You might have caught this little number designed by Ra’mon-Lawrence Coleman on episode three of the new season of Project Runway, but there’s a story behind the dress that you probably haven’t heard. While dishing to People Magazine about some behind the scenes gossip, Tim Gunn revealed that the dress was actually dyed in a toilet. Yes, a toilet. The thing commonly used to capture human waste. The kind that comes from your private parts. As in, the dirtiest thing in any given household beside your mother’s mouth. Gunn told the mag “What the audience didn’t see is me going into the men’s room, saying to Ra’mon, would you please get that neoprene thing out of the toilet? If you’re going to dye it, dye it in the sink. It’s more hygienic.”
OK, nasty. And you have to feel even worse for the poor model who had to work that thing on the runway like she didn’t know where it had been even though the garment was still wet when she put it on.
Apparently Coleman isn’t just some sort of scat-obsessed freak. He used the toilet because none of the basins provided for the designers were deep enough to work the way he wanted them to. You have to give the designer props for doing whatever it takes to get the job done, but man… that’s some gross stuff.
See being a model is a shitty job!
Hah, well, at least it paid off.
He did win the challenge.
I don’t see what the big deal is…
After you dye something you have to wash it anyway to get the excess dye out.
That’s true, but he didn’t wash it in between dying it and the runway so the model wore it without it being washed.
Where does it say that?
They wouldn’t show it on tv
No, but he was dying it with 30 minutes left (Tim said it on the show when they showed Ra’mon dying it), and he still needed to finish sewing. He wouldn’t have had time to wash it without if being soaked when they were going out on the runway.
Well, at least that explains the expression on the models face…
They have tested the quality of water from ice cube machines in restaurants and then tested the water from the toilets in the same restaurants and each time the toilet water was cleaner.
They never, ever clean the ice cube making machines.
Wow, eww good to know!
You know, toilet water’s quite clean. It’s the same as tap water.
The dress should go back to where it came from – the toilet. Clean and dry this dress is still shitty and I’d never wear it.
And no one’s asking you to.
Considering he made this in like 30 minutes, I’m impressed.