Click here for Nick Verreos's article about the FIDM 18th Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibit. Project Runway Season Two Designer Andrae Gonzalo also joined the fun.
WWD.com has prepared a "Fall 2010 Newcomer's Guide" to Fashion Week and two of our Project Runway faves are included.
Andrae Gonzalo, Kit Scarbo, Logan Neitzel, and Rami Kashou were among the guests at a Season Six premiere party held at the home of Marc Cherry (creator of Desperate Housewives.) Later, Nick attended another party for the "Models of the Runway" premiere. Does he ever sleep? Click here for the full report.
All of the episode one garments are available for auction on ProjectRunway.com. Right now, Christopher's winning dress is at $255.00. The auctions run through Thursday. Good luck BPRs.
Christopher Straub's handbag designs are also available at SeenOn. Click here for more info.
Project Runway Season 2 designers Nick Verreos and Andrae Gonzalo will be joining Season 4 designer Chris March offering their very own Lifetime blogs on Season 6 of Project Runway. Click on their names and stop by to holla at your boys while you wait for tonight's episode.
Our friends over at Lemondrop asked us and other bloggers to weigh in on the all-time best and worst outfits from Project Runway past seasons. See if you agree with us ... or do you have other opinions? We'd love to hear what you think.
Finally, we have been waiting for this press release to make an announcement. Team BPR gets to play judge every Monday on Lifetime's website. What are our qualifications? Why none whatsoever other a history of more than 4000 posts devoted to Project Runway. Anyway, there are a lot of other great things like the Buzz Room and dress-up games in the press release showing how Lifetime is listening to the fans.
Los Angeles-area BPR readers are invited to meet Andrae Gonzalo and celebrate the magic and mystery of hats at a glamorous event kicking off L.A.'s inaugural Downtown Fashion Walk and celebrating the first anniversary of DeepGlamour.net. Andrae and Kate will be leaving for a PR viewing party at 9:30, so come early--and wear a hat! You could win a copy of their book and other great prizes. Thanks Virginia.
Click here for a new interview with Project Runway season six designer Qristyl Frazier.
Kevin Christiana's MYNT 1972 collection will soon be available at selected SCOOP location. Click here for more information.
Project Runway Season Two designer Andrae Gonzalo will be teaching sewing classes at Reform School in Los Angeles. Click here for details. BPR's own Christine Haynes is also on the schedule.
Click here for a new article about "The Fashion Show" from the New York Post. Thanks Mark.
See Christian Siriano's Payless Shoe collection preview here. It's not exactly what we saw on the runway...
Blayne Walsh will show his latest designs at Seattle Fashion Week on April 18th. Also worthy of note is the collection of Logan Neitzel.
Project Runway Season Two designer, Andrae Gonzalo helped to create the costumes for the Metropolitan Educational Theatre's production of "Seussical: The Musical" in Torrance, CA. Click here for more information.
Korto Momolu will be in Memphis on April 18th. Click here for more information.
After a restless night and considerable backstage banter with Team BPR, our fearless Swami of the Runway Alan Gratz lends his loquacious logic to Episode 10 in his weekly predictions post.Go ahead and try to follow along as he works out the impending model shake-up!
Not to be outdone, our junior partner in prognostication Chris The High Schooler takes his own shot at tonight's results.
And the big news - Following PR, Episode 3 of Top Design will feature some of our favorite LA-based alumni: Sweet P, Santino Rice, Jeffrey Sebelia, Daniel Franco and our beloved little lamb Andrae Gonzalo! Watch along with us over at Blogging Top Design.
1. In "The Clothes off Your Back" challenge, Andrae broke down during runway judging. What was the message on his t-shirt during this scene?
2. What was the name of Andrae's model? First and last name please, spelling counts.
3. Which designer was Andrae paired with for the "Window Shopping" episode?
4. What color was Andrae's ice-skating shirt?
5. In the Team Lingerie episode what was the title of the collection that Andrae sketched and presented to Heidi? (His design collection was not chosen or created for the episode.)
The first person to answer all of these questions correctly will win an autographed copy of "Forgotten Fashion!"
First we have a video interview with Andrae Gonzalo. Andrae describes the process of creating the fashion illustrations for the "Forgotten Fashion" book.
Our friends at BuddyTV compare the women to the men...right now, the women are looking pretty strong.
"Forgotten Fashion" is a brand new book with illustrations by Project Runway Season Two designer, Andrae Gonzalo. This is an "illustrated faux history of outrageous fashion trends." It's a humorous look at the ups and downs of design. This book is a lot of fun and the illustrations really bring the story to life. Andrae is very very talented.
Andrae has generously sent an autographed copy of the book to BPR! We will have an "Andrae Gonzalo trivia contest" tomorrow to determine the winner of this fabulous prize and it won't be too hard, I promise.
I'm not sure what time I will post the contest so please stay tuned and good luck BPRs. Of course you can always order a copy of the book hereat Amazon.com.
Los Angeles-based Field Reporter Christine Haynes covered the "Go Metro" dance performance for BPR. Thanks Christine!
Last Saturday I went to see Project Runway Season 2's Andrae Gonzalo perform Go Metro . . . at the Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. The timing couldn't have been better, as my mom was in town for the long weekend, and she is a super Project Runway fan, so she was really excited to meet Andrae.
So off we went, and it was so great! Andrae, and a cast of about 6 others performed a series of really funny dance/performances all about the joys and pains of taking public transportation in LA. Afterwards, we went to meet Andrae, and he graciously posed for a photo with us. He was extremely genuine and sweet. And we met his mom, who we ended up sitting next to during the performance. She was lovely as well.
Join Emmett McCarthy for a shopping event at EMc2 on May 21 from 6:00 - 9:00. RSVP here or call (212) 431-4134.
From Ninaville: Fashion Week Daily reports that Nina Garcia will stay at Elle magazine as an "editor at large" through September 1st and then she starts at Marie Claire on September 2nd. More here.
Will Marie Claire become the new magazine sponsor of Project Runway for season six? Stay tuned.
NPR recently interviewed Jay McCarroll for a story about sleep-deprivation on reality shows.
Andrae Gonzalo and Jamie Benson are preparing for a dance performance in Los Angeles on May 23rd and 24th. Click here for more information.
You can still bid on "Lunch With Tim Gunn." Good luck!
BPR thanks Los Angeles-based Field Reporter Jonathan Trimm and his wife Alitia for this excellent article.
To end the LA Fashion Week, the city gathered at the Orpheum Theatre in the Fashion District downtown. The event began with a cocktail hour that included some of the most important names in Los Angeles fashion. Some of those people milling around the theatre were PR alum, including Nick Verreos, Andrae Gonzalo, Raymundo Baltazar, Bradley Baumkirchner, and Vincent Libretti.
Tim Gunn was named by US Weekly as one of the '25 Most Stylish New Yorkers.' Click here to see who else made the list and click here to see their profile of the self-proclaimed "Cary Grant wannabe".
Click here for a video from The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet featuring Tim Gunn and Veronica Webb.
Nick Verreos gives us more about the Seattle, Andrae Gonzalo and the Disco Pig here. I still want to SEE a disco pig!
Click here to watch an Elle Magazine video of the Michael Kors Spring 2008 collection from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The video below takes you backstage with the Project Runway judge.
Keep tuned to BPR for reports from Laura K. at the Malan Breton, Keith Michael and the Zulema Griffin shows.
Tim Gunn raids a Newsweek art director's closet and answers some questions here. Don't miss the video!
Tim Gunn makes the LA Times SmartList for this week. They say that he's "80% of the reason we watch Project Runway." Maybe BPR is the other 20%? (Of course we're kidding!)
Veronica Webb tells the Detroit Free Press that she clicked with Tim "like Mary Ann and the professor or Nanny and the professor." Tim also is featured in the Free Press where, not surprisingly, he finds Crocs appalling and he wants a certain senator/presidential candidate to "step it up a notch."
Laura Bennett tells Newsweek that she's got a price in mind for her 'Snoopy on the Runway' gown that will be auctioned on eBay to benefit Dress for Success.
Finally, Andrae Gonzalo and Nick Verreos got a mention in The Seattle Times 'Girl About Town' column this week. I just have one question: What's a disco pig?
Well, it's been a while, and I have just filmed another episode of How Do I Look?, so I promise to write not one but two BTS passages about the experience for you guys. But, bigger news than that is that I am producing a dance piece with Jamie, and it is performing this weekend. He did the choreography and I did the costumes. It should be a lot of fun, complete with a piece where we dance a small duet. Those that can make it will get to find out who is "the sh*t". Literally. [Ed. note: no actual pooping is involved...] I've pasted the press release below, so BPR has all the info.
Bathroom Follies 8:30PM Friday and Saturday, February 16 AND 17
Highways Performance Space 1651 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404
at Amazon.com.
