7/3/2023 0 Comments Keenie project runway![]() This selection and elimination process is always handled somewhat differently from one episode to the next, keeping the suspense high for the viewer. One by one, designers are asked to leave the runway until the winning and losing designers of that challenge are announced. The designers with the best and worst designs remain on the runway for questioning by the judges. The completed dresses are modeled on the runway before Klum, Kors, Garcia, and a guest judge (this season's celebrity judges include Badgeley & Mischka, Nicky Hilton, and Iman). Contestants also speak directly into the camera in interviews where they discuss their inner thoughts and external conflicts. Gunn checks in on the contestants as they frantically design, sew, and fit the dresses. Klum presents each challenge and announces the modest amount of money they have to work with. Each designer has a model who wears the dress on the runway before the judges. The designers compete in a weekly challenge, usually the task of designing a dress around a particular theme or using specific materials under an extremely tight deadline. Sixteen designers dwindle down to a lucky final three who each get the chance to present a collection at Olympus Fashion Week in New York, the climax of the series. Kors in particular has a biting yet matter-of-fact way of condemning a design. Contestants' mentor Tim Gunn, head of Parsons Design School, has the amazing ability of providing feedback to works-in-progress with his wide vocabulary and catch phrases "Carry on" and "Make it work." Judges Michael Kors, fashion designer, and Nina Garcia, Elle fashion editor, return from last season to cross-examine the contestants. Host and executive producer Heidi Klum, the supermodel nicknamed "The Body", comes across as intelligent and authoritative, even as she tosses each week's loser with a curt "You're out auf wiedersehn" and a kiss on each cheek. ![]() First of all, the "recurring characters" of Project Runway are attractive and articulate fashion experts whose own careers are well-established enough that they don't need to star in a reality TV show. So did it make a difference? Let’s look at all of her outfits.Project Runway Season 2 bested the first season by bringing us a compelling cast of characters/contestants this time around. There won’t be extra Mood money for her, and she won’t get any more advice from Tim (at least on camera.) But the issue with most dummy collections is that Nina and Zac can’t tell the contestants how badly their styling choices are working against them. Kenya was afforded something extra though, something that no other decoy collection has gotten prior to now: judges feedback. ![]() Anyone who actually believes that doesn’t understand how money works.) (Seriously, Lifetime is going to spend $10,000 and then not have her show those clothes on the runway? That’s beyond nonsensical. From 2009-2013 it was given to at least the Top 8, if not more.) And by showing that Kenya had a budget and a collection they made it even harder to pretend decoy collections don’t happen. This season they finally got close to admitting that they give a budget, time and a slot in their NYFW presentation, not just to the finalists, but to the entire Top Six? (Since 2014 that is. ![]() After all, the last we saw of Swapnil, Tim was doing everything he can not to pull a Tyra and scream “We were all rooting for you! How dare you?” How many viewers would believe that a week or two later, he gets a call from the producers telling him he gets a budget to make a decoy collection and he’s going to NYFW after all?įor that, I have to commend Project Runway. I’ve met loads of people who have no idea that, say, Swapnil and Meline showed in New York in Season 14. And for the audience at home who are not that into NYFW, and who aren’t twitter nerds, and fashion geeks, this pretense still remains. ![]() Bravo kept it to one or two at most, while there were entire years during the early Lifetime run where the entire Top Ten had collections walk the runway.Īnd yet, the program has always pretended like this is not the case. From Kara Janx in Season 2 to Mychael Knight in Season 3 to our latest editions, every single season has had at least one dummy collection to keep the audience from figuring out the winners. Project Runway has featured decoy collections during New York Fashion Week to hide who the finalists are since the show’s popularity first took off. Our second decoy collection for Project Runway’s NYFW Spring 2018 show was the closest the TV’s show’s come to admitting dummy collections exist. ![]()
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