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(S03E01) What a crazy start to a new season. Already, I've been outraged (I'll explain later). This challenge started almost right after the designers met Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn for a little champagne to celebrate their first day. They were told to create an outfit defining their personality with absolutely anything from their brand new apartments. Armed with scissors and their greedy hands, the designers totally ripped their beautiful apartments into pieces. Shower curtains came down, couches were skinned, lamps were attacked, and cushions were destroyed. Sigh. It looked like so much fun. I was green with envy.

Each designer was assigned a model (wow, Runway is focusing less and less on the models with each season) and the guest judge was designer Kate Spade.

Follow along by checking out the designs on "Rate the Runway". On to the designers...

Bradley Baumkirchner, 32, Los Angeles, CA: He used parts of a mattress and comforter to make a dress and wrap (?), respectively. The dress part looked okay, but the comforter wrap creation looked tremendously awkward. There was no shape to it... I was surprised that he was "safe".

Robert Best, 36, West Hollywood, CA: Robert designed for Barbie for the last ten years, which I thought was really cool. For the challenge, he made a very feminine dress (out of a duvet cover and bedsheets) with sparkly beads for embellishments. I loved the contrast between the bright red bows and the pure white. The judges adored him and Heidi named him as one of her two favorites.

Laura Bennett, 42, New York, NY: This woman is a mother of five and yet she looks so put together. She said that she refuses to give into the sweatpants aspect of motherhood. Good for her! She wears her hair slicked back, bright red lipstick on her pale skin, and clothing with very crisp, clean lines. Very sophisticated. So, her Wall to Wall outfit was a really glamorous coat made of a white faux fur rug and some shiny embellishments from a chandelier. It really reflected her personality.

Malan Breton, 32, Long Island City, NY: Haha, Malan Breton, born in Taiwan. It rhymes! After looking at the preview pictures of the designers a few weeks ago, I decided that this guy was going to be my favorite (just because he had kind of a lazy eye in the pics). Maybe it's the laugh, but there's something really creepy about this guy. "Vincent Price"-creepy, I mean. He used a really strange, brown rug to create a lumpy, short jacket. I didn't particularly love it, but it wasn't bad.

Bonnie Dominguez, 31, San Diego, CA: Using some sheets and duvet covers, Bonnie fashioned a strapless dress. I thought it was a nice creation, but it didn't fit her model correctly (her breasts looked ready to make a run for it).

Stacey Estrella, 40, San Francisco, CA: [OUT] She had limited experience in fashion (three years) and didn't know how to work the sewing machines. So doomed. She made an ill-fitting white dress that was a little too sheer at the bottom. It was bad, but not bad enough to be Auf'd, I thought.

Katherine Gerdes, 25, Minneapolis, MN: With garbage bags and a comforter, she made a dress and a futuristic hoodie-cape. I thought it looked quite cool, but not enough to stand out.

Kayne Gillaspie, 27, Norman, OK: He used red rubber mats to create some really cool movement in the back of the dress he created. Although it was well done, it failed to stand out.

Ulrike "Uli" Herzner, 35, Miami Beach, FL: Uli is from Germany! She has an adorable accent... I want to hear a conversation between her and Heidi. Uli used curtains to create a really flowy dress with green bead embellishments around the neck. I liked the unusual color combo.

Alison Kelly, 25, Brooklyn, NY: She used bedsheets to create a mini-dress with creative bunching. I thought it was quite cute, save for a little awkward bunching along the model's front.

Angela Keslar, 33, Amesville, OH: Her creation was hideous. It was a mish-mash of all the wrong things. Random flowers, random belt, random boots. I didn't understand how this was part of the "safe" group.

Michael Knight, 28, Atlanta, GA: This is the guy who everyone's surprised to see on the show. Because he's black and he wears oversized shirts, people like to call him "street" and "hip-hop". Eh, whatever. He created a really, really nice dress out of coffee filters. It reminded me of a flapper dress. I thought it was very well done and was surprised to see that he wasn't one of the top scores.

Vincent Libretti, 49, Santa Monica, CA: Old guy. Gosh. What a Marla. He used to be a working designer, but he peaked in 1988. His design for the challenge was absolutely hideous. The dress didn't fit well and he made his model wear a horrible little basket on her head with large sunglasses. He was so damn excited about that stupid basket hat too. But when the judges called him on it, he said how he was so hesitant about using it. Bullcrap. I was positive he was going to be Auf'd, but the judges didn't even pick him to be a part of the bottom two! I was outraged (these were my exact, copy-and-pasted online chat words: VINCENT IS IN?!!!!!!!1 TTHAT'S NOT COOOOOL. Omg.)

Keith Michael, 34, New York, NY: [WINNER; immunity] Wow, Tim was wrong for once. After seeing that Keith's outfit was made purely from normal-looking fabric, Tim suggested that he add a place mat or something to be a little more appropriate to the challenge. Keith tried it out, but ended up hating it and removing it. He won the challenge even though it was his first time ever making a dress. Very impressive.

Jeffrey Sebelia, 36, Los Angeles, CA: [ALMOST OUT] It's the guy with the neck tattoo. Yeah. Is it just me who noticed, or is his neck abnormally thick? An optical illusion with the neck tattoo? And his eyebrows look like furious little caterpillars. I swear, the man looks like a cartoon. I want to sketch him. Anyway, Jeffrey used loads of different materials to create a dress and jacket. There were a lot of wacky layers, which the judges didn't like. He also made his model do something weird before she started her walk down the runway... She flailed her arms around and all these feathers went flying everywhere. It was very bizarre. Although his creation wasn't excellent and the jacket kind of distracted from the dress, I didn't think he deserved to be in the bottom two. Didn't make sense to me. At least maybe he won't be so cocky now.