Melissa Fleis - Season 10

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Melissa Fleis
Season 10 Designer

Age 31, San Francisco, CA

List of websites featuring your work?
Home - Melissa Fleis

First garment you ever made? Skirt.

What's your design training/schooling? MFA in Fashion Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.

What have been your influences? Historical art movements.

Favorite designer(s)? Ann Demeulemeester, Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto..

Fashion must? Leather jacket.

Fashion faux pas that drives you crazy? UGGs.

Favorite style icon? Nancy Cunard, Patti Smith, Daphne Guinness.

Dream celebrity client? What would you make for him/her? Anjelina Jolie. A gown.

If you had to name your label, you'd call it... Ilinka.

If you weren't designing, you'd be... On vacation.

Biggest pet peeve? Being late.

Favorite PR designer? Christian Siriano.

Challenge you hope they bring back? Hardware store.

Challenge you hope they don't bring back? Petland.

Do you think you can win PR? Yes, because I am confident in my vision and believe "Project Runway" will recognize this.

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Melissa Fleis | "Project Runway" Season 10 Designer - myLifetime.com

[pikachu]

Episode 1 - The designers had to bring an original piece with them, then were told to create a companion piece for it.

[Critical]

I didn't love that first dress as much as the judges did. The hemline is just a bit too high. The second outfit is very good. Leather is not easy, especially with a jacket like that one, with clean lines. She's definitely got talent.

[Kocky_Kamikaze]

OMG! The short dress is similar to the one on her profile!

[pikachu]

Episode 2 - An unconventional challenge at Dylan's Candy bar, where the designers had $250 to buy material to make an outfit using candy.

[pikachu]

Episode 3 - The designers worked in teams of two to create one runway design for former Project Runway contestants. The color of their Lexus GS vehicle must be seen in the final garments. Each pair had $300 and one day to complete the task. The winner also gets the big bonus of accompanying his/her client to the Emmys.

[pikachu]

Episode 4 - With $150 the designers were to make a stylish outfit a woman on the go could wear from morning to evening.

[beerbelly]

I actually really liked this dress. Looks super comfortable.

[mandmmom2]

I would have loved to seen this without the cape.

[pikachu]

Episode 5 – The designers split into 2 teams for this challenge, Team Six (Sonjia, Alicia, Elena, Melissa, Dmitry, Raul) and Team Five (Nathan, Ven, Fabio, Christopher, and Gunnar). They were given $200 per person to create a collection for working women. They would direct their own photoshoot and the winning shoot would appear in Marie Claire.