Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series that focuses on fashion design. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted by time, materials and theme. Their designs are judged by a panel, and one or more designers are typically eliminated from the show each week. During each season, contestants are progressively eliminated until only a few contestants remain. These finalists prepare a complete fashion collection for New York Fashion Week, which determines the winner.
Project Runway was created by Eli Holzman and is hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum. It has a varied airing history, with Bravo originating the first five seasons, followed by Lifetime for eleven more, before it was announced on May 14 the series is tentatively returning to Bravo for the seventeenth season in the wake of The Weinstein Company's bankruptcy, pending TWC asset winner Lantern Entertainment's acquisition of the former TWC assets. The show won a Peabody Award in 2008 "for using the 'television reality contest' genre to engage, inform, enlighten and entertain."
Seasons[edit]
| Season | Premiere Date | Finale Date | No. of Designers |
Winner | Runner-Up | 2nd runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd runner-up | ||||||
| 1 | December 1, 2004 | February 23, 2005 | 12 | Blythe Herot & Krystal Standard |
Scottie Fenwick & Madalena Silva |
Oliver Clare & Kariana Tooby |
| 2 | December 7, 2005 | March 8, 2006 | 16 | Angelo Contreras & Julia Nair |
Chantal Bruskin & Lisa Schaefer |
Shari Keller & Felicia Murdock |
| 3 | July 12, 2006 | October 18, 2006 | 15 | Daniel Warren & Eve Bishop |
Vanessa Clyne & Julie Eromin |
Andrew Shreve & Soo Park |
| Olivia Power & Kenya Paul | ||||||
| 4 | November 14, 2007 | March 5, 2008 | 16 | Rachel Dwyer & Delia McConnell |
Clarence Jones & Aracely Darabi |
Jenna Pratt & Samantha Lindberg |
| 5 | July 16, 2008 | October 15, 2008 | 16 | Jason Tillotson & Elizabeth Casey |
Gemma Tinkham & Elvena Rojas |
Chris Johnson & Antonia Carli |
| 6 | August 20, 2009 | November 19, 2009 | 16 | Laura Andersen & Tomiko Asuka |
Mike Paek & Angeline Arangio |
Jana Schussler & Megan Chu |
| 7 | January 14, 2010 | April 22, 2010 | 16 | Tessa Jenkins & Erin Faraway |
Mayra Mathurin & Laura Flores |
Javion Hale & Serenity Pelrine |
| 8 | July 29, 2010 | October 28, 2010 | 16 | Jax Soares & Ashley Hickman |
Daniel Wix & Laurel Travis |
April Tinker & Yadira Avalle |
| 9 | June 28, 2011 | October 27, 2011 | 16 | Santos Ojeda & Elizabeth Arvoy |
Jesse Wieland & Ila Suskind |
Belen Alexander & Christine Orfield |
| Monica Rea & Karen Boym | ||||||
| 10 | July 19, 2012 | October 18, 2012 | 16 | Curtis Rivers & Brittany Lillis |
Alice Yeager & Stacey Carroll |
George Sosa & Samara Garrett |
| Evelyn Rigo & Brooke Weiskel |
Project Runway All Stars[edit]
| Season | Premiere Date | Finale Date | No. of Designers |
Winner | Runner-Up | 2nd runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd runner-up | ||||||
| 1 | January 5, 2012 | March 22, 2012 | 13 | Julia Long & Amanda Merzbach |
Daniel Wix & Grace Oberlander |
Rachel Bryant & Kariana Tooby |