Previously
on “Project Runway All Stars”: the designers were asked to make
red carpet looks using metallics. Sean won, by making a skirt out of
fringe. You forgot he did fringe, didn't you. The jacket had an
origami thing happening so it wasn't all fringe. Anya was behind and
had to have people help her sew her look, but then it was still
terrible. And she was eliminated. (click for more)
Field
trip to Broadway. Everyone ends up at Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory, where Alyssa is waiting with Christian Borle. Alyssa is
wearing a pantsuit and she looks great. Also I love Christian Borle.
Alyssa says they need to invent something: a new use for a garment,
an inventive way to wear something new, or an unexpected innovation.
Avant garde time. There is a very terrible TV edit where Alyssa taps
Willy Wonka's cane on the ground and a table with chocolate appears
“magically”. One of the chocolate bars on the table has an extra
$100 for someone, chosen randomly. Winner gets $5,000.
Biddell
ends up winning the extra money. He thinks it's because he waited and
chose last. Anthony Ryan wants a coat you can write on. Django is
making...a big hat? Irina starts talking about flying machines. You
know none of these things are going to really be “avant garde”
because you can't do avant garde in one day. Michelle I think is
making a skirt you can hide in. Christina wants to make a walking
boombox. I think Sean is making modular clothing, like a
mix-and-match thing.
Yeah,
10 hours is not really enough to make an avant garde thing. Dmitry
won his avant garde challenge before. It looks like with floating
panels. Michelle also tells us they are sourcing materials from a
dollar store, a hardware store, and an electronics store. Somehow
this is happening online, and I guess some poor PA is going to have
to run around and get all the stuff. Django doesn't seem to have a
solid idea. I'm not sure. Michelle has bought a huge roll of carpet
padding. It's a good plan to make something sculptural, but she's
having trouble sewing it.
Anne
shows up and everyone looks fake happy. Michelle's carpet padding
doesn't look terrible, and she's planning to cover it in fabric. Anne
thinks she should keep it uncovered? I guess. Cynthia talks about
armor, and she really needs to focus on shape. Christina talks about
her mobile boombox, and Anne decides she needs to be warned not to go
“super 80s Madonna dominatrix”. What? Anne's not making a ton of
sense today. Dmitry says something about temperature control. Sean
has red and black zebra striped leather. Irina has wings. Biddell has
used some fabric that reflects flashes? So no one can take pictures
of you? Django...is making an apron. An apron you can wear in
different ways. Anne is clearly skeptical, because come on. This is
not new. OK armor as clothing is not new, nor is wings, but fine.
Before she leaves, Anne says the judges will not tolerate just
slapping a big sleeve on your look.
The
minute Anne leaves, Django curses at her and then Anthony Ryan
decides Django is coming for him? Because he said “Miss Anne” and
that's what Django is cursing about? This is the dumbest drama.
Django then goes to Christina and tells her that the idea of a radio
in her dress is not realistic. First of all, it's avant garde so it's
not realistic. And second, you were on the show. You know how it
works. Django feels fashion should be realistic, which is not the
mindset you should have for avant garde. Model fitting. Lot of very
heavy looking outfits. Michelle asks to draw something on Anthony
Ryan's jacket, and she draws a nipple. Django makes a giant straw hat
with frills and ribbons or something, and says that's avant garde and
if the judges don't like it, he'll flip them the bird. Sean has
decided at the literal 11th hour that he's going to start
over. He didn't like his skirt because it was too heavy.
Runway
Day. It's Sean's birthday, which is scary because I know Top Chef has
a birthday curse where you go home on your birthday. There is a ton
of work going down. Hot makeup guy Scott. Lot of crazy makeup and
hair looks today, clearly. Michelle's carpet padding is tearing a
little bit. Everyone appears to get done, but there's a weird slo-mo
shot of the workroom right before commercial as if someone's
forgotten something important.
Guest
judges are Anna Camp and Andrew Rannells. First of all, Andrew
Rannells was in Hamilton, but you know he was King George so it's not
like he starred in it or something, Alyssa. Second, I don't
like the mustache he has. Irina: a basic minidress, but over the top
of this is a big poncho, like a giant circle of fabric. There are
wooden dowels inside, so she can lift her arms and the whole thing
extends like wings. The color is kind of a mottled blue, which looks
dirty? I know it's not, it just has that look to it. Cynthia: black
tight pants and a black jacket with a big shawl collar and some
ruffles. It fits really well. When she turns around, the back of the
pants are white and the back of the jacket is open. There is one red
panel down her back and some horizontal strips, but a lot of skin.
Anthony Ryan: a big jacket that is worn as a dress. The sleeves are
full (but not bell sleeves) and it hits just below the knee. The
“skirt” is white and the top part is light blue, with red panels
in the front and center and black strips at the elbow and down the
front. Very Mondrian. The whole thing is covered in plastic, with
stuff drawn on it.
Biddell:
neoprene-looking gray jumpsuit. The pants are very baggy, but
gathered at the ankle, and the jacket is oversized also with an
oversized collar that hides her face. Sean: red dress with a bunch of
black strings hanging down. There's one big round sleeve, and a lot
of grommets. It's supposed to have interchangeable parts, but the
seams between those parts aren't obvious so it just looks like an
interesting dress. There's a row of grommets and some skin at her
waist, like the top of the dress is laced to the skirt. The skirt I
think has two pieces? They don't really give it enough screen time.
Django: white bell bottoms and a white tweed top. Linen? The kind of
fabric that looks frayed, you know? The pants are a little sheer, and
the top has matching bell sleeves. The hat is a big hat in the same
fabric. It's very Southern somehow. Like a modern church suit and
hat.
Christina:
tight pants and a sleeveless vest. The speakers are at the hips, so
she's got blue things on her hips that stick out from the rest of the
black garment. The pants are skin tight though, and there's a blue
panel on the back of the bodice. Dmitry: long tan dress that's cut
like a loose trench coat. The sleeves are sheer black, along with a
strip at the ankle and some strips around the waist and surrounding
the pockets. So...Dmitry decided his avant garde idea was
“ventilation” and “temperature control clothing”, and then he
made...floating panels. Come on. This is the same technique he's been
using and I can't shake the feeling he chose the “idea” so he
could do it again. Michelle: basic shift dress, and one big circle.
There's a hole near the middle of the circle for her to stick her arm
through, and then she can wrap it around herself like a cocoon. It
looks really cool, but she didn't even cover the carpet padding, so
in the end this doesn't look like ten hours of work. You made a shift
dress and cut a circle.
Cynthia,
Dmitry, and Biddell are safe. Dmitry needs to get called out for
doing the same thing he always does! Garbage. Christina explains
about how there are speakers in the hips of her look. The judges love
how functional it is, and it also looks pretty cool. The vest has
some tulle or something for texture that Georgina hates. But her legs
look a mile long and the tailoring is great. Django's story is
something about straw hats worn in the fields and bugs. I don't know.
It's “cinematic” but it's not really avant garde. Georgina
accuses him of stealing from Chanel, and Isaac is disappointed
because he wanted Django to go all out this week. Anthony Ryan
explains about his deaf friends that write things down all the time,
and he demonstrates writing on the jacket. When they show a close-up,
you can see that the pockets are drawn on too. Heh. It's very
functional, and the cartoonish-ness makes it work really well.
Irina's
dress is really about flying. It's supposed to literally be a glider.
It's costumey, although very dramatic. It also looks heavy (Irina
says it's mesh) and then Isaac is disappointed in the boring dress
underneath the wings. Alyssa says something about Irina spreading her
wings. Sean explains that the grommets are to lace the pieces
together, so you can mix and match. The bottom of the skirt is like a
macrame knotted thing. It's a nice color, but Georgina and Isaac
don't think it's avant garde. Isaac especially hates the grommets
because he wants “couture grommets” or something. Michelle
explains about being able to hide out in your garment. Alyssa gives
Michelle credit for how meaningful it is to her (she said she's got
an autistic friend who gets overwhelmed). Isaac gushes over the shift
dress underneath and calls it “one of the best dresses of the
season”. I'm sorry, the fuck? It's a shift dress. It's two pieces
of carpet padding that she cut out and sewed together down the sides.
How is this the most amazing thing you've seen, but Irina's dress
under the wings is horribly boring and the worst? I hate this show.
Michelle's
idea was wonderful and was also risky. Christina had perfect
tailoring, but she maybe could have left out the tulle puffy thing.
Anthony Ryan had a great design, and it was fun and playful. Django
had a weird description of his look, and it wasn't even avant garde.
I think Isaac is disappointed it wasn't even an epic fail. Irina's
look should have been lighter, and then Georgina complains that the
model lifting the wings at the end of the runway was too Lion King.
Sean made a big deal about how you would lace the different pieces of
his clothes together, and then the actual garment was sewn together.
The concept is OK, but Isaac didn't like the dress. Alyssa jokes that
when Isaac starts off with how he really likes the color, you know
you're in trouble.
The
winner is Anthony Ryan. Christina and Michelle are also in. Anthony
Ryan is excited and hopes he can maintain his momentum. Irina is in.
Django is out. So Sean is in. Oh look, an American won and a
non-American is kicked out. Not that I don't think he should be out,
because at least Sean tried. But it's a very suspicious pattern.
Django isn't mad, but he wishes maybe things could have been
different.
Next
week: buy ready-made clothes and transform them to an evening look?
Is that what's happening here?
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