,
and I don't like the waist. I think the waist is low,
and it's kind of, like, upsetting.
I agree with Isaac. Can you just hike that belt up,
like, an inch and a half? There you go. Look at that.
Oh, thank you. I like all the ideas.
It's just how it's laying on her.
I think you said a mouthful. I think the ideas are great,
but the execution isn't as crisp as usual with you.
Okay. You're up, Jay.
One fish that really caught my attention was the lionfish.
It's beautiful and very approachable,
but it's actually dangerous. So I wanted to juxtapose
those two by creating this really hard jacket
with this printed chiffon. I really like the vinyl.
I don't know if i love the fabric of the dress.
I'm understanding your skirt, but the top part, I'm sort of
getting more Ziggy stardust. Is anyone else getting
David bowie-esque? Maybe the makeup is wrong.
There's something wrong. I think it's the makeup.
That's what's taking me to glam rock.
Perhaps if you'd separated the two garments.
Are they together, or is that a jacket?
They're not together. It's a halter dress.
It is? Can we see that?
I mean, the dress is more successful on its own.
I'm just not sure that that jacket was the solution.
Georgina, i understand what you're saying,
but there is something very avant-garde about the way
the chiffon moves next to the vinyl.
It's turning me on in this crazy way,
and I think you're onto something here.
I think one thing that I'm scared of is doing something
that's boring. Don't listen to us.
Don't. Don't listen to us.
Seriously, we are just a bunch of bitches, right?
Don't listen to us. Dmitry...
My creature is a sea horse, so I played with
all these geometrical shapes to mimic the skeleton,
and then because the sea horse changes the color
to adapt to environment, i chose the ivory.
It is really beautiful. You can see the workmanship
is very pure in thought. The only thing
i would say is with the closure, you've got
all this amazing geometry and then it sort of gets lost
a little in the front. Dmitry, this is amazing.
There's something incredible about this length.
There's a million things going on right now,
but not this, and I feel like this should be one of them.
Yeah, I thought i would go crazy
with it and just-- well, yes,
but the thing is, you shouldn't identify this crazy.
It should be your modus operandi.
You should jump off the cliff, you know?
Avant-garde, whatever-- i want one.
I just love how it's really sexy but still chic.
I've been kind of waiting for you to come
out of your shell, design-wise, and I feel like you did it.
Keep doing it. Thank you.
Hi, Michelle. I have a flamboyant
cuttlefish. He changes color
depending on his scenario, and he's got
quite a big fabulous face. Your look is a look
that I can't stop looking at. I don't know
if I like these colors together, and I don't even know
if I like this dress, but I do like this dress.
Georgina said she couldn't stop looking at it,
and I have to say, I have to stop myself from looking at it,
because the more I look at it, the less I like it...
Oh. Weirdly.
I love it. Oh, great.
I love how the shoulder is flirting with us.
The only thing that I would say is I'm losing the female form.
You know what, though? This dress
is not about the female form. I'm just saying
this extra little body going on, i would reduce that, and then
i would still be living up here. Speaking of an extra little
body and losing the female form...
I think the balance is actually dead-on on this.
Thank you. The color scheme
is brilliant. It's delicious.
And she's got resting bitch face.
We call it r.B.F. I feel like she's always
looking at me with her lips to the side,
like giving me attitude. I'm using that.
Fabio, let's move on to you. I landed
on the red bubble anemone. It reproduces asexually,
so I took this tailcoat and flipped it back to front
and this, obviously, to emulate this idea of, like, tentacles,
because it had long tentacles. Hands are gorgeous.
Thank you. What's your deal with pink?
I guess I'm a sissy. [Laughs]
I like the concept of reversing everything,
but this week I think that fabric choice really hurt you.
I have to say, i like the color.
I think you have a really ironic sense of color.
I don't think this is your strongest week.
I'm all for the idea of an oversized trouser.
I think that's great. I think here your proportions
are just a touch off. I like the strong shape,
and I like how minimal it is. I get this from you.
Did you design what you're wearing?
Yes. Yeah, 'cause I want that.
U look more avant-garde this week
than your model--I don't know. Thank you, guys,
for a beautiful runway. I have a feeling that this gonna
be a rough deliberation. So take a seat
in the backstage lounge, and we'll call you back out
when we've made our decision.
I'm confused. I have no idea.
I'm kind of positive. It was a good critique.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I feel like mine
was the worst out of everybody. Should we start with Helen?
I loved every angle of that dress.
There was not one thing i disliked about that dress.
I liked that her design wasn't too on the nose
with shark being her inspiration.
I would have loved to have seen a little bit of skin.
When I think of shark, i think of sleek.
I think of strong. I just wanted a hint
of that somewhere. I also think she showed us
another side of herself, whereas, like, Michelle,
it was almost, like, affected. I think her look
was very contrived. I agree.
As an image, it was great, but then it became stale
the more it stood in front of us.
For me, it was like "avant-garde."
I do love the color scheme, though.
I think that that was really bold.
I'm not sure. I liked the color scheme.
I think probably because of the fabric that
she used, so it softened it. Dmitry, his attention
to detail and his eye on proportion here
was just so spot-on. It's not the most
avant-garde idea, but he employed
the simplest principle in the world and then just
gave us this fabulous length. I feel like it
was avant-garde in the thought process, not in the silhouette
or the result. Let's move
on to our lowest scores. Oh, should we start
with fabio? To send that down the runway
is a big mistake. But there's something
marvelous about fabio's silhouette, which is,
like, narrow and giant. I really did love
that he flipped it and it wasn't so obvious,
but I didn't like the material. Maybe he tries to
overcompensate with fabrics for femininity.
Should we talk about Justin? I didn't like that at all--
those sort of car-wash-y streamers.
That looked to me like, not even costume,
but, like, you know, party city. It seems like he just totally
lost sight of proportion. I didn't find it as bad.
I really didn't. I understood
what he was going for. Okay, so Jay...
I wasn't a big fan of Jay's this week.
It was very disjointed, and we've spoken to him again
and again about taking a second look at something.
But I do love that Jay consistently goes for something.
Each piece was nice, but together they
didn't give me "all-star." So we've made our decision?
We know who's going home? Okay, let's bring them back out.
Designers, one of you is the winner this week,
and one of you is going home. Michelle, you're safe.
We'll see you next week. Thank you.
Good job.
Dmitry and Helen... One of you is the winner
of this week's challenge. And that designer is...
Dmitry. Thank you.
Finally.
You both did an awesome job.
You guys can leave the runway. Thank you.
Mission accomplished. I feel like I won the most
important challenge. Avant-garde is to truly show
who you are as an artist. And now to the lowest-scoring
designs. Jay you had a low score,
but you're safe. Thank you.
We'll see you next week. Good luck, guys.
And that leaves fabio and Justin.
Fabio... We appreciate that your designs
have a clear identity, but in an avant-garde challenge,
we expected a lot from you, of all people,
and what you delivered was disappointing.
Justin, we liked that you pushed yourself to deliver
an avant-garde design, but we had issues
with your silhouette, and your execution fell short.
Fabio and Justin, this was one of the closest decisions
of the entire season, and so tonight the eliminated
designer is...
Justin. Fabio, I got to tell you,
you dodged a serious bullet this week.
I'm so sorry. Thank you, fabio.
You can leave the runway.
Justin, thank you so much for joining us on All Stars.
You've done such amazing work. We all love you,
and we believe in you. I just want to say
thank you to each of you for the opportunity
and all the feedback. It means the world to me, so...
I'm honored to be here. So thank you so much.
Justin, it's now time for you to leave the runway,
but first I get a kiss and a hug.
Thank you so much. Love you.
Be well. You're so talented, Justin.
We're excited to see your work going forward.
You're amazing. Mwah. Love you.
I'm not disappointed in myself.
Yes, I'm sad I'm leaving the competition,
but I had so much fun. [Crying]
It's all good. Yes, I've been eliminated,
but at the same time, I see this more of an opportunity.
I'm happy that I made it this far,
and meeting all of you means the world to me.
[Voice breaking] And, fabio, I'm happy that you're still
here, because I really admire your work.
I'm so sorry. Don't be sorry.
I wanted to be a source of inspiration
for other people who think they are at a disadvantage.
And I just wanted to give them hope,
and I hope I did that.
Next on Project Runway: All Stars...
This week's challenge is all business.
Aah! Oh, my God!
[All screaming] You can't just depend on,
like, "hoping the fabric talks to you."
I don't know--get your [Bleep] straight.
Be careful not to go too morticia.
No ass cheek on the runway. That is cut so short
that you might be arrested. That's not cute to me at all.
It just said to me, "I've given up."
It's inches away from being beautiful, which makes it awful.
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