Project Runway Junior Season 2 Recap: Finale Part 2

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Project Runway Junior’s second season reaches a climax as the final four designers present their finale collections to the judges and we crown a winner.

Last week, the showdown between Tieler and Hawwaa ended properly, with Tieler, who spend the final quarter of the show crashing and burning, going home. This leaves our Final Four at FIDM as Chris, Izzy, Chelsea and Hawaa. As Tim intone, they have “two workroom days” to get their collections in order. Good thing too–not because they need it, but because the show, which spans 90 minutes, will need all the fodder it can muster to fill the time before the final runway presentations.

But no worries–as always, there is filler. And this one includes Alyssa Milano, host of Project Runway: All Stars and Georgina Chapman, judge of the same, and wife of producer Harvey Weinstein. True to form, Georgina didn’t actually show up to work, but appears pretaped.

They do not actually have a twist or anything, they just want to make faces at the cute teenagers and remind you that, despite the lack of any announcement of cast, or premiere date even though Project Runway Junior is ending, their show still exists and will supposedly be premiering a 6th Season in 2017…at some point.

Let’s see what Tim thinks:

Chris: He calls his Khols off the rack looks inspired by New York. Tim is not impressed, and complains that he sets up a sporty vibe that the collection does not stand up to, and is not pleased with any of it.
Chelsea: She was inspired by video games. The collection goes from android to human. Tim hates some of her more roboty leather ideas that feel overdesigned and overwerked. Tim says he only likes the front half, and calls one look “cheap and tawdry.”
Izzy: Her collection is inspired by track and field…if track and field was inspired by 1980s early music videos in orange and red. Tim likes how relaxed and confident her collection is, even though it is made up of pieces she’s done throughout the season.
Hawwaa: Tim already went over her collection last week, so he asks how she’s changing stuff from the judge’s critique, and points out how some of her pieces did not look so good on the runway and need to be fixed.

The bevy of models that arrive all at once overwhelm the designers, who are not used to having to dress more than one at a time. Chris, upon having fittings, realizes that everything Tim said was right and he has no idea how to fix it. Izzy sails through with few issues. Chelsea discovers most of her clothes don’t fit her models–if you make clothes that don’t even fit models, what hope is there for the rest of the world?

Moreover, she decides Tim’s critiques, including the “cheap and tawdry” one, are completely wrong, and she’s not changing a damn thing. Chris, on the other hand, spends his last day building completely new pieces, including pants, jackets and editing just about everything he has made.

Runway day includes a faux red carpet experience for the kids, our last commercial for the Product Displaying MakeUp People, and a whole lot of panicking over the final fit of clothes on their models. Let’s see what the judges think.

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