‘Project Runway’ Universe Thrown Into Chaos With Introduction Of Male Models

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!”Second, the very presence of male models sent many designers aflutter, hands trembling and hemming pins accidentally swallowed as they resisted every urge to drop to their knees and beg to service the adonises gifted to them by a merciful and beneficent Tim Gunn. As a side note, somewhat surprisingly, Elisa did not take the opportunity to take her model’s hand-measurements or spit-mark his inseam, choosing instead to modestly turn away from the exposed boyflesh as a gesture of respect to the mate she left light years away on her home planet.

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