I haven’t posted about the new Project Runway season yet, so here goes. Hallelujah! It’s better than last season! The contestants are way more interesting, way more talented, we are back at Parsons, Heidi is wearing Louboutins 95% of the time, Nina and Michael are always there, but…
What was up with that star dress from last week? And why did the judges love it so much?
To catch you up to speed, the challenge for last week was to design a red dress that incorporated the Campbell’s Soup label (why? They could have stopped at just using red…) for a woman who has suffered from heart disease to promote Campbell’s “AdDRESS Your Heart” campaign.
Now, back to the star dress. To prove my point, let me show you Exhibit A:
She is wearing a Macy’s bag! When I saw this come down the runway, I thought, “Oh, man. The judges are going to rip this designer apart.” So you can understand my shock when I heard Nina say it was “brilliant” and when Michael said it was a “job well done.” They loved it!
Am I missing something? Tom and Lorenzo were right when they said no woman would wear this to a gala event, unless she were Wonder Woman. I would even be hesitant to say that Wonder Woman would put this on. The Macy’s shopping bag dress was designed by Mila Hermanovski, the same contestant who made the bug costume–I mean, the “high-end track suit”–for the previous challenge…and won!
Exhibit C:
The challenge here was to design a signature look that could appear among the Haute Couture designs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Look at this stunning Givenchy gown, and then look at bug costume. Can you really see them next to each other? Sure, that pop of yellow was…a surprise, but it still says bug.
































