Nina: Pure Simplicity.

Posted on Oct 7, 2006 in Fashion

What happened to La Niña?

It’s just not like our girl to wear something so frumpy-looking. Did she pick up the wrong drycleaning or something? She looks like she’s going to a picnic. In 1964.

She’s got the look of a woman just scanning the room, waiting for a chance to say “Oh, this old thing? Why, it was the first dress I ever made! The classics never go out of style – and it fits me just as well as when I was fourteen!”

Querida, it pains us to say this, but we don’t like the proportions on this dress; the color isn’t working for us, and we fear you haven’t thought about how this will look on a woman’s body. Your woman’s body. We — we can’t believe it’s come to this, but…

It’s not aesthetically pleasing.

Chica, what happened?

“Haha. I know, right? My ex-assistant picked it out.”

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BigAssBelle

boy, that is one ugly ass dress, isn’t it? didn’t even notice it (or perhaps with my highly developed sense of aesthetics, i automatically averted my eyes).

don’t they look cute in that last photo? almost like the all american couple, betty and bill, going to the neighbor’s house for a pot luck.
Anonymous

My immediate thought was “Nina is pregnant, too!” Let’s start a rumor and tell Andy Cohen (BravoTV exec who is a rumor monger).

Sally
Lima Bean

Seriously fugly. You can see why people are speculating that she is preggers. I’m sure it’s just the combo of the dress and the things that T.V. is doing to the dress. Her hair looks gorgeous though, as always.

What is with the Michael Kors uniform? Maybe you’ve tackled this mystery before, but dayum, that’s weird for such a hottie. You suppose he feels fat? We all hide in black sometimes, but sheesh, he doesn’t even need to!
jacoffoalltrades

“betty and bill, going to the neighbor’s house for a pot luck”…that’s a scream.

what do you suppose MK would take to a pot luck?

i digress. nina looked as ninja as she always does. she obvioulsy went to the sample room and found every hanger to be empty but two (the gals in proofing pit got to them first). it was either that dress or the one uli designed, her “vasted” dress, and nina could not carry that one off.

she looked like she would have been more comfortable on jeffrey’s lap……
bonnindesigns

I totally agree on the “serious ugly” of this dress but I did notice that she likes to wear that emerald green a lot. Or so it seems…
jamesdamian

This is the best Project Runway blog, ever! I love you guys.
Embeedubya

I thought maybe she was going with the whole maternity dress look, circa 1963 when pregnant women got big boobs, big bellies and little puffs on their shoulders.
Gigi

Yeah, and those pockets are insane.
ToddNY

“Gigi said…
Yeah, and those pockets are insane. “

LOL.

I love Nina, but that avocado dress is not working for me. That is some serious ugly!
Laura K

The bodice was designed by Uli, the pleated skirt was added by Santino Rice and the pockets were supplied by Vincent. It was kind of a round robin.
Joanne

Yup, pretty ugly. I had the same reaction when I was watching the show.
redheadgirl

Nina’s dress: Serious Ugly!!!
Anonymous

“She looks like she’s going to a picnic. In 1964.”

LOL. True.
Codeshrew

This looks like Santino held held her down and dressed her aginst her will. She just barely pulled the last bit of glue-gunned chi-chi off before hitting the scrim.
Anonymous

Yeah, I thought Nina was trying to join the club with Laura and Heidi. My thought was “are the girls trying to have a contest to see whos got the biggest?”
Anonymous

The dress makes her all tits and hips. That must be why she looks preggers – her waist is gone.
Kayla

While the dress is totally lacking is Nina’s normal hotness, it is nothing compared to Kors’ messed up self tanner. I think he forgot to add on to his chin.
Karen

“My ex-assistant picked it out.”
There just might be an opening at Elle, after all!
Tiffany

Shut UP! I usually agree with most of you guys’s opinions … but I LOVED Nina’s dress. It’s so cute, fun and fresh. In her own words … “Adorable!”
Anonymous

In reading this, I’m reminded of a scene from Drop Dead Gorgeous…

Gladys Leeman:
“Thank you, thank you. You know, I won the talent contest by sewing these culottes, Butterick pattern 7-4-3-2. Can you believe it? They still fit!”

-shane-
http://eastmeetswest.blogdrive.com
Anonymous

Agree that the whole vibe was odd, maybe due to editting? She kept hanging back while MKors strode forward.
She seemed in a shy mood, but who knows? Maybe she was anxious someone would ask if she was expecting….
kanine

Shucks, I thought it was pretty. Hate the pockets, though. I loved the color of it.
redheadgirl

She couldn’t have worn anything less flattering! Oh my goodness, heads are going to roll!!!
Anonymous

I was so disappointed when I saw her; barely recognized! Where’s her tiny waist, why are her hips so gi-normous? The color– my folks had a washer that color in the 70′s– from Sears & Roebuck. The capri’s and tank– super young & hot. This? Too tired to make the effort.

PS: Michael Kors– please change up the outfits. You’re a handsome man. You dress millions of women (like me)& men in the most beautiful of clothes. Live a little. Do the same for yourself.
Political Fan

It looks like she got dressed in the dark……..in someone elses closet.

BTW, I have got to agree with the Kors uniform. WTF is up with that!? Three years now and he’s still wearing the EXACT same thing. Good Lord man, design something else for yourself. My wife kicks my ass if I wear the same pants two days in a row.
Anonymous

Yes, Nina’s dress looks like a Vincent original! It’s a total Twiggy.
bonnie lass

I wasn’t crazy about this outfit, but 9 times out of 10, Nina still looks loads better than Heidi. And at least she does mix it up, unlike fellow judge Kors. The green looked too dark and it definately made her waist disappear … But the more I see her, the more I realize she loves these sorts of dresses.

Oh god … If Nina ever does get preggers, I don’t want to know about it. My sad little fantasy of having a lesbian fashionista running around would be shot to hell. A dyke can dream, can’t she?
redheadgirl

Yeah, what IS up with MK always wearing the same exact thang? I’s a little…well…predictable… and dare we say….boring? Ahem. Robert, I know you’re smiling somewhere.
James Derek Dwyer

Regardless of the dress, that color is terrible on her. And I love Nina. La Nina, as we call her in these parts.
sewhat?

Note to “Marcelomf”:

She is the FASHION EDITOR of Elle Magazine, for God’s sakes !!! I have been trying to point out her lack of taste all season. How on earth did she get her job at Elle…she can seldom dress herself. Do not misunderstand, she is personally very attractive, but no taste.

jacoffoalltrades:

“what do you suppose MK would take to a pot luck?”

MK would take prosciutto wrapped figs drizzled with balsamic vinegar and a bottle of Pinot Grigio, Nina would take a five layer bean dip from the deli counter at Safeway and Fritos.

And about the pregnency thing? I think Nina has “womb envy”.
Melanie

I thought she was pregnant and the loss of brain cells that we all know comes with pregnancy, caused a momentary lapse of judgement where garments are concerned. The hair will be next to go.
FIT GRAD

“prosciutto wrapped figs drizzled with balsamic vinegar and a bottle of Pinot Grigio…a five layer bean dip from the deli counter at Safeway and Fritos”

TOO FUNNY…

That would have looked cute on Paris Hilton, it just wasn’t age appropriate…well, let’s just say it probably looked good on the dress-form at the Tijuana Wal-Mart…it made her look like the Lucky Charm’s Cathouse Madam.

As for MK, he’s stuck in that NYC chic mode from three years ago. It is the official uniform of the creative Manhattan Male.

XXXOOO to the boys
Anonymous

i thought it was really cute…
marniecel

Oh you guys have summed it up, the dress is ugly, the colors don’t work. I never have liked that Green and black accents color scheme for a dress. I remember Princess Di wore a dress in similar color scheme and I thought it detracted from her. It’s a loud colored dressed but still” dowdy” how did she manage that. Remember they accused dear wonderful Emmet of being dowdy and tacky or something…well she’s not tacky but it is dowdy and a bit loud at the same time. Don’t think she’s pregnant, these dresses are the style now, highwaist , remember Santino did it to almost everything…ha ha now Nina’s wearing it, it looka a little like one of Santino’s dresse I think!!!Oh no!!!!!
bonnie lass

So, were there rumors of her pregnancy elsewhere, or just here on Project Rungay? I’m all confused. (It doesn’t take much.)

But seriously, if she is, someone let me know so I can skip next season. My fantasy needs to stick around for a while longer. =)
Lisette

I thought the dress looked very becky-homecky too. Probably cost a mint though. Did Kayne get his self-tanner recipe from La Kors because the two of them are now sporting the same shade of orange.
deego

Maybe Santino made it…
Samiesamsam

I just saw this dress that Nina was wearing on a preview for next weeks Brothers & Sisters on ABC.

It oddly seems to suit Ms. Flockheart

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