Project Runway’s 10 Best (And Some Worst) Catwalks

A model walks the runway at the Project Runway fashion show during Spring 2016 New York Fashion Week (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows)

7. Ashley Nell Tipton, Season 14

Ashley Nell Tipton had a mission on Project Runway’s 14th season: full-figured clothing. It’s needed. If you remember Ven Budhu from Project Runway Season 10 (and hopefully you don’t), you know that some designers have trouble accepting women who don’t wear clothes like a hanger. We think that’s wrong. Like iPhones, women come in lots of different sizes so we’re glad that Tipton stepped up to the plate, fought for her artistic viewpoint, and won. Nina even called her collection ‘brave.’ Brave? Tipton was just doing what needed to be done.

Sizing aside, her New York Fashion Week collection was beautiful. Her pastel palette and vintage designs delighted. Though we haven’t been back in time to venture to Mexico City in the 1950s, we could smell the indoor cigarette smoke from here. (Side note, so happy nobody smokes indoors anymore.) We just have one quick little question… where are the flower crowns? While summer festival season might be over for another year, we find it hard to believe that retailers haven’t yet begged Tipton to create a line of big, giant flower crowns that we can wear right into fall. Guess we’ll just have to settle for our Snapchat filters.

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