The Fant4stic Four. I hope you're each ready to go to battle, because one of you isn't making it to fashion week. Because the stakes at this stage of the competition are so high, and the four of you are so good, the margin of error is microscopic.

To make eliminating one of you easier for me, you will be designing two outfits this week! That's right, I'm bringing back the two-task semi-finale! Both of these tasks are weighed evenly at 50/50. The placement order on the Progress Page will reflect the combined averages of each person's task scores. This means you can win one task, and still get eliminated if your other score is too low.

Task #10, pt. 1

Windows Start-Up Noise Intensifies

Do any of you know what Frutiger Aero is? You may not recognize its name, but you are undoubtedly familiar with the style. It is the corporate art style that succeeded the glossy, geometric Y2K aesthetic. Taking off in 2003 and not really going away till the mid-to-late 2010s, Frutiger Aero was everywhere that had to do with technology: Desktop backgrounds, service provider commercials, billboards, etc...

To summarize Frutiger Aero is difficult, so I'm not going to embarrass myself trying to do so. A mere Google Image search of the aesthetic will provide you with ample references for you to get an idea of what it is. Your [first] task for this week is - you guessed it - to design an outfit that evokes Frutiger Aero.

Frutiger Aero can realistically be conveyed with any colour palette, but given the limitations of Habbo clothing, I would recommend sticking to a more obvious colour palette (that of white, silvers, greens, blues, yellows). If you want to veer off the trail and do something different, that is your decision to make. However it comes with hefty risks.

Task #10, pt. 2

I'm Very Happy for You, I'mma Let You Finish This Collection, But. . .

Before I let any of you design a collection, I want to make sure you understand how to create cohesive pieces. For your 2nd task of Week 10, you will be "finishing" someone else's iconic collection!

Below is a link to an Imgur file containing five different collections from previously hosted Project Runway longterms. Each of these five collections is a masterpiece with a specific theme. Your job is to choose one of these fantastic collections, and design an outfit to be featured alongside the original 5-7 outfits of the collection. Your outfit must seamlessly match the original outfits, while also expanding on the collection by bringing something new to it. In a perfect collection, no single component feels unneeded. Your outfit needs to blend in, but stand alone at the same time. Do not let your submission get lost in the shuffle.

Yes, you can change collections at any time prior to submitting.

Click Here to See The Collections

*Disclaimer: If you have designed a collection for a longterm finale and it was not featured in this list, please know I mean no offense. I truly wanted to choose all of them. I narrowed it down to my these 5 for simplicity. I also picked collections I feel would be more adaptable for this task.

Panel - Frutiger Aero

Alright final four, we're at judgment day. One of you regrettably isn't making it to the final 3 - and thusly will not be in Fashion Week. To help form that decision, I've made you design two outfits this week. First on the chopping block is your assignment of Frutiger Aero!

Frutiger Aero is a rather limited aesthetic, thusly I was not expecting a whole lot of range displayed at this panel. However, I am thoroughly impressed how all four of you seemed to have designed completely different aspects of this task; no two outfits look the same. Bravo!

To help me judge, I have a special treat for you. This person is a veteran short-term host, and player, with years of experience. Not only that, but they've been in your exact position before. They know how treacherous Snawlterms can be because they won one! Introducing. . . . .

Season 7's winner, and Season 6's 4th place finisher: Zechariah (HerbyMainsted)!

fupaqueen (Elise)

Snawl: Elise, this is some campy bullshit. . .in other words it's Frutiger Aero to a tee, well done! I love how you are using so many different shades of greens & blues because it really helps give this outfit a glossy, bloblike texture. Speaking of bloblike, the upper torso of this outfit is superb. The cyberpunk pants - which I normally revile with every fibre of my being - are actually used quite brilliantly here. The shoes are a bit too brick-ish for me. The head accessories definitely evoke F/A the strongest, but the complete cover-up of the face hinders your overall presentation. It de-humanizes your Habbo to the point where I have trouble discerning whether I'm looking at a runway outfit, or a life-size plastic facsimile displayed outside an alien themed arcade or waterpark. Overall I think you understood this task flawlessly, but you had some issues translating it to your avatar. It needs refinement - which is not something I'm used to saying about your outfits.

HerbyMainsted: Okay I could go either way on your Aero. at first glance it seems a bit jumbled, but the more I'm staring I'm finding something oddly satisfying. You didn't showcase a bunch of texture, but your color placement is great, its not my absolute favorite but, you took a risk, and I think you did a good job.

Slur (Zoetic)

Snawl: Was your inspiration a Tide pod? I love this outfit, I think it's the best thing you've designed since Week 5. The colour green is so in-your-face when you Google Frutiger Aero, so for you to have the balls to ignore it completely is commendable in itself. I love that necklace from behind, and for you to pair it with that NFT glitch top was so genius because you have spheres and squares cluttered in the same space, floating away which is such a common trope with F/A. I love the HC fur coloured silver because it gives this presentattion that tacky, 2009 dishwasher detergent commercial glossy finish. The waves on the skirt are gorgeous. The blocky diva heels work great on this outfit because they evoke the square shaped silver fur above. Even the earring is such a small, yet well crafted detail which only heightens my respect for this outfit to new highs. This is what it looks like when you design with your brain: Every component serves its purpose. Flawless work, Zoetic.

HerbyMainsted: This is such a good outfit in my o[pinion. while be I've seen this combination of clothing done the same way, by many of Habbo its was a smart choice to use them for those small details in texture. The colors you chose making the grey the main component, and not flooding with color was a smart choice its very easy on the eyes. Well done

Pine (Nate)

Snawl: This is a very pleasant outfit in its own right, but sadly it doesn't scream Frutiger Aero as efficiently as your other three competitors' outfits do. You nailed the colour palette though, and it makes me want to see what else you could have done with different fabric choices. The most defining part of Frutiger Aero - even more defining than the colours - is the obnoxiously wavy 3D textures. Blobs, water, brightly coloured animals, spheres, etc. I don't really get that at all from this outfit. If anything this looks mid-to-late-'80s 2D scroller game on the Sega Genesis. I love the festivities of colour on your collar and their repeat appearance along the pant legs. The subtle offset green colour shift with the sash is lovely too. The silver earrings tone the palette and help it from becoming too acidic. Ultimately I feel like this task's rambunctious textures intimated you so much so that you retreated into a mental hole, and sent out a product made in your "safe zone" that isn't at all reflective of your ingenuity as a designer.

HerbyMainsted: Your Aero look is probably my least favorite of the group. its very clean and put together, but where are the risks? Its getting close to the finale and you're pulling out a simple suit, and Aero doesn't usually call for minimalistic. You needed to try building on to it some more. Clean outfit just lacking.

LC22 (Elysse)

Snawl: You inspired your outfit from Frutiger Aero themed interior designing, but you know what I see from this? I see the X-Box 360's start-up animation - both in colours AND textures. Well done! This is a fun outfit that evokes a carefree attitude, mid-2000's spunk, Rave/EDM culture, and ultimately capturing the essence of youth - something corporate companies tried and failed miserably to do with F/A. From a visual standpoint, it's all about the lime greens. From a technical standpoint, I'm far more impressed by the use of white. You knew precisely where to place it and where to avoid it. It frames the textures without intruding. I feel like most designers would have put the white across the waist where the brighter green is, but no, you let the greens live on their own territory. The headphones took me a few minutes to appreciate, now I love them and feel like they complete the outfit. Spin those turntables, Mountain Dew sponsored DJ! Well done on this one.

HerbyMainsted: This is hands down so stunning, The layering is so meticulously done. every detail down to the shoe, mixing the ruffling texture of the shirt, sleeves, and belt and metallic shine conveys the Aero to its fullest potential. I love how asymmetrical most of middle portion is. I will say using headphones or wild head accessories in a Longterm, can be a major risk, because they can be considered too Cozzie, but it rounds out the outfit beautifully.

Panel - Pre-Collections

With Frutiger Aero out of the way, it's time to judge a task I've been looking forward to since the inception of Season 8 - the "lemme finish that collection for you!" collection task!

Friendly reminder that both this task and Frutiger Aero are weighted evenly at 50%. Do not get your hopes up if you scored well on F/A, because it can all come crumbling down here.

Zechariah (HerbyMainsted) is here for the whole week, and will also help us judge this task. Herby's winning collection was one of the five options, of which none of you chose... I guess that means they thought it was perfect and they didn't want to intrude upon it. Power move!

After these next four outfits are judged, the bottom of the page will reveal the individual rankings for each task, as well as the combined average rankings, thusly revealing this week's call-out order, and who our beloved Final 3 will be! Good luck.

fupaqueen (Elise)

Snawl: Barbuda's Group Therapy collection from IceTerm may appear to be the easiest collection at first glance, but there are a lot of almost microscopic reoccuring details in-between the outfits which tie the entire collection together. Some of these tiny aspects you nailed, others you missed entirely. I'll talk about the positives first: You kept the blue solid and uninterrupted, just like every installment of the original collection. I love the nude on the shoes. The black handkerchief is a nice way to cut up and change the shape of an otherwise boring sweater. I also love the use of the striped skirt and find meaning & relevance in the use of the black stripes. Now for the flaws: Lose the hat, first and foremost. It brings nothing to the canvas and you aren't doing anything original or interesting with it. Secondly, the lower torso/waist graphics are dragging this outfit down considerably. Barbuda's collection doesn't feature the nude colour being chopped up or segmented at all. I know you can argue you were putting your own twist on it, but it's a change for the worse, not the better. I think this is a solid effort and a beautiful outfit on its own, but I struggle to understand if it lives up to the subtlety of its subject matter. Thank you, Elise.

HerbyMainsted: Emily in her designs has a lot of placements of her color choices, that show off unique shapes, and patterns that we normally would never see. I appreciate what you were trying to convey, connecting the stripe pattern, to connect with the shirt, but its just not enough for me when we've seen so many already try this technique also just nit picking the hat to me is an odd choice.

Slur (Zoetic)

Snawl: This outfit serves as a really beautiful tribute to exist entirely in a vacuum, away from the original collection. However, part of this task was to "continue" the collection you chose. When I shrink this outfit down and throw it into the mix with the other seven, it very easily stands out as the odd one out. The colours are separated and spliced into each other with these geometric patterns - none of which existed in 2018 when Barbuda made this collection. This collection wasn't inspired by anything in particular that exists outside of Habbo, so you really have no other frame of reference other than the originals. Posing front-on hurt your chances of success because it likely made you feel you needed to add all this unnecessary geometry to the outfit to make it look new or exciting. Had you posed normal or backwards, I feel like you could have gotten away with zoning the 3 colours into their own little uninterrupted areas more effectively, and you wouldn't have needed retro clothing to do so. Ultimatrly you used your creativity to create a neat, sporty, interesting outfit. However I'm not confident in saying you understood the original collection, sadly.

HerbyMainsted: This is where your score gets dinged down just a tad for me. While your design comparatively to the other Emily design in this challenge is better, this still has some things I don't like. Just like your fellow designer, you've done a skirt trick that we've seen countless times. The Headpiece just doesn't make sense to me for this outfit. and the grey sock takes me out. I can appreciate you trying to use that accessory to try and give detail like Emily does, but this outfit is still lacking.

Pine (Nate)

Snawl: The idea of bringing retro clothing to a collection that otherwise has none is shocking... but I think you nailed it. This outfit fits among the original five immaculately. The only issue I have with immersion is that your outfit's pixels are slightly blurrier than those of the collection's, I guess you didn't use the best camera to capture it. Ahh well, your loss. Regardless, this outfit evokes Ecopunk in a way that is rigid, structured, while also being muddled with nature's unforgiving reclaiming. I don't play retros so I have no idea if the green lace up top is made up of several items or if it just naturally looks like that. Either way, it was absolutely necessary for your given aesthetic to use. The heels and earring are both cute nods to the original collection as well. My only minor complaint for this outfit would be to include a darker shade because this outfit doesn't seem to have as much depth as the other five. Contrasting shades is so important, especially when everything you're working with is more or less at the same colour wavelength. Other than that, you really proven yourself worthy on this task. This is a fierce addition to Filip's legendary collection, and even he himself agreed you killed it. Bravo!

HerbyMainsted: You redeemed yourself with this design from Filip's collection. This is really gorgeous to me. very sleek, and texturally amazing could've gone without that shoe choice but its not the end of the world. I am also a sucker for a pose that is not just a side or front, and this was just a gorgeous fashion moment. honestly one of my favorites.

LC22 (Elysse)

Snawl: This outfit teeters on the fence of commemorating vs. being an original design. It is visually striking, and I can effortlessly see the Ok Soda inspiration behind it. Using motion for these accessories was smart because the gun holster can otherwise be too common. For me, the strongest aspects of this outfit are ironically the pieces that distance it from the original collection: the puffed shoulders, earrings, sunglasses, rainbow tattoo. There is definitely an essence of Elysse in this outfit. My only nitpicks with this outfit are once again the aforementioned gun holster, and the fanny pack (chest pack?) because the yellow letter H is distracting. Besides that, I think you nailed both the Ok Soda theme, as well as Arber's original vision for the collection. In fact I showed this outfit to him and he loved it, and had nothing critical to say. If that isn't an indication of a job well done then I don't know what is. Very good job once again, El.

HerbyMainsted: Can you make a look for my collection too, because I am honestly blown away, with the work you did making your look for Arber. I am honestly at a loss for words, This is downright my favorite look this week. You are an amazing designer when it comes to your layers. This design doesn't necessarily screams Arber, but it showcasing your take with your own aesthetic. I love it. Phenomenal work on both designs this week.

Task Rankings

Frutiger Aero
1st place - Slur & LC22 (tie)
2nd place - fupaqueen
3rd place - Pine

Pre-Collections
1st place - Pine
2nd place - LC22
3rd place - Slur & fupaqueen (tie)

Panel Conclusion
Your scores have been added up, and the averages have been decided. I now know who my Final 3 is...

The first person advancing to the Finale to compete in Fashion Week is. . .
Elysse (LC22)
Congratulations. Out of the final four, you were the only one who delivered pristine quality on 2/2 tasks this week.
Well done on your third win! Good luck in the finale.

The second person competing in Fashion Week is. . .
Zoetic (Slur)
Your Frutiger Aero was phenomenal, I can't get over it. Congratulations, you're in the final three! Good luck.

This leaves Elise (fupaqueen) & Nate (Pine). The two of you have had incredible journeys to get to this stage. I so desperately want to see both of you in the finale, but sadly that cannot be a reality. This was a heart-breaking decision.

The final person advancing to Fashion Week is. . .

*Highlight text to reveal
Nate (Pine). Congratulations. Your tribute to Filip's Ecopunk collection was so astounding, it left Filip himself speechless. He was so excited to learn someone chose his collection, and he could not have been happier with the result. You have made it to the Final 3, and will join Elysse & Zoetic in Fashion Week! I bid you good luck, you'll need it against them.

Elise (fupaqueen) , my darling, my pal. I first want to thank you for everything you've done in this competition. Your portfolio features undoubtedly some of this season's best designs. Three task wins is insanely impressive, even more so when you consider the level of talent you were up against this season. When you lost early in FreshFaces I was like "Nuh uh, you're not gonna do Elise dirty like that!" because I've seen your genius designs in my short-terms and I knew in my heart you were so much better than that. And in Season 8 you proved me right! I've never seen a player transition from CC to PR to effortlessly like you have. Despite not making the finale, you are arguably the star of this season, and the favourite of many viewers. I hope you look back on this whole experience and beam with pride for everything you've accomplished... and when you eventually return to Habbo (if you do at all), I better see you in some short-terms. Your inate talent is far too precious to keep to yourself. Once again thank you for everything you've done for us in this season. Take care, fups. <3

We've arrived at the Final 3! Your final challenge has been posted on the Finale page. Good luck!

PROJECT

RUNWAY

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Season 8

Task #10, pt. 1

Windows Start-Up Noise Intensifies

Task #10, pt. 2