06x05 - Fashion Headliners

[bunniefuu]

Previously on Project Runway...

Say hello to your clients
for this challenge.

What they wear will be
their ticket to the future.

Sexy but not too much.

Simple but interesting.

She just had a whole list...

classy, fitted, short, punk.

Forgive me for this blunt word.

It looks messy.

Althea, you are the winner
of this challenge.

You've just aged her 10, 15 years,

which for the model world
is like dog years.

Qristyl, you're out.

This is Project Runway.

Of course I'm the best.

Let's do this.

The search for
the next big fashion designer.

I have to win.

You better watch out.



I'm in. You're out.

Don't get cut.

Three finalists will make it
to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

I'm the best designer here.

- I have no fear.
- Make it work.

That's my line.

But only one can be the winner.

This is my dream.

For these 16 designers,

Project Runway
is the chance of a lifetime.

The winner of Project Runway

will receive a fashion spread
in Marie Claire magazine,

a Paris vacation courtesy of Evian,

and $100,000 from L'Oréal Paris

to start their own line.

It's so weird,
with Qristyl not here,

it's, like, quieter.

- I know.
- Really quiet.

As people go home,

we're kind of narrowing down the designers

to the people who
really have it together,

I wonder what
the next challenge will be.

Whatever it is,

I'm sure there is a twist to it,

as usual.

[Singsong]
I'm just never going to be

in that bottom three again.

Being in the bottom three

is probably the most...

empty feeling I've ever felt.

It's like being punched in the stomach

and having all the air
taken out of you.

My mindset is pretty focused

on what I need to do now.

I really want to get to Bryant Park,

so I'm really trying to get my job done.

I don't want the judges to think

she made one good garment...

Is it luck, or is it that
she's actually talented?

So I really want to show

that I can continue
to produce great work.

All right, girls, you ready?

Althea ends up winning,

and I was in utter shock.

I'll be the first one to congratulate

anyone that wins

if I feel like it was well earned,

and that wasn't.

- I'm nervous.
- I'm not.

The people that do not deserve to be here

is obviously Johnny.

And Irina...

is slowly creeping up that list.

Everybody doesn't deserve to be here

because I'm supposed to win, but...

New challenge, new challenge.

New challenge.
New challenge.

- Hello.
- [All] Hello.

- How's everyone?
- [Contestants] Good, Great.

Althea, you won the last challenge,

so you have immunity,

and you cannot
be eliminated this week.

Tim is waiting for you,

and he's going to take you
on another little field trip.

This challenge
will definitely be tough,

but the answers will all be
in black and white.

- [Gasps]
- [Mock gasps]

[All laughing]

All right, I wish you all good luck,

and I'll see you on the runway.

- Bye.
- Bye.

Heidi tells us that our challenge

is based on something black and white,

and because we're in L.A.,

my thoughts instantly go to,

like, old Hollywood
black-and-white movies.

Any ideas?

- Hi, everybody.
- Hi.

You ready for your field trip?

- Yes.
- Follow me.

[Shirin]
There are a lot of really big buildings,

and I'm starting to think,

okay, we're going
to some sort of factory.

Designers, welcome
to the Los Angeles Times,

the destination for your challenge.

[Cheering]

Follow me.

We arrive at huge building

that is where they make
all the newspapers.

I'm like, okay, this is newspapers.

What does this have to do with fashion?

Going this way.

Designers, I am honored
to introduce Booth Moore,

the celebrated fashion critic
of the Los Angeles Times.

As all of you know,

many elements of fashion

are derived from today's headlines,

from politics to pop culture to finance.

Fashion is news,

and there's no one better
to expand on this topic

- than Booth.
- Thanks, Tim.

So for your next challenge,

you're going to bring all this down
to a practical level,

and you're going to use
pages from the newspaper

to create your next look.

[Cheering]

Behind us are five pallets,

each containing a different section

of the Los Angeles Times.

We have News, Business,
Sports, Calendar, and Image.

This is the fabric for your challenge.

Okay?

Our material is newspaper.

Um, yeah.

I'm speechless.

There are plastic bags for each of you,

and you have three minutes

to gather as much paper as you can.

All right?

And your three minutes begins...

now.

As soon as our times starts,
I sprint for it.

I already have a point of view,

and it's based off of, like,
a strip of color that I see

from a stack of papers.

[Laughs]

Designers, 30 seconds.

We have three minutes
to collect all the paper,

and everyone else is going insane

grabbing stacks and stacks of paper,

and I'm, like, what are you guys doing?

I mean, you're dressing
a human, not an elephant.

All right, everyone, time is up.

That's it.

Designers, come with me.

Whoa, can't get in.

This challenge is to create a garment

entirely out of paper,

and it can be anything

from a bikini to a wedding dress.

All right, in preparation
for our newspaper challenge,

we have dyes, we have brushes,
we have markers,

and you can use muslin
as an infrastructure.

However, it may not show.

Great.

Paper clothing has quite
a distinguished history.

The first paper dress
was created in 1968,



and it made headline news,

and there was quite a fervor
for paper clothing.

Paper clothing...

not just dresses, pants, whatever you want.

There are even paper slippers.

So continue this tradition

but rebrand it for 2009

and have a great time.

You have until midnight tonight
for this challenge.

Ooh.

And the winner of this challenge
will have immunity.

All right?

I will be back to check
in on you later. Okay?

Thanks, everybody.
Make it work.

I'm trying to be really ambitious

with this newspaper dress.

I want to do a really fitted, rigid, bodice

and then this dress

that goes out into hundreds of feathers

created out of newspaper,

so that's a lot of work to do

and I'm getting a little nervous.

Tell me something I can do in fabric

and I can tell you what fabrics
are good for what.

I have no idea what paper shapes
make the best things.

I mean, it's just, like, seriously

starting from the bottom
and trying to work in your,

like, fashion sense into it.

I just really want to experiment

because I don't know what to do.

I figured out the silhouette I wanted

and what I kind of wanted to do,

but I knew that I would have
to first dye all the paper

so it could dry in time.

This does not look pretty to me.

Depends on where you go with it, though.

- Wah-wah.
- Wah-wah.

I have never worked
with newspaper before.

I don't know how to work
with newspaper.

I have never sewn newspaper,

so basically right now

I'm thinking that I'm going home tomorrow,

and it's not a very good feeling.

I seriously have no clue what I'm doing.

My whole thing
is I want to mix materials

and colors and sort of really make it
look like fabric,

and it doesn't have to still
look like newspaper.

So I think I'm just going to do a dress

and sort of create a print with newspaper.

I think I'm going to papier-mäché a bodice

and then make some crazy,
origami-esque skirt.

I'm going to, like, shellac
her into this dress.

- [Laughs]
- [Man] Glue it.

I'm going to have glue all over me
when this is over. Aah.

It's okay.
We're good. We're good.

My hands are so sticky.

Aah.

I don't think I've ever really
met a small woman like that

that makes so much noise.

I feel like I'm groping this mannequin.

I'm, like...
[growls]

[Laughs]

Ooh, you know what will be fun later, though,

is peeling the glue off of your hands.

I know we're kind of the same age,

but it just makes me feel
like I'm 40 around her.

It's like she turns into 11-year-old kid

who just does not shut up.

Has anybody named their mannequin?

- Nobody? - Be quiet, you know,
just sit there and do your work.

I might divulge that information later.

[Nicolas]
I really can't deal with it right now

because I really have
to get my [bleep] together.

[Groans]

I'm doing this really great dress

that looks like origami,

and it has origami cranes
coming off the shoulder

- that are actually holding the dress up.
- Are you serious?

My dress is looking like this very pretty,

draped and wrapped and folded piece of
large-scale origami,

and I'm really stoked by my dress,

so I get some weird idea to start painting it

with fabric dye.

I'm sitting next to Johnny

and for the whole time
that he was draping his garment

I keep looking over at it

and I am in a little bit of shock.

It is just awful,

and this is just some wrinkled-up paper

with pig's blood all over it.

This ought to be interesting.

Coming up on Project Runway...

Just looking at the design,
it's very h*-hum.

You are going to have a time challenge.

- I do.
- So do it.

It looks like a bunch
of kindergarteners did it.

Ouch.

I have all this paper,

and I'm totally blanking all of a sudden.

The fact that I can use
an unconventional material

to convey a point of view

is really, really exciting to me,

so I'm being inspired by unexpected
pattern within the paper,

but then also the idea
of cubism and origami.

My plan is to make a headline dress.

It's a dress completely decoupaged

from headlines that I'm clipping
out of the newspaper.

- Hi, everybody.
- [All] Hello.

I'm here to check in
and see how you're doing,

and I'm going to start with Gordana.

All Right.
I'm creating, actually, two garments.

One of them is going to be talking

about what is happening
in the world today,

and I'm going to put
"Time To Change" on it.

I have great respect
for your idea, Gordana.

It's more about a political statement,

and just looking at the design,

- it's very h*-hum.
- Huh.

And looking at the design of this...

This is the antithesis of h*-hum.

This is the change.
It's all through your fashion,

your point of view as a designer.

Put your time and energy into this.

Okay. I will.

And is there an infrastructure
of muslin or anything?

- No.
- Is it just newspaper?

- I love you.
- Thank you.

- Stunning. Okay?
- Thank you very much.

- Just keep going.
- Thank you.

All right, what a great way to start.

- Hi, Althea.
- Hey, how are you?

Talk to me.
What are you doing?

So I was thinking,
make some shoulder pads,

and then use this
as sort of like a drape,

but almost create fabric out of it.

And the nice thing
is you have immunity.

You can do whatever you want...

Yeah.
[Laughs]

...but it disappoints me in a way.

I would encourage you to look
at the paper upside down.

That way you'll just look
at it as abstract shapes and forms.

- That's really good advice.
- Okay?

Go, go, go.

Irina, talk to me.

I started with this little dress,

but I just don't like the way it dries

and how stiff it is.

So then I was actually thinking of doing

- sort of like a trench coat...
- Okay.

...but I just don't think
without the muslin base

it would really work.



wasn't on muslin.

- All right.
- Okay?

- Okay. Thank you, Tim.
- Thank you.

All right, Johnny, what's going on?

It's basically a large-scale origami piece...

birds on the shoulder
and around from the outside.

I'm woeful, Johnny,

because right now it looks
like a craft project gone awry.

- That's not good.
- No.

It looks like a bunch
of kindergarteners did it.

I guess I should start something different.

Because what's going to happen is,

the birds are actually going to look like

they're holding the dress up.

And they look like
the birds attacked the dress.

Ouch is my reaction.

I've got to do something else.

I've got to do it in 41/2 hours,

so I'm starting over.

- Hi, Tim.
- Nicolas, how are you?

At this point
I'm just sort of like going with it

and seeing where it takes me.

You have a good trajectory going.

Just sustain your momentum here.

But you think I'm going
in a good direction, though?

You just need to ensure
that this doesn't end up looking

- too costume-y.
- Right, exactly.

At the same time, you want it to be...

Interesting.

- All right, Tim. Thank you.
- Thank you, Nicolas.

- I'm going to keep working.
- Okay.

- Christopher, how you doing?
- Tim, how are you doing?

I wanted, like, a showstopper,

- so I wanted to do this full-length
feather... - Wow, good God.

- Is this your plan?
- Yeah.

I think you're going to have
a showstopper.

I want to do these paper feathers
all the way down.

I was inspired by the newspaper.

I love just the black and white,
the clean print.

- The last thing you need to do
is talk to me, so do it. - Okay.

- Thank you.
- I can't wait to see this.

- All right, thanks, Tim.
- Okay, thank you.

Designers, I am absolutely wowed,

and I'm really inspired.

I cannot wait for this runway show.

And your models
will be coming in in a little while.

All right?
Thank you, everybody.

I will see you tomorrow.
All right?

Thank you.

[Johnny]
After I throw the dress away,

I have all these extra squares

that I was going to fold into origami birds,

so I started laying it out,
tiling the squares

on the muslin

hoping and praying that,
God, please let this work.

Let something good come out of this.

Ra'mon, does this look like fur to you?

I want to do, like,
a shawl collar trench coat.

I had the idea of the trench coat
in the beginning,

but then when Tim said,

"You know what?
There was a version of a coat

made out of paper,"
and it clicked.

I said, "You know what?
If it was made,

then it's possible,
then I could do it."

When I first moved
to New York City at the age of 17,

and about then I used to hang out

with a lot of punk rock kids
down in the East Village,

so I thought, oh, you know,
maybe I should do

kind of like a '90s, the millennium version
of punk rock,

and so I sort of went from there.

I look for images,

and then I really started,

like, getting the sort of
idea of my dress

and piecing together
the different images

to create a dress

and how can I use
this challenge to my advantage?

At this point I'm kind of bewildered.

I'm not really loving it at all now

because I thought I had
a good idea in the first place,

and it turns out that it really wasn't
that good of an idea.

Oh, my God, that's so cool.

Newspaper... I can work with that.

Who'd wear it?

We're going to figure that out now.

It's going to be really cold.

[Yelps]

Oh, it's so cool.

It's, like, so chic.

I'm slightly worried
about the paper tearing.

When you're designing
a non-fabric material,

you have to consider her moving,

because she's not a mannequin.

She's not going
to stand still the whole time.

[Shirin]
The skirt is really, really heavy

and the dress being a strapless...

That's going to be
my only challenge, I think,

is trying to keep that dress from falling off
on the runway.

Ooh, girl.

Does that feel better?

You're not going to wear those birds now.

When Emarie comes in
for the model fitting,

I'm feeling really, really
just disappointed in myself,

and I'm kind of nervous.

Do you want to know
what else happened

is that when I was ironing...

because you can iron paper...

the steamer decided
it was going to start spittling,

and water got all over it.

[Emarie]
Oh.

[Nicolas]
He just starts spewing this whole sob story

how the whole thing
was ruined by a steamer,

like this mysterious steamer accident...

We didn't even have a steamer
in the sewing room that day.

[Shirin]
We find out

that Johnny had made up this lie.

So basically Johnny tore up
his first dress

just because Tim Gunn came
and said it was pretty bad.

Figure it out, I guess.

That's okay.
Love you so much.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Towards the end of the night
I'm getting really tired.

I hate what I've done...

so I started doing a crossword puzzle.

[Christopher]
A majority of the designers

are really sick
of the whole Johnny attitude,

the lack of passion
that he puts into his designs,

and the lack of time spent on it.

I looked over, and I saw
he was doing a crossword puzzle.

Some people just don't really have
the follow-through as others.

[Woman]
All right, kids. We've got to go.

What a day.

Who would've thought paper
would be so difficult.

I know.

I love this challenge.
I love the idea of it.

It's something that I really wanted.

Tim tore my a*s apart.

- The first dress I did.
- Did he? What did he say?

Oh, my God.

Wait, so you have an all-new piece?

All new.

To be completely honest with you,

I will be com...
because I was ironing it

and the iron decided to sputter

- and the top just started to rip...
- Did it disintegrate?

Johnny complaining
and maybe making up a story

with the steamer and his kind of B. S...

Soon as I put it down, it went...

[makes whooshing sound]

Because I know that Tim
came in at about 7:00,

and that's when he threw his dress out.

I'm really curious to see

what the judges are going to do.

What did Tim say,

birds are attacking his dress?

Because right now it looks
like a craft project gone awry.

Coming up on Project Runway...

Some of you look like
you're kind of stalling out.

I'm just really struggling.

- Oh, my God.
- I'm so nervous!

If I go home on
an arts-and-crafts project,

I'm not going to be happy.

It's just a nightmare.

Oh, man.

All right, so who do we,
like, like the most?

I like Althea's,
the way it's turning out.

Working with paper
is a lot different than I expected,

but even though I have immunity,

I'm still working just as hard.

Who do we think's
going to be in the bottom?

Do you like Nicolas's?

I'm not wild about it.

[Nicolas]
It's the morning of the runway show.

I'm just really struggling
with the newspaper challenge.

Everybody else seems to be having a blast.

What do you think Johnny has
under his shroud?

I think he wants an unveiling.

He always wants an unveiling.

He's still here for a reason.

[Nicolas]
Yes.

[Johnny]
I really don't care

what other designers think about me.

I don't give a damn.
Get over it.

- Is it time to go?
- Yep.

[Nicolas] All right, Heidi,
tear us apart on the runway.

[Men laugh]

- Yeah, literally.
- Literally, tear us apart on the runway.

Exactly. All right.

Nothing fell off yet.

This is image...

I took an approach that not a lot of people
took, and I did separates.

I did a top, and I did a skirt.

So I'm a little anxious.

So I decided to go
with my trench coat idea.

It's definitely risky doing a coat

'cause I don't know if the sleeves

are going to happen or not.

It's just a nightmare.

Good morning, everybody.

[All]
Morning, Tim.

I'm very excited about today's show.

It's going to be interesting,
to say the least.

I'm about to send in your models.

You have two hours
to achieve the following:

Send them to the Garnier hair studio,

to the L'Oréal Paris makeup room,

and fit them in your garments.

Please use the Macy's accessory wall,

and I will tell you,
I took a look around the room this morning.

Some of you look like
you're kind of stalling out.

Don't let that happen. Okay?

Rally. I'm going to send in
your models.

Bon jour.

I'm going to fit the bodice on you.

Think it's pretty cool?

I think it's really cool.

I think Emarie's trying to lift my spirits,

but I don't have enough time to do

what I would want to do to it.

If they like it, they like it.

- If they don't, sorry.
- Yeah.

I definitely feel
like I'm ahead of the game.

I have constructed the dress perfectly.

You wouldn't even be able to tell

that it's made out of paper.

Yay, me.

Can you even walk in that thing?

- Yeah.
- Really?

I'm so nervous.

I finished my dress,

and then I realized

not only do I have to get it on my model,

first I have to get it off of my mannequin.

Hooray!

Yeah, that's one of the ones upcoming.

- It's just... It's a little...
- I'm, like...

It looks blah, and compared
to all the work everyone else did,

it looks very easy.

Althea... I see her glancing at me

with these sort of weird eyes,

so I don't know what that's all about,

but I don't even really want to know.

[Affected voice]
Let's go get your hair did.

We're going to get her hair did.

[Man]
Just put it up.

Higher, yeah.

So just golds and reds in the crease.

I think that's really cute.

Full on punk rock.

Thank you.

Designers and models,

in exactly five minutes

we are going to the runway.

Pack up a little emergency repair kit,

including lots of tape.

[Contestants laugh]

It's like giving birth.

Oh, my God, it is so cute.

If I go home on
an arts-and-crafts project,

I'm not going to be happy.

Johnny thinks very highly of himself,

and the dress that he's
about to send down the runway...

I hope the judges tear him apart for it.

Nicolas's design looks a little stupid.

It's definitely not punk rock.

It's, I don't know, stump rock?

It's dinosaur chic.

All right,
designers and models, time is up.

Follow me, please.

We're going down to the runway.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

[Tim]
Come, everybody.

Awesome. We're done.

Ladies...

Coming up on Project Runway...

Looks like an insect.

That's probably my mistake.

I have a feeling

- he wasn't telling the truth.
- Jerk.

- Hello.
- Hi, Heidi.

Welcome to the runway.

As you know, in fashion,
one day you're in,

and the next day, you're out.

There are 12 of you here,

and after tonight, there will be 11.

This week you visited the L.A. Times,

where you were asked to use newspapers

to create your look.

And these papers weren't just inspiration.

They were your actual fabrics,

and I really look forward
to seeing your creativity

hit the runway today.

All right, let's meet the judges.

First, we have American designer
Tommy Hilfiger,

who has a new collection
exclusive at Macy's.

Senior editor
for Marie Claire magazine,

Zoe Glassner.

And star of the hit ABC
show Desperate Housewives,

Eva Longoria Parker.

Hi.

We will score your designs
as they come down the runway.

One of you
will be named the winner,

and one of you will be out.

Let's start the show.

The more I looked at the dress,

the more I realized
how much Asian inspiration

I got from it.

The coloring that I used

ended up looking like bamboo leaves.

I feel confident.

My model looks great.

If I want to be experimental,

if I want to be daring,

I'm going to do it.

Hopefully this garment
will get me in the top three.

I'm never just designing to be safe.

I always want to be in the top.

I like to play with hard and soft,

and I think this is speaking
to my design aesthetic.

It looks absolutely amazing.

It's sexy and fun and flirty,

and it feels like me.

I've never made anything
out of paper before.

It was like arts and crafts,

but at the same time you
had to get your point across.

As I watched my design
coming down the runway,

honestly I don't like it.

I don't think it's to any sort of up to par

to my abilities.

I think the original dress

would have got a better response.

I am proud of what I have created

in this challenge.

I really think that I have made something

out of nothing.

To see my dress is really amazing.

My goal in this was to create a gown

that looks like it's not made out of paper.

I see my model Ebony
walk down the runway,

and I'm just praying to God

that the thing stays on her.

I'm pretty happy with it,
and the makeup looks awesome.

They put these, like,
feathers in her eyelashes.

I am amazed and happy.

It's exactly what I want it to be.

It's different than anything else.

I was breathless.

I really feel that,

even though this dress
is made in paper,

it still really represents me

as a designer.

I like to design intellectually.

I really try to make
the body look good.

It was a really difficult challenge.

I'm a little worried about the dress

because it wasn't as polished
as I would have liked it.

I'm expecting that I'm either going to be
in the bottom

or safe.

If I call your name,
please step forward.

Johnny.

Nicolas.

Christopher.

Althea.

Gordana.

Irina.

If I did not call your name,

congratulations.

Your scores have qualified you

to move on to the next challenge.

You can leave the runway.

The remaining designers

have the highest and the lowest scores.

One of you will be named the winner,

and one of you will be out.

Let's bring out your models.

Althea, tell us about your design.

I saw this image of a building,

and I thought, well, how cool

if I could sort of layer them

in a way that they were
almost like fans,

and I tried to contour her... bum.

I love it.
This is a classic dress

that I wear all the time,

and I always accentuate my bum,

uh...

because that's my asset.

I think it's pretty genius.

I thought the execution

was well done considering
what you had to work with

because you have a lot of pieces.

I probably used
about a hundred newspapers.

I think it's exquisite,

the sort of detail work,
that you've done the pattern.

If that wasn't paper,
I would totally want to wear it.

Thank you.

Gordana, tell us about your look.

First of all,

I knew that we were using already

unconventional fabrics,

so I wanted to create
a conventional look.

I think the top is very architectural,
very cool.

- I think the pattern's nice.
- Thank you.

I have to say

when your garment
came down the runway,

I was a little bit bored

because it is so wearable,

and it is so real-Iooking, in a way.

I was understanding
that we should make wearable

something out of unwearable fabrics.

- Mm-hmm.
- That's probably my mistake.

The only fault you have
in this competition was

that everybody else's was so amazing.

There's a lot of creativity up there.

Irina.

Initially, when I heard
the newspaper challenge,

for some reason I thought, trench coat.

I was blown away.

That was one of the moments
when it came out and I was... [gasps]

You know? And I love
that you went against doing a dress.

I think it looks...

Coco Chanel

meets Saint Laurent

meets Givenchy

in the '60s and '70s.

I think that, if you turn around,

I don't like seeing the Scotch Tape,

and it could be a little shorter.

I love the collar,
I love the sleeves,

and I like that you gave it

this sort of volume, this dimension.

It's something new.

Thank you.

I love that you played with the paper

and crinkled it up
and mushed it all together.

I just literally tore
tiny pieces of paper,

and I'd scrunch them up,
open them back up,

just really make it soft.

New alternative to fur...
newspaper.

Johnny.

What's going on here?

How much time
did you spend on your dress?

I did two of them.

Why, what happened?

The first one, I was ironing it,

and the steamer started to sputter.

It got water all over it,

and the whole thing was destroyed.

But I'm not making excuses.
I'm really not.

Doesn't look like a lot of time
was spent on this dress.

I also am not loving
the way it is put together.

It looks like she's going to work

with the red shoes
and the hair and makeup...

Like work?

Like...
[chuckles]

- Like work.
- Like what kind of job?

- Like a pro?
- Like work work.

Oh, that's fun.

I like the idea you had.

I feel like it wasn't ex*cuted as well.

The belt up there...
it should be at the waist,

or it should be an empire.

I'm not a fan of the pointy thing,
this up here, yeah,

but I like classic dresses.

I kind of was digging
the whole pop-art print.

The hair was a little '80s.
The shoe was a little '80s.

I felt like you were trying
to take us somewhere,

and I was going there with you.

Thank you.

If I could talk, like say about...

The other dress was pretty hardcore,
I have to admit.

It had dr... It was very like
that Dior, kind of draping around

and wrapping back up look.

How come you're
shaking your head?

Is there more to this story?

It was not Dior.

- What?
- It was a red mess.

- It was a red mess?
- Thanks, that's sweet.

One of Tim's comments

was that the birds attacked the dress.

Thanks, Nicolas.
That's really nice.

Just throw me right under the bus.

Jerk.

Nicolas.

So when I started cutting out the newspaper,

it just sort of reminded me

when I first moved to New York,

and I used to hang out
in the East Village a lot

with all the punk kids,

so I kind of wanted to go
back to that time

and sort of create
a little punk rock look.

I think that doesn't look
like the punk thing.

I wrote, "Looks like an insect."

You know, she's got
sort of like little... the shell casings,

which is also very New York, right,

the c*ck.

[Gasps]

Last but not least, Christopher.

My first thought that came
into my head was,

"It has to be a show stopper."

And so what I did is
I created this kind of...

the feathered look
that goes down here,

and I also wanted
to retain the newsprint.

I love the black and white.

I love the big, full skirt.

How did you do the top?
It looks kind of hard.

Yes, it's like a shell, and...

- [knocks]
- What did you do?

It's, like, a pattern board,

like pattern paper, really rigid.

I love that it's like armor.

I love that you gave it
a little detail in the hair.

I love her hair's soft like Guinevere.

It really looks like art.
It's really beautiful.

Thank you.

I, too, love the top.

I think it was very, very creative.

Nothing on the runway was like it.

It just swayed down the runway,

and it did not look like newspaper.

If you squint your eyes,
it looks like feathers.

It's sexy.
I think it's glamorous.

It's a wow.

Thank you so much.

Okay, we've heard what you had to say.

We're going to have a little chat,

and then I'm going to call you back.

You can leave the runway.
Thank you.

[All]
Thank you.

So let's talk about
the designers that we liked.

Christopher.

I just thought it was so creative.

He... And that bodice.

I'd like to think
of how to construct that.

I don't even know how
to begin to do that with paper.

It was a risk...

whereas some of the others
were just like strapless little shifts.

Let's go to Althea.

That was also a beautiful dress.

It had some structure.

I love the architecture of it.

It really accentuated the bottom.

It accentuated the bosom.

I thought it was just well crafted.

She made a print within a print

and had a whole storyline behind it.

It was very cool.

And then Irina.

Oh, yeah.

[Hilfiger]
It was so well done.

It was like couture.

She had these little trompe-I'oeil stitches

that she made with a Sharpie,
and she had belt loops,

which I thought
was very, very clever.

It was dramatic
without being gimmicky.

Let's talk about
those designers with the lower scores.

I have mixed feelings with Gordana.

It wasn't made badly.

I just thought as a whole
it was a bit boring.

Not as exciting as the other two.

You know, it was safe.

All right, let's go to Nicolas.

[All sigh]

I didn't like this one at all.

I didn't get the punk thing.

I didn't get the inspiration,

and then it wasn't well done.

It was just tacky.

Punk should have been
something so different.

All right, let's move on to Johnny.

It felt like a save.

It ended up... It actually was a save.

[Hilfiger]
The print was cool,

but then looking at the dress

and looking at the construction,

it was a big letdown.

I have a feeling he wasn't

completely telling the truth.

How bad can it spit, the steam, too?

Tommy doesn't iron, honey.

He doesn't know.

He'll get it together.

So we've made our decision?

Okay, let's bring them back out.

One of you will be named the winner...

and one of you will be out.

One of you will be named the winner...

and one of you will be out.

Althea, you're in.

You can leave the runway.

Thank you.

Irina...

you are the winner of this challenge.

[Irina]
Thank you.

It's an honor. Thank you.

Congratulations.

Your originality and your risk taking

really paid off this time.

Thank you.

You also have immunity
for the next challenge

and cannot be eliminated.

You can leave the runway.
Thank you.

It feels good. I finally won.

It's past due, I feel like.

Christopher... you're in.

You can leave the runway.

Thank you very much.

Gordana...

you're in.

You can leave the runway.

Thank you very much.

Nicolas...

Johnny...

one of you will be out.

Nicolas, we saw
where you were trying to go,

but you really didn't get there.

It was all too arts and craftsy.

Johnny, you gave us
a lot of excuses today.

But as always, we can only judge

on what we see.

Your dress was not well made,

and it was just a mess overall.

Nicolas...

you're in.

- Thank you.
- You can leave the runway.

Thank you.

That means, Johnny, you're out.

Thank you very much.
I had a wonderful opportunity.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

Auf Wiedersehen.

Bye.

- Good luck, Johnny.
- Bye, Johnny. Good luck.

See you later.
Thank you very much.

Right now I feel a little lost.

I feel a little empty again,

I guess is the best word to say it.

Giving up addiction
was probably easier to do than this.

I don't think people realize how hard

and emotionally taxing
this competition is.

I just really wanted
to go to Bryant Park.

But I guess that means
there's something bigger

on the horizon for me,
so I can deal with that.

How is everybody?

I have to send you to the workroom
to clean up your space.

- I know.
- You take care.

- See you guys later.
- Bye, Johnny.

Bye, you guys.
You guys rock. Be careful.

- Rock, rock.
- Punk rock!

I'm incredulous

at that utterly preposterous

spewing of fiction

- that Johnny did on the runway.
- Seriously, I snapped.

- I'm sorry. I couldn't take it anymore.
- It was ridiculous.

- Like, what was that?
- Yeah.

I'm at peace right now
with the whole situation.

You can't dwell on the past, and you
definitely can't sit there and wallow in it.

I'm not gonna stop being a designer
just because of this.

In fact, I'm probably gonna grow from this
as a designer.

It's not the end of Johnny Sakalis.

There's still more to come.

Next week on Project Runway...

We are in Los Angeles.
It's about time

to see what this town is known for.

What the hell's going on here?

It's a one-day challenge,
which is crazy.

- Oh, my God.
- I am pretty panicked,

because my dress
is not completed at all.

I'm gonna be in the bottom three.

Ow. Right through my fingernail.

This could be sublime,

or it could be a big, hot mess.

This is looking
Kermit the Frog gone wrong.

I really don't like the dress.

[Heidi]
It's too safe. It's not special enough.

It's just hard to see
that you can actually sew

in this outfit.

Visit myLifetime. Com

to learn more about the fashion

you've seen on tonight's show.