![]() I'm glad DVF and Michael Kors** didn't say it, because they both have licensed their patterns to Vogue (McCalls Pattern Company). Chances are, fans of the show who sew at home are buying those patterns. Project runway has licensed patterns to Simplicity pattern company. Sure, there have been plenty of polyester Prom dress nightmares, but it is NOT necessary to go to school to be creative or to know what you are doing with a sewing machine.ģ# It's hypocritical. For instance, the Mulleavy sisters started their critically acclaimed line, Rodarte, out of their parents HOUSE. The suggestion that good design does not come out of the home sewing room is untrue. That comment was a slap in the face.Ģ# It promotes a narrow, elitist view of fashion design. Both my mother and grandmother were perfectionists and extremely opinionated about color, fabric choice, fit, and quality workmanship. It offends me because I learned to sew at home, from my mother and grandmother, and it is because I learned to love the craft that I later decided to study fashion in school. ![]() #1 It disparages anyone who ever learned to or does sew at home. I love Tim Gunn, but that comment pissed me off. ![]() I was super excited about the Lifetime Project Runway switch because I haven't had Bravo since season 1. I didn't take offense, I felt like I knew exactly what he meant. ![]() Perhaps a better choice of words would have been "amateur." I have seen whole blogs on how to avoid having things look home sewn, and on, there are huge, ongoing discussion threads about "How to make my clothes look less homemade." "Homesewn" is something that most of the home sewists that I know are trying to avoid too, so I don't think the remark was disparaging. You would think, that people who call themselves designers, would be experienced enough to avoid that, and I think that was what Tim was getting at. We've all been guilty of those things, but as you become a better sewer, you also become better at avoiding those pitfalls. So I don't think that the remark was disparaging to home sewers, but more so a statement about perhaps sloppy sewing, or poor fabric choice. With all the energy that I put into seam finishes, finding just the right fabric, the right lining, the right interfacing, all the hand sewing, if someone told me that my dress looked home sewn, I'd be insulted. It's like when Michael Kors says that something looks "Becky Home-ecky." It's not disparaging home sewists, because personally, I don't want to look Becky Home-ecky, either. I don't think that it is disparaging of home sewers because I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make what I sew look NOT home sewn. What do you all think? Are you bothered by any of this? But what I don't understand is why these designers think they're doing something so rarefied, so separated from the fashion sewing that people do at home, like it's an entirely different skill set.īut perhaps I'm being a little sensitive. There's a different connotation between handmade and homemade. I get what they're trying to say, course. In the All-Star Challenge tonight, he dismissed something as "matronly" and "a little home sewing, if you know what I mean." And Sweet P's cheeky flowerpot dress was derided by one of the judges as looking "a little bit homemade." I mean really, would it kill you to say "When I saw the model in my dress, etc." or even better you could use the model's name! Yes, models have names! Gracious.Īnd the other thing I would like to complain about is that there is such a disdain for home sewing on this show. I almost cried when my dress walked down the runway it was soooo amazing. Oh my God, when my dress walked down the runway, I just couldn't believe it. Have you noticed that at each runway show, there's a voice over from the designer as their creation is modeled that always goes something like this: I thoroughly enjoyed the show tonight, but I realized that going into my sixth season of watching Project Runway, there is one thing I just can't stand anymore. (He looks down on me and gives me peptalks throughout my work day.) So of course I was psyched for the long-awaited return of the show tonight, even if it had to move from Bravo to the less hip Lifetime network. And my most prized office decoration is this Tim Gunn "Read" poster issued by the American Library Association. I have a Tim Gunn bobblehead next to my sewing machine. I love Project Runway as much as the next gal who sews.
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