Project Runway Season 7: Meet Amy Sarabi

Posted on Dec 21, 2009 in Fashion

Goodness, bitches! PRS7 starts in 3 weeks! We’ve got some prejudging to do!

Amy Sarabi

Age: 26
Hometown: Plano, TX

Favorite designer(s)?

Christian Wijnants right now, but my all-time favorites are Hussein Chalayan and Martin Margiela.

Current occupation?

Fashion designer; permalancer at Men’s Active Old Navy.

What is a fashion must?

Black tights.

What is your design training?

BFA and intensive training in womenswear, menswear and illustration.

Have you won any awards related to design?

GenArts Fresh Faces in Fashion contest and the International Duperre Award from AoF, among others.
What’s your favorite material or fabric to work with?

Linen and cotton voile.

What are your favorite colors?

Black and nude/flesh tones.

Favorite designer from past seasons of Project Runway?

Jay McCarroll.

Project Runway challenge you wish they’d bring back for your season?

Grocery store challenge.

Project Runway challenge you hope they don’t bring back?

Menswear for an athlete.

Alright, take away our bitch cards if you must, but we like her. She’s pretty fabulous, with a strong personal style and a sweet personality. Something tells us when the chips are down and she’s back against the wall and other cliches, that she’ll reach deep down inside herself and release her inner bitch. It’s all very Jedi in fashion, darlings.

Anyway, let’s look at her portfolio:

It’s interesting. Sort of a combination of professional polish coupled with fashion student innovation. That’s not a bad combination to have in this contest. Remember Ari Fish? That’s what happens when you have innovation, but no polish.

Clearly, the girl loves her techniques. As always with this show, it’s about marrying your design fallbacks to the expectations of the judges and the dictates of the challenge. If she can keep that level of polish to her work while at the same time giving the judges reason to say “How did you do that?” she’ll stay in the game a while.

More info on Amy Sarabi at myLifetime.com.

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