Fabio Costa - Season 10

[MFWalkoff]

Fabio Costa
Season 10 Designer

Age 29, Brooklyn, NY
@placetocrash

List of websites featuring your work?
http://ffw.com.br/shooting/shooting/por-tras-da-mascara

First garment you ever made? I remember a skirt made out of 15 neckties. First school project.

What's your design training/schooling? Fashion Design School.

What have been your influences? Music is always a theme in my designs, but I'm also influenced by my surroundings, people, places, streets, and as I incorporate them into my own way of dressing it also influences my work.

Item you're most proud to have designed? My first pair of pants.

Favorite designer(s)? Commes des Garcons, Martin Margiela, Yohji Yamamoto, Ann Demeuelemeester.

Fashion must? A hat.

Fashion faux pas that drives you crazy? Leggings as pants.

Favorite style icon? Roisin Murphy, Diana Vreeland.

Dream celebrity client? What would you make for him/her? Bjork. I would make her a dress that is to be worn upside down

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

If you weren't designing, you'd be... Really sad at life.

Biggest pet peeve? Sneezing without covering your mouth.

Favorite PR designer? Mondo.

Challenge you hope they bring back? HP "create your own print" challenge.

Challenge you hope they don't bring back? Design an outfit with car pieces.

Do you think you can win PR? I know I can win. I understand my strengths and weaknesses, but I also understand that this is a design competition and I know that my ideas are unique and fresh. That's what the judges are looking for, that's what the industry is looking for, but ultimately it is what the progressive customer is looking for. People don't want to look generic and boring, and I'm the designer that's going to bring in the new.

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Fabio Costa | "Project Runway" Season 10 Designer - myLifetime.com

[beerbelly]

I don't like his stuff at all. Mime masks?

[pikachu]

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Episode 6 - The designers were given $150 and one day to create outfits for ladies nominated by a friend for a beauty and fashion makeover.

[beerbelly]

Loved this! I would totally buy this dress. I agree however I didn't like the styling of belt, boots and purse.

[pikachu]

Episode 7 - The designers were given one day to create a dress that could retail for between $200 and $300 at Lord & Taylor. The winning look would be included in a capsule collection by previous Project Runway designers.