I didn’t notice it until 3rd time watching 😂

I just stumbled across this great interview with Heidi, Tim, Nina, and Michael from 12 years ago. They talk about the success and creation of the show.

https://youtu.be/x_Pb78OniLw?si=-vz4q_aMs8mLUzu5

I had commented on an earlier post that I assumed Tim when back to his office at Parsons when he wasn't filming. I was wrong. Tim's office was Heidi's dressing room!

I just read an article about a local high school holding a "fashion as art" runway. The designs ran from excellent looking, fun costumes to the kind of dresses from PR from many challenges. What the pictures showed was teen girls and guys looking good in their creations which were made well enough to wear in a school setting without falling apart during time in school.

Fashion, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. If the fashion is for a purpose -like costume, formal dress, avant-garde, streetwear, resort wear, etc- then your have to consider if the art meets the purpose. In PR, the art should meet the purpose and make the model look good. If high school kids can do it, the PR designers should.

So I know PR has had many a dumb challenge, and I’m wondering what you think the most idiotic challenges are. Since I recently watched these seasons, I am thinking S14’s paintball challenge (how did they think that fabric and those colors could ever look good?) and the S12 parachute challenge. It was just so ridiculous that the judges tried to give serious critiques about clothes made of that crap.

Heyyy.

Just got done with my first watch of S18. I think I watched some of a PR season in the past but honestly can't remember. This is my first time in this sub so idk what popular opinions are.

S18-

Sergio. What a pretentious dude. Damn that shtick got old fast. Especially when he did that backwards dress and completely made up some noble view to fit the situation. Just blatantly pretentious. That being said, that man could sew! His avant gard look was my favorite of his and favorite that week- it looked expensive.

I wanted Christian to save Chelsea instead of Brittany. Brittany had a few good looks but her Christmas dress and suit were both horrible.

Delvin never impressed me. His stuff was basic.

Loved Nancy's personality but I did feel like her designs often looked cheap.

Dayung was sweet but needed to see a specialist or something wtf.

Geoffrey - his tye dye dress literally made me gasp it was so lovely. In terms of personality, I wanted him to win, but honestly I thought his final collection was the weakest.

Victoria... loved the hair, didn't love her whining. The quality of her clothes was fabulous and her final collection was very wearable. Love love loved the white dress in the finale.

If not is that something the world wants?

I've been interested in creating a photo folder of my absolute favorite outfits from the entire series and/or giving them personal grades or rankings. I was hoping a website somewhere might have a master compilation but didn't find anything in my quick and casual google search.

Just watched this epidode, and I'm really mad and annoyed about the way the other designers talked about Anna being at the top. The other designers were so disrespectful towards Anna. She even agreed that she thought she was going home for her look. So the other designers should be mad at the judges, not Anna, who agreed with their opinion.

Also, what if she has done similar things before? The others do that as well. When asked to demonstrate their individuality, Anna does the ruffle thing. They might not like it, but that is not their decision on who goes home, and honestly, I do think that Hester deserved it for her look. And her exuse of not knowing that fabric falls flat when that was part of the challenge.

Thoughts?

What happened to the available season on Hulu? I’ve been binging Project Runway on Hulu for a couple months. Was up to the last few episodes of season 13. Even watched it last night. Now the entire season is gone from Hulu. WTF? 🤬

Watching season 2 episode 8 and man are there are some serious chinks in the Tim Gunn "good guy" armour here. Nick gets Zulema's model after the infamous walk-off, and while Nick doesn't say anything outwardly disparaging about her Tim does not hold back. He calls her a problem, an elongated marshmallow, and a gumby legged stiff walker. He genuinely acts like this is a horrible obstacle to overcome for Nick. I can't believe how awful they are being about this beautiful woman. I would be absolutely humiliated if I was her and watched this on television. Tim gets so much hero love and respect from the PR community for being a "nice guy,", but moments like this make me wonder what else goes on behind the scenes we never see. There was no shock or surprise from Nick or anyone else, so we can assume this kind of talk wasn't out of character.

Rewatching season 11 when the workroom moves from in-house at Parsons to 1407 Broadway, even though they're still shooting the runway at Parsons.

So when Tim gathers everyone and says "let's go to Parsons!" are they all (designers and dressed, made up, hair done models) being driven to Parsons? That seems like a major risk to the garments; many of them are definitely not meant to even be sat in, let alone driven in. Do they ride in standing-room vehicles? Is there like a basic answer bere that anyone with experience in the fashion world would know?

Super random, I know, but it's bothering me. Anyone have any insight? TIA.

I was watching all the seasons on YouTube backwards. In season 14 tim Gunn sabotaged swapnil so many times. In the episode where they had to make cloths for the crew swapnil was unjustly eliminated. In all the seasons when designers do not listen to clients they never berated like that. Tim Gunn also sabotaged swapnil in two other round.... In the episode where they got the chance to mass produce for just fab... He told swapnil tht the dress is very simple but that's how you get your dress mass produced (literally the guy who won made a very simple red dress) even ashley did not listen to her clients and it was all okay to Tim. I could see so many micro aggression towards swapnil and it breaks my heart because I loved Tim Gunn (not any more...even though he is no christian siriano) I thought project runway was above racism I love Christian he will never ever ever sabotage anyone.

Give Bishme a break, you guys!! His sister was dying and he had just lost a family member. So yeah, his heart was not in his work, despite his obvious talent. The judges were acting like the worst thing in the world was not to make it to Fashion Week. I'm glad he went on to win S-19. He seems like a sweetheart as well as a great designer.

The farther I go in this season, currently episode 10, the more irritating Victoria is. She whines so much!!!

idk just a random thought lol

Alright, we all remember when the S11 designers go off to Europe and leave Michelle in New York. Ngl I felt for her; getting left behind must have sucked. (IIRC, she mentioned having a mental breakdown off-camera in the reunion)

Anyway, fast forward to the AS7 unconventional materials challenge when they're brought onto a plane. Michelle sees Alyssa in the cockpit and goes "If she's in the cockpit, we ain't going nowhere."

HER FACE WHILE SAYING THAT TOOK ME OUT; istg emotional damage from that do-or-die moment must have kicked in again. Justice for Michelle and planes because she never got to actually fly on one during PR lmao 🤣

I’ve never seen Season 1 as a whole, watching for the first time. Did they get a squad of cracked up raccoons from Central Park to cast this show and come up with the challenges?

Daniel goes home immediately because he’s a jerk. What was Mario doing , how the heck did Star get on the show? I don’t line anything Jay McCarroll has done so far. Kara and Austin are doing it for me, Wendy’s just straight up evil and her clothes are ugly.

PS-Constance White is rattlesnake mean.

So I’ve read many books about the Weinstein scandal, and in particular in Ronan Farrow’s Catch & Kill. There’s a lot of discussion about his involvement in this show, which he basically produced for two reasons: to create fashion-related content to help gain access to that world and thus promote the work of his then wife Georgina Chapman of Marchesa; and to look for models to assault.

I can see his fingerprints all over this show now. It’s super clear in earlier seasons: the models are SO much more part of the show. 🥴 And I’m watching it slowly come to a sad disgusting head as I watch Season 14. The brand endorsements and sponsors have significantly devolved (just like all his businesses) and they have a whole challenge devoted to promoting Weinstein’s flop Finding Neverland musical (during which he was getting arrested for assaulting Ambra Gutierrez 🙃).

It’s just wild to rewatch knowing what was going on with him and seeing how his drama directly impacted the show. There are so many more examples of this, but …yeah.

Sorry, I’m a little stoned and thinking out loud

I've looked through the posts/comments and everyone seems to hate him. I didn't see any of that. He was supportive/helpful/encouraging to other designers when they were giving out and helpful. Did y'all not see that too? On the first episode, when he did most of another designers work, & the judges liked it. There were other situations too. His website is gone, and I can't see anything he's currently doing, just images and no info.

His wife is the Mormon lady wearing dresses while cooking on tik tok. What was happening in 2016 for him to be on? Especially for the bikini challenge?? It says he's a model/musician/author lol

How in the hell did Michael Costello win that challenge? That dress should’ve been in the bottom. I just don’t get it.

I’m in my mid-twenties, and I’ve been watching Project Runway since I was a little kid.

For the longest time, I thought Heidi Klum was saying “offy doesy” when she kissed the contestants goodbye. As in, some cute little German spin on “off you go”!

Am I alone in this? Or did every adult (and kid like me) watching know what she’s was saying immediately lol?

I’ve had it on in the background (till the runway😉) the last few days (Sandro season 😬). Any time Heidi says this (amazing how often AND it bothered me when I waited a week in between episodes, let alone seasons), it’s a very vocal UGHH. Can anyone enlighten me as to any value this adds, to us OR them, especially when it happens so often very early in the season. My annoyance with this is not normal!!! 😂

I was obsessed with PR when it first came out and LOVED jay. I’m doing a rewatch and only learned from this sub that he never got his prize money because he refused to sign the exploitative contract he was provided once being declared the winner. As I understand it, from this sub, his refusal is what changed the contract moving forward, undoubtedly benefiting ALL future winners.

so - with Heidi coming back and more focus on the OG show - how can we get Jay his $$$? Christian, are you on this sub? Can you write him a check? I’m assuming his defiance saved you way more than $100K over the years that you would have otherwise had to hand over to PR!

Heidi, Tim, Nina, Michael - PR quickly changed its tune once Jay pointed it out. He was your FIRST WINNER and undoubtedly led to the show (and your) success. Can’t YOU write him a check?

PR - WHAT A COOL STORY WOULD THAT BE. What a cool way to fix some past harms. IT WOULD GET YOU PRESS.

I have no $ and no ability to organize anything right now. And there’s so much else going on in the world and this silly. But damn. This silly show has gotten me through some shitty days. And Jay deserves his $ damnit!

Also #justiceforaustin. Always. Still pissed about that.

Edited to include - I don’t ACTUALLY think a petition would do anything lol. I’m just mad and want Jay to get his flower$$$$

I thought of Nathalia as a young, not very sophisticated raver kind of designer but this coat blew me away during a rewatch of season 15. These pictures don't even quite do it justice. This coat over one of Laurence Bass's jumpsuits is making me swoon. Everything Laurence does is divine, but I failed to appreciate Nathalia before.

https://preview.redd.it/2sf8y9wo5kfe1.jpg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb99c4a84765f458ac2e4959047bf4e1f2aafdd1

This season was pretty great, in my opinion. Roberi and Dexter are so great also, and I liked some of what Erin did. I'm glad this season is not the Erin-obsessed sweep of nearly every challenge that I remember the first time around.

I will say that rewatching this show obsessively, the last few weeks, I'm disappointed that the fashion week finale episodes are so rushed now. In the first few seasons, I liked seeing their final tweaks to their collections and deciding which models to book and a much more in-depth discussion about their designs. Double-digit seasons, the final judging with designers on stage (show edit, anyway) is literally two sentences for each designer. And the judging once the designers are in the green room is also super fast. And the collection preview show the day before fashion week is just ridiculous. Like Kini saying, "I have 24 hours, what the fuck am I supposed to do?" A preview supposedly the day before lincoln center is stupid and actually cruel, if it's real. I wish they would show more of the consideration that goes into critiquing the final collections.

tl;dr: omg nathalia's coat love want.

The title says it. I don't know who decides on the challenges, but I have an idea that I would personally like to see happen.

I, like most people, was routing for Kara Saun the whole time. Very talented and carries herself well. Right up until the night before the fashion show where she's pulling a fast one AND throwing a temper tantrum over having to pay for her dozen custom pairs of shoes. She KNEW what she was doing was wrong because why else would she need to go check with Jay and be justifying to everyone that this is totally fair. I haven't finished watching it, but yeah she should either not be allowed to use those shoes at all or have serious point deduction or something.

Don’t the designers use the same model for each challenge? So wouldn’t the judges start to recognize who designed the look by the models alone?

Edit: right now I’m watching s13 which is a season that has both blind runways and same models.

I’m rewatching Season 2 and I feel like Diana Eng is so underrated!! Her designs are interesting and also very sexy. When she auditioned she had an outfit that would take pictures when your heart rate it up uhhh ok!!! I just love this meek, self described nerd serving up hotness and trying to make your outfit connect to wifi.

Just starting episode 3 and here are my thoughts:

No Tim put me off watching it for a while. I like Christian as a mentor. He seems like he has very practical advice but also encouragement to go with his gut. I feel like Karlie Kloss is really disingenuous. Not a fan of her as a host.

I don’t like Hester. She really rubs me the wrong way. The team challenge in episode two cemented that for me.

I was on the fence about Tessa, but I love the way that on the runway she did talk about taking charge and editing but also shouts out the awesomeness of her team. That dress that Sebastian made was amazing.

Kovid is sunshine himself, but I don’t see him making it to the end. The interaction between him and his model in the first episode was amazing.

I don’t have a favorite designer yet based on design. I’m still vibing on personality but interested in watching more.