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Previously On The Upcoming Season Of Project Runway…
2:39AM Brian Moylan | Backstabbing! Scandal! Lawsuits! And that’s before season six of Runway even hit the air. It’s been a long slog to get this season on the tube. So, what to expect? Plus, the finalists (we think)! More »
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Project Runway To Fool You Into Thinking You’re Watching Bravo
7:26AM Brian Moylan | If Project Runway is fashion’s World Series, then Lifetime’s new special, that pits eight of the show’s alums against each other for a $US100,000 prize, is the sewing All-Star Game. The winner shouldn’t be too hard to guess. More »
Tim Gunn Gets Designs On Brangelina; Fails To Make It Work
1:15PM Defamer Hollywood | Project Runway’s Tim Gunn is working as a red carpet host this evening, but even America’s favourite grey-haired fashionista can’t impress the A-list juggernaut that is Brangelina. Ever heard Tim get gushy? You have now. More »
‘Project Runway’ Displays Anticipated Final Looks By Quiet Waif, The Villain, And Fab Gay
6:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Though the new season of Project Runway hasn’t aired yet (thanks, Weinsteins!), the show was forced to present its mysterious final collections today at Fashion Week, regardless. What kind of catchphrase-spouting designers should we expect? More »
How Will The ‘Project Runway’ Show At Fashion Week Make It Work?
4:39AM Kyle Buchanan | Typically, Project Runway rolls into Fashion Week with a huge swath of catchphrase-aspiring designers already cut. However, ongoing legal battles are forcing the new, still-delayed season to employ some subterfuge for Friday’s big show. More »
Unruly WGA Mob Protest ‘Project Runway’ Rodeo Drive Shoot
9:15AM Seth | A Defamer operative going about his daily Rodeo Drive chores let us know about a standoff that went down this morning between the forces of good (underpaid and undervalued reality show writer-producers) and evil (Heidi Klum, and anything—sorry Tim Gunn fans!—Heidi Klum-adjacent). He writes: More »
3:30AM Defamer Hollywood | At this point, 24’s seventh season has been hit with more obstacles than the beleaguered Jack Bauer — so what’s one more? After suffering through a WGA strike, a one-year delay, and a stint in jail for lead Kiefer Sutherland, the Fox drama is once again shutting down production, says EW. Producer Howard Gordon tells the mag that he was unhappy with the scripts for hours 19-24, so the show will power down until writers can start from scratch. Still, thanks to the eight episodes banked before the strike, producers don’t expect the season premiere to be delayed any further — which is more than can be said for the Lifetime debut of Project Runway, now pushed back to January 2009. Originally slotted for this fall, where it would have followed quickly on the heels of its Bravo swan song, producers couldn’t make the abbreviated schedule work. The delay lends Lifetime the extra time it will need to craft an all-important needlepoint challenge and secure the participation of “fashion legend” Meredith Baxter Birney as final judge at NY Fashion Week. [EW] More »
Did ‘Project Runway’ Apply Too Much ‘Lipstick’ Last Night?
4:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps cognisant of the fact that this is their last season to milk Project Runway for all it’s worth, Bravo parent company NBC Universal has been cramming the show with so much obvious corporate synergy that you can practically hear Tim Gunn muttering, “This concerns me.” Still, last week’s challenge to create an outfit for the Olympics (currently being broadcast on NBC and NBC-owned channels!) was just a drop in the fierce, organza-draped bucket compared to the corporate chutzpah on display during last night’s episode. With guest judge Brooke Shields in the house, the designers were challenged to create a look for her character on season two of the barely-renewed NBC drama Lipstick Jungle. Thanks to Molly McAleer, we’ve assembled a video of all the times the show’s title was uttered last night — even when it sounded suspiciously ADR’d in! Who could have known that “Lipstick Jungle” would surpass “licious” and “Holla at your boy!” to become this season’s biggest catchphrase? [Bravo] More »
‘Project Runway’ Lawsuit Reveals That Tim Gunn Was Forced To ‘Make it Work’ For Free
6:50AM Defamer Hollywood | It’s hard to place a value on irreplaceable Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn, and once upon a time, the Weinstein Company didn’t even try. According to testimony this month from beleaguered mogul Harvey Weinstein (who’s currently being sued by Bravo in the wake of Runway’s network hop), Gunn was reimbursed during the first season of Project Runway for the low, low price of $0 per episode: More »
