Project Runway Recap: Design to Survive

"Yuchen's tendency toward nudity is not my thing, and I worry about his taste level, but I think he has a strong individual perspective. The same goes for Ethan, who knows how to play with shapes, and Veejay, whose ability to work with challenging materials is impressive. But do we think either of the twins could deliver an individual collection, without help from the other?"

"The contestants write down whom they want to vote out, then hand their votes to Law and Christian. "It feels like you're crushing someone's dreams, and there's blood on your hands," Veejay says, and yeah, you kind of are! It sucks! Law then reads the votes out to the amassed designers and shows them each a card; I'm hoping some Project Runway megafan will do some zoomed-in handwriting analysis to figure out who voted for whom."

Episode five marks the season midpoint and spotlights which designers could carry full collections. Yuchen favors nudity and a strong individual perspective; Ethan experiments with shapes; Veejay manipulates challenging materials. Twin designers Jesus and Antonio insist on presenting as a package, raising doubts about solo viability. Nina returns and expresses disgust with the overall workmanship, criticizing low-quality outcomes and the prevalence of one-day challenges imposed by producers. The episode resumes a cliffhanger vote; contestants privately cast ballots, Law reads them aloud, and Joseph receives three votes, resulting in his elimination when Law announces Joseph McRae.

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