Project Runway to become a video game

You know you’ve really hit the big time when your television show. Next year fans of the reality competition show Project Runway will be able to play it as a video game on the Nintendo Wii, according to Variety.com.

Although the details of the show are still being stitched together, the plan is for the game to stick to the show’s format. Players will compete with challengers as fashion designers, creating designs for models. After they create the the outfit they can chose to become a model within the game and walk the runway using the Wii’s virtual accessories. Or, they can become a fashion photographer and take pictures of models in their designs.

The game is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2010.

New Camping Reality Show Casting

From the producers who brought you Top Chef and Project Runway….

CASTING GROUP OF FRIENDS FOR OUTDOOR ADVENTURE REALITY SERIES

(MUST live in Los Angeles, 21 and up)

Have a group of friends you love doing things with, but it¹s always at the
salon, the spa, hitting the bars? Never gone camping, need a break, and
³getting back to nature² maybe would be a kick?

Casting a group of friends (3-6 people total) for a new reality series; we
want non-outdoorsy types who, for just a week¹s outing, will trade in their
Armani for some Birkenstocks.

The group will be taken on weeklong outdoor trip; a guide will provide tips.

Please send us your name, age, telephone number, and recent photo(s) of each
of you; tell us about your friends and why you and they would be good for
the show.

EMAIL TO: samantha.bryant@magicalelves.com
OR CALL: 213-630-6530 ext 243

Models of the Runway Looks at Project Runway from the Models’ Perspective

You’ve Seen Them Walk the Walk, Now See What Happens Behind the Seams in the All New ‘Project Runway’ Companion Series ‘Models of the Runway’

Lifetime Television and The Weinstein Company gives Project Runway fans the ultimate, all-access backstage pass with the dazzling new companion series, Models of the Runway, premiering Thursday, August 20, at 11PM ET/PT. Models of the Runway offers viewers – for the first time ever – a no-holds-look at everyone’s favorite design series from the models’ perspective. The 16 women vie to be paired with the winning designer of Project Runway for a $25,000 cash prize from L’Oreal Skin Genesis and a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine.

The Season One Models of the Runway contestants are as follows:

Celine Chua – Hometown: Singapore; Resides in New York, NY

Ebony Jointer – Hometown: Bellflower, CA; Resides in Hacienda Heights, CA

Emarie Wiltz – Hometown: New Orleans, LA; Resides in New York, NY

Erica Milde – Hometown: Chicago, IL; Resides in Milwaukee, WI

Erika Macke – Hometown: Redondo Beach, CA; Resides in Beverly Hills, CA

Fatma Dabo – Hometown: The Gambia; Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Kayln Hemphill – Hometown: Lake Jackson, TX; Resides in New York, NY

Katie Sticksel – Hometown: Cleveland, OH; Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Kojii  Helnwein – Hometown: Ireland; Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Lisa Blades – Hometown: Owensboro, KY; Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Matar Cohen – Hometown: Israel; Resides in New York, NY

Tanisha Harper – Hometown: Japan; Resides in Los Angeles, CA

Tara Egan – Hometown: Elmhurst, IL; Resides in Chicago, IL

Valerie Roy – Hometown/Resides in New York, NY

Vanessa Fitzgerald – Hometown: New York, NY; Resides in Los Angeles, CA/ New York, NY

Yosuzi Sylvester – Hometown: Venezuela; Resides in Los Angeles, CA

For more information about the Season One models, visit mylifetime.com.

Bravo Now Casting “The Untitled Art Project”

Bravo’s latest stroke on the reality canvas brings Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker and her production company, Pretty Matches, together with the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves (”Top Chef,” “Project Runway”) and Eli Holzman, to produce an hour long creative competition series among contemporary artists. The Untitled Art Project will bring together thirteen aspiring artists to compete for a gallery show, a cash prize and a sponsored national tour. Open calls for artists interested in competing in this highly anticipated new competition series will be held in cities across the country starting in July.

Casting Calls for The Untitled Art Project are as follows:

LOS ANGELES
Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 12, 10 AM – 2 PM
LA>
www.laxart.org

MIAMI
Tuesday, July 14, 10 AM – 2 PM
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
www.Snitzer.com

CHICAGO
Thursday, July 16, 10 AM – 2 PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sullivan Galleries, 33 State Street
www.saic.edu

NEW YORK
Saturday, July 18 & Sunday, July 19, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
White Columns
www.whitecolumns.org

For additional information, go to www.BravoTV.com/casting.

In each episode of the series, contestants will create unique pieces highlighting art’s role in everyday life, while they compete and create in a range of disciplines including sculpture, painting, photography and industrial design (to name a few). In working beyond their preferred mediums, artists will have to adapt quickly in order to succeed. Completed works of art will be appraised by a panel of top art world figures including fellow artists, gallerists, collectors, curators and critics. The finalists’ work will be showcased in a nation-wide museum tour.

The Untitled Art Project is produced by Pretty Matches and Magical Elves for Bravo. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alison Benson and Eli Holzman serve as executive producers.

Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC Universal cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com.

Watch All Your Favorites on The Best of Bravo Holiday Marathon

From Bravo:

Bravo brings out all the trimmings for a festive holiday with the “Best of Bravo.” To celebrate the season, Bravo will air marathons of some of the network’s most popular series “The Real Housewives of New York City,” “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” “Flipping Out” “Top Chef,” “The Rachel Zoe Project,” “Project Runway,” “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” “Million Dollar Listing” and “The Millionaire Matchmaker.”

The marathon schedule is as follows:

Sunday, December 21:

“The Rachel Zoe Project,” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET/PT

“The Real Housewives of Orange County,” from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Tuesday, December 23:

“Flipping Out,” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, December 24:

“Top Chef: Chicago,” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday, December 25:

“Top Chef: New York,” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Seasons Three and Four of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Friday, December 26:

“The Millionaire Matchmaker,” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, December 27:

“The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” from 12:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Monday, December 29:

Season Four of “Project Runway,” from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, December 30:

Season Two of “Million Dollar Listing,” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, December 31:

Season Five of “Project Runway,” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and

Saturday, January 3:

“The Real Housewives of New York City,” from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Project Runway Episode 12: Natural Instincts

Last week, the designers had to come up with musical genre inspirations. Suede was sent home, and Korto won.

This week was the designers’ final challenge before Bryant Park, so everyone was crackling with tension. I guess this season is sort of an homage to New York or something, because Tim leads Korto, Jerell, Leanne, and Kenley to the New York Botanical Garden. In another egregious display of product placement, we find out this challenge is sponsored by L’Oreal Paris. Collier Strong, consulting makeup artist for L’Oreal Paris, explains the challenge: use the Garden as the source of their inspiration for an evening gown design.

Back in the workroom, they have 30 minutes to choose the inspiration for their evening gown. Purple flowers and leaves were favored by Kenley, Leanne, and Jerell, with Korto as the wild card with pale pink flowers. With a budget of $250 the designers go to Mood. Kenley forgets her fabric, and has to get permission to go back.

With two days to finish this challenge, you would think the pressure would be lessened, but it isn’t. Everyone’s falling apart like high school junior’s during the SATs. Leanne looks like a mess—she’s crying and her hair’s a wreck. Jerell and Korto are tear stained. Only Kenley remains impassive.

The guest judge is Georgina Chapman from Marchesa, a smallish but impeccable evening dress label, so I’m guessing the comments are going to be wicked. Let’s see how the runway goes.

1. Designer: Korto
Inspiration: Orange/yellow flower
Dress: Pink Orange dress with antique lace trim and deep v neck

2. Designer: Leanne
Inspiration: Lavandar
Dress: Purple dress with ruffle doublet-like pleating wrapping around the bodice

3. Designer: Jerell
Inspiration: purple and pink marigold-like flowers
Dress: Purple strapless dress with jeweled bodice detail and multicolored fabric layers

4. Designer: Kenley
Inspiration: Purple leaves
Dress: purple reptile-textured fabric with high neck and petal-like mermaid skirt

The judges were very gentle. Poor Korto took things the hardest—she was seen as being pagenty, and was sobbing. It was devastating to watch. Kenley argues with the judges again—she really hates Heidi, and the eye rolling was called out.

Jerell wins, and no one is out. They will all create collections, and then they will all compete for three spots at fashion week.

Project Runway’s Future is Up in the Air

In an unexpected turn of events NBC Universal has won an injunction against the producers of the reality show, Project Runway, preventing the show’s move from Bravo to Lifetime.

Project Runway’s producer, the Weinstein Co. announced last winter that it would be moving the show to Lifetime, starting with its sixth season this winter. Bravo’s parent company NBC Universal filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the production company. Today, the results of the preliminary injunction were revealed.

“NBC Universal is pleased that the court granted our motion for a preliminary injunction against the Weinstein Co.,” NBC Uni said in a statement. “The overwhelming evidence demonstrated that the Weinstein Co. violated NBC Universal’s right of first refusal to future cycles of ‘Project Runway.’ After hearing all of the evidence, the court issued an order prohibiting the Weinstein Co. from taking the show or any spinoff to Lifetime.”

It is doubtful that Lifetime will let the court’s decision stand without putting up a fight. More on this story as it develops.

Jennifer Lopez to Judge Project Runway Finale

Word is that Jennifer Lopez will be a guest judge on the season finale of Bravo’s Project Runway. Last year, her new BFF Posh was a finale judge. Now they’ll have one more thing in common, aside from both being chummy with designer Marc Jacobs.

The finale will be filmed this Friday at Bryant Park, in wrap up Fashion Week, so if you want to loiter around the tents in the area maybe you can catch a glimpse of someone before you get yelled at for stalking. The finale will air in October.

Christian Siriano and Jay McCarroll On Tonight’s Project Runway

From Bravo:

This week’s Project Runway is full of surprises as the designer’s team up to create a garment around the astrological sign of their partner on Wednesday, September 10 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. The designers are taken off-site to receive inspiration from the stars, but the help they receive does not come from the cosmos. The eight remaining contestants are paid a surprise visit by fab designers including Jay McCarroll, Daniel Vosovic, and Christian Siriano. Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa guest judges.

Check out a video preview here and here. Don’t forget to read Mary Jones’ recap on RealityRollCall.com.

Project Runway Episode 8: Why I’m a Card Member

Last week: Poor Keith got sent home for his boring car-materials dress and cried all the way home.

This week, Tim announces the challenge will involve a fashion legend. As they are speculating as to who the guest design judge was going to be, Blayne gives one of his usual gems: “My first thought about a fashion legend is Mary Kate Olson. I want every challenge to be involved with Mary Kate. I want to marry Mary Kate, who doesn’t? Besides Tim Gunn.”

Tim brings them down to the Meatpacking district, where Mastercard spokeswoman and wrap-dress maker Diane VonFurstenberg greets everyone. The challenge is to make a dress inspired by Marlene Dietrich’s Berlin-to-Shanghai spy movie, A Foreign Affair. The designers are allowed to paw through von Furstenberg’s fabric collection in order to get what they need for their garment. The winning designer gets immunity, and his or her designs will be sold as part of von Furstenberg’s collection (but only to Mastercard members. Typical).

There’s a relative lack of drama in the workroom today. Everyone’s doing layering, everyone’s stressed. Not too much cattiness, but I felt that Leanne summed it up best when she looked over at Joe’s pink and sparkly Shanghai surprise and asked “Joe seems overly confident in his design. I don’t know where this confidence is coming from honestly, to me it looks kind of like a cheap costume. I’m kind of surprised Joe’s still here at this stage of the game.”

On to the runway judging!

1) Joe

Pink satin skirt with black above the knee skirt and a black hooded vest

2) Leanne

Purple dress ruffled fishtail and with shrunken light grey wool coat

3) Terri

High waisted brown trousers with black trench coat and silk print shirt

4) Jerrel

Navy pencil skirt, black sweater with bright blue belt and high-necked gold blouse

5) Korto

Black and white slik dress with yellow petticoat and shrunken black puff-sleeve

6) Blayne

Polka-dot jodpers, black minitrench with exaggerated collar, brightly colored ruffled blouse

7) Suede

Floor length green and cream patterned dress with grey vest

Stella

Tan pants, halter blouse with bow detail, caplet

9) Kenley

High-necked belted dress with lace detail and a bright floral pattern

The designers left on the runway are Joe, Leanne, Korto, Suede, Stella, and Kenley. Korto’s dress seemed to be dismissed as altogethe, “nice.” Diana hates the low back of Joe’s garment, which was generally criticized for being messy. Kenley’s dress was considered nice, but too simple; I could tell Heidi was not grooving on Kenley interrupting her, and the fact that all the other judges disagreed with her dismissal of Kenley’s dress. Stella’s tailoring was criticized, and Leanne’s dress was agreed to have “a lot of design” which, as usual, was not enough praise for what it is. Poor Suede seemed to get everything wrong—slit in the back, pattern, and the hearing bone mixed with the geometric pattern.

Leanne won the challenge, which delighted me (yes, I am bias), and Stella went home, even though her dress was not even a fraction as hideous or poorly made as Joe’s was. But she made a speech about how she was too good for the joint, and I respect that.

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