The models walk in. Terri’s shirt isn’t done; Kenley is sewing her model into her dress. Kenley predicts those who tried to make too many pieces will be sending unfinished garments down the runway. Sure enough, some of the creations look unfinished. “Yuck!” Blayne sums up what he thinks of Suede’s pantsuit. Korto is worried about her hemline “not working.” Korto says she wants to have her own clothing line one day so she really wants to win this.
The models go to hair and makeup. It’s all exotic glamourous hair and eyes. Joe is enamored of his own “polished” design despite the fact it is too tight, and pronounces the other designs “crap.” (There does seem to be an oddly scatalogical theme to designers’ comments this episode.) Leanne interviews privately that she doesn’t know where Joe’s over-confidence comes from and is surprised he is still “here.” She thinks his outfit looks “like a cheap costume.” Time’s now up, and the group heads toward the runway. Jerell asks for and gets a ‘double high five’ from Blayne. I gotta love Jerell’s ebullient spirit. Tim has to shoo a dawdling Stella out the workroom door.
Heidi comes out onto the runway and repeats everything that has happened up until this point. It’s kind of like Sigourney Weaver’s character says in Galaxy Quest: “I repeat what the computer just said. It’s a stupid job, but it’s my job.” She then introduces the judges as she has every week. This week there’s a new cue card, however: Fern Mallis, Senior Vice President of IMG Fashion, is stunt judge where Nina Garcia should be. Fern wears a tomato colored top, a huge chunky necklace, and wire rim glasses. In case the average home viewer has no clue who Fern is, we’re shown Korto in a solo interview evincing exclamatory excitement because “Fern puts together the whole show at Bryant Park.” Heidi introduces “legendary fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg” and Diane seems to be wearing the same black and white print dress from the first day. I’m sure she isn’t - unless this was all taped in one day somehow - it’s probably just that some of the fabrics look very alike.
Let the show begin. Joe’s creation is down the runway first. To music vaguely suggestive of a 1930s Berlin dance hall, a model appears in a strange amalgam of shiny fabrics. She’s wearing a hot pink blouse with a crooked row of fasteners up the front, an even brighter pink sash at her waist, a dark skirt split up the back, and a dark piece of fabric fashioned into a hood. The model removes the hood to reveal a hot pink lining. While Joe raves about his own creation in a voiceover, Ms. von F is the perfect illustration of underwhelmed.
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