Well, no one could accuse Kristina of holding anything back, which is the kind of energy you want to bring into the “Project Runway” finale.Įlsewhere in the workroom was a familiar conflict: Christian begging Chasity to hurry up so she doesn’t run out of time with her wildly ambitious hand-stitching and beading. But that wasn’t her only wild idea: she also wanted to end her collection with a model riding a hoverboard on her way to Mars. Kristina (wisely) made the tiniest of bras to go with it. She was a little worried about whether her model would be comfortable showing so much skin, but her model shrugged it off, say, “I’m French.” Christian wasn’t quite as comfortable, imploring Kristina to consider what Nina Garcia might think when she sees it and design some kind of top underneath. SEE ‘Project Runway’ season 19: Worst looksĪnd boy did she! When she reunited with her fellow finalists in Manhattan just two days before their fashion show, she scandalized the workroom with a couple of sheer looks, one of which showed her model completely topless underneath. He also thought her designs looked quite modest, so it might be a good idea to sex it up a little. But Christian advised her to show the judges silhouettes they hadn’t seen from her. She was working with a graphic designer to make custom prints and creating mock-ups to pair the right patterns with the right shapes and styles. And if Coral already had her artistic concept well in hand, Kristina seemed the most organized around planning. Last was Kristina in Queens, New York, a hop, skip, and a jump away from where the designers had been working all season. What she needed was to expand her use of technique into bolder, more abstract, and more unexpected directions. However, Christian thought a lot of the designs she was working on looked too “dress-makery.” And the judges had already seen her use macrame repeatedly. The judges consistently responded to her use of macrame as an expression of her cultural heritage, and then her son showed an interest in their indigenous family roots in Mexico, so she wanted to represent that on the runway, with one menswear look in her collection in honor of the inspiration she got from her son. She took his advice, and by the time she arrived back in New York on the eve of the fashion show she’d moderated her color palette with more grays.Ĭoral in Los Angeles had a much clearer idea of her creative point of view by the time Christian visited her. Her collection was inspired by Quetzalcoatl, from which she was bringing in snake-like textures, but Christian advised her to stay away from creating a print and bring the textures into the construction of the clothes itself - that meant a lot more work for Shantall, and then even more after Christian told her to ditch the dated pale yellow color she’d used for one of her looks. She was working on her collection at the Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion in Miami, which gave her more space to work than she had at home. Mentor Christian Siriano checked in with each of them two months into their creative journeys. But there could be only one winner.Īfter last week’s show the four designers were sent back home with $10,000 apiece and five months to put together their 10-look collections. In last week’s penultimate episode the judges could have made the decision to cut them down to the final three, but liked them all so much that they all got a ticket to the finale. It was the first time in the show’s history that women made up the entire final four presenting their collections at New York Fashion Week: Coral Castillo, Kristina Kharlashkina, Shantall Lacayo, and Chasity Sereal. “ Project Runway” ended season 19 in historic fashion - no pun intended.
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