TVLINE | What made you gravitate to leather fringe?įor me, in general, I love fringe. And the yellow dress with the neckline and the beaded sleeves. Then the dress in the same print, which also had the leather fringe. Definitely the jacket with the fringe sleeves, in the black-and-white print that everybody loved. TVLINE | Let’s switch gears and dish your final collection. Most of the comments I wouldn’t even remember saying. I never really knew that about myself, so it was very interesting. But I have to say your description of Ven as a “one-way monkey” is going to go down as one of the most quotable in Project Runway history.Īll over the internet, people are quoting me now. It’s so incredibly dry, sometimes it’s hard to tell if you’re even trying to be funny. TVLINE | One of the things that people liked about you on the show is your sense of humor. At that moment in time, she would seriously get into my bones, but then after she apologized, maybe she realized something - that she had been a bitch, basically - and everything was cool. Everyone is asking me “How do you feel about Elena? Blah, blah, blah.” I don’t really feel anything about her, and I don’t even think about her. TVLINE | A few weeks later, when all of the contestants went out to dinner, you said something like, “Look, the wine is working, Elena apologized!” Where do things stand now with you two? I just had to confront her, and just try to not to lose my cool. I had no idea, because there was no problem during the making of this collection. That’s the only explanation for her constant arguments with everyone, and that’s why she threw me under the bus. Then, right before the runway, Elena started getting crazy because she was very, very insecure. The interesting thing was that while making this small collection, everything was fine. How real was the tension between you and Elena? TVLINE | Let’s talk about the group challenge where you were working with Elena and Alicia. It’s just my signature, and I cannot get away from it. I cannot explain it, and I cannot control it. Even if I’m going to do something outside of my box, it’s still going to be me. I have a very specific eye and a very specific hand. Was it hard to stick to your vision under so much pressure? Was there a temptation to try and please the judges? TVLINE | You were one of the few designers who never went off the rails you never did something that didn’t look like it came from Dmitry Sholokhov. So I was shocked that I didn’t win that one. Even up close, it looked like an expensive, beaded couture dress. And then I created a fringe to give the some movement, and again, had to put the candy balls on there one by one. At some point, though, I thought I was going to go crazy because I had to glue all those different-sized little candy balls one by one. I really wanted to take this unconventional material and make something real and wearable. How exactly did you make that beaded flapper dress? TVLINE | Your first big snub from the judges was during the Candy Store Challenge - when you weren’t even in the Top 3. PHOTOS | Project Runway: 17 Best Designs of Season 10 TVLine caught up with Sholokhov to discuss some of his most memorable Season 10 garments, his fued with fellow designer Elena Slivnyak, and his plans for post- Runway life. (Prize rundown should be read in the voice of Heidi Klum, obviously.) Sholokhov’s undeniable consistency carried him all the way to the Final 4 - with a showcase at New York Fashion Week - and eventually, to a $100,000 prize from L’Oréal Paris, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, a 2013 Lexus GS 350, a $50,000 technology suite by HP and Intel and the opportunity to design and sell an exclusive collection at Lord & Taylor. Manifest‘s Josh Dallas and Melissa Roxburgh Reflect on That Fitting Series Finale, Reuniting With Athena Karkanis
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