This week the designers made a little red dress for a charity event. Amy's dress (pictured) won.
This week the designers face the now-obligatory worthy cause challenge: design a little red dress for heart disease survivors for a Campbell’s Soup charity event at Fashion Week. Each designer is assigned a woman who has been affected by heart disease in some way, so no models for this one (wonder how that will effect Models of the Runway).
Uh-oh, they’re designing for — gasp! — real women. Countdown to some designer calling their model fat in 3, 2, …
First Jesus says he is glad his model is so tiny. Then Janine mentions their models’ measurements and how a “gala ready gown” will be very hard in a day. But Seth WINS THE PRIZE, by mentioning their usual size 4 models and then punning “this is the largest challenge I’ve had to face.”
When they’re not commenting on their models’ sizes, we see the designers bonding with the women. It’s waterworks for the gays, with Jay and Anthony practically bursting into tears as their models tell their heartwarming (IRONY) stories. Amy says this one should be in the bag: she’ll either win it, or get kicked off, as proclaiming a challenge will be easy is often the kiss of death.
And it’s the gift that keeps on giving, as yet another designer brings up the model’s sizes, the fifth or sixth time in less than sixteen minutes. At least this time it’s Anthony, lightly chiding his fellow designers for never having done so — as a pageant dress designer, presumably he has.
Anna had a great design that was poorly cut and fitted to her model
The 20 minute mark comes and goes, and no “make it work” from Tim. Is the pattern broken? WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT TIM’S SIGNATURE CATCH PHRASE? He did say several variations of work, but most likely I just missed it.
The runway proves that very few of these designers have worked or can work with normal-sized women. Most of the outfits, even by our best designers, make their models look dumpy at worst, or not suited to a formal event, at best.
Amy’s dress was a clear winner from the moment it came out — not only did it flatter the model, but it was very much evening wear. Second best, and the better design, is Maya. The heart design and sash are well thought out and executed, but I don’t think her model’s body type was right for it — a taller model (not necessarily smaller!) would have worked better.
Jesus’s dress is a RED HOT MESS. All due respect to his model, but she looks like a hooker, not a heart disease survivor going to a formal event. They say he “knows how to make clothes,” but I don’t see construction that is good enough to justify keeping Jesus, who has tacky, slutty taste, on the show.
