'Project Runway' Universe Thrown Into Chaos With Introduction Of Male Models
seth · 11/29/07 04:42PM
Last night's first-of-its-kind Project Runway challenge required the remaining contestants to design a menswear outfit for Atiim Kiambu Hakeem-ah "Tiki" Barber, former Giants running back and now a Today Show co-anchor. It posed several logistical problems: For one, most of the designers had no experience making clothes for men, resulting in some of the most ill-fitting runway atrocities in the show's history, and prompting judge Michael Kors to liken at least one outfit to "something the Elephant Man might have worn to the 1963 Kentucky Derby as Truman Capote's date!"