The designers fit their garments onto their models. Korto’s coat, dress, coat dress (whichever it is) looks more like the Michelin Man than swinging 1960s fashion. The arms still do not want to go down at the sides. The model looks unfortunately like Ralphie’s little brother swaddled up in his snowsuit in the film A Christmas Story. The kid walked around with his arms stuck out at the sides, and finally fell over. Korto sees the garment’s shortcomings and grumbles that she “definitely will not be making any seat belt collections.” The models go to hair and makeup. Ten minutes to showtime, Keith’s model, who he had cautioned not to sit down at all in her too-tight skirt, approaches him. She has sat down in her skirt after all and now it is torn. “They made me,” she tells Keith. Who made her? And no wonder models seem to bolt from this show left and right. They make them sit down!
Keith walks into the workroom with his model, and asks to see the tear. It’s worse than he thought: a seam is gaping. Keith quickly sews it and cautions her once more not to sit and to “watch the breathing.” Instructing a model not to breathe deeply is a bit ridiculous, but then, honestly? So was this challenge. Other designers pull their creations onto their own models. Kenley is grimly "happy" with how her garment looks on her newly-assigned model. “It would’ve looked better on Shannon,” she whines. Blayne’s outfit looks like a real dress, complete with sparkly accents, but we only get a quick glimpse of it in the workroom. Leanne has stuffed the sides of her model’s underpants with gobs of muslin to fill out her garment’s skirt. A bit unorthodox, and such things have a way of transforming into seemingly telepathic judges’ questions later post-runway.
Time for the runway show. Heidi emerges to make her weekly announcements. Ms. Klum-Seal is wearing a black, shiny strapless cocktail dress which is draped almost like a towel around her. I suppose it suggests pleather or rainy pavement. It could be construed as car-like, in other words. I’m still trying to decipher what the ruffled umpire dress meant earlier, since the challenge had nothing to do with auto racing. I wonder if the challenge changed midway? The designers all look completely blank as Heidi makes the same speech she makes before each runway show. She then introduces the panel of judges: designer Michael Kors, season three finalist Laura Bennett replacing Nina Garcia this week only, and this week’s guest judge, stylist Rachel Zoe.
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