Sometimes, though, you really need someone to tell you to ditch the taffeta.Hernandez can currently be seen as one of the judges on Amazon Prime’s “Fashion Hero” hosted by Brooke Hogan.
Sometimes as an artist you need to be reminded to believe in yourself. Siriano may provide more useful notes, and lead to stronger collections. Gunn's feedback in the last rounds especially could be infuriatingly vague and hands off. I'm especially interested in how he'll handle the critiques for the final collections. Siriano's spikier, which isn’t a bad thing after 17 seasons. But it's also a practical reminder that the model needs to be wearing something when she walks down that runway. "Make it work" is an expression of faith. Project Runway, in its artificial way, has always balanced idealistic and realistic approaches to art. It's also about jumping through stupid hoops so you can get paid. Its nice to be nurturing, but in the context of the competition, having someone just tell you right out, "Don't do that, for fuck's sake" is often more useful.Īrt is about personal expression.
The time pressures on Project Runway are fierce, and it's easy to end up with a hideous dress if you're not used to working very quickly, or if you just make a wrong turn early on. She was eliminated in the first round this year, but that wasn't because she’s a young designer who doesn't know what she's doing. Cavanagh Baker, for example, is a luxury designer and owns her own store in Nashville. Most designers on the show are already accomplished. He wants them to find their own path.īut Project Runway isn't a classroom. That's why he doesn't tell them what to do. Gunn treats the designers like students he's trying to make them better artists and better people. Still, there's something to be said for Siriano, too. I love Gunn, as everyone does, and I miss his gentle approach. "You've only got two hours!" (The designer did make a bottom in time. Gunn, in this situation, would’ve told the designer to remain calm, and maybe given him a hug. Most striking was Siriano's interaction with one designer who’d failed to make a bottom for his outfit two hours before the runway. She bought it anyway, and made a hideous contraption that looked like a bridesmaid's dress. When one designer started to buy giant swathes of taffeta for her dress, Siriano told her she was being a fool. Siriano, in contrast, is a working designer at a leading brand, and he’s not shy about letting people know his opinions. But he was there to help, not to command. He'd issue a quiet warning if the dress were too dowdy or old. He’d sometimes say, gently, "I question the taste level" if a designer outfitted their model with a giant chrome codpiece. He tried to lead designers to find answers for themselves, and to realize their own visions. Gunn's background is in teaching, and he treated mentoring as an educational opportunity. His fashion line makes millions every year, and he's designed dresses for Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Michelle Obama.
He won the show in 2007 on season 4, and went on to be one of America's most successful fashion designers. Siriano is the most successful Project Runway alum. Reality shows are often mean-spirited, and Project Runway had a sadistic streak-what else can you say of a show that gives contestants 12 hours to make beautiful dresses out of candy and car parts? But thanks to Gunn, PR was always kinder than it was cruel.Ĭhristian Siriano, who replaced Tim as mentor, takes a very different approach. Sometimes the designers did fix it, sometimes they didn't and they went home. He coined one of the show's catch phrases, "Make it work!" which he’d say in a tone of defiant reassurance as some designer presented him with a poorly-sewn atrocity sliding off a skeptical model. Gunn served as the show's mentor it was his job to provide designers with feedback and encouragement. And most shockingly for longtime fans, Tim Gunn, who defined the show, is leaving along with Heidi. Host Heidi Klum has moved on to helm a fashion show on Amazon video.
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The series has left Lifetime and returned to its original home on Bravo. Project Runway's 17 th season is different from its predecessors.
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