Friday, September 15, 2017

PROJECT RUNWAY

Last night's theme was for the designers to make dresses either good or bad, a modern interpretation of Descendants 2, daughters of Snow White and Malificence.  Last weeks winner got to choose who got which theme.  They had a budget of 300 dollars and two days to get 'er done.  Off to Mood for fabric.  Thank you Swatch!! And another twist the models were the customers and they got to choose which designer they wanted.  The twins went last, boo hoo. At judging there were six outfits left, highest and lowest scores. 
The three high scores included one of the size 22 models, lovely Black girl who rocked a gold and black lace thing with perfect cleavage and sassiness.  Larger Black ladies generally have better body confidence as it is a cultural thang and she rocked the runway.  If I had been her designer I would have asked her to stomp the runway, toss her head and give a finger wag at the turn.  Yeah, girl.  One designer chose a tightly textured maroon fabric made into snazzy tight pants, a jacket with peplum, long sleeves.  The cuffs were black and looked like melted vinyl records.  The front lapels were a nice flat black in a sort of controlled petal design.  The winning design was by the Zen guy with a girlfriend.  The models really like him.  Anyway his dress was very modern and forward thinking.  The top was a white crop top, long sleeves, long cuff with nicely manufactured wide flat ribbons with demure colored trim.  The body of the dress was a largish print of very subdued lines.  There was a slightly shaped cut to mid thigh in the front and the arm holes were cut to show what Heidi called peek-a-boob.  Very cute. The losing looks were the twin with hair.  She designed a very simple outfit with shorts and a gauze opaque skirt.  She was in.  Gah.  The loser was a 23 year old kid who wore dresses and long blond hair.  He had previously designed safe stuff and he designed to go all out and designed something with lots of strips of cloth strung up and down the dress, many seams were not finished, it was a hot mess.  He over designed and ran into a time management issue.  He was sent to clean out his station. Loved the show.

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