The large teams dissolve, and the designers are now asked to work in pairs. The teams must make two looks—one red carpet and one performance—for country music star Miranda Lambert.
The designers are tasked with the Unconventional Materials Challenge. Two of Project Runway's favorite challenges, the flower store and the hardware store, are combined for the ultimate “hard and soft” challenge. Also, the teams get a bit of a shake-up when two members leave one team and one member leaves another. The legendary Bette Midler serves as a guest judge.
The teams are presented with the challenge and privilege of designing a look for Heidi to wear in her ad campaign and for press events while promoting her new fragrance “Surprise". Two designers win the challenge.
The two teams are tasked with designing new uniforms for the popular nightclub/ping pong club Spin. The winning design will be worn by Spin employees. Susan Sarandon appears as a guest judge.
After just meeting each other for the first time, the designers are placed in two teams of eight and told that they will be designing in teams for the entire season. For the first challenge, the designers must create unique and individual looks inspired by NYC. They are judged on how well they do as a team…and the team is only as strong as it's weakest link.
Zanna Roberts Rassi introduces everyone to 16 new designers who will be competing against each other on Project Runway Season 11.
It's the moment of truth for the remaining designers as they each present their final collections to an eager audience at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. One designer is named the winner of Project Runway Season 10, and the rest are unfortunately out.
Weak and weary from their journey, the few designers left say goodbye to NYC and return to their respective hometowns to begin working on their final collections. Tim Gunn travels to visit the designers and assess their progress. In the end, all four remaining designers must present their three best pieces to the judging panel, as the judges are left to decide who will move on to show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week.
In a challenge for L'Oreal, the designers team up with clients whose friends or loved ones are in desperate need of a makeover. The designers must consult and work with their clients to give them a new and flattering look that is also conducive to their lifestyle.
In the Marie Claire Challenge, the designers are once again split off into teams to design a fashion capsule collection for the new magazine Marie Claire at Work. The teams also must direct a fashion shoot for their collection, which is also part of the criteria they are judged on for this challenge.
For the Michael Kors Challenge, the designers are tasked with making an outfit for a woman on the go—something chic and stylish but wearable enough to last throughout the entire day. Also, the designers are left in a state of confusion as two of their fellow competitors abruptly decide to leave Project Runway.
The designers are broken into teams of two, where they are tasked to design a red carpet look to be worn at the Emmys. Each team is assigned a client to design for, and this client is one of several past contestants on Project Runway. Each outfit is also inspired by a different color Lexus, which serves as their mode of transportation in the beginning of this episode.
The designers participate in the always-anticipated Unconventional Materials Challenge of the season. This time around, the designers are tasked with making a garment entirely from items that are found in Dylan's Candy Bar.
For the 10th Anniversary of Project Runway, 16 new designers arrive in NYC with big dreams and a homework assignment: bring a garment that best represents their aesthetic. Upon arrival, they learn that for their first challenge they will have to create a companion piece to that look, and they will only have one day before they are presenting on the biggest stage in Project Runway history: the middle of Times Square!
In this “Project Runway” Season 9 wrap-up special, beloved mentor Tim Gunn reveals some of the show's biggest secrets and gives his unedited thoughts.
Things get off to a bumpy start for the final designers as they frantically get ready to show at Fashion Week. With fair warning to step up their game, the designers make every minute of preparation count. Fashion designer L'Wren Scott guest judges, weighing in on who should be the winner during the intense debate at the final judging.
The designers become students for a day when they are partnered with kids from Harlem School of the Arts to create a piece of art that will serve as the inspiration for their next garment. Kenneth Cole guest judges.
The designers are instructed to put on New Balance clothing sets and meet Heidi and Tim at a track and field center to hear about the latest challenge. There, they learn that they will be competing in teams to design pieces inspired by “Heidi Klum for New Balance” sneakers. But in order to be crowned team captain, they must win a different kind of race—on foot! Model Erin Wasson guest judges.
The designers quickly realize they are in for a tough challenge when it is revealed that Nina Garcia is their client! The stakes are raised as Nina tells them that she will wear the winning look to an important industry event. Editor in Chief of Marie Claire magazine, Joanna Coles, and actress Kerry Washington guest judge.
The designers are broken into teams of two to create larger-than-life designs for stilt walkers! In the first-ever outdoor challenge, the runway show is held for all to see. Kim Kardashian guest judges.