(“You’re a tranny who looks like a hot mess and not in a good way,” said Amy Poehler as Siriano. Siriano’s frequent use of the word “tranny” for transgender (at a time when it wasn’t as offensive to do so) inspired a famous Saturday Night Live skit. Siriano won the fourth-season competition, then went on to a hot designing career, recently creating Billy Porter’s tuxedo dress that wowed at this year’s Oscars. (Gunn and Klum are developing a competitor at Amazon.)
The show even had a breakout dandy: mentor Tim Gunn, who is replaced in season 17 by Christian Siriano. The show was hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum (whom THR called “stiff and somber”) with sharp-tongued star judges like Michael Kors and Zac Posen on hand to tear the less successful frocks to shreds.
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“The average fashion designer is a pretty colorful TV character the average accountant is not.” “What we stumbled upon was a really rich seam of characters,” says Holzman. “ Runway was about talent.”ĭesigners are forced to make clothes in restricted time and then get judged by big-name fashionistas.
“All the reality shows before it, like Survivor or Big Brother, tended to be about cunning and beating the other person,” says creator Eli Holzman. buyers Lantern in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s downfall.) The show has been a consistent ratings generator. (Bravo picked up the show from The Weinstein Co.
That blend ended up working pretty well: On March 14, the show’s 17th season returns to Bravo, its home for the first five seasons, after an 11-season stint at Lifetime. When Project Runway first aired in 2004, The Hollywood Reporter called it “a predictable, time-tested blend of manufactured drama, carefully constructed anxiety and momentous music.”
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