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“Project Runway All Stars” season 20 debuts Thursday on Bravo — and it’ll see Brazilian designer Fabio Costa returning to the show for a record fourth time.

Costa debuted within the “Project Runway” franchise, ending as a runner-up in season 10, which aired in 2012. “I felt creatively ready but not necessarily expert, in the way in which that I’d see the ideas in my head and give you the chance to execute them flawlessly because I do have this thing of perfectionism,” he told WWD. “I used to be truthfully really surprised that I made it to this point into the competition.”

He returned to the show for “All Stars” season 4 in 2014, ending in fifth, and reinforced his fan-favorite status in “All Stars” season six in 2016, when he once more got the second-best medal.

Competing for greater than a decade now, Costa has evolved his style to be more body-conscious and gender-inclusive. He credits his first experience on the show for helping him rethink fashion.

“I felt like, creatively, I used to be starting conversations so far as gender, starting conversations so far as silhouettes and all of this stuff that , 10 years ago, they were form of area of interest and today are considered to be, , mainstream,” he said.

Costa created his own fashion, NotEqual, wherein he explores every lesson learned on “Project Runway,” while also incorporating elements from his motherland, Brazil. For season 20, the designer promised to bring a few of “this Brazilian flavor” without “being Carmen Miranda,” he explained, dodging stereotypes.

“This was the most important hiatus between me and the ‘Project’ for me,” Costa said. “So I felt not only had I modified as an individual and as a designer, I had modified because I went more into the technical side of fashion. I went to work for costume design, costume shops and all of that. So I feel like all these techniques, all this stuff that I’ve learned, have put me at a special platform to compete as I used to be previously.”

The designer confessed that he keeps coming back to the competition to “exercise” his creativity contained in the “pressure cooker.” “It forces you to be extremely creative and to make decisions that, normally in your day-to-day life, you don’t have,” Costa said.

The “Project Runway” veteran also revealed that season 20 won’t disappoint when it comes to drama. “I’m assuming you’ve seen the forged. It’s those who not only are very talented but they work on their brand. So everyone seems to be actually trained and expert to come back into this type of structure of competition. So there will probably be drama because there’s quite a lot of ego,” he said.

Besides Costa, “Project Runway All Stars” season 20 will bring back Brittany Allen (season 18), Prajje Oscar Jean Baptiste (season 19). Laurence Basse (season 15), Bishme Cromartie (season 17), Jonathan Kayne Gillaspie (season three), Mila Hermanovski (season seven), Rami Kashou (season 4), Viktor Luna (season nine), Korto Momolu (season five), Noral Pagel (season one), Kara Saun (season one), Hester Sunshine (season 17) and Anna Yinan Zhou (season 19).

Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth are returning as judges, with previous “Project Runway” winner Christian Siriano acting as a mentor. The show airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo and will probably be available to stream on Fridays on Peacock at 6 a.m. EST.