Project Runway All Stars - Resort Wear - NO Spoilers

Nina Garcia and "Candy Crush" - what a combination! That's the draw for the final five contestants as they nibble their way down towards being the winner of Season 6 Project Runway All Stars. The fashions for this episode were influenced by one of the lands that people level up to in Candy Crush and have to be resort wear for that landscape. They played a single round of Candy Crush to determine the order of choosing their resort. The winner beat everyone else by more than 50,000 points! Obviously some of these designers are video game addicts. 

The five designers had to play a round of Candy Crush to
determine the order in which they chose their resort
destination. 

The designers have $200 to spend in a 30-minute shopping spree at Mood. Each resort wear design is based on a different Candy Crush land - the tropics, the beach, the mountains, on safari and at the lakeside. The five designers - Anthony, Stanley, Edmond, Ken and Fabio seem to be thinking along the same lines for their resort wear designs - everyone seems to be focusing on pants, although the choices of fabrics and colors are different. Still, with so little differentiation between designs ...

Anne is back as the workshop mentor and gives some on-point advice. The problem is that although some of the designers nod and agree, it's like the advice is bouncing off a force field and not really getting through to the brain. They want the feedback, but only if it will help them advance on the road they already chose, instead of choosing to take a suggested detour for a better end result. It was nice to see Anne back in her role as mentor, though. 

It was odd to see the workshop that initially had accommodated sixteen designers, now holding only five. Suddenly each person has space to spread out - lots of it; there's no scheduling issues for the iron and running in and out of the Brother Sewing Room isn't as fraught with potential collision as in earlier episodes. 

As I watch the designs come together, I'm wondering where Candy Crush is in some of these designs. The men are focused on their clothing, but not on the topic or the sponsor for the week. NOT a good way to satisfy a client - especially the number one video game in the world and one of the largest gaming syndicates - King. 

For the Runway, Nina Garcia is joined by fashion icon Kelly Osborne, so the judging panel will be tough love. As the designs walk the Runway most of them leave me underwhelmed. I'm don't think they are speaking "resort wear" to me in some instances. I'll be back tomorrow with the reveal and what the judges said, so I'll leave it here for today. 

It's Friday, so all's good - LOL. I hope you have a wonderful day. We're hoping to escape a snow that will hit just south of us, but even if it hits, we won't get much. Talk with you tomorrow!