Project Runway 20 - EPISODE 13: "The Sky's the Limit"

Date for Entry: (Thursday 31 August 2023)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Sunday 17 December 2023)

** The Age of Towers **

THE EPISODE

    The penultimate episode came and finished in a blink of an eye. One more challenge to go before and the winner will be announced. The episode was shown on the night of our Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago). I had to do a second recording of the episode to get everything covered for my chapter.

    Tonight’s episode came with a trip to Summit: One Vanderbilt. The designers were sent to a floor with many windows through the ceiling and floor. I loved the silver balloons around the room. A surprise challenge was to make another avant-garde look based on architecture. There was a lot of fright for me with Rami and things didn’t look so bright for him coming down toward the end.

    Sadly, there had to be an elimination and he had to go. There was a very long first model fitting section. Some of us had a good laugh watching Christian try on Brittany’s jacket. The challenge also reminded me of Coral and this same challenge. I found that she should have been given that win in her season as a winner was announced tonight.

 

MY DESIGN

    The drawing for this challenge was not planned. At first, the finished sketch was not something I was proud of. I envisioned the model from season 19 who wore Zaden’s last outfit in a blue top with orange and blue straps woven together at the upper chest level. There would have been rec pockets with a very light and sheer pink mesh as the flaps to cover the pockets.

    The stomach area could not have been done properly but it was supposed to be fabric with circular stitched ‘beads’ that shone in the light, as the glass reflection of windows in the building towers. The skirt too would match the upper chest area.

    I took the idea for the bag as a tenor pan that was supposed to mimic the silver balls in the silver ballroom. The same would be for the top but mimic the sun and the moon that moves over these building towers.

    I chose to have arm writings and they would be cut in un even rectangles just like one of the previous Miss Universe crowns to mimic the shapes of the towers. I spent some time thinking of Mr Kolb to get some ideas for this and hope that he enjoys it if he gets to see it.

 

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Images from the Episode.**

Daryl Zion M. Ali