During a 2020 "Project Runway" critique, contestant Tyler Neasloney made a last-ditch effort to defend his much-maligned design. He asked supermodel host Karlie Kloss if she would wear his dress to “dinner with the Kushners” — a pointed reference not to the outfit, but to Kloss' politically contentious brother-in-law.
Neasloney apologized and said the remark had "no hidden agenda," but regardless, the non-sequitur name-drop highlighted the narrow catwalk that Kloss and her husband, Josh Kushner, must constantly tread being linked by blood and marriage to one of the nation's most prominent Republican families.
