The Fashionista (Season 5)

Contestants
The 12 fashion designers competing in the fifth season were:


 * Angel Wilson previously competed on Season 4 where she placed in 7th place.

Episode 501: Back to the Beginning

 * Challenge: Repeating the first challenge on Season 1 of The Fashionista, the designers were asked to create a look using only materials purchased from a Gristedes grocery store.
 * Winner: Tasha Hoffman
 * Eliminated: Adam Brooks

Episode 502: Grass Is Always Greener

 * Challenge: The designers were asked to create a cocktail dress with their models as their clients. They were asked to use environmentally friendly or conscious fabrics from Mood, with their models doing the fabric selections without their consultations.
 * Winner: Louis Sevigny
 * Eliminated: Calvin Harmon

Episode 503: Bright Lights/Big City

 * Challenge: The designers were tasked to create a look of their choice inspired by the vibrant nightlife of New York City.
 * Winner: James Cornett
 * Eliminated: Goldie Caraballo

Episode 504: Fashion That Drives You

 * Challenge: The designers were required to make an outfit made entirely out of the spare parts and raw materials from a Saturn hybrid car.
 * Winner: Arnulfo Beane
 * Eliminated: Louisa Campanelli

Episode 505: Welcome to the Jungle

 * Challenge: Working in teams of two, designers were asked to make an outfit that could transition from day to night for Brooke Shields's character Wendy Healy on the television show Lipstick Jungle.
 * James and Tasha
 * Jenna and Deshawn
 * Arnulfo and Brooke
 * Louis and Angel
 * Winner: Brooke Webb
 * Eliminated: Angel Wilson

Episode 506: Double 0 Fashion

 * Challenge: The designers were taken to the Meatpacking District and brought to the offices and design showroom of living fashion legend and current CFDA president, designer Diane von Fürstenberg. Their challenge was to create a look for her Fall 2008 collection inspired by the movie A Foreign Affair, starring screen legend Marlene Dietrich.
 * Winner: Louis Sevigny
 * Eliminated: No one

Episode 507: What's Your Sign?

 * Challenge: The designers are to create an avant-garde garment inspired by their astrological sign.
 * Winner: Arnulfo Beane
 * Eliminated: Brooke Webb & Deshawn Bartels

Episode 508: Transformation

 * Challenge: The designers were assigned recent college graduates and were given the task of giving them a fashion makeover to help them enter the workforce.
 * Winner: James Cornett
 * Eliminated: Louis Sevigny

Episode 509: Nature Calls

 * Challenge: Drawing inspiration from nature, the remaining designers headed to the New York Botanical Garden to design an evening gown.
 * Winner: Tasha Hoffman
 * Eliminated:  None: (However, all four are on the elimination block when the final three are determined in the next episode).

Episode 510: Finale, Part 1

 * Challenge: The designers were given the task, prior to leaving to create their collections, of creating a wedding dress for their collections. In addition to the wedding dress, they were judged on an 11th look, a bridesmaid dress to go with it.
 * Finalists: Arnulfo Beane, James Cornett & Jenna Bravo
 * Eliminated: Tasha Hofmann

Episode 510: Finale, Part 2

 * Finalists: Arnulfo Beane
 * Eliminated: Jenna Bravo (Runner-Up) & James Cornett (2nd Runner-Up)