LL Cool J on Kenley


by malcolm at September 29, 2008, 9:15 AM

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'Project Runway' viewers are still buzzing about the most recent challenge, wherein contestants offered up their looks inspired by music movements. Chatter, naturally, centers around the 'hip hop' look Kenley did for Leanne. While reactions, like the judges, have mostly been negative, some of us kind of did see where she was going. Couldn't this look, executed better of course, be something you'd see on hip hop ladies like Kelis, Eve, Christina Milian or Kelly Rowland? Granted, these women straddle lines of pop and R&B, but does any hip hop woman dress like Da Brat besides, well, Da Brat? To get more clarity on this pressing matter, we asked LL Cool J, one of the judges who gave Kenley a thumbs-down.

"You know what," he says. "See, that's my whole point. They had to define what they meant by hip hop. Did they mean rapper? I think it was a little too broad. She didn't have an archetype to base it on. It wasn't focused enough to me. Hip hop for females clothing wise is a very broad thing. You have to be really specific."

Want your own luxe hip hop look? Start with logos, then add fur and bling. Champagne optional.

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Kenley's design was pathetic. Maybe L.L. was too dazzled by the little bit of skin he saw to be blatantly honest. Those execution of those jeans was atrocious, and they were not fashion forward. Maybe if Gilligan and Shirley Temple's lovechild was a hiphop artist, she'd wear jeans up to her armpits with big shiny brass buttons on the front, but there's not a 'hip' person on this planet that would be seen in that outfit. She should have gone home for that design, not suede. Maybe the judges kept her because she's someone the audience loves to hate, and it will keep their ratings up, because I don't see any other logical explanation. She needs to take her delusions of graduer, her bratty 'bad kid being yelled at' attitude, her obnoxious arrogance, her judgemental demeanor, and her sense of entitlement, and take her ridiculous self back to Walmart and leave the designing to the big boys and girls. Jerrel rocks! Kenley, take a lesson from Jerrel on how to treat people.

Posted by: Mimi at September 29, 2008 8:36 PM

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