Get ready for a runway catastrophe! We're diving into the most cringe-worthy, jaw-dropping design challenge disasters in "Drag Race" herstory. From supermarket sweeps to bag ball blunders, these looks will make you gasp, laugh, and question everything you know about fashion.
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00:00What do you think I'm gonna say?
00:01I think you're gonna say it's stunning and you should have been in the talk.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo,
00:07and today we're counting down our picks for the most outrageous and downright unsightly
00:11drag race fashion disasters that were made by the queens on the show.
00:14There is a new art movement called soft sculpture.
00:18It's more about creating a sculpture rather than just tailoring.
00:22Well that sounds great on paper, but what does it look like?
00:25It looks like this.
00:26That scares me.
00:2710. Mrs. Kasha Davis' Supermarket Supermodel Eleganza
00:33My inspiration for my look is a kid's birthday party.
00:36There's toys and there's streamers, there's even scrunchies.
00:40It's as if you're seeing the inside of a pinata.
00:42We weren't exactly holding our breath for Mrs. Kasha Davis
00:45going into the ball challenge on All Stars 8.
00:47The season 7 queen had already confessed she still couldn't sew,
00:51which immediately foretold of a potential runway mishap.
00:54Do we have to whittle our own pencil to write a note?
00:57Should we make our own lipstick?
00:59You see, I don't sew because I'm not Amish and I have good credit.
01:04But nothing could have prepared us for the disaster that unfolded.
01:07Kasha took the word supermarket far too literally,
01:10as if she had raided the aisles and glued everything she could find directly onto her body.
01:15There were streamers, there were flowers, there was even a birthday cake,
01:19all placed so haphazardly it looked like a pinata that had been through hell and back.
01:23But this, Kasha, this I hate.
01:29Honey, it looked like a bag of broken rubbers.
01:31It may have been inspired by a children's party, but this look was anything but festive.
01:36Number 9. Vanessa Vanjie Mateos drag on a dime.
01:40Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie, Miss Vanjie.
01:46Vanessa Vanjie Mateos' first go in this competition
01:53is best remembered for the inescapable Miss Vanjie meme.
01:57The catchphrase was so iconic that it's easy to forget the horrid ensemble
02:01that led to her elimination in the first place.
02:03Flower power bottom.
02:05You can lead a horde of culture.
02:09Forget fashion week, this runway is the one that matters.
02:12Eat it up, eat it up, these cookies is coming down the runway, baby.
02:15Tasked with crafting a look from items sourced at a 99 cent store,
02:18Vanjie's creativity went out the window, as she simply rolled herself in fake flowers,
02:23slapped on a tulle cape, and called it a day.
02:25So do you have a background in design?
02:27I wouldn't say I'm project runway ready, but I got my patterns and my clutch.
02:32On closer inspection, the outfit only gets worse,
02:35with random dolls and fish toys awkwardly sticking out,
02:38like a rushed arts and crafts school project.
02:41The look swallowed up her upper half, leaving her with no semblance of shape.
02:45Unsurprisingly, it landed her in the bottom two.
02:51I live to make her dreams come true of coal mining and becoming a gold digger.
02:58Someday she'll be the most ashy princess.
03:01The queens were supposed to create fairy tale versions of themselves in the Season 9 challenge,
03:06but what Aja presented on the runway was more of a horror show than a happily ever after.
03:10The Brooklyn Queen named her character Princess Disaster,
03:13an ominous choice that turned out to be foreshadowing at its finest.
03:17I literally had no clue at all what was going on tonight.
03:22Aja's eventual look was indeed a disaster,
03:25as her elaborate flame-inspired outfit crashed and burned immediately as she hit the runway.
03:30The outfit itself was bad enough,
03:32but the misshapen wig and disastrous makeup only made things worse.
03:35I also think that your makeup is very dark.
03:39Yeah, we can't really see your eyes.
03:41This was neither perfect nor was it beautiful,
03:44and Aja definitely did not look like Linda Evangelista wearing it.
03:48You're perfect, you're beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista, you're a model.
03:56I'm strutting down the runway arm-in-arm with that little blow-up doll.
04:00We just made our entrance into the square dance.
04:02I'm wearing this beautiful gown made out of aprons with little scrunchy accoutrements.
04:06After landing in the bottom two during the ball episode,
04:08Mattie Morphosis got the opportunity to redeem herself
04:11in another design challenge just three episodes later.
04:14Unfortunately, she completely squandered it.
04:16So I'm just kind of going more of like an old country feel, patchwork.
04:20Uh-huh.
04:21Going for more like that vibe, and I have like this hat,
04:23and I thought about maybe like getting more just like...
04:25Like Minnie Pearl.
04:26Uh-huh.
04:27I mean, give it a point of view.
04:28Mattie hit the runway in a ragtag homemade country dress
04:32that was the worst version of every word in that description.
04:35The patchwork of mismatched materials lacked any clear pattern,
04:38the dress had an awkward length, and the finishing was a disaster.
04:42That weird length, not quite to the ground, never really works on anybody.
04:47The slant of the skirt, the edges kind of being unfinished.
04:52It's just kind of hard to look at.
04:54To make matters worse, she brought with her an inflatable doll,
04:57which only seemed to be a desperate attempt to distract the judges from her outfit.
05:01This was not glam by any stretch of the imagination.
05:05Number six, Plasma's neo-goth look.
05:08I got you, babe.
05:10This is the goth that I would want to do.
05:12It's very 2000s to 70s with the shag coat,
05:15and with the double belt, and the low-waisted pants.
05:18Going into this episode, Plasma was one of the frontrunners of the season,
05:22having already snagged two wins.
05:24All she needed to do was deliver a decent outfit to keep her safe.
05:27But for all her colorful camp, this theater queen failed to manage even that.
05:31It just was confusing.
05:33Yeah, there's so many mixed messages here.
05:36It just does not read as goth.
05:39What Plasma ended up presenting on the runway was a shoddy-looking top
05:43with a plunging neckline and pants that were so glaringly lacking any proper execution.
05:47And while the outfit could have been enhanced with proper accessories,
05:51all Plasma could throw on was a shag coat that resembled a bundle of mops stitched together.
05:56No, I did all this myself.
06:00Swiffer, we hardly know her.
06:02Number five, Kelly Mantle's bacon dress.
06:05I am working it like a 90s runway mop.
06:08In the season six premiere, the judges were expecting a feast of stunning fashion
06:12inspired by TV shows.
06:14But they got a different kind of meal from Kelly Mantle.
06:16The L.A. queen had to draw inspiration from Downton Abbey
06:19and layered fake flower petals over one another to create the top half of her dress.
06:24Is that bacon on your chest?
06:27What is it?
06:28They're flower petals.
06:30I'm still getting bacon.
06:32Unfortunately, the result resembled bacon, which the judges were quick to point out.
06:37And once they did, it was impossible to unsee.
06:40The bottom half didn't make things any better either,
06:42as the long polyester skirt clashed with the top
06:45and failed to capture the essence of the source material.
06:48I think I was focusing more on the high fashion part of it.
06:51Because nothing says high fashion like white polyester.
06:55That skirt is horrible.
06:56Horrible.
06:57Horrible.
06:58At least this dress has now become iconic among the fan base.
07:02So there's your silver lining.
07:04Number four, Shangela's Christmas eleganza.
07:08She's a little frosty.
07:10Oh, and she's got her piece of corn there.
07:13The second season of Drag Race kicked off with a design challenge
07:16that saw Shangela sashay away due to her poorly constructed garment.
07:20Following a high-profile return for season three,
07:23Shangela proved that some things just never change.
07:25Case in point, her sewing skills.
07:27I'm trying to be sister element of surprise.
07:29But it's hard when you got a five-foot snowman.
07:31She's missing an eye and a nose, but she gonna be all right.
07:34For the premiere, the queens were tasked to make eleganza outfits out of Christmas-themed items.
07:39Shangela, for reasons best known to her, zeroed in on a big lamp
07:43and decided to structure her entire garment around it.
07:45The result was a skirt that disintegrated with every step she took on the runway.
07:50Not even her snowman prop could save her from landing in the bottom.
07:53This time, though, she turned things around and slayed the lip sync.
07:59The lip syncing is starting to get a little violent.
08:04Shangela's lampshade has become a weapon.
08:07Number three, Serena Cha Cha's Hollywood realness.
08:10Serena Cha Cha is a drag scholar.
08:12I feel avant-garde, couture, editorial, like some sort of surreal painting.
08:18I'm giving them something different.
08:20Serena Cha Cha waltzed into the competition,
08:22eager to flaunt her impressive achievement of being selected at just 21 on her very first try.
08:28I'm sorry, you're only 21 once, and you only auditioned for this thing once,
08:32being 21 and getting right away once.
08:34And then you think because you're younger, you think that's an advantage,
08:37we've all done drag longer, so.
08:38But it soon became abundantly clear that she still needed a lot more time in the drag oven.
08:43For the first challenge, Serena was supposed to turn garbage into couture,
08:47but it seems she missed the couture part entirely.
08:50What she delivered barely made it past the trashcan,
08:53with a concept that was MIA and execution that fell completely flat.
08:57Can I see it without the neck thing?
09:01It looks so much prettier.
09:03I want to say that I'm open for all the criticism.
09:05This was particularly ironic given how often she reminded everyone of her art college degree,
09:11which she claimed was her secret weapon.
09:13We doubt this creation would have made any of her college professors proud.
09:17Number two, Jiggly Caliente's post-apocalyptic couture.
09:21Look, she's got a leg up on the other girls.
09:22Yes, she does.
09:23Apparently, hoarding is the new black.
09:26Jiggly Caliente burst onto season four with a bang,
09:29snatching the very first mini challenge win.
09:32But not only did she fail to carry that momentum into the maxi challenge,
09:36she flopped completely.
09:38I'm gonna wear a corset and I'm finishing that up with some more garbage.
09:46Her post-apocalyptic couture wasn't so much the aftermath of a disaster
09:50as it was the disaster itself.
09:52Sure, we know she couldn't sew and had to rely on a hot glue gun,
09:55but Jiggly glued any and everything in the workroom onto her body,
09:59and when she ran out of space,
10:01she just grabbed the leftovers and swung them as she stomped down the runway.
10:04It was a train wreck worthy of instant elimination,
10:08but Jiggly's lip sync skills saved her,
10:10keeping her around for a few more episodes.
10:19Before we unveil our top pick,
10:21here are some honorable mentions.
10:23Katya.
10:24This mess of a Hello Kitty outfit had us weaving goodbye to Katya.
10:30Nina West.
10:43A paintball look ripped from the pages of a kindergartner's coloring book.
10:47I am feeling my true paintball fantasy by looking like I was actually hit by paintballs.
10:55Tia Coffey.
10:56An adequate gown that was inadequate to keep Tia out of the bottom.
11:00I am serving you an adequate dress made of materials that is on my body.
11:07Vintage? No.
11:10Elegance? No.
11:12Still stuck on me? Just a vow.
11:16Derek Barry.
11:17We'd read Derek, but the book ball challenge already did.
11:20We want you to do you at this level,
11:24and I don't know that you're at this level.
11:26Aiden Zane.
11:27Given the lack of effort, it's a surprise she didn't end up in the bottom.
11:31This is not going to be enough, Aiden, because this is a corset with cotton balls on it.
11:36My drag sometimes does tend to maybe have a little bit of a less is more maybe thing about it.
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11:55notifications. Number one, Lala Rie's bag look. She got this at Saks.
12:04Bitch, I'm serving you pink and purple rock star realness.
12:08It's a special kind of legendary to serve a look so bad that drag race producers invent an entire
12:13award category for you. Lala Rie's first two bag ball outfits were decent enough to keep her out
12:18of the bottom. However, when she turned the corner in her third look, you could see the judges go,
12:24huh? What should have been a fun, colorful dress made from gift bags
12:27ended up as a black corset with bags slapped on with reckless abandoned.
12:31And I get to a point where I realized, oh, you ain't got enough material to cover this body.
12:39One would think the Queens had no time to create their looks until you remember what others like
12:43Utica produced in the same period. It was a disaster so unforgettable, it led to the creation
12:48of the Golden Boot Award. I wanted to win this award, you know, it never existed before tonight.
12:53But listen, I found one, girl, you better manifest. Look at her, it's so cute, girl.
12:59What is the worst design challenge look you've seen to send the drag race runway?
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