‘Project Runway’ Co-Host Tim Gunn Slams Season 14 Winner’s ‘Hideous’ Plus-Size Clothes

Project Runway” host Tim Gunn slammed season 14 winner Ashley Nell Tipton’s clothes as “hideous,” and he wouldn’t “dream of letting any woman […] wear them.

“I’ve never seen such hideous clothes in my life: bare midriffs; skirts over crinoline, which give the clothes, and the wearer, more volume; see-through skirts that reveal panties; pastels, which tend to make the wearer look juvenile; and large-scale floral embellishments that shout ‘prom,'” he wrote in a column for the Washington Post.

Gunn wrote the column chastising American designers for focusing too much attention on skinny women, while noting that his own show’s first winner won as the result of what he called tokenism.

In terms of criticism on social media that Tipton only won because her collection was for plus-size models, she had said, It doesn’t sit right with me that people are saying that.

In Gunn’s article, he mentioned that there are 100 million plus-size women in America, yet designers “dripping with disdain, lacking imagination or simply too cowardly to take a risk — still refuse to make clothes for them.”

[...] Gunn acknowledged his own shortcomings: ‘Project Runway,’ the design competition show on which I’m a mentor, has not been a leader on this issue.

Gunn is a fashion consultant, TV personality and producer of the reality hit “Project Runway,” whose popularity led to two spin-off shows, “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style” and “Under the Gunn.”