Did you like the necklace that Sweet P was wearing in the All-Star Challenge? My daughter Kaitlin identified it right away as being from Anthropologie! Here is a link.
Portland Fashion Week will be October 7 - 11 and is still accepting designer applications!
Project Runway Canada has been nominated for three "Gemini Awards." The Geminis are like the American Emmy Awards celebrating the best in English-language Canadian television!
Click here for a new interview with Malvin Vien. A highlight:
Let’s talk fashion. Have you always been interested in it?
For me, fashion began as an art form, a visceral discourse on the body, wearable, interactive, the body as a canvas.
And lately fashion has become more than an art form, it has become a cause for development, a means through which I have begun to understand my place in our modern context.
Leanne Marshall's line for Bluefly will be eco-friendly. Click here for more.
Click here for a new interview with Tim Gunn. Click here for Seattle Fashion Week coverage of Blayne Walsh. Thanks Julia. Click here for Rondi's recap of the Project Runway Canada Finale.
Project Runway season five designers Wesley Nault and Daniel Feld were judges at a fashion competition in Springfield Illinois. Click here for details and a photo of the winning garment.
Joe Faris will be one of the featured designers at "Secrets of Style" on April 9th in Detroit.
Click here for the latest from Laura Bennett at The Daily Beast. Hilarious.
Click here for Rondi's recap of Project Runway Canada Episode 10. Click here for Johanne's.
Click here to bid on a pair of Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses that Amanda Fields picked up at the Elle magazine gift suite after the Project Runway finale show.
Here is Johanne's report from the front row of the PRC finale show:
I sat front row for the collections by the three top finalists at Project Runway Canada’s LG Fashion Week finale. The show started with an introduction by PRC host Iman who was wearing a fitted emerald-green knee-length dress with silver platform heels. She asked the audience to help maintain the excitement of the TV show by not disclosing any information about the designers who were there.
That said, there were six designers who went on stage and introduced themselves and described their collection but only three collections were shown, without the designer coming out after his/her work to salute the crowd. As a fan and a viewer of Project Runway Canada, it wasn’t hard for me to tell whose work was on the runway.
It was a great show by all three designers- not at all what I expected to see and from up close in the front row, even I could tell that there were some garment construction issues. Some seams were crooked or awkward-looking, sequins weren’t well finished at the zipper of a dress, shapes were a little odd. All in all, the most fun all season of PRC and I can’t wait to share more with you about the three designers I met backstage and my interview with one of them yesterday. We’ll have to wait until the final airing of the show to get into more details!
Click here for more from Barbie's 50th Birthday Bash.
Click here for Rondi's recap of Project Runway Canada - Stick To It. Click here for Johanne's. Click here to bid on the gowns created for this challenge. Click here for an interview with the eliminated designer.
Click here for an interview with the winning designer.
Oprah.com compares Jay McCarroll and the Eleven Minutes movie to a Valentino documentary.
Alison Kelly is always working on something. Now she's a blogger, too! Make sure to check out Alison's Spring/Summer '09 collection "Cast" as well as her collaborative Dahl & Dane line of T-shirts and totes.
The latest from Laura Bennett on The Daily Beast here.
Click here for an interview with Bravo General Manager Frances Berwick. Click here for an interview with Michael Kors from WWD's Footwear News. An excerpt: FN: How much has “Project Runway” played into the success of your business? MK: We never had 12-year-olds before, that’s for sure. It stretched our audience. Now it stretches from women who are 70 and are plugged in and will wear sexy shoes in a heartbeat to the girl who is 17 and not “Barbie-girly” and wants something sophisticated. We certainly had a following [before the show], but I don’t know if everyone who walked through the mall knew Michael Kors. The interesting thing about our stores now is that she’ll walk by and say, “Oh, Michael Kors. I know who he is, but what is he really about?”
Click here for the Fashion Week blog entry from our own John C. Click here for Rondi's recap of Project Runway Canada, episode 5 and here for Johanne's.
Did you like the necklace that Sweet P was wearing in the All-Star Challenge? My daughter Kaitlin identified it right away as being from Anthropologie! Here is a link.
