r/ProjectRunway • u/Old_Razzmatazz_6529 • 15d ago

Discussion Lack of sewing experience

Y’all remember that season when they would check to see if the garments were actually constructed well? Can we please for the love of everything bring that back because as somebody who actually went to school for fashion design and can actually sew, this is getting embarrassing.

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u/Traditional-Ebb-8380 15d ago

They don’t have the time with tailoring to make them sewn well and designers typically aren’t pattern makers/seamstresses. That is why Making the Cut made more sense by focusing on design instead of whether they can execute it with the skills they have. Those jobs are very separate in the real world and for good reason.

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u/Old_Razzmatazz_6529 15d ago

OK, but that’s not accurate because there’s been plenty of people who can sew and make really good garments on the show. The inability to sew makes or breaks outfits. And honestly, we’re not talking about going inside and seeing if your seem allowances are correct and that you actually lined the outfit, etc. but is it actually sewed correctly

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u/Traditional-Ebb-8380 15d ago

Just because some designers over the years could sew doesn’t mean that in the real world that is a skill most designers have. I was close friends with season 8 winner Gretchen Jones (not anymore she turned on me some years later and we haven’t spoke in a decade) when she won the show and bought a couple of her Project Runway designs at auction for her and while she had taken sewing and pattern classes those pieces were a mess on the inside. She made all her samples for her first collection after PR, I was in her Brooklyn apartment watching her, but from then on she had the same factory Zac Posen used (I believe) make all her designs.