Project Runway Junior Season 2 Recap: Step it Up!

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The kids on Project Runway Junior take on their first multi-functional outfit challenge designing a look that goes from day to night.

We rejoin our kids on the runway, where Hannah spends a moment to congratulate A’kai for being Tim Ginn Saved™ last week, before sending them to learn about the challenge…in the workroom! The workroom, when they arrive have jewelry on display. On closer inspection, it’s not just ordinary expensive jewelry, it’s Fitbit jewelry. Tim Gunn arrives, in possession of the Director of Marketing from Fitbit, who have spent quite a pretty penny to have their product featured like this, and therefore she is going to talk and talk and talk. Suffice to say, the “evening wear” Fitbit bracelets and pendants on display are the inspiration to design outfits that will also easily go from day to night along with them.

Apparently this one day challenge has been deemed too hard to do if they waste two hours to go to Mood. Instead the “Mini-Mood” closet has returned, which has a much more limited collection, and no Swatch. (But they also don’t have to spend money, can use as much as they like and Tim will let them go back to visit if they decide they’ve gone down the wrong path.)

Since I missed the first two weeks of this season, this is the first episode where I’ve seen the kids work solo. Hawwaa is far more chill and able to laugh at herself. Izzy on the other hand, is prone to drama with no teammate to calm her down. Let’s see what Tim thinks.

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• Chelsea: She has bright neon yellow and sad grey. Tim says it looks like her outfit is for someone who it ill.
• Allie: She has pants on her dummy and a faux wrap top in process. Tim worries that the details won’t show, and the work she’s doing will hide the good stuff.
• Izzy: She stopped panicking, pulled herself together and continued on her dress. Tim tells her to close up her ill-advised slits, but otherwise approves.
• A’kai: He has a dress and a jacket and they’re both dull as dishwater, but they’re well made. Tim tells him to focus on details.
• Rene: He has something that was futuristic in the 1980s on his dummy. He also insists it’s for a lady in her 60s. Tim shrugs: Carry On!
• Hawwaa: If this is what she usually designs, last week makes more sense. This looks like a cross between 1970s flower power and 1990s preppy. Tim seems pleased.
• Cartier: She made a black vest over a black nightie and it’s so unfortunately boring. Tim snaps she’s not being ambitious enough. She pulls out fringe. He looks slightly ill.

And that’s all we have time for! Molly, Chris, Tieler, that’s good news for you, as a skipped critique means you’re probably safe. The models come and go. No one’s fittings are a disaster, which is a huge relief.

Day of runway, and we are rudely tossed into the middle of the Product Displaying Makeup People, in order to get them their contractually obligated TV time. Alie seems to be the only one who is badly behind in terms of construction, and is literally dressing her model as they head down to the runway.

Let’s see what the judges think!