>> ♪ We've got two days to get this straight ♪ We got a challenge just won't wait our eyes are on the prize ♪ Two engineers just set the date ♪ We got this client can't be late oh, no, it's go time ♪ Build it, test, fix it debug now and kick it ♪ Got to get it off the ground yeah ♪ Stick around and you'll see what teamwork's supposed to mean ♪ It's so key Design Squad Design Squad!

♪ >> All right, Design Squads.

>> This challenge, we're going to have a battle of the sexes.

>> This is going to be intense.

Check out today's client.

Let's roll the tape.

>> Hi, I'm Josh Strickon from Siggraph, the world's largest conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, showcasing cutting-edge technology for programmers, engineers, artists, even fashion designers.

Siggraph has hosted some of the world's most exciting fashion shows that reinvent the idea of clothing.

So, Design Squads, this is your challenge.

I want you to design clothing that goes beyond the conventional.

The theme of this year's show is unravel.

I'm looking for a design with a hidden mystery, a secret, unexpected function other than simply being clothing.

It could be serious or silly, big or small, but it must be creative, novel, and inspiring.

The catch is this hidden function must be unraveled through a transformation, like a skirt that becomes furniture.

And of course it must be comfortable, stylish, and chic.

The winning design will be modeled by one of your own squad members alongside the world's most inventive designs at Siggraph's exclusive Unravel fashion show.

Good luck, Design Squads.

See you on the runway.

>> Now, we'll actually be shopping at two different stores this week, the Garment District, which is a thrift shop, and Michael's Craft Store.

>> Do you guys have any questions?

>> Why split us up now?

( laughter ) I know nothing of clothes.

>> What's our budget?

>> Each team is going to get $100.

You can spend it in any combination at both stores.

If you guys don't have any other questions, strut your stuff and start brainstorming.

>> I like your idea of having a big, huge skirt and then something really neat underneath.

>> You know they have those collapsible, like, tents.

What if we make, like, a coat with that structure, so what you do is, like, you take off the coat and you, like, untwist it, and it, like, becomes a tent?

>> It's just a simple tent with a little hole in the top for you waist.

If you unzip yourself from the top, and you come out your little door.

You sneak and get in it like... >> Like old, like, huge hoop skirts, like, all those, like... and then you start, like, taking pieces off, and it turns into like "Hi, I'm going camping.

>> When I think of camping, I think of doing little outdoor activities, like you have your fishing rod.

( laughter ) >> If you made it look fancy on the top, no one would even suspect that it was a tent, and then it's a transformation.

>> Fashion plus nature.

>> I love this, guys.

This is amazing.

( laughter ) >> What's the coolest thing I could think of?

Super heroes.

We can have clothes that give a power.

>> Manly.

>> Manly.

>> There's nothing cooler than being a super hero.

>> You know, and every super hero, the whole secret identity, they unravel to be a super hero.

>> We could be, like, Fire Man and squirt water.

No, no, two water tanks, like, on the back.

>> The water pack is like his pecks, and then he just squeezes to get the water out.

>> You have diaphragm pumps underneath there.

>> You're a chicken that puts out fire.

We have wings, so you can flap the wings too.

>> You guys are missing the super hero thing.

Super heroes do not flap their wings like a chicken.

>> What if our costume is like Lazy Man?

>> No, I don't want to do Lazy Man.

>> Lazy Man.

>> He's got a cape, but eating's a little dirty, so he can either swivel it around to make it into a bib or flip it over; it becomes, like, this tray.

>> Oh, dude, his own eating tray?

He's going to have his own eating tray.

>> Because we all got a little lazy man inside us.

>> I can't tell which ones are good ideas and which ones we're just being stupid.

>> This is what tent poles are made out of.

They're carbon fiber.

Feel how light they are.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, that's why.

>> Wait, are they bendable?

>> A little bit, yeah.

>> We can buy a dress, and then we can always turn it inside out and sew the rods into it and assemble it already.

>> Oh, okay, okay, okay.

>> You come out, and it's like the dress is still sitting there, and then it's like "Oh, shoot, that's a tent."

>> Underneath, like, all this stuff, is the person basically wearing... >> They can wear, like, hiking clothes and, like, just come out.

>> We need to think of gadgets that the super hero has.

>> You can make something that keeps you cool, because, like, race car drivers have, like, tubes that go all around them, and then they keep them cool by just, you know, having, you know, water inside their system.

>> So his super power is staying cool in the summer heat.

>> Cool Man.

>> How are we going to pump the water through the tubes?

>> We have a backpack reservoir of water.

There's some air in the tubes.

You step on the pump, and some of the water goes through the tubes in the ice, and then you step on the other pump and the water comes back out of the tubes in the ice.

That keeps it all cool.

That's our design.

>> What Noah's getting at is called a heat exchanger.

Here's how it works.

Warm water circulating in a tube is pumped into the exchanger.

Heat from the warm water conducts through the tubing to the surrounding ice water.

The water in the tube cools down while the ice water slowly warms up.

So when the water flows out of the exchanger, it's ready to cool Noah down.

>> These all have to be unraveled somehow.

>> Glow sticks.

>> We walk down, and it looks like normal clothes, and then the lights turn off, and then you see all these tubes going through the clothes.

>> Well, I mean, I'm thinking like a business suit.

>> Yeah, it's underneath the suit.

>> Then you can go and then rip off the buttons, go like... >> Have a business suit tear out, spandex, right, and then your power is somehow unwrapped with your spandex costume.

( laughter ) >> And if nobody really wants to, you know, have to deal with spandex, I'll jump into it.

>> No, I'll do it.

I don't have a problem with spandex.

>> I have spandex experience.

>> We might have to flip a coin for that one.

Tails.

Shoot.

>> Heads.

>> Let it go.

Let it go.

Let it go.

Don't touch it.

>> Tails.

>> Noah's going to wear the clothing.

>> Giselle's modeling.

We chose Giselle because she really wanted to, and I had done a challenge.

I was a driver.

Natasha was a driver.

And Kim wanted to do her tent.

So she didn't care much about whether she modeled or not.

So we chose Giselle.

>> I really think that all four of us should go to each store, and we can find materials so much quicker.

>> All right, we need a shopping list.

>> Cheapest suit we can find.

Spandex shirt and pants.

>> We have our list.

We have our drawings.

Let's go.

>> You guys ready?

>> Yeah.

>> All right.

>> What do you think about these snow pants?

Snow pants are water resistant.

And the color is awesome.

>> You guys, I think we're going to need another bag.

>> You ready to fly, captain?

Try this own.

I like the coats we have.

We should start looking for bottoms.

>> Spandex pants.

>> Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Look, look, look.

It's, like, extremely stretchy.

>> Spandex, yeah, get that.

>> This has got to come.

>> Yeah, that's wicked awesome.

>> Can't wait to put Noah in this.

>> I'm wearing these?

>> Yeah.

>> It's slimming on you.

>> You guys are horrible teammates, by the way.

>> We got a lot of good stuff while the other half of the team is shopping at Michael's.

>> Oh, wow, we need lace.

>> This is awesome.

>> We need lots of pretty lace.

>> We should get rolls of beads.

Do you think we should get some tulle?

>> Oh, is this tulle?

Ooh, yeah.

>> Yeah, it makes things really puffy.

>> Puff, yeah, we need that.

>> If I can dress myself, I'm sure I can get color coordination right.

>> What did you buy?

>> Just a little something.

>> Does this make my butt look big?

>> I'm going nuts with this.

>> What?

I couldn't hear you over that coat.

>> I've been here for too long.

>> So, Noah, does it bother you that the only thing we bought was women's clothing?

>> Yes.

>> ♪ Design Squad!

♪ >> All right, hey, Joey.

What's up?

>> We have glow-in-the-dark paint.

>> How about glow sticks?

>> And I got spools and spools of shiny, girlie stuff.

>> So you guys are buying lace?

>> Cowbell.

>> All they got was, like, a bunch of buttons, some glitter spray, and a cowbell.

>> They better get glow sticks.

>> Hello, ladies.

>> Looks like you're hard at work.

>> Hey, guys.

>> We got feathers.

>> We got a lot of glitter paint.

>> And buttons.

>> Very nice.

Those are like Victorian looking.

I like those.

>> We got glow paint.

>> Lace.

>> Unfortunately, we couldn't find the exact rods that we wanted, but we could use these to pitch a tent if we wanted to.

They're not as flexible, but they're flexible enough to bend into an arch of some sort.

>> We can make it like a veil.

>> Is this a wedding gown or what?

>> Giselle's getting married.

>> I'm going to do the tent.

So I have to the pieces and lay them out and then sew them together.

>> The top part is going to be, like, a big job, if you ask me, and I want to do that.

>> Make the bodice of it.

>> What's our game plan for tomorrow?

>> We can finish the pants if you guys start working on the tubing.

>> The tubes.

>> Dude, I love this.

I'm so excited right now, you have no idea.

>> Time's up, Design Squads.

That's it for day one.

>> I love that my team's all girls.

We work so well together.

There's no fighting, no quibbling at all.

>> We goofed around a lot in the morning, mostly about super hero related issues, which are important.

Don't get me wrong.

I have three remarkably fashionable gentlemen on my team, and I'm not worried at all.

Our design, as we left it yesterday, was a suit with tubes in it.

>> Not a whole lot of unraveling.

>> How can we unravel the tubes?

Here's what I came up with.

You got your business suit.

You leave work.

What do you want to do?

You want to go running.

>> Well, you go from working man, to workout man.

>> We turn the jacket inside out.

We have tubes, bright colors everywhere.

It's going to blind them.

Rip off the pants, Velcro, tie it around the waist-- classy.

We got skintight spandex underneath, tubes all in it.

That, my friends, is the working man to the workout man.

>> The super hero thing was a great idea, but it's just too much to do in the two days.

We had to go and kind of scrap it and go really with what makes fashion fashion and not just the things that are really cool.

>> What do you think about the actual working part of it, the tubes?

>> We're just going to go onstage with water already in the tubes.

There's not going to be any kind of pump system.

>> I think we should try to do a pump system.

>> I think we should worry about getting everything done, and if we have time, we'll worry about how we're going to get the water in the tubes.

>> This is actually the shell for the tent.

It's going to be all patchwork.

>> I'm scared it's going to be really ugly, you guys, though.

>> Natasha, have you ever watched a runway show?

>> Yeah.

>> Because if you have, you know that every singe thing that comes down the runway you would never actually wear.

It's not supposed to look good.

It's just supposed to look like really, like, overdone, like, over the top, crazy, unique stuff.

>> I'm going to do a puffy sleeve.

>> Okay.

>> And then I'm probably going to do something around the collars.

>> So you want me to wear that?

>> No, no, no, no, no.

>> It's not going to look like that.

>> Not just this.

>> We're doing things to it so you... at first, you didn't feel comfortable... >> Don't worry about.

>> There's, like, blood on it.

>> That's not blood.

That's fuzz.

>> No, on the sleeves.

>> Look.

>> No, she's talking about, like, right there.

>> Oh.

>> Is that blood, or is that rust?

>> Do you not want to model?

Is that what the problem is?

>> No, it's just... >> No, well, if you're going to complain about everything, then, like, maybe you shouldn't do it.

>> Yeah, I feel like we should do someone that's going to be more willing to just go the distance.

>> Like, I'm fine with you doing it, but I don't feel like you should complain about it every second.

>> I actually want to do it, but... >> I'm not complaining.

I'm just trying to understand what we're doing, and that... whatever, fine.

>> They're over there like, "Guys don't know how to sew."

We're like, "Yeah, we do, actually."

And I'm proud of that.

I'm proud.

I can sew, and I'm proud.

>> Tom may know how to sew, but does he know how a sewing machine works?

There's a threaded needle above the fabric.

When the needle pierces the fabric, a rotating shuttle hook below catches the thread.

As the hook spins, it spreads the needle's thread, looping it around a threaded spool called a bobbin.

The two threads knot and form a stitch, holding the two pieces of fabric together.

>> I think we're wasting a lot of time just talking about it.

So we obviously didn't have a solid design that we were going at.

We're just sewing clothes and talking.

>> No, we know what the pants are doing.

That's what I'm doing.

I'm not sewing anything that I don't know about.

>> So are the tubes going to go through the pants too?

>> I thought we were going to do the spandex underneath.

>> Okay, so the tubes will go in the spandex?

>> Yep.

>> Okay.

So you guys are just going to watch Tom sew?

Okay, okay, okay, let's get on task.

We got one day left.

I'm going to work on experimenting with these glitter type things.

>> That is awesome.

>> Tom, look at that.

>> Do you want the breast pads in it?

>> Oh, yeah, absolutely.

>> I'm not wearing a bathing suit.

You can make a shirt out of it.

>> What did I just say?

We need to make a spandex shirt, and we're going to make it.

>> I used the women's bathing suit, chopped it off to kind of make more of, like, a T-shirt.

And then, from there, it's going to attach directly to the pants so it becomes all one piece.

>> We're going to have to have, like, this makeshift needle, and I can puncture the cloth and weave the tube through, because you don't want to be constrained by the tubes.

I mean, the spandex is hugging you as it is.

>> There's no engineering.

It's like sewing.

>> But it's still engineering, just not the engineering we're used to.

Do you want to try these on to see if they fit?

( applause ) >> Now tuck in the top piece into the bottom.

>> Yeah, so you don't look like a ballerina.

>> That is fantastic.

Wow.

>> I've lost feeling in parts of my body.

>> Oh, my god, Noah in spandex.

>> No.

>> Oh, my god.

( laughter ) >> I hate this.

I quit.

>> So, guys, what's our whole situation with the rods?

>> The bamboo that we bought yesterday, it's not really that bendable.

We thought it'd be more bendable.

Just look at it.

I mean, it's like... >> We might put it in the slots in the fabric and it would just, like, rip the seams.

>> So we're going to need a new structure.

>> It appears crunch time has come early today.

Deanne and I were talking and decided... >> This has been a really pretty tough challenge as far as trying to get it done in the two days.

>> ...we would give you guys a little bit of help; we would provide you basically one wish.

>> I've been working on the suit, but it's taking up a lot of time, and I don't really know how to do it.

Can we have a professional costume designer?

>> Some sort of flexible structure for our tent.

>> How about, like, fishing poles maybe?

>> Hey, guys.

>> Hey.

>> It's Parrish.

>> Heard I was requested for an hour.

>> See, it looks great from there, but it could use some work in the back.

It's kind of revealing.

>> Yay!

>> Seven fishing poles just for you.

>> We have a pocket right here in the tent, and we put the pole inside the pocket, right?

And then have the little hooks hook here and, like, a hook up above the top that's in the pocket, and we attach it right here on that first hook, bring it down to the bottom hook, loop it back up to the top hook, and then come out.

If we had one here, one here, one here, those three would come together.

And we have these great little cinchers from one of the coats, so all three of the threads would be threaded through the cincher, and she would pull it down and then cinch it.

>> So how is this supposed to work again, Kim?

>> This goes up through the top one.

>> Guys... >> Inside, yeah, up there.

>> Bottom line, it needs to be a lot longer.

>> We also need to, like, sew them in.

>> Yeah, those have to be sewn in.

>> That is a smaller issue than the fact that it's not going to be a tent.

>> Why not?

>> Because it's tiny.

It's a dog house.

You're not going to fit in it.

I'm not going to fit in it.

My dog's not going to fit in it.

>> So this is going to be the shirt that goes on the inside of your suit jacket, and then we're going to cut this one up and then sew it to the inside of the jacket so it all rips off at the same time.

>> I'm making it around to the pecks.

I'm making him look manly.

Right now it kind of looks like I'm doing it around the breast, but... >> The six-pack looks like ( bleep ).

It looks like you drew squares on his abs.

>> It's six squares.

>> What's the matter with it?

>> Here, put these on.

Would you stop messing around?

The pants are only Velcroed on the side, so they're going to roll up on the sides of the legs.

This is how you make friends.

>> This is how you lose friends.

>> You either suck or blow, man.

You suck or blow.

>> What the heck are you guys doing?

>> Putting glitter in our thing.

What does it look like?

>> You guys need super vision.

>> Oh, that's beautiful.

>> We could fasten it in one place and be like ( imitating ripping ).

>> Yeah, and then she just loosens it, and she just goes in.

Yeah, exactly like that.

>> You know what?

This doesn't look that bad.

Honestly, this looks high fashion.

>> We tried to build a separate tent, but we ran into a bunch of problems with, like, length and height and all of that.

So what we're actually doing now is cutting out the tent factor of it, and we're making our dress, with beautiful mosquito net over it, our tent.

Right now we're putting in the poles for the structure of our tent inside the dress itself.

>> And I'm pulling.

>> Hold on.

Your bra came undone.

>> Dress me.

>> Shave those pits over the weekend.

( laughter ) >> So I think we decided-- correct me if I'm wrong-- to go from business suit to jogging suit.

>> I think business to jogging is probably going to be the best.

>> It's easier.

>> Wow.

>> Wow.

>> Whew.

>> Someone call the police.

This boy just stole my heart.

>> We sewed on little pockets to the inside of our dress so that our rods can sit in it and not just be moving around.

>> I don't think it's going to stay in a little pocket in the bottom.

>> But I devised to use chicken wire, which I sculpted into a half of a circle, to attach to the dress.

The rods can run through this before they go into the pockets so that it'll prevent the dress pockets from separating.

Can someone take the rods and cut them so that there's about this much on there?

>> No, that's wrong.

Take the fabric, lay it out, like, flat, and line the fishing pole up so that it fits in the fabric.

>> However you guys want to do it, just get it done.

>> I think that it really should be in a sleeve, because otherwise it's just going to move around.

>> An entire sleeve does the same exact thing as if we put a fastener here, here, and here.

>> Yeah, but for the dress, you want the dress to move with the poles.

>> As long as it stands and it's a tent, it doesn't matter.

>> Like, if I was sewing, it'd be easier to just run a quick seam up and make a little pocket inside.

>> If you can do that in two seconds and cut these, I'm with you, fine.

>> No, but, like, to sew things on, like, is harder.

>> So we're doing the easy thing.

That's exactly what I said.

Fine, that's what they do in tents, but it's a lot more difficult.

Kim's taking a break.

She felt maybe a little overwhelmed, and she just needed a breather, so... We really want to get this done.

We have to attach our base, with our rods in it, to the inside of our dress.

>> I'll have my briefcase, and I'll walk out of the building, "Hi, honey, how are you?

I'll be home in five minutes.

Excuse me."

>> Working class to working out.

>> We might want to, like, Velcro the suit, like, right around that.

>> Oh, nice.

>> I'm going to go for a jog.

( laughter ) >> Pop it on.

>> All right, hold on, hold on.

Wait, wait, wait.

Put your head back.

Put your head back.

All right, you're good.

>> Good?

>> This is Josh, our client.

Thanks so much for coming out.

>> Thanks.

>> Are you excited to see some functional fashion?

>> Yeah, let's bring out the designs.

>> What might seem like an ordinary, stylish, sleek business suit is actually anything but.

When this business day is over, the businessman is going to have a lot of pent-up anger and frustration, and the best way to get rid of this is jogging, yes?

This is why, underneath the exterior of this business suit is a stylish jogging outfit.

All one has to do is rip and roll-- rip the sides of the suit and roll them to your waist-- and voila, working class to working out.

The skintight portion features a water-based cooling system, and this is the chill suit.

( applause ) >> If you're an aggressive runner, what's to keep the suit from unrolling?

>> It's actually pretty good there.

Give it a little shake there.

>> And as far as the tubes, is there a pump that circulates the water?

>> Before you leave the office, you can pour ice water in there, and that'll stay cool pretty well.

>> I think I'm ready for the next one.

>> All right, this is our model, Giselle.

Today, she's a beautiful bride, actually, on her very special day.

Now, Giselle, she's not just any bride.

She's a very athletic, outdoorsy type of girl.

She loosens, slips into her tent to change into her outdoor apparel.

The actual tent is constructed out of fishing rods and a curtain so that it stands tall, inflexible, yet she can also borrow one of our fishing rods to go fishing while she's camping.

Now she's ready for the outdoors.

>> Has anyone tried putting the groom inside the tent with the bride?

( laughter ) >> They were just married.

They want to be very close and intimate.

So it's a perfect fit for a newlywed.

>> While the Red Team did design a garment that did combine two functions, I was a little concerned about which two functions they combined.

It also didn't look very comfortable for working out.

The Blue Team, on the other hand, created a garment that was beautiful to look at immediately when it walked down the runway.

It was stylish.

I had no idea what the function was all about.

It was hidden.

It was revealed onstage.

And it looked comfortable and wearable.

So I'm looking forward to seeing your design on the runway.

( cheering and applause ) >> Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

>> I risked my manhood for that challenge, and we didn't win.

>> I learned that girls help keep the focus in the group.

>> Yeah.

>> We talked for how many hours about super heroes?

>> I know, seriously.

>> Lazy Man was, like, an hour all by itself.

>> Lazy Man was genius, though.

>> Lazy Man was genius.

>> And you didn't even like Lazy Man.

>> We just knew we had to win this one.

>> Yeah, we did.

>> We had to.

>> It was cool.

>> Think about it.

If guys would have beat us in this challenge, there would have been no end to the trash talking.

>> I know.

They would have always been like, "Oh, yeah?

Well, the guys beat you in a fashion show."

>> Are you ready?

( applause ) We have designers from around the world.

First up, the attack jacket-- a strong button push on the inside of the jacket sends 80,000 volts of electricity into the attacker's body.

Next up is fashion with a hidden agenda.

This is called wild wedding.

By designers Krishana, Kim, Natasha, and Giselle, modeled by Giselle.

From the Blue Team comes a bride, an outdoorsy, resourceful type.

Her lace blouse is made with the lining of a wind breaker.

Her skirt is made of sheer, triple-pleated cotton drapery.

And when she goes inside, it ultimately transforms into a tent, allowing her directly to go from the wedding to the honeymoon.

( cheering and applause ) The tent itself is made of fishing poles and is equipped with a fishing vest and bait and tackle.

Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org >> So after eight challenges, Natasha's strutting her stuff at the top of the leader board with 680 points.

>> All right, Deanne, here's a new challenge: describe the Design Squad Web site in ten seconds-- go.

>> There are games, photos, new challenges, videos, quizzes, scoring updates.

>> Time's up.