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Project Runway All Stars Recap: The final three compete in their version of The Hunger Games. But no one dies!

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I was trying to find a mystical quotation about endings or journeys coming to an close, but damn if Rumi didn’t talk a lot about love! Which means that it’s up to me to provide some eloquent gloss on last night’s events—the night where Project Runway All Stars came to its complicated, emotional conclusion. To you I say: This is not a day to feel bereft, or lost or unduly abandoned—this is a beginning for us all! And when the winner is announced, and he receives his (BOW NOW NA NA NA NOW!) $100,000 cheque and embroidery studio and whatnot, we too will all be set free—granted, without an HP Digital Suite courtesy of L’Oréal Paris—and yet, free to pursue our own long-sought dreams, like The Hunger Games, or a hot dog.

And in a shocking template modification, I will not award/unaward measly points for things that miffed and/or pleased me based on my own impossible metric. Instead I will strive to provide the most charitable and non-petty remarks on this utterly momentous event—the first ever finale of the first ever season of Project Runway All Stars!

How we feel about things »

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Project Runway All Stars Recap: Austin attempts “Fragonard meets Madame de Pompadour meets Williamsburg Hasidic gentleman”

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Oooh, a two-part finale—swank! Of course this means that this week’s episode is gonna be jam-crammed with useless plot thickeners and chin scratching and long, doubtful confessions. What is Project Runways All Stars about, you ask? That’s a great question and I’m going to say that a lot of its charm has to do with the most wonderful and whimsical removal of human rights. That’s right, lock ‘em up in the studio and make them sew. It’s cool, though; they’ll get over it.

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Project Runway All Stars recap: Nanette Lepore’s budget-friendly challenge does Kenley in

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In an episode more political than the United Nations…thing, the tenth week of Project Runway All Stars may go down as one of the most low-stakes-high-stakes episode in this storied series. (It probably won’t.) While on the surface it felt like any other second-last ep, it struck me like a bolt of slinky jersey that one of these guys’ dreams is about to be dashed. And that could be a scary thing to witness.

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Project Runway All Stars recap: The 5 remaining designers are challenged to turn garbage into black light costumes

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After nearly an entire season, the five remaining All Stars return to their roots (i.e. episode 1) and are asked to participate in another garbage challenge—although now they get to use expensive garbage that lights up! What does it mean when a challenge is so transparently about the novelty of doing a black light show? I worry next week’s pre-Fashion Week final challenge will be all about making fabulous pantsuits out of lasers.

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Project Runway All Stars recap: The designers are challenged to create their most vaguely offensive outfits yet!

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I guess the producers of Project Runway All Stars got tired of my constant emails asking them to inject a little more cultural and/or racial indiscretion into the mix, because I was thrilled to see that this week’s challenge was the most vaguely offensive yet!

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Project Runway All Stars recap: The designers head to Broadway, Isaac and Austin have a catwalk catfight, and Kara gets the boot

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In a surprise that really wasn’t a surprise, this week’s episode of All Stars saw the gang contending with the best, most All Star-ish challenge yet. I can’t lie, this challenge got my heart a-racing and my feet a-tapping, because I, like Austin, love Broadway: the marquees, the plush seats, the promise of grins that won’t quit.

We feel our way through episode 7 »

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Project Runway All Stars recap: Austin has a wristlet pincushion, Kenley is awful as usual, and Rami is a lumpy mess

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All Stars, you’re tearing yourselves apart! This week saw the group get collectively irritable, turning to passive-aggressive tactics that sporadically overshadowed the work. (The true formula for reality TV success, right?)

Time to tally up our thoughts on the episode »

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Project Runway All Stars recap: The designers undress innocent bystanders in Central Park, and Sean Avery’s uptown, downtown, and midtown thoughts about the winning outfit

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As the cast of All Stars continues to dwindle, each episode brings a new kind of anxiety and sadness. Now that we’re halfway through the challenges, the thought of anyone getting sent home gives me the shakes. Is it just me? Do you feel it too?

We chart our emotions throughout the episode »

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