Another Top 10 Worst Runway Looks on RuPaul's Drag Race

Laganja Estranja was one of Season 6’s biggest and boldest personalities and she reflected this in her weird and wild wardrobe choices. For Episode 7, the runway theme was pretty simple: “Black & White.” You can’t go wrong with that, right? Well, take a look at what Laganja chose to wear. There were a lot of ideas here… none of which look like they should go together: From the weird black mohawk, to the spotted silver lips, to the see-through pants with black underwear. Also, pants AND a train? It looked like the world’s strangest Elvis impersonator was getting married. Luckily, her and Adore Delano’s winning pairing in the main challenge saved her from the Bottom Two.

The concept was bad, the look was bad, and the delivery was bad. Kimora Blac certainly knew how to serve face, body and sass on Season 9, but her runways were always hit and miss. For the “Draggily Ever After” challenge, the contestants were asked to create a fairy tale princess persona, complete with a runway outfit and talking companion. The challenge proved a bit too much for Kimora, whose “Banana Lady” Princess left a LOT to be desired. The name wasn’t exactly helped by her accompanying costume, either, which was not only unoriginal, but poorly put together, too. Along with her lackluster performance as her princesses’ monkey sidekick, Kimora found herself in danger of elimination that week.

We love ourselves some Nina West, but we don’t love all of her runway looks from Season 11. After a disastrous start to the season, the comedy queen needed to step her game up, and unfortunately, she floundered again for this agricultural sewing challenge. In fairness to her, crafting couture piece from dried vegetables and burlap sacks is no easy task, as Ra’Jah O’Hara found with her canvas pants. While Nina wasn’t deemed to be the worst of the worst this week when it came to the judging, this terribly fitted corset and skirt did her no favors on the runway. It was stiff, unflattering and rough around the edges.

Kimora wasn’t the only queen who fell foul of the “Draggily Ever After” challenge. Going into Season 9, Aja was hyped up as Brooklyn’s hottest new queen, and they seemed to buy into their own hype a little too much. Confident that they’d slay the challenge, Aja’s “Princess Disastah” character name ended up ironically predicting what their performance would end being. Drawing inspiration from fiery natural disasters, Aja strutted down the runway in a strangely shaped wig, badly blended make-up and pants that didn’t fit them properly. They went on to redo the outfit in All Stars 3 for their “RuDemption” runway, proving just how much they’d improved over a short space of time.

Before Monique Heart’s iconic “brown cow, stunning!” look, Magnolia Crawford walked the Season 6 runway in a less than stunning bovine print dress. It was created from party supplies given to her as part of the two-part season premiere’s sewing theme. Magnolia’s party box was themed around a “Hoedown,” hence all the cow print. She felt defeated from the start at how “hideous” her materials were, and we too were woefully let down by how basic the outfit ended up being. Sure, cow print is a bold look, but, to quote Michelle, “it’s… a piece of fabric.” Magnolia didn’t help her case either by being very short with the judges when they critiqued her lack of effort.

We wish that we could say Alexis Michelle’s outfit made up for her terrible jokes during the Roast of Michelle Visage… But we can’t. We were as confused as the judges as to why She-Hulk stepped onto the runway for this Season 9 comedy challenge. Alexis quickly explained that was wearing Michelle’s least favorite color, and you know what they say about jokes you have to explain. We’ve seen body paint on “Drag Race” queens before, but when you commit to full body paint, you have to commit to the FULL body, otherwise it just looks sloppy. The color also clashed with her dress, which was a completely different shade.

Monica Beverley Hillz never quite found her footing during Season 5, which was partly due to her own personal struggles with her gender identity, and partly because her runway presentations consistently failed to impress. This look for the Pretty In Pink theme was one of her worst offenders. While the color itself was unavoidable, Monica picked one of the cheapest-looking shades and combined it with an equally cheap-looking garment. The flower garland around her shoulders were probably supposed to elevate it, but instead they only add to the cheapness. No wonder she ended up Lip Syncing For Her Life in this episode.

While Silky Nutmeg Ganache was always fairly confident about the strength of her runway outfits, the other queens - especially her bitter rival, Yvie Oddly - were often quick to point out their flaws. Usually, her impeccable make-up sharpie eyebrows and all) were enough to salvage her less polished presentations, but in the case of her Facekini look, Silky had nothing to fall back on. In fact, she didn’t even bother to put any makeup on under the mask. While her cockroach, sorry, “FLY” idea was an interesting take on the theme, the delivery of it was very flimsy, particularly compared to BenDeLaCreme’s incredible insect realness from Season 6. [BenDeLa’s fly runway]

When Shangela returned for Season 3, she was determined to not let the first episode’s traditional sewing challenge defeat her like it did in Season 2. But, once again, it very nearly did. Rather than have their materials for this Christmas-themed runway challenge handed to them, the queens had to source and buy their own from a thrift store. Shangela decided that a round, white lampshade could make an interesting, snowball-shaped skirt. She wasn’t wrong, but her seamstress skills failed her yet again, with the outfit falling apart as she walked the runway, and her wig making it look like she’d been electrocuted while trying to plug in the Christmas tree lights. Not even the addition of an oversized prop could save this one.

Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few dishonorable mentions.

Dusty Ray Bottoms’ Feathers Look)

Ginger Minj’s Future of Drag Look

Coco Montrese’s Pretty in Pink Look

Shuga Cain’s Trampy Trick or Treater Look

Yuhua Hamasaki’s Very Best Drag Look

Derrick Berry came to Season 8 of “Drag Race” as a famous Britney Spears impersonator, hoping to find her own personal style independent of the pop princess through competing on the show. While the effort was definitely there, the know-how certainly wasn’t. This Wizard of Oz-inspired challenge saw each queen creating a look based on a character from the movie. Derrick’s was the Tin Man, and yet again, she was unable to come up with anything beyond a corset wrapped in fabric. To make matters worse, she added what can only be described as foil pensises to each shoulder, which barely stayed on, and in “Untucked,” she was stubbornly proud of her shoddy work - to the frustration of everyone else.