Season 4 Challenges *Possible Spoilers and Speculation*

[BlazinGio07]

I wanted to create a thread for us to discuss the challenges.
1. Create a garment that best reflects who they are as a designer using $50,000 worth of fabrics from Mood.
2. The remaining designers are asked to create a two-piece garment for Sarah Jessica Parker's BITTEN line using $15 of materials.
3. The remaining designers are asked to create a three piece menswear outfit for guest judge Tiki Barber to wear on The Today Show.
4. Each designer picks one of 12 outdated fashion designs. Then working in four teams of three, each team must incorporate all three styles into a cohesive collection of three outfits.
5. Each designer has to create an outfit for a woman who has recently lost weight, using one of the woman's outfits from before her weight loss as raw material for the new design. The new outfit must incorporate aspects of the now-thin woman's personality, as well as the designer's own style
6. The designers had to design a garment using products from the Hershey store in Times Square, New York, as raw materials.

7. Next week, acording to my DVR, involves creating a prom dress for a teenager.

[wagegoth]

But it looks like next week's challenge also includes the prom attendees being pregnant. I'm sure that Ricky's dress looked like it was being styled on a maternity dressform.

[watts]

But it looks like next week's challenge also includes the prom attendees being pregnant. I'm sure that Ricky's dress looked like it was being styled on a maternity dressform.

Now, that's just too wacky!

[bliggledorf]

Yeah, I don't think that would happen. Maybe Ricky'd dress is plus-size?

[femme fatale]

Designing for pregnant women would be a challenge. But, it shouldn't be involved in a prom challenge. I am positive that many women, while pregnant, would want fashionable clothes. That market is changing, from what I have seen, but since I've never been pregnant I don't know what's out there. The current fashion is pregnant-friendly though, with lots of empire cuts and tunics, but that style probably won't last forever.

Still it would be interesting to see what they could do for pregnant women.

[roses4me]

But it looks like next week's challenge also includes the prom attendees being pregnant. I'm sure that Ricky's dress looked like it was being styled on a maternity dressform.

Perhaps Jamie Lynn Spears will be the guest judge? :nono

[DeeGee]

Perhaps Jamie Lynn Spears will be the guest judge? :nono

Too, too funny!

[wagegoth]

The episode guide says they have to design prom dresses, and the dressform looked pregnant. We'll just have to wait until Wednesday to see.

[MFWalkoff]

Maybe someone was just going overboard with an empire waist on the dress form, and the fabric was darting out around the waist/tummy...

[StarrieEyedKat]

I'll be disappointed with the show if this whole "pregnant prom dress" thing is true. I don't judge anyone else or their decisions but I don't think they need to glamorize or encourage teen pregnancy. Just my $0.02