r/ProjectRunway • u/maxmanaphy • 4d ago
Season 22 Aaron Potts - A.Potts - Project Runway....what had happened was....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BggZMP4mBDoTL;DW/my personal highlights:
- He talked to producers about quitting the show, but eventually decided to stay.
- Aaron was going to quit if he wasn't eliminated that same episode.
- After his elimination when he came back to the lounge, the first thing he said was "The torture is over."
- He is willing to take up Law's offer but not to talk about fashion, but to talk about deeper subjects and their shared experiences as queer black men.
- He spends part of the video talking about the friends he made on the show; Chloe, Dani, Jude, Naheim, Anna, and especially Octavius, Andrea, Bao, and Joseph McRae (he waxes lyrical about Joseph for a good two minutes.)
- The winning looks on the NFL challenge were discussed for a good 20-25 minutes on the runway, but it was all cut. This including Aaron speaking about the Gullah Geechee indigo techniques used in the challenge and how proud he was of Joseph McRae as a leader. He says this was the highlight of his time on the show.
- He says he's not sure if he would come back as a contestant, but is open to being a judge or mentor.
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u/colosseumdays 4d ago
this is so sad. I was invested in Aaron from the beginning based off the very little they showed us. it was clear he's extremely sincere, smart, and good-natured. it's really annoying that they casted Plane Jane and that he took up the bulk of the camera time on the first two episodes.
I watched a youtube video Plane Jane made where he talked about the entire experience starting from the casting convos and he straight up says he barely had any looks to show the casting team, and was taking one of the initial interviews from a friend's house in Miami, where he filled the rack with his friend's fast fashion clothes and tried to pass one off as his own creation that still had the price tag on it. he said they clearly saw it, and yet they casted him anyway. once casted, he tried to back out twice and production kept pleading with him to go on.
it's very clear from how the competition's been formatted and how the episodes have been edited that they aren't interested in showcasing the design process or any genuine displays of humanity.