Project Runway 20x7

[silverstarry]

20x7: Fashion, Inside Out
The jockstrap is back; the all-stars must create high-fashion looks featuring couture undergarments in this one-day challenge.
Guest judges: Sergio Hudson and Paulina Porizkova

This season's all star designers

Comments

[adb7]

Hideous runway, IMO. Happy for the winner but her backstory about the design was like uhhh, okay. Not sure how that made you think of lingerie.

[witchamajigger]

Right? I'm tired of everyone needing a backstory for their design now because they're just all ridiculous and insipid. "A massacre inspired my lingerie dress" might be a new low for the show however. It even beats "I'm calling my design 'Sophie's Choice' because I'm designing for a Sophie".

[silverstarry]

I hated when PR/the judges decided that each designer needed a girl ("Who's your girl?") and every outfit needed a backstory. Nothing will ever beat Angela telling her story about the British headmistress of Jubilee Jumbles art camp in Paris throwing a birthday party for her dog Pattycake and then Robert doing his talking head interview with "I have this thing about stories. I hate them. I think they're stupid."

I totally get that there will be times when your design or your entire collection will be inspired by something specific and that's totally fine. But I don't need to hear the story about it. And if no one gets your design until you explain the inspiration and backstory, then you didn't do a good job incorporating it into your work (although I feel I should add that your inspiration doesn't need to be a literal translation - like it can be inspired by your mom without having your mom's photo plastered all over as a print).

[la_loony]

I get a bit that they need "a girl" to design for, but I agree with you that does not need to be explained who they think this girl is. They should have someone in mind who wears their design, but that doesn't have to become some super elaborate backstory.

[anterrabre]

Not a good week for anyone, really. I liked Prajjie's look, but that's about it.

[witchamajigger]

I hated them all. I hate the underwear trend to begin with but these were all somehow worse than anything else I've ever seen and cringed at.

[grifter]

I feel like the judges were on the eliminated contestant's ass the last few episodes without a great reason tbh

[silverstarry]

Fabio forgot the #1 piece of advice to the designers: "Don't bore Nina."

I don't think that what he made the last few weeks was awful but she definitely found it boring.

I think he got eliminated this week not because this week's design was terrible but because this was his third week in a row being in the bottom which was a bit unfair since that was a result of being considered boring.

When comparing Fabio and Korto this week, I thought Fabio should have stayed because just removing the flowery piece of fabric over the stomach made the judges like his outfit. But there was nothing Korto could have done to her design to make the judges like it. As they pointed out, the only good part of her outfit was the skirt, but the print was doing all the work. Her bra top was ill fitting, unflattering, not well constructed, and unattractive. Paulina's description of it as her granny's ugly napkins was pretty accurate. I generally like Korto's designs but what she sent down the runway this week was pretty bad.

[grifter]

I thought he stepped it up last week and liked his look a lot and they were reprimanding him for being boring and safe again and then this week they were bothered for the opposite reason. Idk it was an underwhelming week in general.

[britty_stitches]

Come through Kara Saun. She was always one of my favorites of the few seasons I saw <3

[silverstarry]

She was one of my faves in S1! I liked what she made but I preferred what Rami made this week because it looked more versatile/wearable. Kara's was a good representation of the assignment but I felt it was more limited in where it could be worn. Rami also fulfilled the undergarment assignment but he made it less "I AM WEARING VISIBLE UNDERWEAR" which is why I liked it.