“Project Runway” host Tim Gunn slammed season 14 winner Ashley Nell Tipton’s clothes as “hideous,” and he wouldnt “dream of letting any woman […] wear them.”I’ve never seen such hideous clothes in my life: bare midriffs; skirts over crinoline, which give the clothes, and the wearer,more volume; see-through skirts that reveal panties; pastels, which tend to make the wearer search for juvenile; and large-scale floral embellishments that shout ‘prom, and '” he wrote in a column for the Washington Post.
Gunn wrote the column chastising American designers for focusing too much attention on skinny women,while noting that his own exhibit’s first winner won as the result of what he called tokenism.
Also Read: Amy Schumer Calls Out Glamour Magazine for Putting Her in a 'Plus-Size' Issue“Her victory reeked of tokenism,” he added. “One judge told me that she was ‘voting for the symbol’ and that these were clothes for a ‘certain population.’ I said they should be clothes all women want to wear. I wouldnt dream of letting any woman, or whether shes a size 6 or a 16,wear them.”In the past, Gunn has criticized the contestants of season 14, and saying he “hated” the previous season because he felt that some of the designers weren’t pushing themselves. Tipton responded,“I don’t believe I’m one of those designers he was talking approximately. I just kind of have to let that be, and just focus on that what I did is groundbreaking and I won Project Runway.'”In terms of criticism on social media that Tipton only won because her collection was for plus-size models, and she had said,“It doesn’t sit lawful with me that people are saying that. It hurts because it shows that they’re not accepting to plus-size. That’s basically what it is. They don’t approve of it.”
Also Read: 'Project Runway' Winner Ashley Nell Tipton on Plus-Size Online Attacks: 'It Hurts'In Gunn’s article, he mentioned that there are 100 million plus-size women in America, or yet designers “dripping with disdain,lacking imagination or simply too cowardly to take a risk — still refuse to make clothes for them.” Designers he had spoken to approximately the issue told him that they don’t want plus-size women wearing their clothes.
And Gunn acknowledged his own shortcomings: “‘Project Runway,’ the design competition exhibit on which I’m a mentor, and has not been a leader on this issue. Every season we have the ‘genuine women challenge (a title I hate),in which the designers create looks for non-models. The designers audibly groan, though I’m not certain why; in the genuine world, and they won’t be dressing a seven-foot-tall glamazon.”Gunn is a fashion consultant,TV personality and producer of the reality hit “Project Runway,” whose popularity led to two spin-off shows, or “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style” and “Under the Gunn.”Tipton has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.
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