Project Runway Junior Season 2 Recap: Italian Is As Italian Does

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This week on Project Runway Junior, the kids get a lesson on the strange and stuck up world that is High End Italian Fashion.

Italian Fashion is an entirely different breed of Fashion. Milan Fashion Week is nothing like New York or London or Paris. And I am 110% sure that if the fashion of Milan and their high end brand marketing of the fashion world was being associated with Carrabba’s Grill (known in our house as Friday’s Does Italian”) they would probably sniff in horror and edge away slowly.

Carrabba’s apparently gave a *lot* of money or this challenge, because there is endless tables of food everywhere during this episode. Plus the winner gets a trip to Italy to discover how little the real world of Italian Fashion and the bizarrely commercialized and dumbed down of Italian Fashion that Project Runway is peddling have in common!

The designers have only one day to create their design, but they do get to actually go to real Mood (instead of the MiniMood Closet) with $300 to hopefully get fabrics that will help carry their look. Not that everyone can handle having a budget, as Izzy shows she should be confined to the MiniMood Closet for not being able to manage her money. Also for not being able to handle her fabric, because first she lint rolls paint onto it and then gets an oil stain on it.

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Let’s see what Tim has to say.

• Tieler: He’s got a very sculpted white blazer over black pant. Tim calls it polished.
• Izzy: Her detailing looks like it was pulled out of a trash bin at Michael’s. Tim looks ill, and tells her she has work to do.
• Hawwaa: Tim loves her yellow jacket and red and striped pants before she even opens her mouth.
• Molly: She has a lovely floral scalloped top that Tim is gaga over.
• Chris: Tim loves the mesh over print look he’s got going and warns him about overdoing
• Chelsea: She has an odd piece made of men’s fabrics creating a piece of women’s wear. Tim calls the baggy overpocketed look a “pocket potpourri.”
• Cartier: She’s been painting a sunrise over Italy on her fabrics. Once again, Tim tells her to turn her outfit pieces inside out to solve her outfit problems.

The models arrive and are wowed by the prize this week being a trip to Italy. They are not shown eating the food.

Day of runway, and we once again start with a commercial for the Product Displaying MakeUp People. Tieler’s outfit winds up being to big and he’s having a big wardrobe malfunction emergency. Tim has to tell him he can’t double stick tape his model into the outfit, especially since the tape is already failing. He actually misses leaving with the round up to head down to the runway, and Tim has to come back and fetch them.

Let’s see what the judges think.