"I treat every designer like I treat my design team in my office everyday. The designer, the most successful alum of the show, says he will treat contestants the way he treats his employees.
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More: Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are leaving 'Project Runway' for new Amazon reality fashion series But I think what’s really special for the designers to be successful going forward is to have a real designer give them advice because the industry’s tough." "I’m very close with Tim and very close with Heidi, but I think what’s great about the new season is that for the first time the mentor is a designer," he said. "Tim was never a designer, he never worked in the industry, he was a teacher. The producers and stars of the series emphasized that they want to capture the instantaneous nature of the fashion industry and the strong role of social media in launching designers.Īs far as losing Klum and Gunn, the producers were quick to note that Klum suggested Siriano to replace Gunn, and Siriano himself was confident he could offer a perspective that Gunn couldn't. "The audience has a chance to vote for their favorite look from the episode, and it will be available to buy, and the judge’s pick will be (available) to buy if it’s different from the audience’s pick," producer Dan Cutforth says. The new season has a bigger prize for the winning designer ($250,000 instead of $100,000) and will allow viewers to buy their favorite designs from some episodes right away, on Bravo's site.
Speaking about the new season of the show at the Television Critics Association Tuesday, the new panel of fashion experts promised that the show would include the best parts of the original but reflect big changes in the world and fashion industry that have occurred since "Runway" debuted in 2004. Kloss will also serve as a judge, alongside Brandon Maxwell, Elaine Welteroth and Nina Garcia, the last remaining original cast member. Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, the show's host and mentor, respectively, for 16 seasons, have departed to start a rival show on Amazon, replaced by model Karlie Kloss and designer Christian Siriano, who won the Season 4 competition. The new season of the long-running reality competition series returns to its original network home, Bravo, with a brand new group of designers and wildly altered cast on March 14 (8 EST/PST). PASADENA, Calif. – "Project Runway" is having its own "make it work" moment.
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