By Jeff Long | Season AS2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2012.11.29
The designers are asked to make an avant-garde that was androgynous. This is obviously a problem for the girlier of the designers, like Uli and Laura Kathleen. Also, Kayne of Many Colors considers Lady Gaga androgynous. I don’t think that’s true. I’m hesitant to even call Kayne’s Exhibit B, Adam Lambert, androgynous. Aren’t they just post-gender or something? Whatever. It’s really not very important. Anyway, so they are working away when Georgina comes in. There’s a catch. They also have to create a companion look that will be worn by an actual dude. We get some time with male models and that’s always a bonus. Kayne of Many Colors inquires about the sexuality of his male model then proposes that he set one of his sisters up with the poor guy.
Emilio rightly points out that most of the designers don’t really embrace the androgynous part of the challenge, though we see a lot of avant-garde. Jason Wu and Robert Rodriguez (the fashion designer, not the director of Spy Kids -- I know, that would have made more sense) are the guest judges. The show begins and...I don’t know. I honestly don’t know what to say. They’re all interesting, I guess. The styling is a bit forced. Kayne of Many Colors maybe lost his mind? It’s so weird, what he does. He puts the poor boy in houndstooth hot pants.
After the show, Josh, Ivy and Althea are safe. Backstage, Josh says something snotty about how he is a design force to be reckoned with and Ivy says that she doesn’t think they should let their own egos get in their way. He gets super offended by this and proceeds to essentially say that she has made the same blazer over and over. Rude. She doesn’t get drawn into it though, so I’m declaring her the winner. Althea even interviews that Josh is merely projecting his frustration at never being loved by the judges.
The judges really love Uli’s looks. Jason Wu is adorable. He should be graduating from high school soon, I’m assuming. Carolyn totally pops a woody for Emilio’s male model. He is really gorgeous. The judges also like Uli and Anthony Ryan. The bottom are Kayne of Many Colors, Laura Kathleen and Casanova. Emilio wins the challenge! The bottom two are Kayne of Many Colors and Laura Kathleen. And LK is...in. Kayne gets a little choked up backstage and tells the other designers that working with them was the most important part of the all-star experience for him. That’s sweet.