Heidi unveils special guest Rebecca Romijn and her buns in the oven.
Episode 2: Expecting
–by Eric Walter
This week, Project Runway throws a curve, and it's a big one. The designers are given the task of creating a chic, form-fitting look for gorgeous celebrity guest Rebecca Romijn — and her gorgeous baby bump!
Er, babies bump. She's having twins.
Not surprisingly, the three best designs are created by women and the three worst are designed by men — gay men, no less. Ouch. It's not a shining moment for our boys.
swallowing an ostrich egg, but they gamely strap on the pregnancy
prosthetics and march down the runway.
Shirin wins with a dress that would be stunning on a woman of any size.
Shirin steals the show with her very first maternity gown!
The race to the bottom this week is between Mitchell and Malvin. Ramon just squeaks by with the least bad of the bottom three. In the end, the judges say auf Wiedersehen to Malvin.
Is Malvin too avant garde for America, or is he just making unwearable clothes?
What Worked
Left: Irina channels Annette Funicello with her 1950s beach dress. It's a cute and light cover for the weighty womb below.
Center: Shirin's classy wine-colored dress includes some intriguing braiding and twisting details at the waistline without overthinking shapes of a pregnant woman's body. She goes for some extra credit points with a lovely lined jacket, putting her in a class above the competition. She is a clear winner this week.
Right: Louise gives us a classic nightgown-inspired design with hand-dyed lace and a peek-a-boo slip. It's a little too frilly for the grocery store, but it scores high as a cocktail dress. Without the cocktails, of course!
What Didn't
Left: Malvin takes the fertility concept a step too far with his
"mother hen" inspiration. His poor model looks like she is wearing her
tummy in a sling.
Right: Ra'mon's heart is in the right place, trying to get some shaping in there, but it's the wrong shape. The over-constructed bubble doesn't fit to the body. He's going for sporty — but the sport in question seems to be bowling.
Left: Mitchell plays it a little too safe this week and gives us boring and ill-fitting. He's designed for pregnant women before, so he had a supposed advantage, but I don't think it shows.
Right: Put the jacket back on, honey! Epperson's pantsuit, looks a little like a 1960s vision of the "future." But there's plenty of room for a Starfleet badge.
Best Gay
Sure, Mitchell's in the bottom three for the second week in a row, but he sure seems to be having a good time! He was like the court jester of the workroom this week, goofing off his way-too-wide shorts and messing up the sewing machine. He compares Ra'mon's dress to a bowling ball bag. "It looks better from here," he says from the other room.
It's all very endearing, but I think he'd better put on his serious face for week three, or he might be laughing his way out the door.
Best WTF Moment
Anything Malvin had to say about his design, the Mother Hen. I don't know many women who would take kindly to comparing their legs to chicken thighs.
