Ping Wu’s burlap dress with the accidental rear-view situation

Sometimes Project Runway creates such difficult challenges that it looks like they’re setting up all the contestants for failure. When everyone was challenged to create a look out of a burlap sack, it definitely felt cruel. And Ping Wu tried her best to create something edgy and cool out of what she was given. But unfortunately, Pig Wu didn’t account for the length of that burlap sack, so that back slit went up way too high on the model and exposed her backside. As you can imagine, that didn’t go over well with the judges.

Santino Rice’s lederhosen lingerie fever dream

Santino Rice’s lingerie creations made history. They were hilariously entertaining but completely missed the mark. The idea Santino had was to honor Heidi Klum’s heritage and create looks inspired by German lederhosen. But the result was so horrifically wrong it was hard not to laugh. What was even funnier was that when judges tried to remind him that lingerie was supposed to be delicate, he quipped back that he believed lingerie was sexy and was supposed to come off. Not to mention that it didn’t even look like lederhosen, the models needed up looking like gingerbread cookies decorated by children.

Kara Saun’s challenge-winning look that still felt a bit like a costume

Kara Saun’s military-themed look wasn’t a failure on the show, in fact, it won the “Envy” challenge that week. But the public argued over this specific look for ages afterwards. Kara was one of the most talented designers on Project Runway, there’s no doubt about it, and the execution of this look was amazing, but it still felt kind of inappropriate. The low cut, the capt, the mesh fabric, the khaki color—it was giving more military-themed sexy Halloween costume than a fashionable look. Could we have seen something similarly styled on the runway in the early 2000s? Absolutely. But then again, early 2000s fashion was a strange time for everyone involved.