Project Catwalk Week 5 Series 3
Fashion Future
Henry‘s challenge for the team was to ‘divine inspiration’ and create ‘fashions next big trend’ by reinterpreting ideas from the past. To start them on their fashion forward journey, he took the team back in time to vintage clothing emporium ‘Beyond Retro’. Giving each a budget £75 to spend in just 20 minutes, on items that would inspire them or could be re-worked in to something that was truly ‘cutting-edge’.
Back in the work room, Fionnuala was feeling confident with her design and colour choices, a grey and red military tailored dress, until mentor Ben De Lisi brought her down with to earth with a great big, thud. His critique of her military coloured layered dress was so savage it left her in tears.
But not everyone’s ideas of where Fashion is heading struck gold with journo Louise Roe, Clinton’s disappointed her, as too much metallic was not her thing, but her article the next day revealed she liked Viv’s “Audrey Hepburn” style Dress, with a modern take and Jasper’s design was something she had never seen before. Poor old Ross didn’t even get a mention in the review she wrote, for it seems as the amount of alcohol consumed by the young man had taken its toll before she made it round to him and he could explain his notions of body-architecture. Judgement day saw Clinton and Fionnuala in the bottom two, Clinton’s jacket saved him just, whilst his harlequin-esque jumpsuit was derided for being, ‘just bad taste’ by judge and mentor Ben DL.