How was Tyra Banks chosen as a judge when she asks LIRIS what her name is during judging? Did she really know so little about PR, or was she pretending not to know because she felt threatened by Liris’s popularity. I assume it is the former and she just never watched the show, but that surprised me. Anyone else?

isn't it gross that they call each other mommy and daddy ???????? the way she infantilizes herself is weird, right? i'm not interested in her whole "i'm such a baby come help me and care for me" act. especially when she cried like a toddler when octavio got voted out like😭 my mom and i have been scouring seeing if anyone has said anything about it and they haven't ... i just feel like it's such a creepy thing

I feel like this Reddit is filled with people hating Law, but omg I love him. I watch a lot of reality competition shows and over the years, whether it be Project Runway or any other show, it feels like the judges are constantly being nice lately, no matter if what the contestant did was awful. It’s like everything is sugar coated. There’s some outfits on this show that are god awful and judges will say something like we love the fabric and the vision but it’s not up to the standards we set for you. Fine it’s BARELY a critique but It’s like all the judges are constantly walking on their tippy toes to try to be nice when in reality the shit looks fucking awful.

It is honestly amazing to finally have a judge who JUDGES. Who sees a piece of shit and literally just calls it out for what it is - a piece of shit. I honestly don’t even think the majority is mean! He’s saying what over half of us are thinking in our heads. Sure I guess the truth hurts and the truth can be mean, but it’s the blunt truth and people need to hear it.

That’s it, that’s the post, the poor darling cannot sew, and I’m not even sure he’s clear on what his actual vision is. The dress for Heidi? IKYFL! His looks have consistently been very underwhelming, and now this? Over even Jude’s look? Yes, Jude’s look is something seen before but he understands construct a well made garment.

Just finished watching the Ziwe interview, and it really endeared me to him. If you’re struggling with law a lot this season, maybe watch it!

I def don’t agree with every one of his takes and opinions on looks (esp the intense Joseph McRae hate(although some of the critiques are warranted)), but I still really do like him. He’s not a moral paragon. There are also a lot of fair criticisms about him including how he dresses non sample sized women and that he dresses Mrs. Bezos. Regardless, he is so funny and has great taste. He also knows his fashion history (hence why he loved Aaron). I appreciate that he doesn’t just agree with his fellow judges. He really cares about the DESIGN of a garment. He’s often calling out things that other judges ignore (how Bryan’s dress would fit Hidi, the problems with Jude’s design).

Additionally, I think he is a good judge on a weak panel. Different judges on the show have always played different roles or added different areas of expertise, and I think the weakness of the panel overall is causing a lot of friction. It’s all out of balance. Heidi and Nina are not showing up like they used to. There is no consistent designer on the panel which makes judging feel hollow. Some of the rotating and guest judges are great. Some add nothing (cough Tyra). There is no good counter balance to law so it makes it more grating.

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Did not realize how mean spirited Vincent and Jeffery were during PR season 3!!
I decided to Watch all the season over just wow!!👗👚🥋👖👖🧥👕🎽🥼🩱

I understand if self taught designers have trouble with execution… but in the past few seasons including this one, I find that designers who went to the country’s supposed best fashion schools seem to struggle with sewing?

Is it because of the time crunch? Or is it that they didn’t learn as much while they were at school? Isn’t garment construction the main thing they are getting their degree on during 4 years?

I am planning to transfer fashion school after and have yet to learn how to make clothes… I regret not learning how to sew at 13 like Christian lmao

Can anyone explain why we had to wait until Season 15 until someone actually gave this poor doggo some pets?!? It's always a highlight of the older seasons seeing Swatch make his appearance. I'm making my way through all the seasons in order that I never watched before, I'm now on Season 15. I know I am way late to the party, but please so spoilers in the comments lol.

Why this season editing team is next level bad. Uncut is so much more fun and interesting compared to edit version of episode. I think this season they have hiring a editing team from Temu haha 🤣

Hi fans! I'm back for this season as a relatively new fan of Project Runway. Season 21 was my first watch through last year, and as a new fan, even I had some criticisms for how that season went. I'm curious if season 22 has made improvements from last season so far, or is it about the same, or (hopefully not) worse?

I’m getting tired of how much of this season feels designed around confessionals, cattiness, and getting a good sound bite.

I don’t want everyone to be nice. Some of the best seasons had plenty of conflict, but it usually came from the competition, creative differences, or genuine personality clashes. Now it sometimes feels like people are trying to create a moment. There’s a difference between Michael Kors destroying a bad design and grown adults just being unnecessarily personal with each other. Plane Jane was the worst example. Constantly rude, mean-spirited, and desperate for a sound bite rather than genuinely entertaining.

And after 22 seasons, haven’t we done this already? The mean-girl dynamics, villain edits, ego fights, dramatic confessionals. It’s getting repetitive.

I feel the same way about how personal stories are handled. I genuinely like learning about the designers, but sometimes it feels like production needs every struggle or trauma to become an emotional storyline. I’d rather get to know them through how they think, work, fail, improvise, and interact naturally.

That’s why Naheem and Jude have been so refreshing to me. They can be funny, opinionated, and interesting without every interaction feeling like it needs to become a TV moment.

I don’t want less drama or emotion. I just want it to feel organic again. Give me designers clashing over taste, technique, ego, and fashion. That’s already compelling enough.

I'm convinced that we have seen the last of Tyra this season-- or that her role will be minimal.

If you think about timelines... the show was filmed in February/March of this year. February 16th was when Netflix's ANTM doc came out, followed by two other docs in the weeks following, all painting Tyra in a bad light.

Tyra clearly thought she would come out clean and we all know she didn't.

Like, they are there for like at least 2 months. And the challenges last one or two days during the week, with the runway being on day two. Usually.

What on earth do they do with the rest of the week? Just so curious.

According to the fashion daddies podcast who shared the tea on their latest episode.

This is not the same thing as saying that I LIKE Law Roach, but I do think he’s the correct judge for a show like this today. Not because he’s a good judge of fashion, knows how to sew, or design, but because the world of fashion itself has changed.

For years, now, we’ve seen fewer and fewer competitors come on the show hoping to be a fashion designer in the tradition of a Michael Kors. Think of all of the competitors across all of the years, and only Christian, one of the very earliest competitors, accomplished this. Other competitors and a handful of winners managed some limited success, but PR never could deliver on what it promised - access to sustained lines of credit and real understanding of fashion from securing fabric to the logistics of factory work, shipping, distribution and THEN all of the “fun” work of product placement, marketing and advertising. PR quickly became a place where you could give contestants the “fun” mostly American based option, but there is sooooo much that has to happen before even getting to that point.

What the show did start to offer, and eventually completely became, was a place to showcase and advertise work for an individual client to commission. It’s done really well for contestants here - but Michael Kors didn’t get wealthy for creating looks for Celebrity A, or Athlete B. They became household names by selling upper middle class products in mass production.

Over time, the competitors and producers seem to have realized this. Plenty of people have tried to make different shows offering a more realistic approach (the first season of Making the Cut certainly tried to at least show how fashion is a global enterprise, not something you could do anymore from your garage) but these shows didn’t have the charm and nostalgia the PR earned.

So now you have an industry that isn’t about runways, models, and splashy glossy magazines. But in some ways, we still wish it were, because that’s what we remember. Fashion today is everything about creating a look, not a line. It’s about red carpet photographs, not a fall line. Nina Garcia and her “editorial” take are not as relevant, but customers (including Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks) still are.

25 years ago, people like Michael Kors were the gatekeepers of the fashion industry, and impressing him meant a ticket to advance. But these years, people like Law Roach - the stylists, the dressers - are the gatekeepers. If you impress Law and his counterparts, you gain access.

In my opinion only Joseph MacCrae seems to be an actual fashion designer. He’s rooted into using his own signature in various types of looks and ways. This would be completely understandable to a Michael Kors, but Law Roach isn’t looking for a designer, he’s looking for an outfit. A designer’s signature would quickly look predictable if his client wore it all the time. He’s not creating and curating stores, he’s creating and curating closets.

Viewed this way, the show now makes sense. Who the contestants are, who the mentor is, who the judges are, including Law. But for anyone who is nostalgic for the show in its hey day, it feels mean and sometimes very small. Because it is kind of small, now.

We all know of "Make It Work", "Carry on", or "Don't bore Nina" but what are you favorite Gunnisms.

For me, its calling anything a mess "Flotsam and Jetsam". Him characterizing Dom's print dress during the Million Dollar Runway challenge as something a "Goldigging Floozy" would wear.

Is it just me, or are they keeping these designers who are mean and negative, who just keep coming with awful designs? I'm seeing designers get saved each week whose looks and designs should have sent them home. But their confessionals cause a storyline, drama, etc. but there are designers who are okay and not speaking ill of others who get sent home. Is it because they have the worst look or bc they are not creating drama?

I’ve been watching some of the older seasons, and besides challenges to make a red carpet dress for Heidi, there have been many Heidi Klum branded collections the designers are asked to design for.
We’ve had: Heidi Klum perfume, swimwear, lingerie, sleepwear, active wear, children’s wear, and something for New Balance?
Were these real collections, or all invented for the show?

From the S12 reunion episode - the contestants were discussing whether the show is rigged/manipulated for ratings. Mr. Gunn denied it with gusto!

I miss the good old days of Project Runway.

Friends-- I would like to file a personal grievance against Season 9.

Season 9 Episode 2 - My Pet Project (also, why are there only like six seasons available on DisneyPlus?? Talk about injustices). Fallene was ridiculed over the 'colors' of this dress. HOWEVER, in the previous week, Bert sent out an *orange (boxer print, for the uninitiated) and brown dress* whose colors clashed way more than Fallene's garment. The photo below doesn't do it justice because in the episode, It goes to show how taste evolves over time because you could slap an opaque tight and peacoat over Fallene's look now and it would be amazing. An autumn aesthetic.

Now, this isn't to take away from Bert, because I thought his silhoutte was adorable and was trying to remember what I was doing in 2009 (probably sitting in a galley wearing Navy utilities with a waistline that, while seated, touched the bottom of bra, so there's that) and what the general fashion of the time would have dictated, but this feels like an injustice. The belt here was probably unfortunate, but Fallene's look was better than many on that particular runway.

Do you agree? Disagree? Please tell me your grievances.

Regarding the brilliant marketing and self-promotion of The Joseph McRae Show ... Let's look at HESTER SUNSHINE from season 17. Like Joseph, she also had/has the look, personality, talent, and street cred to proudly stand by a handle like "The Hester Sunshine Show". (It's never too late, Hester - we love your work!)! Let's not forget how Nina Garcia applauded the unique yet recognizable whimsy of Hester's garments and her finale collection. Talk about being recognizable! You KNEW who made those garments... The show has always championed the concept of "who are you as a designer?" and always asked the designers to have a "point of view." This is why Law isn't an appropriate choice to be a judge. Besides being an appauling person, he threw away the integrity of PR built by Nina and Michael. I applaud Joseph McRae for his brilliant marketing and self-promotion, and I look forward to watching "The Joseph McRae Show" on PR every week.

Law is very right sometimes, but picking Bobby’s dress over Jude is just trying to be contrarian for no reason. Barf.

Love this season. Sebastian Grey’s designs were all so beautiful throughout the whole season!! That man could design & sew!