Project Runway's silver fox joins me tonight on the
After Show.
Go big or go home.
Aaron was up for the win more than anyone else this season,
six times!
But then, plot twist!
A few innocent braids, neoprene, a birthday ending in tragedy.
Aaron, you are out.
All right.
It's Aaron's turn in the hot seat.
Welcome to the After Show.
We have lights, we have cameras.
It's real!
We have cocktails.
This is called the Sorry You Turned 40 and Then Got
Eliminated drink, so drink up.
Happy birthday!
Oh!
I'm not 40 yet, but happy birthday.
Thank you.
You should feel really proud that you made it really far.
I think you surprised a lot of people.
I surprised myself.
I did better than I expected.
Mm-hm.
I did better than most.
You proved me wrong.
Did I really?
You love that?
It's like country street.
There were so many more moments
here that made me feel like I had won,
that I didn't need to win.
This man will go with me wherever I go.
He killed it!
I love the geometry of this dress,
and the effect that you created with the straws
is extremely polished.
I would buy every piece of this!
Aaron stole my heart.
I love him!
Aaron living his best Nancy Kerrigan life right now.
This was a great experience.
I'm glad you feel that way, because you're really
good at sewing and tailoring, but for some reason
this one look was a miss.
It wasn't a good look.
It was messy.
I took everything I knew about myself,
and threw it into a look with a camel toe.
It was a camel toe!
Oh, it was bad!
I don't know how that happened!
Listen, when you were all worried about me and a camel
toe and a bathing suit.
- I know! - Honey--
That was perfect!
I know.
I dress drag queens!
I can hide a camel toe, a mooseknuckle on a [bleep]
can of baked beans.
Or excuse me, a can of baked beans.
I mean-- - It's the After Show.
You can cuss.
I went into the last challenge doing things
that I swore I would never do.
Like what?
I spent too much time focusing on something
that I could have done in half the time,
and that was the jacket.
Why do you think?
When the people you've connected
with start to go away, it does affect your mentality.
Like who?
The smoking section.
Prajje, and Octavio, and Anna.
Oh, my God!
The smoking section was gone! - I know.
The smoking section was gone.
So you lose your sounding boards.
But the hair was fabulous!
And listen, the coat?
Incredible!
So at least you know there were elements that were amazing.
Not everybody gets to leave that way.
So at least that's, I think, important.
Right, but honestly, I learned a lot.
So what do you think will be next for the brand?
I think I'm going to go home and--
Mississippi!
Jackson!
Jackson.
I really want to go home and work
on recreating some of the stuff I did here, but better.
I think that's a good plan.
All right, happy birthday.
Let's toast.
And I'm sorry.
About the drink?
It's really bad.
I know.
[laughter]
You know, we've never had a designer who
was eliminated from the show declare their love
for a producer on the show.
Now, I didn't declare my love.
I asked him out for dinner.
There's a guy in the crew that have
a crush on, that has watched me for the past how many weeks?
And now I get to ask him if he wants to go to dinner.
So Coop, you want to go to dinner?
[cheering]
That was a quite epic moment!
What was going through your head?
You're in this bubble, you're in this chaos.
Kind eyes mean a lot.
Kind eyes?
Oh, we're going deep!
I'm tired!
There was something about the way this producer looked.
His eyes sparkled.
And he started picking up on little dumb things that I did,
and I noticed. - I got it.
OK, so listen, you're into the producer, we get it.
OK, yeah, the producer's hot.
Yeah, you want to go on a date.
He's hot. Guess what?
- What? - He said yes.
Uh-huh.
And we're going to go on a date right now.
I hate you so much.
Bob?
And here's your date.
Here's Coop.
Oh, my God!
Coop, please sit here.
Thank you so much.
Hey, Aaron.
Hey, Coop.
[laughter]
Welcome to Chez Siriano.
Thank you. I made this.
This is spaghetti and meatballs.
One fork.
Before we go, a little bit of housekeeping.
Any and all crushes on producers do not affect the designer's
standing in the competition.
Well, that doesn't matter because he was eliminated.
Right.
So as it should be known, producers
do not really understand fashion, which is true.
Do you? - No.
No.
Additionally, it must be said that Project Runway is
a professional workplace environment,
and we do not condone inappropriate workplace
relationships.
But we will allow for consensual comedy bits.
I'm going to leave you.
Have a date.
I-- this is it.
Wait a minute.
Why does he get to wear a mask?
Aaron, ask him nice questions on a date.
He can take his mask off.
Hello!
Hey, Coop.
Oh, my God! You shaved!
What?
[laughs] Yeah.
Look, no stache!
And you're just as cute as you were with the stache.
Aw, thanks.
Shall we have some wine?
To pour this is a day at work.
- This is a day at work. - Yeah.
You get to sit on the runway on Project Runway
after being asked out.
Oh, I'm aware it's happening.
Cheers!
Congrats.
Thank you.
I realized I was rubbing off on you a little bit,
because I always wear a cardigan and then
you started wearing a cardigan.
It was cold.
Are you talking about a cardigan on a date?
What is wrong with you people?
I don't go on dates.
Clearly neither you do.
Aaron, you asked him out.
So why don't we ask date questions?
OK.
Where do you live?
Like, Coop, is that your real name?
I know his real name.
What's his real name?
[bleep]
All right.
So [bleep], a documentarian.
Also work on Project Runway.
You also work on Project Runway as a producer.
Yeah.
And clearly we're not allowed to speak
to you in any other capacity than producer and talent.
But I was having a down moment.
You looked at me, and I'm not sure you
realized how much it changed my perspective on this show.
All right!
Thank you for the many other moments.
[laughs]
It's a little hard to watch, but I think we did it.
I don't know if it was the best conversation,
but I have a good topic.
Ready?
Who's going to win?
Chantal.
Who's going to win?
You're not legally allowed to say.
[laughs]
Thank you.
Welcome.
Have a great night. Goodbye.
Bye!
Real date off camera.
Thank you.
Take the wine!
Mom, I'm doing an After Show.
I'll call you back, OK?
No!
Yes, goodbye.
[laughs]
Lacy Redway, trust me, global stylist.
Welcome back to the After Show.
I love having you!
Oh, I love being here!
This was a really cool challenge.
Yes.
TRESemmé has created the future stylist fund.
It supports and elevates up-and-coming Black hair
stylists through scholarships and access
to incredible career opportunities.
TRESemmé really is helping to pave
the way for these stylists. - That's the thing.
It's like, making sure that there's the younger generation
has a place to go and be successful, you know?
I'm getting emotional talking to you about it,
because they were teaching me their little tricks
and techniques.
They're quite young.
Yeah.
And to see the talent already?
This is going to be, like, an insane career for all of them!
And I think it was such a good little push into the industry,
into the business.
I just have so many ideas.
- With the balloons. - Mm-hm.
And the leather.
I love that!
This way, I can imagine.
I can see.
ALL: Oh!
Let me assist you!
I think it's always great when we get to collaborate,
as designer and hairstylist, to come up with beautiful looks
that, you know, go down the runway.
And I think the designers, I think they did a good job.
The collaboration, like, it all worked, which was really nice.
Yeah.
Because it doesn't always work.
- It doesn't. - And it was nice to see.
I think you just know when you love it, and all the girls,
they just loved it!
Yeah, it's their passion that I was so impressed by,
you know?
I feel so honored and privileged to have
the opportunity to help mentor them through their journey.
I'm taking one of the stylists tomorrow on one
of my photo shoot, The Shadow Me, you know, because I--
I feel so passionate-- - Who?
Which one? - Luchi!
Luchi did Chantal's look on Roberta.
Yes.
So cute.
Chic!
It was so perfect, so I was, like, wait.
How'd that happen?
Well, that TRESemmé gel.
When you have a Bantu knot like that,
you don't want it to unravel.
So we used a little bit of a TRESemmé gel to make sure,
like, when we're securing the buns, it doesn't unravel.
And we didn't need any, like, pins or anything like that.
Wait, what do you mean?
I'm telling you, the TRESemmé gel!
No, that's not true!
I promise you, we used no pins.
Really?
The TRESemmé gel held everything in place.
I want to look at the winning look, because I love it!
Chastity's look, model Jessica, and this
is [inaudible] and Agnes.
I mean, the hair was couture.
It was like a couture dress.
Even though it was done, it's still looks like kind
of effortless in a weird way.
I don't know why.
It's incredible!
I can't believe this was done by stylists
that are in beauty school.
Yeah, I know!
This is tough.
This is tough!
Lacy, thank you so much for coming.
We have a blast! - We do!
- Yeah! - We do!
The After Show is over, and I got no cocktail.
You got to go get one.
Let's go.
Woo!