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Study the Competition
Before you pick your team, get to know the designers.
Test Your Fashion Savvy
Competition is the new black. See how well you style.
| Week | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Drinks alcohol | -1 |
| Compliments a competitor's design | +3 | |
| Wins the Harpers Bazaar Mini-Challenge | +4 | |
| In the top group at elimination, but not winner | +4 | |
| Kisses another designer | +2 | |
| Fights with another designer | -3 | |
| Wears sunglasses indoors | +1 | |
| Gets bleeped | -2 | |
| Week 2 | Wins the Harpers Bazaar Mini-Challenge | +4 |
| Week 3 | Wins the Harpers Bazaar Mini-Challenge | +4 |
| Week 4 | Helps a competitor | +3 |
| Featured in a "coming up next" clip | +2 | |
| Week 5 | In the bottom group at elimination, but not eliminated | -4 |
| Cries | -3 | |
| Wears sunglasses indoors | +1 | |
| Week 6 | Cries | -3 |
| Featured in a "coming up next" clip | +2 | |
| Says judges will hate their design (or some variation) | -2 | |
| Wears sunglasses indoors | +1 | |
| Wins the Elimination Challenge | +6 | |
| Week 7 | Wins the Harpers Bazaar Mini-Challenge | +4 |
| In the top group at elimination, but not winner | +4 | |
| Says judges will like their design (or some variation) | +2 | |
| Week 8 | Gets bleeped | -2 |
| Week 9 | Eliminated | -6 |
| Gets bleeped | -2 | |
| Week 10 | NO Results | 0 |
| Week 11 | NO Results | 0 |
| Week 12 | NO Results | 0 |
Raw talent and passion drive Merlin to fashion extremes. His designs have an aesthetic that's uniquely "Merlin," and his flare for eccentric style could make him one of the competition's biggest threats.
With Merlin, it's his way or the highway. His inability to be a team player may cause conflicts with competitors, and conflicts don't help to make great clothes.
Always drawn to details and measurements, Merlin went to school for architecture in his home country of Honduras. It was through the guidance of a college professor that he discovered an aptitude for fashion and has since created a career out of this unexpected passion. Merlin traces his earliest design memory back to when he made a dress for his mother out the family's tablecloth – a feat that turned him instantly into the fashion expert for his six siblings. Merlin took his raw talent to Mexico where he studied pattern making for a brief period.
