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'Project Runway' Style: 15 Hot Designs (and 5 Hot Messes)

With season 5 under way, we applaud past successes like Austin Scarlett's corn husk dress, Michael Knight's Pam Grier hot pants, and Jillian Lewis's Argonaut gown -- and shudder all over again at Carmen Webber's menswear disaster

By Missy Schwartz | Jul 23, 2008

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'Project Runway' Style: 15 Hot Designs (and 5 Hot Messes)

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Austin Scarlett's corn husk dress
(season 1, episode 1)

The prim contestant with a penchant for neck scarves won the very first challenge of the very first season with a dress made out of corn husks bought at New York supermarket chain Gristedes. The husks did wilt overnight in the workroom. But not even a little case of the day-olds could derail Austin's vision.

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