47 designers have already competed, and it's down to two. This is the season’s final episode of Fashion 47, where week after week designers compete to win top honors and national recognition for their clothing lines. The grand prize is a solo victory fashion show to be held at the hottest spot in town. So, the show begins with a video recap of winners and losers excerpted from the season and setting the scene for the final faceoff – the ultimate challenge!
Tonight the challenge is exotic. Will it be a fashion line using only materials from garbage, coca-cola cans, or what? Whatever it is, it will be a worthy challenge for the two top designers: Kira and Asano. Get the scoop on the two from host interviews with models who know what the two are like backstage, and with the designers themselves.
Excitement mounts, and the fashion parades begin. The designers strut their stuff in all their high voltage splendor. There are two clothing lines and two designers – either possibly genius – both definitely desperate to win. Then almost to the finale…oohhhh, there’s a mishap! How embarrassing. This can’t be good. But the show goes on, and when it’s time for the audience to vote, they cast their ballots, And…we have a winner!
The grand prize is awarded. It’s all over for the year…but the drama is just beginning. One design team accuses the other of sabotage, and the judges refuse to reverse their decision. A press conference follows to interview the designers. The only problem is that the losing designer doesn’t show and his first assistant makes a statement graciously accepting defeat. What is going on?!
In secret, the losing team plots revenge as the victory fashion show approaches. When the long awaited day arrives the presence of the losing team is obvious; they’re seated front and center. This is a super-show and the air vibrates with splash and glamour, until the losing team hijacks the runway, sabotages the clothes and destroys the winning designer by exposing his manipulative, devious ways. It’s a take-over, a fashion coup d'Ètat!
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