# Project Runway All Stars Season 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042 "2016-02-13T20:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/1 "2016-02-13T20:09:08Z")
I’m not seeing a thread – let me know if I missed it. Glad to see my Philly homegirl Dom back; also glad to see Fade back, hope he doesn’t run out of steam. And I like Emily but don’t care for her clothes. Stella is not nearly as groovy as she thinks she is. How many eps till Ken melts down? (And if he turned his peplum into something that wasn’t a peplum, what was it, and why did the judges like it so much?) Not eliminating either of those bottom two looks was Tim-Gunn-save lame – they should have both gone home. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/2 "2016-02-13T20:30:01Z")
Now we know where Daniel Franco went (cue Santino). I’m glad to see Kini and Fade. They both bring some much needed talent to the work room. I really like Isaac and Georgina as judges although will always miss the Duchess of Orange. I watch, expecting no fashion, just a soap opera, and I am not disappointed. Lighten up, it’s just fashion. Daniel will be aufed this coming week. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/3 "2016-02-14T00:12:31Z")
I haven’t watched yet – have to find it On Demand – but am looking forward to it. The winner of the Junior edition had some interesting ideas but the looks in general were a snoozefest. Glad adult designers are back. ---
**Author:** ![BundleOfStix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BundleOfStix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BundleOfStix)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/4 "2016-02-14T02:49:12Z")
Interestingly, Comcast has not yet added it to the On Demand area - I had to watch it from the Liftetime TV website. Dunno whatup with that. ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/5 "2016-02-14T04:38:24Z")
Did anyone notice the monstrosity he made resembled the paper bag dress that got him aufed the first time? If he wasn’t so untalented, he’d be cursed. Thanks for starting this thread. A. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/6 "2016-02-19T04:08:59Z")
> [@BundleOfStix](#): > > Interestingly, Comcast has not yet added it to the On Demand area - I had to watch it from the Liftetime TV website. Dunno whatup with that. I missed last week and forgot to catch up at 8:00 so I only saw the last 15 minutes of last week. No one aufed, oh well. . . . This week – what a travesty! I love Fade and I liked his 1000x better than whatever that thing is that Emily made. How could they possibly find more redeeming in hers than his. I hated when he was aufed before and I am pissed this happened already. At least his was more original than the red dress they liked, which has been done to death. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/7 "2016-02-19T19:33:25Z")
Fade – effin’ _Fade_, who’s one of the rare people to appear on that show with a genuinely outsider POV – was the first person to go home the entire season? What the everloving fuck? Mitchell AND Daniel should have gone home last week, and Emily should have gone home last night, and Fade should be doing his East German anarchist thing. Wankers. Also – don’t you just want to slap the everloving shit out of that little bitch Sam? ETA: [Mitchell should have gone home this week,](http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway-all-stars/photos/season-5-episode-2-final-looks#id=10) having squandered their mercy last week. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/8 "2016-02-19T20:09:07Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Fade – effin’ _Fade_, who’s one of the rare people to appear on that show with a genuinely outsider POV – was the first person to go home the entire season? I’m reeling. He’s the person I was most interested in and excited to see back. Worst decision in a very long time. Emily’s was a trainwreck and I thought the decision was obvious. Sam. :rolleyes: I’m trying to be charitable and assume he’s overcompensating for deep insecurities. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/9 "2016-02-19T21:24:21Z")
I have no clue how the absolute train wrecks that were Mitchell’s blue bacon dress and rock girl’s leather fringe weren’t even in the _bottom_! Daniel’s was pretty shit as well. ---
**Author:** ![OHS201](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6de8d8/32.png) [@OHS201](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OHS201)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/10 "2016-02-24T01:19:03Z")
I loved the wind-machine, it’s nice that they can come up with unusual challenges that aren’t stupid. (I do think it’s just silly to put a former winner on the show. They already won once, give the 2nd and 3rd placers a chance.) ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/11 "2016-02-24T10:49:54Z")
Deeply sorry that Fade was auf’d because he was the only one I was interested in watching. He was the only one with an original viewpoint, talented, thoughtful. Mitchell and Emily should’ve been sent home. I hate that I liked Daniel’s dress this week, beautiful fabric. Bored with Valerie’s dress, thought she was in the bottom for being so unoriginal. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/12 "2016-02-26T14:19:19Z")
Saw that it was on last night, and taped it. I can’t really even be bothered to watch. Everything and everyone is just so ho-hum. Even the drahhhhammmmma is boring. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/13 "2016-02-26T15:17:32Z")
At least the right person went home last night, although I wouldn’t have been hurt if that pair went home. How could they have had anything nice to say about that black vinyl monstrosity? I wish Kini had found a way to expose more of the mermaid dress, with the print maybe down the back or something. That would have been a beautiful color and silhouette on the carpet. He is too nice – tell the judges you made the tailored look! I feel like he clammed up like this in other group challenges. And I misremembering or did that pretty boy he was paired with do no actual work on Under the Gunn either? I liked Alexander’s OK but black over royal blue is no great revelation. The other dress in that pair actually had a fresh look to it. ETA: And how does Daniel look so mystified that he was going home? Is he really so clueless? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/14 "2016-02-27T00:25:08Z")
[Here](http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway-all-stars/photos/season-5-episode-1-final-looks#id=10)’s Mitchell’s first design. [Here](http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway-all-stars/photos/season-5-episode-2-final-looks#id=10)’s his second design. And [here](http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway-all-stars/photos/season-5-episode-3-sketches#id=3)’s his third design. Leaving aside the question of why anyone, let alone more than one someone, thought the bodice of the third look was anything other than hideous, there are more mysterious questions, starting with “how is he still on the show,” continuing through “why was he chosen for All-Stars,” and ending up with “how did he end up on the regular show in the first place?” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/15 "2016-02-27T21:23:42Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Leaving aside the question of why anyone, let alone more than one someone, thought the bodice of the third look was anything other than hideous That blonde woman from Little Big Town is the sweetest person ever – “I like the bodice”. DON’T ENCOURAGE HIM IN ANY WAY! You’ve swayed me – at least Daniel’s could have been lined and been not horrible – Mitchell should have gone home and been legally restrained from ever designing again. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/16 "2016-02-28T00:19:44Z")
Daniel struck me throughout as spacey and oblivious. I even wondered if he has substance abuse issues. Kini fell into the classic trap of these “team” challenges… They’re not! If your partner is rubbish at sewing, don’t do it for them! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/17 "2016-02-29T15:41:22Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > Kini fell into the classic trap of these “team” challenges… They’re not! If your partner is rubbish at sewing, don’t do it for them! Bingo – “oh, if his is bad, I’ll be in the bottom”. Yeah, and…they will know you aren’t the one to eliminate. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rainbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@black\_rainbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rainbow)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/18 "2016-03-04T02:45:39Z")
How the hell is Mitchell safe? His look was horrible! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/19 "2016-03-04T04:53:12Z")
I was fine with Stella going home. I never really cared for any of her looks. Just like I was happy last week when they sent Daniel home. He was even worse. I don’t really have any strong feelings about the others, other than, even though Kini does pretty good, most of the time I keep thinking he could do just a little bit better. He doesn’t seem to be living up to his full potential in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042/20 "2016-03-04T04:59:57Z")
Mitchell can’t go home soon enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-all-stars-season-5/746042.md?page=2)