ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let's talk about the suit that sent you home. I was reading blogs this morning, and everyone was obsessed with how '80s it was. Is that what you had intended? Did it go in a different direction as you were working on it?
JOE FARIS: First of all, I had a hard time with this challenge.
What was so difficult about this challenge for you?
There are two things I don't typically do. One is work with clients, and within the dynamics of that, you had the mother-daughter dynamic, which meant little feedback from Laura, the daughter. I was getting all the input from the mother. I knew in the end that the daughter wasn't going to agree with the mother. But the daughter wasn't giving me anything, so I kind of had to go with the mother. And then the other thing was I don't make people over. It's just not what I do. I don't look at women and go, ''I would change your hair and do this!'' It's just not me. Those are the two things that I was struggling with. No, this was not my best work. I'll be the first to admit it, but I do think in the end I achieved what the challenge was. The minute Laura came out on the runway, Janet, her mother, was crying. She was in tears. She really was excited. So I knew that I achieved it. Was it dated? Yeah. Was it a cliché? Okay, Michael [Kors], yeah. I have to agree. But again, I don't know what women are wearing in the workplace, so I think it just fell to the fact that I just followed [the assignment] too literally. And I had done that a few times throughout the season.
Was there a point during the challenge where you thought, ''Oh, s---, this is going to send me home''?
I'll tell you, there was a moment where I went, ''Yeah, this is not great.'' Then I'll tell you, I looked over my shoulder and looked at Suede, and I'm like, ''Oh no, I'm good.''
Do you think Suede should have gone instead of you?
Yeah. You know, to be honest, it was like eeny, meeny, miny, moe. It truly was.
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