Project Runway (2004–…): Season 19, Episode 1 - A Colorful Return - full transcript

[dramatic music]

- Oh, my gosh. I can't
believe this is real.

- I feel like I'm waking
up from a dream.

- Not only am I good
at this, but I love it

and I want this for
the rest of my life.

♪ ♪

- I'm just grateful to
have this opportunity.

♪ ♪

- All I want to say is I'm good.

I'm very good.

- Everything is
riding on this moment.



- Let's go.

- "Project Runway"
Season 19 winner, right here.

[mimics drums and
cymbals] Boom, boom, tss.

♪ ♪

- I'm not playing.
This is my future.

This is my family's future.

- I was sleeping in my
car going to fashion school.

God gave me a gift.

And that gift should
be able to shine.

- Winning "Project Runway,"
it's a big middle finger

to everyone that said,

"That boy is not going
to amount to anything."

- In this current climate where
we haven't seen each other,

we're dying for connection.



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- Fashion designer
Christian Siriano...

- Journalist Elaine Welteroth...

- Fashion Designer
Brandon Maxwell...

- And editor-in-chief of
"Elle" magazine, Nina Garcia

are looking for America's
next great fashion designer.

At stake for the winner,

$1/4 million supplied by
Pilot FriXion erasable pens.

- A feature in "Elle" magazine.

- And a career-changing
mentorship

with the Council of Fashion
Designers of America.

- This is "Project Runway."

[upbeat music]
- Wow.

- Holy sh--.

- Whoo!

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, my God!
- Yes!

- Whoo!

[cheering]

- Welcome.

All: Hi.

- Hi, guys.

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, this is for real.

- Oh, yeah. [laughs]

- Lincoln Center is a
whole continent in itself.

The vibe, the feeling,
the excitedness,

the whole raw energy of it all,

it feels like we're in the
cusp of a new beginning.

- Everybody over
there is so gorgeous.

- Hi, designers, and
welcome to "Project Runway."

[cheers and applause]

- As a celebration of the
revival of New York City,

Lincoln Center is
championing arts.

And we're standing in the
physical centerpiece of it all,

"The GREEN."

[cheers and applause]

This bold green
landscape is symbolic

of the power of color
to inspire, to uplift,

and to celebrate
this new beginning.

- So let me tell
you, now is the time

for bold, in-your-face color.

[applause]

- Okay.
[applause]

- It's the first thing
that attracts your eye.

It exudes emotion.

And it tells your
customer who you are.

[upbeat orchestral music]

- Thank you.
- Uh-oh.

- Are we gonna pick a color?
- Oh. [laughs]

- This is your first challenge.

- Oh.

- A celebration of color.

- For your first challenge,
you'll be working in two teams.

- Oh.
- Oh, (BLEEP).

- Two teams?

- Part of my
brain is like, "Yay!"

And then another
part of my brain is like,

"Son of a bitch."

Welcome to "Project Runway."

- Each team is gonna
create a cohesive collection

of eight monochromatic

high-fashion runway
looks celebrating color.

- Color is my thing.

But using one color,
I've never done it before.

So I kind of want to see
what I can come up with.

- All right, I'm gonna
divide you guys up.

Shantall, you're Warm.
Katie, you're Cool.

Octavio, you're Warm.

Every other
designer, Warm, Cool.

Split into your teams, Warm
over here, Cool over here.

- Shantall, Bones.

Nice to meet you.
- Bones?

- Yes.
- I'm Katie.

- Team Warm, here's
your half of the color wheel.

Team Cool.

So you'll each pick one
color from the wheel,

and that's the only
color you get to use.

- This is a two-day challenge.
- Yes!

- And someone from the
losing team will be out.

- No pressure.

- And one last thing, we
don't want you to worry

about what the
other team is doing.

Warm Team, you'll
be working days.

And Cool Team, you'll
be working in the evening.

- No.
- What?

- Now it's time to get to work.

- Good luck.
[applause]

- Oh, yeah. Thank you.

- We on "Runway," hey.

- Normally, to make
a cohesive collection,

you can use color.

But when everybody
has a different color

and we can't even borrow
colors from everybody else,

we have to find other
ways to make it cohesive.

- One, two, three.

- I got Mimi.

Okay, can we just talk about

whatever color we're
eyeing right now?

- I was thinking magenta.
- Gold.

- I'll do the gold.
- Okay.

- Take the rest.
- Okay.

I'll take the orange.
- Okay.

- We are presenting
a whole collection.

So we need something
that could connect us.

- What kind of styles
do you guys design?

- Sparkle, sequins,
and streetwear.

- Color is my thing.

- Look at me. I look
like a bag of Skittles.

[laughter]

- I do entertainment fashion.

- Honestly, I live in a
world of drag queens.

The looks that I create
screams fabulous.

Sequin, big, crazy,
over-the-top, super extra.

- Where does this
accent come from?

- I live in Jackson,
Mississippi.

- Okay, come on.

- And I grew up in West
Virginia, unfortunately.

All the guys in my town
wanted to be football players.

I wanted to be Miss America

or a figure skater or Barbie.

I didn't know who I was.

I was not confident in myself.

One night, somebody
painted my face in drag

and confidence
started happening.

- I love doing evening wear.

And I love '70s, '80s, '90s.

I describe myself--
This power Latina.

My aesthetic is
sophisticated, a little bit sexy,

but not that much.

Sometimes in
fashion, less is better.

It's about the details.

- We have four pairs of pants

and then the rest are dresses.

- I do feel like we have
two different collection here.

- There has to be,
like, an element that,

like, really pulls it together.

- Why don't we talk
about the hardware options

because you can change
anything up with an exposed zipper.

- I really don't have much
hardware in mind at all.

- I think people have
different interpretation

or explanation of, "What
could being cohesive mean?"

The idea that a designer
needs to fit in with a team

so much that you
forget about yourself

is total bullsh-- because
that's not how you design.

[lively music]

- So who is comfortable
designing for plus size?

I am, 'cause I'm a juicy bitch.

We have one more
pretty plus-size woman.

The fashion industry
doesn't create garments

for a plus-size woman.

There are some pants
that I can't even, like,

get over my thighs.

I think it's ridiculous.

And so it's like,
"Okay, fashion industry.

You don't want those
customers? I do."

I used to think, "Who
wants to buy clothes

from the girl from
Tulsa, Oklahoma?"

Well, turns out
a lot of people do

because I'm awesome.

I love creating clothes
for anyone and everyone.

- I've done it before.

- I can help you.
- Okay.

I've done one plus--
Yeah, a few plus-size, so...

- I feel excited to design
the piece on a plus-size girl.

I grew up with two
feminist parents.

And my mom didn't
want us to have Barbies

'cause she did not want
us to compare ourselves

to something that wasn't real.

So masculine meets
feminine is, like, my thing.

I love gender fluidity because
I'm all about breaking boxes.

Okay, so we're good with
colors and our models, right?

- We need to talk about a theme

and then from
there, a design detail.

- Why don't we
create like flowers?

- The flower blooming is
a good rebirth around this.

- Like, romantic?
- Round.

- The shapes.
- Romantic, okay.

- I was raised by a
tribe of strong women

so I know that in
this group of ladies

that I'm working with,
me being the only male,

I need to play it safe

and not piss off
none of these women

because if they do,
they're coming after me.

- I think let's go with a
theme, which was the flower.

- I like to work
with the shapes.

For example, on the sleeves,

I would love to create the bows.

And I thought, like, to
have one on the back.

- I really like your bow idea.

I would love to bring
that detail into mine.

- I can interplay this top
into other connecting bows.

- Question: Is our
concept still a flower?

- I feel like we
need more of a story

'cause a story
will really help us.

I feel like we're
going to a dinner.

You know, like,
freedom. Like, being alive.

- The thing is that we
haven't seen the fabrics yet.

- Yeah.
- True.

- Because when
you see the fabrics,

what you choose
from, it maybe change.

- I think we should just, like,

all run to our fabrics,
grab rolls, and we'll meet.

- Shop for like 20
minutes on your own

and then come
together at 21 minutes.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I'm stressed.
- [laughs]

- Take me to Mood, please.
- [laughs]

- Yay!

- You guys ready to go
check out our new house?

- Yeah.
- All right, let's go.

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- Oh.
- Oh, hey, fancy.

- Super gorg.

Like, the furnishings,
everything--

I'm like, "Okay, peak
New York. What up?"

However, we know
that the other team

is directly above us
on the other floors.

So it's kind of sleeping
with the enemy.

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♪ ♪

- Hello, Warm Team.

It's your first trip to Mood.

- Yeah.
- I know, it's really weird

to be here with
only eight people,

You know, it's
your first challenge.

Well, you'll have 45 minutes.
- [sighs]

- But you have $400.

- Yay!
- Ooh.

- Go.

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- Oh, my God. I've never
bought fabric this fast before.

- Five yards of this one.

- I wonder what everybody
else honestly is grabbing.

Yellow is the color of hope.

It feels like new energy.

So I'm making a pant jumpsuit

expressing, like, hope
is right at your footsteps.

I kind of want to
see what other stuff

my team is going
with too, honestly.

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- I hope you guys
are all chatting about

this cohesive collection that's
supposed to be happening.

- I don't like the
way that came out.

- Oh, Lord, who's
getting sequins?

- You know it. My color's gold.

- You're getting
all these fabrics?

- Well, I'm hoarding.

I want my first introduction
to be 100% Darren.

Ahh.

I love dressing people

to make them
feel like rock stars,

even though they're just
walking down the street.

So for this challenge,
it's kind of like

a runaway prom queen going
to a New Year's Eve party-ish.

[laughs]

Nice meeting you, by the way.

- Nice meeting you.
- You're really cute.

- Thanks.
- Are you single?

I am. Just putting it out there.

- Oh, uh, too old for this.

- All right, designers,
20 minutes.

- I'll take 10 of that.

- I'm going to get this cut.

- We were gonna meet,
so I'm nervous about that.

- Just FYI, you guys are all
getting very different things.

Cohesive collection.

- Hey, are you cut already?
- I cut mine.

- I cut mine too.
- Already?

- Yes.
- Oh, gosh.

Our plan just goes
out the window.

I thought we were gonna
meet at 20 minutes, remember?

Some people are
already cutting fabrics.

Some people already in line.

And I'm like, "I thought
we had a plan here."

We need to make sure
our fabrics look, like,

somewhat in the same world.

'Cause what he has over here,

like, that's really
soft in comparison.

This is not the way to do it.

- How was the meeting?
- It didn't go too well.

- It didn't go great. All right.

- Who else has cut?

My ----in' heart is
coming out of my chest.

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[upbeat music]

- Here we are.

- Oh, my God.

- Holy...
- Wow.

- This is incredible.
- That's so beautiful.

- Oh, my God, the walls.

- Okay, grab your sketchbooks.

- Our main concern
is the cohesiveness.

We need to be very
assertive about our storyline.

- Yeah.

- Because if we are going
to dinner and a show, like,

how do I want to look
at dinner and a show?

- Okay.
- All right.

- So it's all night life.
- Yeah.

- Teamwork, guys.

- Whoo!

- The people around
me, they're legit.

These people, like, have shows.

They have their brands.

Kenneth-- I've seen
his work before.

He made a huge
career in ball gowns

for celebrities for red carpets.

And I'm a fan of Octavio.

Following on Instagram.

Legit AF.

- You said you'd be
sewing live on IG?

I never show people my process.

Everybody knows Dope
Tavio this, Dope Tavio that,

the guy with the red mustache.

He does the
avant-garde street stuff.

You have to have some
kind of balls to wear my stuff.

[speaking Spanish]

- [speaking Spanish]

I'm making a palazzo pants

with a beautiful blazer

with texture in the sleeves.

I'm going to be tense.

When I was 27 years old,
I was one of the finalists

of "Project Runway
Latin America."

It allowed me to open
Shantall Lacayo Brand.

We produce in Nicaragua.

And being on
"Project Runway" USA,

I want to show my
brand to the world.

- Like, what the hell?

I've never used these machines.

Growing up in
Lynchburg, Virginia,

which is just like it
sounds, I was just like,

"This is not for me.
I'm moving to New York.

[laughing] I gotta get
the (BLEEP) out of here."

Ahh! That's not straight.

Like, what the hell?

With my background as a dancer,

I always see clothes
through movement.

And in my career,
I had two goals:

I wanted to dance for Beyoncé,

and I wanted to do
a Broadway show.

Literally, they happened
in the same week.

I think I got it.

And now I started my
brand, House O Bones,

and set forth on the journey

that I want to do with fashion.

I got it!

- Is anybody worried
that Christian is not here?

- We got to get some stuff
cranked out before he shows up.

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♪ ♪

- Welcome to Mood.

You guys want,
like, a little tour?

I can show you what
the other team bought.

- Yes. And their sketches?

- No.
[laughter]

- All right, time starts now.

Go.

- Whoo!

[energetic music]

Oh, sorry! [laughs]

Eight designers working together

to find a common theme.

Not only do we
have different tastes,

we have different concepts

of what that means and
how we communicate it.

- Okay, can I
actually cut or not?

- Yes.

- We are trying to
represent woman as a flower.

- You're good on your
team of all female leaders?

- I really don't know
where the bow came in.

- Some of us went a little
askew from the original plan.

I'm sticking with the idea of
a flower as opposed to a bow.

- Is this gonna be a
cohesive collection?

- Very cohesive.
- Mm-hmm.

All right, designers,
that's time.

All: Bye!

[funky music]

♪ ♪

- How does everybody feel?

- I feel good.
- Yeah?

- Hi, everybody.

- Hello.
- Hi.

- Oh, Jesus.

- You guys do not
seem very excited.

- We're stressed.

- Stressed?
- Excited, excited.

- All right, Darren,
what's happening?

- I want it to be,
like, a big skirt.

And ideally, I want this
whole thing to be in sequins.

I'm interested in doing
entertainment fashion.

- Okay.

- So that's a lot
of glitz and glam.

- Gold sequin can be intense.

Maybe that intensity will
stand out from the group.

Does the team kind of
know what you're doing?

- None of them
have anything similar

or anything sparkly at all.

- But no one's really
chatting with each other.

- Right.
- We'll see how that goes.

Good luck.
- Thank you so much.

♪ ♪

- All right, Kenneth,
what's happening?

- It's a crop and skirt.

- How do you think this is
fitting in with everybody else?

- Our girl, she's, like, going
to like an evening wear,

like a ready-to-wear vibe.
- Dinner and a show.

- Yeah. It's like--yeah.

- So everyone's doing a
little more evening, somewhat.

- A little bit of that, yes.
So that's where we at.

- Okay. We'll see.

- We'll see how it looks like.
- Mm-hmm.

[energetic music]

Interesting.

♪ ♪

All right, Shantall,
what's happening?

- A suit.
- Mm-hmm.

- I choose leather
to make a belt.

- If leather is not
anyone else's thing,

I don't think it's
gonna make sense...

- Mm-hmm.

- Just to have a
thing of leather.

- I just want to, like,

keep on working and to
see what they're doing.

So maybe I could give
like a better shape...

- Yeah.
- That match with others.

- We've got
leather, gold sequin,

evening couture, crop top.

I think, as a collection,

kind of everybody's
on their own right now.

- It's been a little rough.

There's no leader.

- You think that's a
good thing or a bad thing?

- I think that's not good.

- Right.
- All right, good luck.

- Thank you.

♪ ♪

- All right, Octavio,
how's it going?

- It's going.

What I'm doing is the
oversized harem pant.

- This is totally different
than pretty much

everything else
happening because it is

so dramatically oversized.
- Right.

- This is literally--

- A dress.

Yeah.
- My whole body.

- How tall are you?

- Well, I know
I'm not that short.

- I want her to look
like the red carpet.

- She's the whole red carpet.

- The whole red carpet.

- I'm excited to see it.
- Thank you.

- Hello.
- What up? What it do?

- What you makin'?
- It's a pant.

- It's a pant.
- Yeah, she's curvy.

And I want to, like,
accentuate that waistline.

- Mm-hmm.
- So it's like--

- It's sexier.
- It's sexier.

- But as a collection,

I don't know how any of
this is making sense at all.

- Okay, let me tell you.
- Tell me.

- When a group
of girls get together

and go to a dinner
and go to a show,

they're not gonna all
wear the same thing.

- Like there's not really
anything cohesive yet.

- I feel like we're all
leading our own thing.

But there's like
a unified concept.

- Are you being a leader?
- I don't think so.

- Just curious.
- At the end of the day,

we're all still responsible
for our own thing.

But I feel really good
about where we are.

- Mm-hmm. Um, all right, guys.

I think there's a lot
of really great ideas.

But making this a collection,

not so sure yet.

All right, well, good luck.

I'll see you for our
model fitting next.

Bye, guys.

- Everyone want to bring
their mannequin close?

We're gonna leave
this for tomorrow.

- Guys, meeting.

- This is fab.

- I'm happy with what
I'm looking at right now.

- He has straps.

Octavio has straps.
Coral has straps.

And there's, like, some
weaving going on too.

So this is really
cute. I'm sorry.

It looks cohesive,
it feels like a story.

I feel like we need
to hide our stuff

so that nobody gets a
peek at what we're doing.

- Tomorrow, I come here,

there's a string
missing in that dress,

I'm fighting somebody.
- [laughs]

- All right, guys, let's go.

- Well, well, well,
look who it is.

- Rule number one in the
art of war is "know thy enemy."

So I'm dying to know what
the Warm Team is doing.

But I got nothing.

Team challenge,
we're all in this together.

- Love it.

But, like, next
challenge, I'll cut you.

- [laughs]

[up-tempo music]

- Both of our girls,
they got a little hip,

so we need to pad out the ass.

- Those look like eyes.

- Um, this is a rump, thank you.

- [laughs]

I hate people that
take plus-size women,

and they're like,
"Poncho. Here you go."

- I don't want to cover her up.

But for the purple color,
this is what I want to do.

- Yeah.

- From a very young
age, I told my mom,

"I'm gonna go to New York
and become a fashion designer."

I found fashion by
watching old films.

Like, the '40s and
the '50s and the '60s.

And I would just keep thinking
about these spy trench coats

from the 1940s

and how that,
mixed with lavender,

could be, like, this
fun, quirky spin.

This is a coat.

And then I'm going to
do a romper underneath.

That's what I want to do.
- Oh! I just got goosebumps.

- I can also do a woven bottom.

I have so many ideas,

I can't even get
them out sometimes.

It's a good problem to
have, but it's frustrating

'cause I'll have another idea

while I'm making something else.

- I was a little
scared at first today.

But getting in the
workroom with you guys,

I just, like, love this.

- I just can't talk
'cause I'm focused.

- Fair enough.

- Is anybody doing,
like, any cutouts

or peekaboo of skin?

Any cutouts, peekaboo of skin?

[sighs]

Everybody is
focused on their looks.

A little nerve-racking
because I don't want to be

the only one stuck without a bow

and then I'm called out
for not being cohesive.

Is anyone adding a bow?

- Yes. The biggest
bow you can think of.

Whoo!

We're gonna tie our whole
collection together with a bow

and make it look cohesive,

and make sure they go
together and it's a "wow" factor.

Okay, I'm just testing this.

I like the tunnel.

I want to make a built,
voluminous bow top

with almost, like, petals
coming out of a flower.

A little bit chunky, though.

I'm from Afghanistan,

and my designs are inspired
by Afghani shapes and structures

that reminds me of when
my father was a tailor

as a refugee in Pakistan,

and I would watch him
create beautiful clothes.

And I was drawn to that.

But when you grow up in years
and years upon years of war,

it's hard to imagine that
my dream is to go to America

and be a fashion designer.

That didn't really
exist in my head.

[up-tempo music]

- Have you ever
worked on anything

in a very short amount
of time like this?

- Yes. At home.

I normally do all this
with all my kids around.

- What would your kids
say to you right now?

- My kids, like, don't
even pay attention.

That's how my kids are.

My two daughters,

they influence me
to keep striving.

We do watch a lot of
Disney movies together.

And that kind of has an
influence on my point of view.

Creating bridal gown
for the boss woman

who is gliding down
an enchanted forest

but also has to take care
of things at home as a mom.

- Question: Is that
green in the paint?

- Yeah, but it
dries with a tint.

Technically, she's
still in the wheelhouse.

- I love that you're just
in this dress right now.

- I don't.

- You look like a Russian queen.

- Where's your crown?

♪ ♪

- Hi, guys.

- Oh, no. He's here.

- How is the Cool Team doing?

- I'm scared.
- What are you scared about?

I'm here to help.
Hi, how are you?

- Me?

- Who do you
think I'm looking at?

- You're just walking
through in a ghost outfit.

- I don't know what...
- [laughs]

- What's happening?

- One second. I'm
gonna explain you.

- Okay.
- So gonna be bow here.

And there's going to
be long tails here as well.

- Oh.
- You know?

- I think what's
happening in the collar

with the bow and
the piece in the back,

I do think is kind
of interesting.

But is everybody doing bows?

- In some way, yes.
- In some way.

Okay, well, then that's cool.

Is there a story
to the bows at all?

Why? What's the reason?

[light, tense music]

Or is it just something we love?

Where's she going?
What is she doing?

- She's celebrating.
- She's just celebrating?

♪ ♪

- We've been locked
down for so many days

and we're going to Costco.

- We're going to Costco.

- We're going to Costco
but looking fabulous.

- No.

- Let's set our
sights a little higher.

- Can we just clarify
that Costco was a joke?

- All right, Chasity.

- So I'm making a
jumpsuit with a bow.

- Well, I actually think that
that could be really cool.

Just make sure that it's
somewhat new and innovative.

- I'ma play around with
what the bow's gonna look like

and where it's gonna be placed.

- Yeah. Mm-hmm.

- Thank you, Christian.
- You're welcome.

- [giggles]

All right, Caycee.

- Hi.
- What's your color?

- Lavender.
- Lavender.

- So I wanted to do an
outerwear piece--a coat dress.

- Interesting.

You kind of just have
a ruffled coat dress.

How is it fitting in?

- Right, right, right.

- Yeah, I'm asking.
- No, I know.

I had bows originally. It just--

- I mean, you guys have to
kind of lock in the story too.

- Mm-hmm.
- That might help you.

- Mm-hmm.

- Maybe there's a way
to develop that more.

- Okay.

- Great. Good luck.

- Thank you.
[laughs] I'll need it.

[laughs]
- Whoo!

[upbeat music]

- Hi, Sabrina.
- Hi, Christian.

I'm going for a huge
bow on the chest.

- Are you gonna use all
of these fabrics together?

- Yes, I'm hoping.

- They might not
work. Do a test.

- Okay.

- Okay. Maybe you
can help me then.

Why the bow?

Like, what is
happening with the bow?

- As a team, we decided

our design detail
was gonna be the bow.

It's just kind of
evolved, apparently.

One thing led to another.

- Got it.

But no one necessarily
really likes bows here.

That just--it just happened.
- Yeah.

- All right, good luck.
- Thank you.

- All right, guys,

what are you guys
gonna say on the runway

when the judges ask
you, what is your story?

Why are you making these bows?

What inspires you about them?

Because no one seems to
be able to tell me the reason.

You know, why
does this collection

belong on this runway?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Okay, so I think that we need
to come to some type of clarity

as to who our girl is
and where she's going.

- We know that
Nina's gonna ask that.

Brandon is gonna ask that.

- This is a little discouraging

that we're like having this
conversation a day into it.

- Our girl can be anywhere.

- We don't need to go, like,

to the gallery or
somewhere else.

- What is the main concept?

- I love the opera.
I love the opera.

- I feel like it's like the VIP
party before the gallery opens.

- Everybody's
throwing out every idea,

and it's still not making sense.

Instead of them saying,
"Okay, as a whole,

this is what our girl
and where she's going."

It was just like, "Oh, I'll
have my girl go to the opera."

"Oh, I'll have my girl
going to the art gallery."

- It needs to be finite

'cause I already
got my dress cut.

I don't want to start sewing
if we change direction.

- [sighs] Working in a group.

- You guys are all
doing beautiful stuff.

I think we're complicating it,
overthinking way too much.

- I think so too.

- When I was escaping
Afghanistan with my family,

we left everything.

Just stashed some money
underneath mother's dress

and got in a truck for Pakistan.

When you grow up in a
country of terror and war,

you have to learn
how to survive.

So it almost feels like I
need to please people

to feel accepted.

Let your color
speak for yourself.

And I think we've done a lot
of evening wear it seems like.

- I think they're
gonna be cohesive.

- I agree.
- All right.

[up-tempo music]

♪ ♪

- So I had this, like, jumpsuit,

but I'm not doing her anymore.

I'm just doing the coat for
now to just make it the best.

There's an extension if I
wanted to play with that, but--

- You know, play with it.

- What fabric are you
gonna do for this one?

- I wanted to do wool.

I have so many
ideas, and these clocks

are not allowing
all big grand plans.

So I need to just
focus on the coat.

Also, plunge neckline, yeah?
- Yeah.

- I love it. I love it.
- Love you.

- 30 minutes - 30 minutes.

- Where did that hour go?
- I know, right?

♪ ♪

- I'm really sorry, but, like,

I like to use one machine.

- Oh, I've already
changed everything on it.

- I know, but I did
the same before you.

- But I re-adjusted
it for myself.

- I'm sorry. I'm just not
gonna spend more time on this.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- What just happened?
- [laughs]

I'm too busy being nosy.

I sewed my pattern backwards.

- Look at you,
that's what you get.

- Little moody, maybe?

[up-tempo music]

- Tomorrow is the pants.

- Beep, beep.

- We'll clean it later.

- So, guys, are you ready?

- All right, y'all,
let's head out.

- Freedom!

- We have to be up early.
We have clothes to make.

I would give them warning,
'cause we are going to win.

- I can't decide if I'm
hungry or just tired.

- [laughs]
- All of the above.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- What was the
feedback of Christian?

- He scared me.

- He did?
- Yes.

- I was scared.
- Yeah.

- Somebody has to talk for us

during the runway.
- Yeah.

- And I was gonna propose Bones.

- Yeah, I was thinking that too.

- I was proposing--
- Is everyone good with that?

- I'm down to take
the leadership position.

I've been in rooms
with Beyoncé, Madonna,

JLo, Mariah Carey, you name it.

- Are we set with Bones?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Okay. I just want
to hear everybody.

Yeah? Bones will be our
spokesperson for the group.

- Bones it is.
- So Bones it is.

- Okay.

- Let's do our work.

I'm going to the work
room. I have work to do.

[upbeat dance music]

♪ ♪

- I am so freakin' ready.

- Ugh, back to work.

Come on. Lots to do.

- Ahh!

- How you doing? How
you doing? How you doing?

- I'm good, honey.
How are you doing?

- Good. Lots to do, but
we have enough time.

I'm definitely gonna be
ready for runway tomorrow.

Well, I'm making a bandeau
crop top and a big voluminous skirt,

which isn't really that hard.

But the models
are gonna come in.

It sets up a new set of
stuff that I have to do.

[tense electronic music]

♪ ♪

- Hi, guys.
- Hi, Christian.

- Hi.
- How is Team Warm feeling?

- Warm.
- Pretty good.

- Warm and cozy? Yeah?

Who's ready for a model?

- I am.
- I am.

- Yeah!
- I'm excited.

Let's do it.

[contestants applauding]

- Whoo, whoo!

- Wow.

- Aren't they gorgeous?
- Hi.

- Nice to meet to you.
- Good. Nice to meet you.

- I don't have to take
you in. This is perfect.

- Is it tight?
- No.

- Do you feel comfortable?

- The length in the hem--
I need to finish that still.

I feel like it needs
to be shorter.

- Mm-hmm.

I just think--I don't know.

I think that this is gonna
be really hard for them.

This for me scares me the most.

This looks so cheap now.

You just have a gold
bandeau with a bubble weird--

- Right, right, okay. Ha.

- We've got a lot of issues.

- Right, right. Okay.

- You've gotta really
work on this right now.

- Hey, Warm Team.

Are we lining
everybody up together?

- Yes!
- Thank you.

♪ ♪

- Did you all remember
your numbers?

Who's next?

- I love everything.

- We--we do?
- Yes.

- We love everything
in this room?

- We love everything
in this room. Right?

- Yes.

- Yeah, I love
everything in this room.

- I bet you don't.
- I bet I do.

Guys, don't let anybody
else's outside opinions, like,

distract what we're doing.

- What are the outside
opinions? Meaning mine?

- Yes. I'm sorry.

[dramatic music]

[tense music]

- I'm here to help you.

I would love to
give you opinions.

But if you don't need
them, there's no problem.

- But we're a team right now,

we have to all decide
on how we feel.

- Bones is extremely rude
and definitely out of line.

- I mean, I don't
need to be here

'cause there's issues

with every single
one of these looks.

So you guys first
should work on that

before you even
not want opinions,

'cause that's insane.
- I do.

- I need your opinion.
- I do.

- This is all gonna
----in' fall down the hill.

- Cigarette?
- Yes, please.

Intense, copious
amounts of nicotine.

- Maybe it was,
like, a big mistake

picking Bones as a leader.

- When you pop up
like that to Christian,

it reflects on all of us

because I would have
loved to hear what he said.

But we spent five
minutes on a respect issue.

- No, listen--

- The fact that you
don't listen to Christian

might take the whole team down.

Christian Siriano is the
most successful designer

that ever come out
of "Project Runway."

If he wants to give an opinion,
you just shut the (BLEEP) up,

you let him speak.
- I believe in that.

But also, like, I
want to go home

because of my opinions,
not because of Christian's.

- I'm not going down for nobody
who made a wrong decision

for not listening to the
professional in the room.

- At this point, I don't care.
- At this point, I mean,

I just want to make
my look look great.

- Yeah.
- I'm gonna go back to it.

♪ ♪

- Just trying not
to panic because--

- Take a deep
breath, it will be okay.

- Darren, I'm proud of you

'cause he is making a
whole new skirt right now

and, like, making a whole
----ing fabric right now.

- The amount of work

that I think I have to
do left is overwhelming.

I felt like I had a
good, solid piece

that I was pleased about.

But Christian-- he
basically flat out said

that, of all eight looks,

he was worried
about mine the most.

- Once I'm done,
I'm down to help.

[tense music]

- Plan of action:
Today, we are killing it.

Go big or go home.

- Celery inventory is low.

- Oh, yeah.

- We're gonna
meditate for 20 minutes.

- Yeah. Yes, I need silence.

I plan on winning
"Project Runway"

by taking it one
challenge at a time.

So I just have to meditate

when I can have a moment
to myself to go breathe.

[casual music]

[Meagan sniffles]

- My mom passed two years ago.

She was always, like, the
biggest cheerleader for me.

[emotional music]

I've struggled with
mental health issues

since I was pretty
much a teenager.

And that anxiety of
never being good enough.

She was the one
person in my life that, like,

always supported me.

So, like, to not have
her is really hard.

- It's okay. I mean,
we're human.

- It's hard.
- Let that sh-- out.

- It's day two, and,
like, this, I didn't--

I don't think I, like,
mentally prepared of, like,

what the stress
of the competition

was going to be.
- Yeah.

- And it's day two.
- Yeah.

- You know what I mean?

- All right, everybody.
Let's pack this bitch up.

Time's up.
- [laughs]

- I am hungry, I am tired,

and I am hot. Let's go.

- Hi, guys.
- Hi!

- Look at this mess. All right.

- Today is gonna be a good day.
- Whoo!

- I've got to find
my dress form.

Oh, yeah. This is
gonna be great. Okay.

- Perfect.

- Hello, everybody.
Feeling excited for models?

- [screams]
- They're here.

- So excited you're my model.

- Yes! Yes!

- I'm very glad you are tall.
[laughs]

[upbeat, energetic music]

- I'm so happy.
[laughs]

- You look so good.
And all it is is muslin.

♪ ♪

- Hey, Christian.
- Hi.

Pretty.

- Thank you, Christian.
- You're welcome.

- The cut is really nice.

Do you have any taffeta
that you've already gathered

that you can play with
and drape right now?

- I have here sequins.

- That's pretty.

Go to the mirror, drape on her,

and have some fun.

- Thank you, Christian.
- You're welcome.

- It's getting a sleeve?
- Yes.

I just need to iron
it to make it work.

- I think that looks pretty.

- It is great.
- Good luck.

- I cut this, then I
can, like, put it quickly--

At least drape it to
see where things head.

- Well, this looks pretty.

- Well, what are
you pointing at?

Are you pointing at the bottom
or the top or the whole thing?

I don't like that.
- The back's pretty.

- I was going to have
maybe peekaboo here

and have a bow.

- I think that looks cool.

You just have a
lot of finishing to do.

I see pins everywhere
but the hem.

- I do. Okay.

- I'm really loving
these fabrics together.

- What is that here?

- It's gonna be, like, a flap
from, like, a trench coat.

- You love that flap
right on her boob?

- You don't love it?

- You got to edit a little bit.

Why don't you take a
few things off really quick

and see what it does?
- All right.

- Team Cool,

did you guys get together at all

to see everyone together?

- So we're about
to do that right now.

- Are you guys doing this in
order of the color wheel or--

- We probably should.
- What do you think?

[tense music]

Where are we going?
What did we decide?

- The art--
Something in the arts.

- The opera.
- Not the opera.

- The art gallery.
- Not the opera. The art show.

♪ ♪

- I'm nervous. I did not know

that there would be so
many things not finished.

We need help.

♪ ♪

Is there any element that
you guys could bring in

that is gonna make
this a little similar?

- That's gonna be the bows.

It's not a cohesive collection.

And the only thing
what we can do right now

is to make it work together
with one particular element,

that's the bow.

And I feel like
this is the only way

how we can somehow
put it together.

- All right. Good luck tonight.

And I will see you early
tomorrow for your first runway.

- Bye.

- Think, think, think, think,
think, think, think, think.

I'm making a few adjustments
to where the bow placement is.

I've worked with
bows in the past.

And I think a bow can be elegant

or it can read off as junior.

I just am tripped up on
where I'm gonna add it.

- This would be the tail.

My intuition says, "Do
the thing with the bow

and then make
the best out of this."

- [sighs]

I'm losing my voice
and my patience.

I'm not putting a
bow on my garment.

Sorry.

You get what I
originally designed

and what I bought fabric for.

I feel a little
defeated right now.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- We get to see the
other team today, right?

- Yeah.
- Finally.

- I'm, like, happy
that we're gonna

like, finally meet
them, you know?

- Me too.
- Yeah.

- I was thinking about the
other team and, I'm like,

it's all guys and two girls.

There probably hasn't been
a lot of emotional fighting.

- Oh, oh, no.

They got none of the,
like, PMS emotions.

- Also, kind of what I
really want to talk about,

and this is really serious
because, like, it's my ass,

but I am not the
leader of this team.

We have all led our
own individual looks.

- Bones, honey,
please let it go.

Stop with the negativity, honey.

- I promise you, if
y'all say I'm the leader,

I'm letting it rip.

So nobody better let
that out of their mouth

'cause I'm telling you now.
- Why are you so scared?

It's not that they're
gonna kick you out

because, like, the
whole team did bad.

- When we get up there
for the runway show,

are you gonna throw
me under the bus

or are you gonna have my back

just as I'm gonna
have your back?

At the end of the day,
one person is going home.

That scared me.
- We get it.

We don't need to go on
about it for 30 ----in' minutes.

- Please understand
that I'm expressing myself.

And when you want
to express yourself,

I would never tell
you to stop bitching.

- You are not a martyr.

And I'm sick to the stomach

that I'm gonna be in the bottom.

- Oh, my God, you guys.

[up-tempo music]

♪ ♪

- Runway day!

- What's up?
- Y'all look cute or whatever.

- Y'all ready for the runway?
- Yo, teammates. Come on.

- Show day, baby.

- Being in a workroom
with the other team,

I'm happy and sad

because I have to
finish my garment,

however, I want to get to know

all of these fabulous
people that I'm seeing.

- Kristina, right?
- That's me.

- To just see what
everyone else is doing,

it makes me feel uncomfortable.

Not fully confident
with what I have so far.

- Hi, everybody.

- Hi!
- Hi!

- You guys want to come
over here and gather around?

All right, designers, there
are only 16 of you here now.

And only one of you is gonna
take home the grand prize.

- Whoo!
[cheers and applause]

- $1/4 million supplied by
Pilot FriXion erasable pens.

[applause]
- Whoo!

- Which you guys have been using

for sketching and
erasing in the workroom.

- All right, guys, this
is your first runway day.

- Yeah.
- Are we nervous?

- Yes.
- Mm-hmm.

- Who wants a model?

- I do.
- Me.

- Yes.
- Here they come.

- Hey, babe.
- Hey.

- Yay.
- Whoo!

- Try to get this, and
then I'll throw it on you.

- What's your name?
- Chasity.

- Chasity, nice to meet you.
- What's yours?

- Bones.
- Bones?

- Yeah.
- I love it!

- When you're ready,
take your models

to the TRESemmé Hair Salon
and the Maybelline Makeup Studio.

- All right, let's go do this.

- Briana, you ready
for makeup, baby?

We are station four.

- Flawless face, clean.

- Hair's gonna be high ponytail.

- How's it going over here?

- It's going well. How are you?
- Great.

- So yeah, I want to just
have a little quick chitchat

about yesterday with you.

I want you to know, I
wasn't coming at you.

I was just, like,
sticking up for my team.

Unfortunately, in that moment,

when you asked if you
were an outside opinion,

you were an outside opinion.

So it wasn't no disrespect.

And I will always
take your critiques.

- I'm just here for you.

- We appreciate it, 100%.

- What did you guys come
up with? Is it a secret?

- Yeah.
- Hmm.

[hammer banging]

Caycee.

- Hi.
- What's happening?

- I put the collar on and--

- The hem.
- The hem.

- And the lining.

- I'm freaking
out on the inside.

And on the outside, I
probably have panic in my eyes.

- Is there a lining?

There's no lining.

- Maybe not. Just the basics.

- The skirt is not yet done.

- It's basically done.
I'm feeling real good.

We're not golden, but we yellow.

[laughs]

- We're just doing simple,
clean line in our color.

- Everyone else is going back
and forth to hair and makeup.

I'm just worried about not
being able to finish my dress.

- I need a five-minute--
- Darren, how you doing?

- You okay?
- No.

- Darren, do you
have any more fabric?

- That sequin thing.
- Where you going?

- I'm just gonna smoke.
I just need a break.

There's 30 minutes left
before we go to the runway.

And Darren doesn't
have a full look together.

- Give me this.
- Don't--I need--

- No, you need
to get inside now.

Gotta start the skirt.
You're not going down.

- I'm not. No, I'm not.

- What do we need to do for him?

- I'm, like, shaking.
- Stop shaking. Stop (BLEEP).

Gotta stop
worrying. It's go time.

What's her chest?

- Uh, I forgot.

- I took this fabric,
run it to Mimi

while she's in makeup and hair,

strap it around her really fast

just to see what the
measurements were.

Thank you.

Take it to the sewing
machine and got to work.

[tense music]

- He needs the most
help out of anybody.

He needs it badly. He's,
like, having a breakdown.

- Bones.

- I definitely
gotta pull it out.

I feel like I do work
well under pressure.

I'm gonna make an alternate
dress just in case, okay?

This is definitely a
"make it work" moment.

- Come on.

[intense, up-tempo music]

♪ ♪

- I'm gonna drape
the bow on her.

- Just like this?
- No, no, no. That's--

- Let's see how
it is in the front.

- Sabrina.
- Yes.

- What are you doing?
- Finding solutions.

I wish that the bow
was voluminous bow

that I imagined.

Instead, there was
just a drape around her.

This is not a
representation of me

in any shape or form

- Five minutes. Last
looks are happening here.

♪ ♪

- What is happening?
- Magic.

- He helped me a lot.

- You think? You
have a sequin gown.

I mean, stunning.

But is it gonna fall down?

- Not at all.
- Okay.

You guys have two minutes.

- [groans]

- Oh, the hem.

- Oh.

- We're gonna head backstage.

- I'm, like, shaking.

- Let's go. This way.

Line up your models. Hurry up.

♪ ♪

- All right, designers.
That's it. Time.

- (BLEEP).

- Sh-- happens.

- Coming up.

- She has all this fabric
piled up here in the front.

I can't even see
that she has a waist.

- You could have
done without the bow.

You knew it. You should
have trusted your gut.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Hi, designers.
- Hi.

- Hi, guys.
- Hi.

- Oh, my God.
- Back to school, first day.

[laughter]

- This is real?
- Yeah, yeah.

[laughter] Yeah.

- Whoo-hoo.

- Designers, welcome
to your first show.

[cheers and applause]

- Whoo!

- I want you to meet our
guest judge, Jason Wu.

- Hi, designers.
- Oh, my God!

- He's dressed the likes of
Reese Witherspoon, Regina King,

and our First Lady
Michelle Obama.

- No big deal. No big deal.
- No big deal, right?

- Whatever.
- Wow.

- Let's get it started.

- [sighs]

[upbeat dance music]

♪ ♪

- I'm gonna have a heart attack.

♪ ♪

The dress is so beautiful.

Thank you, Bones,
for saving my ass.

- Wow.

♪ ♪

- This is my first introduction

as a designer to the whole world

and it's a dress
that I did not make.

And I'm devastatingly
embarrassed by that.

♪ ♪

- I think it looks beautiful.
Sarah is selling it.

Her skirt fits perfectly.

It's definitely me, very clean.

I'm really happy
with this stuff.

[up-tempo music]

♪ ♪

- My dress looks well-finished.

The hem-- no threads coming out.

Everything is just perfect.

- She has a pocket.
- Wow.

♪ ♪

- Yes.
- Whoo!

- Creating a look with just
one color is challenging.

But the model looks so amazing
on that burnt orange dress.

I'm so happy that I
was able to deliver.

[intense dance music]

- Oh, my God. That's my look.

It looks amazing.

Look, she could
throw on this bomber

and go to a great
dinner with her partner.

I'm not sure what
the judges will say.

I just--I love it. I love
it. I love it. I love it.

♪ ♪

- I can't believe I made
it onto "Project Runway"

and I'm showing something.

You know, it's totally me.

♪ ♪

I'm excited to see that
Elaine is wearing all red.

I guess red is the
color right now.

- Mami!

- When I saw that
pink suit in the runway,

I felt so good. I
felt so relieved.

Phew!

♪ ♪

I did something
wearable, unique,

and expressed what I
want to show everybody.

[energetic electronic music]

- This is the moment that I
wanted to create for myself

and for my model.

♪ ♪

I feel like a rock star
because I didn't just

make one outfit
during this challenge,

I made three.

Yes, ma'am.

I made one for
Grace, one for myself,

and one to help out a teammate.

But when I look at, like,
the lineup of what we have...

♪ ♪

It looks cohesive.
It feels like a story.

Like, I feel very
confident in where we are.

- It was great.
- Good job, guys.

- Good job.
- Some really good ones.

[upbeat dance music]

♪ ♪

- My model looks like what
I wanted her to look like.

♪ ♪

She just looks effortless.

♪ ♪

I'm happy.

♪ ♪

- I feel like I was able
to keep my identity

while still being a team player.

♪ ♪

You know, I added
this bow at the back

to be like my group.

I hand-painted it.

So I'm pretty happy
about my completed look.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- I'm from a different culture,

a different background.

Am I gonna be accepted?

I'm hoping the judges
see I have a point of view.

♪ ♪

And they see passion.

[intense electronic music]

- All the ruffles and all
the drama of this dress--

I think it's beautiful.

You should be able
to recreate the bow

the way you see that

and answering your instinct.

And I do hope that
the judges can see that.

[upbeat music]

- I actually don't mind the bow.

♪ ♪

But I feel like I lost
a little bit of my voice

trying to compromise so much

to make sure the
look was cohesive.

♪ ♪

[heavy dance music]

- Dariana-- she is
a curvy goddess.

♪ ♪

I don't have a bow like
some of my other teammates.

But I feel confident
in my own design.

And I'm really proud of it.

[intense electronic music]

- I'm hoping that the
judges see my attempt

at making a piece that is
very tailored and intricate.

I have so many ideas
that I just didn't get to do.

But she looks beautiful
in it. It fits her so well.

I'm proud of myself for
what I did in the time I had.

[upbeat dance music]

- The simplicity, the luxury,

and the fit was everything.

She is stunning.

But I didn't use the bow

because it's a little
bit childish to me.

[cheers and applause]

- The Cool Team--

We have different
lengths, different shape,

different fabric.

It is not cohesive collection.

[applause]

- Whoo.

- Congratulations, designers.

- Thank you!
- Thank you!

- This is how you come
back from a pandemic.

- Yeah.

- When you haven't seen a woman

walk down the
runway in so long--

I feel like I've been in
the desert with no water.

I just felt, like, a breath
of fresh air come out.

Congratulations to you.

Contestants: Thank you.

- This is the first runway
show that I have actually

seen in person in a year.

And I have to tell you, I
feel very honored to be here.

Absolutely.

Contestants: Thank you.

- Now, both teams, please
step up to the runway.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Designers, remember,
the winner of the challenge

will come from the winning team,

and someone from the
losing team will be out.

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

- Congrats on your first show.
- Thank you.

- Whoo.
- Thank you.

- It's challenging to
make a cohesive collection

just with one person
in a six-month period.

So great job,
everyone, on two days.

- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.

- So, designers, we
have all the scores.

And the winning team is...

♪ ♪

The Warm Team.

- Oh, my God.
- Oh!

[applause]

- Nice show.

[indistinct chatter]

- Cool Team, you
can leave the runway.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

♪ ♪

- Warm Team, welcome
to "Project Runway."

- Whoo.
- Thank you.

- It's so nice to see you.

Did you all have a leader?

Okay.

What would you say
was the cohesive thread

throughout the
entire collection?

- So we saw ladies
coming to the city

to enjoy, like, a nice dinner
and a show at the Met.

We were inspired by seeing
this new, vibrant energy.

- What you were
trying to portray, I felt.

And so I commend you on that.

There were three looks on
your team that blew us away.

Let's get the
first one out here.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Thanks. Hi.

Oh, wow.

- So, Octavio, your look
was one of my favorites.

It's satin and stretched lurex.

But it works.

- I was like, "You know
what, I'm gonna go for it."

I do things with a lot
of volumes and ruffles.

- So in terms of,
like, the pants,

it's a pant you've
made before or--

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's full-on my aesthetics.

- Octavio, does
that jacket come off?

- Yeah.
- Love.

- Red, passion, and bold.

Almost like high
fashion and sportswear.

- I mean, I could have
stuffed this and made it big.

But I left the ruffle droopy

'cause I wanted it to
be more about the pant.

- Yeah.
- I'm very proud of my piece.

Yeah.
- You should be.

Can exit.

Let's bring out another
one of our favorites.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Let me guess
whose look that is.

- Bones, you had one of the
highest scores on the team.

Congratulations.
How does it feel?

- I have dreamt of this
moment for a long time.

- You clearly have
a point of view.

This is a
beautifully-done garment.

- I really wanted
to just celebrate

a Black body and a curvy woman.

- The drape is fantastic.

- There's something
very effortless

and very elegant to it.

And you made your own look.

- Yeah, I had to. It was
the first runway show.

- Seeing the two of you

looking like a whole
queen and a whole king,

we need this imagery.

There's a dignity.
There's an elegance.

It's brilliant.

- I got on mascara.
Don't do this.

- It's brilliant.

- Thank you, Bones and Grace.

We have one more favorite look.

Let's see who it is.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[applause]

- This is one of the best pieces

that went down the runway.

- Very classic, very
polished, very chic.

I can see this
on the red carpet.

- Darren, how do you feel?
- Surprised.

This was made in
the last 30 minutes.

- 30 minutes?
- Yes.

- You would have never known it.

- My team helped
me, especially, Bones.

You saved my ass, Bones.

- Saved our team.
- Hey, Bones,

which part of this did you
have the biggest hand in?

- Almost all of it.
- All of it?

[dramatic music]

- Oh, my gosh. I can't
believe he made it.

♪ ♪

- I'm just curious how it feels
to be presenting something

that doesn't sound
like it's totally you.

- Trust me, I was
worried about that.

- You guys might not be
here as the winning team

if it weren't for Bones
chipping in to help.

- You can leave the runway

and please send
back the other team.

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- All right.

- Wish you the best.

God bless you all.

- Team Cool,

three designers had the
lowest scores on the team.

Let's get the
first one out here.

- Oh, my God.
- Oh, no.

- Sabrina, what kind of
designer would you say you are?

- This is one of my own.

So I'm very into
luxury, feminine, chic,

playing with draping
and structure.

- You present yourself
in such a modern way.

There's this, like,
unisex quality.

And then this is so girly.

So I'm curious what inspired
you to go the gown route.

- I've done other
gowns in the past.

And I started off wanting
to do a structured bow,

playing with shapes, and
bringing something new,

and bringing this
kind of aesthetic.

But playing with the drape
of the fabric and seeing

that it does its own thing,

a little bit lost
myself in the process.

[dramatic music]

I'm a better draper than
this, and I messed up.

♪ ♪

- It's okay.

- Sabrina, have a cry
and express yourself.

But let yourself learn
from this experience

and be better from it.

- I hope, if given
another opportunity,

I can come back more
true to myself as an artist

and as a human being
and as a designer.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, Sabrina.

- Let's get the next
model out here.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

Caycee, do you want to
tell us about your look?

- I took a lot of evolutions.

I like masculine
mixed with feminine.

So I like the design
and where it's going,

but it's not finished.

- So it's a coat.

- Yeah, I mean,
it's a coat dress.

- You know, I think the
color actually looks lovely

on your model.

You've covered her all up.

And I wish to see a
little bit more of her.

- And I wanted to work with her
curves 'cause they're gorgeous.

- She has all this fabric
piled up here in the front,

I can't even see
that has a waist.

- It's about
execution and details

and about editing
at the end of the day.

And in this case, you could
have used some editing.

♪ ♪

- Thank you, Caycee and Ivana.
- Thank you.

- Okay, let's get the
next model out here.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- No.

- Chasity,

who would you say
you are as a designer?

- I describe it as, like,
powerfully romantic.

- Do you mind turning around?

♪ ♪

- I think you choked in terms
of the top half of your design.

Something happened here
where you ran out of ideas.

It doesn't even fit her right.

- I definitely would have done
something different if we were

all just gonna be every
man for themselves.

But there was supposed
to be more bows

happening in other looks.

- You could have done
without the bow. You knew it.

You should have
trusted your gut.

- I think this is,
like, a great lesson

to stick to what
feels good in your gut.

♪ ♪

Thank you, designers, you
can all leave the runway.

♪ ♪

[applause]

- Aww.

- You should be. We all are.

- Yes.

- If I make it,

don't utter the word bow to me.
- Seriously.

- I'm not putting a bow
on another goddamn thing.

- I'm never putting a bow
on anything ever again.

- All right, guys, let's
start with the fun part.

Let's figure out who won.

- I think Darren
agrees it's not Darren.

- Yeah, I think he does too.

- Darren got lucky tonight.

- It's Bones for many
different reasons.

- Bones was the
leader. He helped.

He even got the person who
was on the bottom to the top.

- That's right.

- I love that combination that
he did for that shawl piece.

He's in it to win it.

- I think where Octavio did
like have some sort of a leg up

was that he really nailed

the monochromatic
portion of the challenge.

- The satin had the regality

of a little Audrey
Hepburn in "Funny Face."

But then she feels current

and she can go to
a music award show.

Octavio has a point of view.

- And it looked fantastic.
- Yeah.

- He really hit that
out of the park.

- So we know who the winner is?

- Yep.
- Yes.

- All right, now we have to
figure out who's going home.

I think we have to
talk about Sabrina.

Bad prom dress.

- Like a Disney Princess.

But, you know, like,
the birds didn't show up.

But you know what?
- [laughs]

It was not the worst.
It's a hard choice,

but it's definitely between
Chasity and Caycee.

- I can tell you immediately
with Caycee's look

that I had a
reaction that I'm like,

"It's a lavender bathrobe."

- But I loved the color.

And I thought that the
design had potential.

- If I had a choice to wear
either one of those outfits,

I think I would go with Chasity.

From the waist
down, it was fine.

- But she also had the worst
darts on the runway today.

- I think her problem
is a lack of creativity.

I don't know that she
has a fresh point of view.

- [sniffles]

- But when I'm looking for
color, fabric, construction,

point of view, all of it,

Caycee, for me, it was unclear.

- Are we all on the same page?

- Yep.
- Yeah.

- No one's making
eye contact with me.

I don't believe you.

- Absolutely.

[suspenseful music]

- Bones, Darren, Octavio,

your monochromatic
looks celebrated colors

and gave us an exciting taste

of what's to come
in this competition.

Congratulations.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- The winner is...

♪ ♪

Bones.

[upbeat music]
- Thank you so much.

[applause]

- I'm so proud of you.

- And, Bones, you win
immunity in the next challenge.

- Okay.

- Oh.

- All three of you
may leave the runway.

- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.

- Thank you.
- Congratulations.

- Thank you so much.
- Congratulations.

- Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.

I'm very happy to be able
to see my team on top.

I'm very happy to
see Darren being able

to get this second opportunity

because if he hadn't
had that garment,

we would have all
been in the bottom.

Bones got it.

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you [inaudible].
- Yes, you did it.

Yes, bitch.

- It feels great to be felt.

And to be seen by the judges

is more, honestly, than
words can even express.

- Well deserved.

[tense music]

- Chasity, Caycee, Sabrina,

your team, overall,
not having a clear vision

forced each of your
individual looks to suffer.

♪ ♪

- Sabrina, you are in.

- Thank you.

- You can leave the runway.

♪ ♪

Chasity, your look
was poorly constructed

and unimaginative.

Caycee, you made
poor design choices

and sent an unfinished
garment down the runway.

This was really, really
hard for us, you guys.

But...

[suspenseful music]

Caycee...

you are out.

- Okay. Thank you.

- I love you.

It's all good.

- Chasity, you're in.

- Thank you.
- You can leave the runway.

- Thank y'all.

[emotional music]

♪ ♪

- Caycee, the first one is
always the most heartbreaking

because sometimes
you just have a bad day.

And that's never indicative

of who you are as a designer.

- Thank you.

Lovely to meet you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I'm out.

- You're out?
- Yeah.

- No.

- The best part has
been, like, you guys.

- It's not 'cause you're
not a great designer.

- I know I'm a great designer.
- You are a great designer.

- I just didn't get
to show it here.

- Yeah.
- Here.

- Hi.

That was intense.

Caycee, team challenge, hard.

- Yeah.
- I'm sad I didn't get

to see more of your
work. But I know we will.

- Of course.
- We will.

All right, say
goodbye to everybody.

All: Bye.

- We'll see you around.
- This is the toughest part.

- See you soon.
- You guys are so awesome.

Hey, Bones.

I understand why
I was eliminated.

My garments weren't finished.

Oh, my God.

I wish I could have
shown more of me.

That's the part that's hardest.

- All right, guys.

When I'm buzzing
around bugging you,

it's to save you from
that. 'Cause it's rough.

[sentimental music]

- I think this experience
has opened my mind

to what visions I could
create going forward

that I haven't
yet brought to life.

I just didn't get to
show who I was.

Who I am. [chuckles]

- Next week on "Project Runway."

- You need to create a
breakout streetwear look.

- Katie?
- Yeah.

- Collar again?

[intense electronic music]

- Yes.

- We don't have to do this.

- Stop talking.
- You're ----in' fake.

- Somebody better
----in' take this mic off me.

[camera shutter clicking]

- It really moved me.

- Ten out of ten.
[smooches]