Finale
SHOW
ME
WHAT
YOU'VE
GOT!
Congrats, Final Three!
Arber
rae
elysse
The three of you have fought your keesters off to reach this stage.
Now the final battle begins.
Unsurprisingly, your finale task is to create a phenomenal collection that is original, and representative of you; whether it be your style, personality, or just something you like. I don't want something generic that I could get in any short-term.
Here at Snawlterm, the finale has straightforward base rules, and they are as follows:
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Any pose is allowed
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Clothing generators, glitches, and any/all retros are allowed
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What's not allowed is anything that breaks the immersion of a runway outfit (like a glitch that separates your model's head, causes floating items, etc.)
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Also not allowed are furni, green screens, filters, handitems, pixel art, or any type of enhancement editing
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I will allow effects, so long as they're clothing based (no spotlights, sparkles, handitems, etc.)
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Your outfits must be photographed in pristine quality; I will not accept anything less than perfect
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You will need to give your collection a name, as well as a brief description/introduction that will be presented at panel
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Your collection can be between 5 to 7 outfits
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Do not make a background set; I'll handle presentation and final panel editing
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You can show your outfits to whomever you want, but do not attempt to ask any of my guest judges for advice
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I will allow one piece of outfit advice per person, to be used on one outfit (if you choose to use it, I recommend saving it till your collection is nearly done so I can give advice against the outfit's peers)
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I can still answer questions not pertaining to individual clothing choices
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Naturally, the more unique and original your collection is, the better your chances are at winning
Good luck finalists, and may the best collection win.
The collections are in . . . and they're outstanding.
Extremely well done to the three of you for making this finale yet another tough decision.
I don't really have anything new to say. This was another fantastic season with great contestants who left me gobsmacked week after week, culminating in a finale that rivals the quality of any of my previous LT finales, as well as any other Project Runway LT finale.
Let's get into judging these collections!
(background pixel art courtesy of icearbr & .Uhu)
THE FINAL PANEL
"The Theatre of Blood"
The Theatre of Blood was conceived as a personification of my own operatic horrors. Boasting bold silhouettes and strokes of a sanguine story, my collection stages the dramatic vessel of blood conforming and breathing different life into everything it finds itself on. I decided to use blood as an instrument to paint a collection where it is not only uncontained, but alive. Ultimately, this collection paints my life— pushing boundaries past the points of comfort to be reinvented into something even more robust, powerful and beautiful.
Rae's chosen song
by Rae (saffrons)
First Impression
As a former writer, I don't love your description. You're using a lot of uncommon verbs and spicy adjectives to describe what our eyes can easily deduce for ourselves. It feels AI generated if I'm being honest. Fortunately for you, I'm here to judge fashion and not prose. Your collection, The Theatre of Blood, is phenomenal. I really wanted at least one of you to design only five outfits, and I am pleasantly surprised to learn it would be you. You have always been a confident designer who puts soul into whatever it is they submit, and even on the occasional task where you scored low, you never lacked authenticity or temerity. Season 10 was "your season" in a way; I think people will remember it fondly as that season Rae took the house down regardless of which placement you receive after this finale. The collection I am looking at is using only white, black, and reds, and yet it is as diverse and lively as anything we've seen throughout my ten seasons. I cannot wait to examine it further.
This outfit is fantastic. I love the bravery that comes with putting your only side angle posing outfit up first. I also love the lack of earrings or anything up top; the head is platformed by this rough, almost French terry looking fabric on the neckline, before the explosion of outward fabrics erupt beneath. The neck frill and the sleeveless (vest?) give your model this snobby, but also young, contemporary aristocratic disposition that adds to the lux and lavishness of the reds beneath. You look like you're on your way to the Met Gala or something else just as posh and exclusive. The retro you used definitely has a burnt orange/dark vermillion shade that you could have used to match the frontal red with the flyaway fabrics, but instead you picked a deeper red and let the differences in the hues speak out. I friggin' love that so much. Then it's capped off with an astonishing tsunami of black fabric, and a curious use of the kitsune tail. I have no qualms or bits of feedback, this outfit is a homerun. Excellent start to your collection!
To some, I imagine this just looks like a ripped, bloody dress suit - which it is... but there is actually a lot of subtle engineering happening on this canvas. Now that my eyes have focused past the eruption of red detail on the sleeve, handbag, and dress, I am just now noticing your usage of the flower top, and its outward flaring motion accentuating the blazer's lower quarters. The fact that you hid such a gorgeous detail 50% of the way with an ostentatious handbag is bonkers, I love it. Most designers strike gold and base the rest of their outfit around highlighting that one detail, but you incorporated it into the silhouette before bedazzling it with a distracting degree of red and black spangles. I just learned what "kirby krackle" is this morning from a conversation with Arber, and that perfectly captures the sporadic, yet measured chaotic beauty of this outfit. The black is a negative space, and it's desecrating an uptight, usually boring dress suit that is typically associated with rigidness and a lack of excitement or risk-taking. It's symbolic, I love it.
While this is easily my least favourite of your collection, there is still a lot to appreciate in its inclusion. The snowstorm of white fabric on your model's face and upper chest is to die for. I'm still not even 100% sure how you achieved it. The higher half of your head being uncovered is probably the most Haute Couture we've seen this entire season. Where this outfit falls flat for me, is entirely in the use of the winter jacket. I don't love the single vertical white line, and I find both the bulky shape and soft texture to be at odds with the established theme of your other four outfits. It looks less like eviscerated operatic luxury and more like Stay Puff got blown in half by an IED. I love the idea of the centre outfit being a wild curveball that deviates from the other four, but I think the "twist" could have been both bolder, and more thoroughly executed. Imagine an outfit that just neglected the black, white, and reds altogether and gave us something absurd like baby blue? Here I'll give you one more positive: I love those bulky lego boots against the rectangular silhouette above. Overall smart designing, I just don't love the vision.
I would have put this outfit at the far end of your collection; it just seems natural, as this sort of "fin." slide when the dust settles and the stage is a mess of blood, fabric, and broken set pieces. Regardless, I love this outfit. Those giant hand accessory things seem to be taking the PR community by storm, and I absolutely love how you fed into the horizontal stripes with your upper accessories. The loose hand appearing from under the unoccupied jacket sleeve is oddly funny and I love the sort of deconstructed nature the model is wearing the outfit. This isn't an outfit you merely wear, it's an outfit you assemble. There isn't anything groundbreaking about fabric choices or colour layout, it's just an exquisitely executed layer outfit, and that's alright with me.
This is my favourite outfit from your collection. If I were still giving numerical grades for LTs, this would score a perfect 100%. I love everything from the fleshy backpiece, to the kitsune tail train, to the black gown and how it's so synchronized with the movement of the tail, the gold wristband, the subtle Catholic symbolism on the upper back that you definitely chose to show and not cover up. This is magnificent. What a brilliant way to end a collection whose appeal has been such a generous display of gratuitous violence and unrestrained opulence. The way the tail and backpiece connect with each other makes me think of several outfits from alydaman's winning collection in Lidlterm 2 [insert plagiarism accusation here.] You could also argue that the motion pose with the black norm wedding gown is a subtle nod to Herby's winning collection from Season 7. Whether these were conscious decisions or mere coincidences is irrelevant. I see a genius designer who just delivered an astonishing 5-piece collection for the ages, that effortlessly stands tall against any other collection regardless of its size.
Rae's Conclusion
Going into the finale, I had no idea what to expect from you, as I've never seen you make a collection before. After reviewing this impeccable collection, as well as your entire body of work here in Season 10, I am beaming with pride for you. I want to apologize for all those times I rejected you from earlier Snawlterm installments; I wasn't familiar with your game and I didn't know who you were, creatively. Now, we all know exactly who you are and what you are capable of. Thank you for giving Snawlterm another chance. Regardless of where you place in this finale, I want you to understand that Elysse & Arber are two of the biggest titans to ever partake in Project Runway, and the fact that you not only made it to the finale with them, but held your own against them, is a massive victory in and of itself. Please don't go back to being a stranger to the community.
"ANANDA"
Inspired by the art of Jean Giraud aka Mœbius and specifically the graphic novel “The World Of Edena”. A surreal dream-like sci-fi story with themes of a spiritual and physical journey of self discovery, unconsciousness, gender identity and androgyny, nature and technology, the unlimited potential of humanity. Done in a unique style often described as: "Ligne Claire meets surreal science fiction". Thin, consistent line work. Luminous vivid colors combined in strange palettes giving you an atmospheric other-wordly experience. Futuristic, elegant and organic shapes mixing biological forms with technology. Combining the kitsch sci-fi tropes of the 80’s in fusion with surrealism, while heavily drawing inspiration from my impression on the art of Mœbius, my collection is presented in a unique way of having the middle outfit be the starting protagonist, branching out on each side going through a visual journey.
(Ananda - a Sanskrit term meaning: highest joy, eternal bliss, extreme happiness.)
for a curated portfolio of Mœbius' work,
selected by Arber
Arber's chosen song
by Arber (icearbr)
First Impression
The paragraph above is only 5% of the text you sent me when you submitted this collection. You sent me walls upon walls of text... then you sent me a photo album... then you sent me a song... then you sent me another song "for my ears only." Then you sent me more text. It was so tempting to tell you to STFU and let your fashion do the talking. However, what I maybe didn't realize at the time, was that I was in the process of receiving what may very well be the final collection from someone who could quite honestly be the greatest designer to ever play the game. You are a very passionate, curious, and artistically liberated person, and so it makes sense that a passion project from such a special person would bear such diverse and extensive source materials. I didn't know Jean "Mœbius" Giraud by namesake, but I absolutely recognize his artwork as something that has been floating around prevalently in internet circles forever, and has undoubtedly been copied. You used this collection to expand everyone's scope of art, culture, and history. What more could I possibly want?
You submitted this outfit knowing there was a strong chance I'd revile it for its impracticality and experimental nature... and sadly you are mostly correct. This outfit, while unique and eye-grabbing, doesn't entirely work for me as a runway piece. The alien head and unrecognizable anatomical features are very... you. This looks like concept art for the bloater infected in Last Of Us. However, I'd be lying if I said there was nothing here to appreciate. Your layering is astonishing. Once again you are using the guitar accessory in ways it was never intended for, and I will always love that. My favourite part of this outfit is the foot region. I'm not sure how you achieved such intricate layers of splotch patterns on what is easily the hardest part of an avatar's canvas to reinvent, and I low-key hope you keep your secrets to yourself, lest it be copied in future games. Overall a very rambunctious start to your collection, and frankly I expect nothing less from you.
This has to be my least favourite outfit in your collection, easily. I don't know where those hand accessories hail from; whether it be base Habbo or a retro, but I am guessing whoever designed them, did so with the intention of them being worn together in some way. As you may recall, I am very hard on designers who pair obvious items together, like the geometric crop top shirt with the geometric pants, because they were released together on the same mannequin. There is no innovation or thought process behind pairing them together. These hands, I feel, fall into a similar trap. I must applaud the consistency of fabrics, and the undoubtful genius it took to recognize how the scrunched socks and mask would work as great reinforcing details. The main draw of the outfit, however, reads as a bit too predictable in the choice of items, and any amazement I had upon first seeing this outfit is more attributed to the novelty of said items, than any creative process, unfortunately.
Mmmm, yes. An Arber design through and through. I love this to death. My favourite part of this outfit is how I can easily recognize every single item you used; you're not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes with newly unearthed retro items or an intricate glitch only achievable after 500+ hours of testing, nope... you're simply grabbing familiar items we all have access to, and pairing them together in a way only you would ever think to. The similarities and differences of each added shape are like a never ending Yin-Yang that could only have been made by someone as smart as you. Outfits like these inspire me so much to be a better artist myself. I have no further commentary to add that isn't exuberant praise. Phenomenal work. I friggin' love you, Oobie!
I like this outfit a great deal, but I don't love it, and I think it could have been pushed a bit harder. Firstly, you kicked up quite the storm in my DMs for two days over being allowed to use those foamlike head blobs, and after getting consent from your competitors I finally capitulated. When I did, I was expecting something with a little more... intention? Don't get me wrong, they don't look out of place on this outfit per se, but I do believe the presentation would be stronger without it. Alien cranium aside, the rest of this outfit looks like some shameless 2000s revival RnB I'd see Jack Harlow in, and that's not a bad thing, but I feel a disconnect between the jumpsuit, the foam accessory, and the inspiration of Mœbius' art style. The shadow gradient on the lower end of the foam accessory matches Mœbius to a damn tee, and I would have liked to see that level of intricate shading explored on a more cohesive canvas, such as outfit 6 or 7 in this collection. As for the jumpsuit itself: the bright red fabric enhancements on the baggy purple bomber jacket is amazing, and I love the abrupt colour gradient shift from red to yellow, to green. It's bold, it has no business being subtle, and it gets the job done.
I love this a lot. The hard rectangle headpiece sitting atop a sort of bulbus sheath gives it an oddly satisfying melted candle effect. The greens and aqua colour gradient on the top is splendid, both in choices as well as layout. The amazing palette is then heightened by the purples below; it's not immediately noticeable, but you have similarly outstanding gradient variations down below too on the shoes and in between the fabric gaps. This outfit features a far more inventive and intriguing use of the hand accessory. I just wanna keep staring at this outfit, it's sucking me in. The neck and upper chest is a maelstrom of fabrics so tantalizing, it is inspiring me to log onto Habbo for the first time in forever just to see if I can come up with anything remotely similar. You are at your best when you inspire those around you, and this outfit does just that. Flawless work on this one.
Somewhere, alydaman is shedding a tear of pride at this shameless showcasing of a model's full ass. I see crack, I see gooch, I see some madly inverted cankles. In an odd way, this is probably the outfit I find most in sync with Mœbius' aesthetic established in the photos provided by you. The aforementioned bare bottom half is the sort of smooth, bright, negative space of the canvas that is pushing the complicated grays closer together, heightening their density. I love every single fabric you chose, especially on the head region and below the hem of the cropped top. It's like a cabbage's closely packed natural layers. I'm sure this outfit is divisive in some way, I can't imagine a whole lot of people liking it as a runway outfit. I, however, love it to death. This is fantastic.
Choosing to end a collection full of thick, bulbus outfits with something like this: a straight, cylindrical shaped stick of an outfit, is hilarious and I love it. I love the rectangular fabrics on top and their subtle off-shading. I love the yellow lipstick and (earrings?) that continue the circular perimeter of the hair. I have no idea what is going on down below with the lower legs and feet. It looks like two separate sets of footwear superimposed on one another. This outfit is a very strong visual representation of Mœbius and his aesthetic established in the photos you provided, but it is also a concise summation of who you are as a designer. This outfit reflects everything from your love for simple textures, to analogous colour palettes, to daring Avant Garde silhouettes - particularly on the head, to inventive glitching. This outfit exemplifies everything I - and the entire community - love about you and your style. I want to commission you for another 7-piece collection inspired solely from this outfit! But I won't say that too loud or else you'll have thirty more outfits made by lunchtime tomorrow. A fantastic ending, bravo.
Arber's Conclusion
There's so much I want to say about you and your run in Season 10, but most of it is just sappy, insouciant praise, and I know you well enough to know those words mean nothing to you and you'd rather not hear it. So instead of prattling on about how you were this season's powerhouse front-runner who doled out creative, highly conceptual pieces again & again, and whom everyone was afraid of, I'll instead say that I am very proud of your ability to keep up with the rest of the cast. I was mildly worried about your artistic stamina at the beginning, because you seldom play short-terms and 96% of your Miniterm submissions are jokes. glitches, or pixel art abominations. However, the drought of your creative output seemed to have the opposite effect, as you instantly became the wellspring of this season's most daring and memorable outfits. I am forever grateful for our years of comradery because I genuinely believe I've learned more about art history, movements, appreciation, criticism, aesthetics, terms, and techniques from being in your orbit, than I ever did in thirteen years of Canadian public schooling. You are probably the single most inspiring person I ever met.
"Bouba Meets Kiki"
The bouba-kiki effect refers to the correlation between shapes and sound where experiments have shown that a majority of participants across all ages will connect spiky shapes with Kiki and rounded shapes with bouba. A 2026 study has even shown correlative results in babies where cognitive processing is limited - crazy right??
For this collection, I wanted to draw upon the idea of what shapes could contribute to bouba/Kiki forms within clothing, taking it one step further and playing with soft and hard colours to create further distinction, noting that colour 'softness' can be influenced by the other shades around it. This set of seven looks progresses inwards, with what I believe to be bouba on the right, and Kiki on the left, meeting in the middle with a clash of ideas.
by Elysse (LC22)
First Impression
Missed opportunity to call this collection BOBBA-Kiki but you're forgiven.
On paper, this collection intrigues me the most because it demands very obvious item selections for the shapes and silhouettes of your outfits. This can be both a blessing and a curse. Bouba needs smooth, blobitecture evoking items, whereas kiki connotes spikes and other violently jutting shapes. Both of these are very inspiring, but where the difficulty lies, is finding a way to marry the seemingly antipodal ideas in a 5-7 piece collection. There are several ways in which one can attempt to do it, and I find your whole idea of the two ideas "meeting in the middle" interesting. Then there is your colour palette which is also divided amongst the bouba/kiki partition. I'm not sure if I love that idea... because if you showed me outfit #3 in isolation with 5 or 6 and told me these were part of the same collection, I would be left scratching my head for quite some time. Let's dive in and see what we can discover.
I enjoy the Avant Garde styling of the accessories. The headpiece, the punk hairstyle, and the black trinkets on your torso are quite innovative. I've never seen that large, dramatic gown before and I do love it, but I struggle to recognize its purpose on an outfit that is presumably trying to represent 'kiki.' The headpiece, earrings, and devil's tail do a solid job at evoking the solid, sharp textures you needed, but the gown sort of counteracts all that effort because to me, it looks soft, like an ocean of silk that one could fall asleep in. Altogether it works as a gorgeous outfit, but I just wonder if the counteraction of the sharp textures was intentional or if it was an accident, like perhaps you were hoping I'd find the gown to be an extension of kiki? Also not really a critique, but I wish you had more fun with the monochrome red by having more shades visible. This outfit's pretty good, but I think it could easily be made better.
This is awesome, easily my favourite of the kiki portion of the collection. It's so shamelessly spunky and out there, I love that unrestrained freedom of expression. I'm not sure how you're achieving what looks to be like two hairstyles at once but I love it. Using the open gown thing and the one-piece bikini to convey triangular shapes is a smart way to kikify the composition of the outfit, and I like how you're sort of colour blocking them as well. The sharp backpack is great too, but I wish it also featured an outrageous colour like a teal or yellow, just to further drive home the colour blocking. I have no other feedback to offer, this is just a great outfit. Nice work.
The shape of the lens on the glasses is the only thing I can reasonably say is kiki inspired, and the rest of the outfit looks oddly detached from your theme. I actually love this outfit by itself, it's this sort of early to mid '90s stoner comedy punk reminiscent of films like Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas or Tank Girl. I love how you sprinkled darker red on the accessories while the meshed top is a more lighter ruby grapefruit. The torn pantlegs are odd but they work. The excessive jewelry works great for this sort of dystopian post-modernist punk opulence. Through and through I friggin' love this outfit, it's so you. If there is a deeper, more cerebral reasoning as to why it is in this collection however, I must capitulate and say it went over my simple head.
An honest to God masterpiece. Making an outfit that is both bulbus and spiky sounds like such an insane task that anybody would struggle with, and yet you made it look so easy. The missile jetpack thing whatever it's called, is quite possibly the best item you could have conceived because of how well it conveys both central ideas. I love the shapeless blue backdrop and the adorning yellow highlights that make me think of an old Tonka toy from the late '90s. Even the white hair barrettes and silver eyeshadow and lipstick are awesome, they give this drag race charm that works amazingly well against the crazy shapes. This outfit is like a Razzing masterpiece, except better because I didn't have to cast a bitter schizophrenic asshole in order to receive it. The only negative thing I have to say about this outfit, is that there is only one. I high-key wish the bouba/kiki combo was used on two or three central outfits instead, just so you could flex your ingenuity and utter mastery of the concept. Regardless, this is a homerun. Stupendous work, El!
Looks like you Dune-ified icearbr's old rabbit outfit. Bodacious, curvy, cakelike. I feel I can get a toothache just by looking at this. Here at Snawlterm, we love gingivitis. This is a great example of using sideways posing to your advantage, because I can't imagine the dress' shingled pattern would have looked this neat from the front on pose. Also, I love the kinetic way the head fabric is sort of just flopped over the model's head, and it's strengthened by the beehive hairdo emerging from the back like a freshly piped kiss of meringue, or cupcake icing. Sorry, I can't stop connoting to desserts from this outfit. The footwear is a bit confusing and I would have preferred to see something more... easily understandable? I can't quite tell if they're socks & sandals, or a rubber boot with a dramatic sole. Regardless, this is another solid outfit.
What I love about this outfit is how it makes perfect sense, as well as no sense at all. You're wearing a cropped sweater, which is bold but it makes sense in an editorial way... then you stretch a strapless undershirt over it... it makes no friggin' sense!? Why do I like it!? What does any of this mean? Why are any of us even here? Sorry, I lost myself for a second. Anyway, I appreciate the reoccurring yellow hoops and circles; you know me well enough to know I like reappearing patterns. The baggy white cargo pants are right up my alley, and I believe that even someone who hates them would still admit the fabric cohesion is a brilliant creative decision. I love outfits like this, because they are are just smart combinations of clothing. There is no one particularly weird effect that draws the eye in, because the outfit in its entirety is the effect. I wanna buy this outfit, wear it, and rob a ski resort.
Not since Mickey (Player)'s iconic Middleton outfit from Week 6 of last season have we seen the diving suit utilized in a long-term... and as much as I love what Mickey did with it, I have to commend you you an equally creative final product. This item is so alien to me, I struggle with deciphering which details come with the suit and which were added by you. Then you further amplify the chubby circular nature of the silhouette by using a mushroom tip bell-end style hat, which makes you a literal dickhead. I love the subtle white earring, and how you kept the face plain with no ostentatious jewelry or face paint or any other means of unneeded clutter. I don't know what the hell type of backpiece you're using with the white frills but I love how it warps the shape of the lower body and almost looks like a Vegas showgirl's dramatic tail. I was iffy on the tight dress at first, just because of how vastly different it is from everything else, but I've since come around to love it; I find its abrupt switch to smooth texture and linear shape to be comical but in an enjoyable way. It's a hot mess, minus the mess.
Elysse's Conclusion
It's pretty much impossible to "accidentally" wind up in an LT finale; it is a privilege awarded only to those whose artistic stamina wanes little to none, and whose creativity is off the charts. Anybody can win a task, but to survive ten or more eliminations is a different beast entirely... and you've done it four times - three here in Snawlterm. Even if you don't win this long-term, I still think that alone makes you possibly the best LT contestant of all time? Definitely puts you in the top five conversation at the very least. And so what can I say to you here that I haven't already said in my profuse torrents of praise over the past four years?
I should congratulate you on your wedding, and say your groom is a lucky man to get to call someone as creatively liberated as you his wife. People like you made this game worth hanging onto all these years, and I hope to maintain contact with you long after this game.
As for your run here in Season 10, it was a damn riot, as expected. I loved receiving your perfectly cropped and immaculately shot outfits with transparent backgrounds week after week; it was a small gesture but it made my past three seasons easier to host.
the final conclusion
Before I bestow my tenth crown, here are some final sentiments from our judging panel:
​These three collections undoubtedly show range, vision, and true performance. Nobody should go home from this feeling defeated or circumvented. You all stood your own for 10 consecutive weeks... with no slip-ups that would cost you an elimination. And yet, all three of you designed collections that will truly be remembered in Project Runway history! Please give yourselves a moment, a break, a semblance of gratitude toward yourselves. Personally, I can say for myself that I will be looking back at these collections for times to come.
Zoetic
Lidl-wayne
​Rae, your collection is like a fine glass of red wine after a long trip. Arber, your collection is the future with robots and technology we deserve, the anti-thesis of AI. Elysse, your collection is like a pineapple, pointy on the outside but sweet as well. To make it this far is a win itself, and you come out on the other side of this journey as a creator a little different to the one who first started it.
uhu.
​To all three of you, we have watched you all season creating these amazing designerologies that I'm sure will be looked back on for years to come. The final results of each one of your collections exudes inspiration and is strong in your signature styles. It's such a pleasure to see! And I can't wait for more!
razzing
hold on,
what the fuck?
Security!
I Have Chosen a Winner
I want to apologize for the month long wait for this panel. Work got really busy, ate my spare time up, and subsequently hit me with writer's block. I promise I wasn't scamming you guys;
I am more than excited to give each of you the cash prizes you rightfully won.
The Winner
Of Snawlterm
Season Ten, Is...
To The other finalists:
In second place, we have Arber (icearbr). This was a very difficult decision that was felt by not only myself, but the rest of the judges' chat. We argued in favour of you & -Rae- for a solid week. Your personal collection is outstanding, and worthy of winning. It just couldn't beat this season's winner. Seeing as you've won three long-terms already, one of which already being a Snawlterm, I know this loss probably won't hurt too much. However, I do want to impart you with the knowledge that your collection was just so inspiring, and everybody in the community loves it deeply. Thank you one last time for giving all of us something to eat for years to come.
We like what you've got!
And that means that in third place, we have Elysse (LC22). Like your other two competitors, we all felt really inspired by your unique theme, and were subsequently blown away by your interesting and unpredictable approach to each of your seven outfits in your theme. Ultimately, what lead to my decision to give you 3rd was that I felt the first half of your collection (mainly 1 and 3) struggled to live up to the difficult task you assigned yourself. This is possibly the most painful elimination of the season, as you have proven yourself more than worthy of winning a long-term time & time again, and so for me to not bestow the crown upon your head yet again feels like such a gross robbery. However, knowing you, I know you're going to take these results in stride. You have no reason to feel anything other than extreme pride for your awesome collection.
That's a wrap for season 10!