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Previously: the designers created a figure-skating costume for Sasha Cohen. Tim Gunn advised Santino to be a little more diplomatic with the judges. Zulema won the challenge, while Emmett was sent home. Only seven designers left!
Morning at the Atlas apartments, Zulema, with a towel tied on her head, tells us that she did not sleep well the night before. Then, we see the same interview from last week where she says she was happy to win, but it was not that big of a deal because she needed to look to the future. Newsflash, Zulema: winning the challenges actually secures your future. It's not like you get the option of going on a booze cruise when you win a challenge and run the risk of being trashed for the next challenge. I don't get why winning a challenge could be a distraction. I mean, if you are so dumb as to sit around basking in the victory of your skating outfit when they've asked you to design some eveningwear or something, you've got greater problems than focus. Zulema always has this sort of one-up, scolding tone. She said she was really poor when she was kid, so I guess I can understand her being a little insecure in the fashion world. It's a world where wealthy refinement and access are major parts of success, and as one of seven or however many children were in Zulema's family, she probably didn't get to experience a lot of either of those things as a youngster. Not to mention that I think the other kids got the self-awareness in the family. My point is, Zulema never really does anything annoying, she just sounds annoying. That doesn't seem like enough of a reason for me to dislike her as much as I do from time to time, this being one of those times. But then I see her putting a little Cascade in the dishwasher and, for some reason, I kind of don't hate her as much. And she's wearing a muu-muu.
In the boys' apartment, Santino is eating his breakfast off a paper plate. Bravo, give the people some china. Adding to the humiliation of his paper-plated meal, Santino interviews that his design for the previous challenge was "pretty ridiculous and horrible." Furthermore, he adds that, for this challenge, he is not going to make anything "over-the-top." He is "going to do [his] best." What's happening here? Did he just sound perfectly reasonable -- nay, sympathetic? I feel inclined to credit it to a little editing voodoo, but I'm going to take the bait (however mixed my whole mess of a metaphor is becoming) and say that I think we're seeing a little Santino turnaround.
At Parsons, Heidi greets everyone. Until now, I've liked all of her maternity clothes. I'm not into this dress, though. It's a sleeveless black turtleneck dress with gray trim. Not loving that. She tells them that this challenge will be about "inspiration," which she brackets in air apostrophes. Maybe they do it differently in Germany. Of course, with the ridiculous length of some of my sentences (not to mention my own "use" of the language), perhaps I shouldn't be pointing fingers at anyone's grammar and punctuation. Heidi tells them that they will go to Michael Kors's office for a little inspiration pow-wow.