Tonight On The Fashion Show

It's the big finale tonight for The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection on Bravo as Dominique Pearl David, Calvin Tran and Jeffrey Williams go needle-to-needle as they vie for the title of Season 2 champ and the $125k prize.

Our loyal crew of party room fans will be watching together live on our sister site Blogging Bravo and we invite you to join us. Even if you haven't been following along, drop in and say hello. It's finale night, who will design The Ultimate Collection?

Tonight On The Fashion Show

It's the last call for The House of Nami and The House of Emerald tonight on The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection as we find out who goes through to the Season 2 finale. Our merry band of party room regulars will be on hand again to watch it all go down on our sister site Blogging Bravo and we invite you to join us. Doors open at 9:30 p.m., hope to see you there!

Tonight On The Fashion Show

One of the departures that Bravo has taken with The Fashion Show is in the explicit details revealed in their previews. The nature of the challenges, full looks at finished designs, guest judges and major dramatic elements typically verboten on reality competition show previews are all present here. Is it a planned marketing strategy to get viewers to watch or does Bravo just not care anymore?

For those of you still tuning in, we will once again be hosting a viewing party on our sister site Blogging Bravo. Tonight it is "Eccentric Glamour with Simon Doonan". Party room opens at 9:30 p.m., come join the fun!

Tonight On The Fashion Show

Happy New year competitive reality fashion show fans! As we slog our way through a very lengthy Project Runway off-season, we remind you that Bravo is continuing to run The Fashion Show:Ultimate Collection to help fill in the void. We have a dedicated group of BPR party regulars who have been watching this campy mess and we invite you to join us.

It's a team wedding challenge tonight with Rachel Zoe and Johnny Weir sitting in as guest judges. With just six designers remaining, the drama potential is major. Calvin Tran has proven to be a Grade A crazy contestant, it's a wonder Project Runway has never cast him.

The Fashion Show party room opens at 9:30 p.m. on our sister site, Blogging Bravo. Come join the fun!

Tonight On The Fashion Show

A clever challenge and yet another team twist await us tonight on The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection. We are continuing our live party rooms for every new episode and invite you to join in the fun! Share a little reality fashion drama and holiday cheer with your BPR friends tonight beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET on our sister site Blogging Bravo.

Tonight On The Fashion Show

Reality worlds collide tonight on The Fashion Show:Ultimate Collection as The Real Houswives of Orange County and New Jersey become the model-clients in Episode 5: "Reel to Genteel". We are hosting another live chat room party on our sister site Blogging Bravo beginning at 9:30 p.m. We always have fun snarking along with this show, so come join us!

Tonight On The Fashion Show

Have you been watching the good, cheesy fun of The Fashion Show:Ultimate Collection? Did you know we are hosting a weekly party room on Blogging Bravo? Well, it's never too late to join our crazy cast of fashion reality show chat monsters.

This week, Iman demands your attention! You must design a collection based on this giant fortune cookie!! We should have great fun tonight with this one. Party room opens around 9:30 p.m. and the new episode airs at 10:00 p.m. See you tonight on Blogging Bravo!

Tonight On The Fashion Show

The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection has turned out to be a very entertaining alternative for reality fashion fans in the Project Runway off-season. Join us again tonight on our sister site Blogging Bravo for a live party chat room as we watch Episode 3 together.

Tonight the remaining 10 designers are challenged to create a collection based on the Femme Fatale. What twists and turns await? Join us tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET on Blogging Bravo!

Watching The Fashion Show?

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A reminder that we are live blogging new episodes of Bravo's The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection on our sister site Blogging Bravo. Season 2 is off to a fun start and Iman is making it all so entertaining. And who knows what Calvin Tran up there will say next!

If you liked participating on our weekly Project Runway chats then come join the gang tonight at Blogging Bravo. Chat room goes live at 9:30 p.m. ET. Oh here go blog come!

The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection

Project Runway fans may want to check out Bravo's newly re-tooled replacement series The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection which premieres tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET. Tbone will be hosting a live-blog chat room every week on our sister site Blogging Bravo.

The big news for Season 2 is Iman. She has been brought on as both host and Executive Producer. The 12 designers will be split into two teams of "fashion houses" and are responsible for producing a complete runway show each week. Here's the preview again in case you missed it:

Do you miss the BPR party room? Join us tonight on Blogging Bravo. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. ET, hope to see you there!

Tonight On BPR?

From Tim Gunn's Facebook page: The first Thursday after 'Runway' concludes is always surreal to me. Knowing that no one will want to discuss 'last night's show' with me at my local deli is sort of sad in a way!

We know how you feel, Tim. What are we going to do with ourselves tonight? Usually I would be gearing up for the weekly Project Runway play-by-play/party room festivities, loading photos and researching the challenge and guest judge. We made a lot of new friends this season in the BPR party room and many of you asked to keep it going somehow.

Well against my better judgement and to the great consternation of my family, I've decided to host a live chat room for Season 2 of Bravo's The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection. I know, the first season was awful. But Bravo has taken cues from their viewer base and made major overhauls to both the format and hosts (ahem). Just one name makes all the difference: Iman.

The Fashion Show debuts next Tuesday, November 9 on Bravo. The live chat will not be happening here on BPR but rather on our sister site, Blogging Bravo. We invite all of you BPR party animals to join us over there for The Fashion Show. Even if the show turns out bad you know we will still have fun!

Here's a preview of what's in store:

From the Mailbox

Austin Scarlett looks divine!

Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images

The Project Runway Season One designer was at a shopping event in NYC on May 10th.

More Season 8 audition stories, here, and here.

Aspiring designers please note that The Fashion Show is now casting for season two. Iman is joining Isaac Mizrahi as the new host. Click here for more information.

Michael Kors hosted a fashion show of his Fall 2010 collection yesterday in Connecticut. Click here for the story.

Amanda Fields Models for Keith Lissner

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Amanda has had a busy week. She posed in Keith Lissner's presentation last Thursday and for Leanne Marshall yesterday. You will recognize Keith if you watched "The Fashion Show" on Bravo.

Click here and here for more.

Project Runway Fans Rejoice!

The Fashion Show premieres on Bravo tomorrow night and it is great!

It's natural to make the comparisons but I'm not going to. I'll just say that if you love Project Runway, you'll love The Fashion Show.

The challenges are fun, the hosts and judges are appealing and the designers are very entertaining. (For me, Merlin is a real stand-out.)

Please join us at Blogging Bravo where we will be giving "The Fashion Show" our full attention!

The Fashion Show Preview

This looks like a blast - I can't wait. We will be blogging about "The Fashion Show" here. Please join us!

From The Mailbox

Project Runway Season Two designer Andrae Gonzalo will be teaching sewing classes at Reform School in Los Angeles. Click here for details. BPR's own Christine Haynes is also on the schedule.

Click here for a new article about "The Fashion Show" from the New York Post. Thanks Mark.

See Christian Siriano's Payless Shoe collection preview here. It's not exactly what we saw on the runway...

Afternoon Update

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It's hard to keep up with all of the news today. Bravo has introduced several additional programs including scripted shows.

One for Project Runway fans to look forward to is all about Laura Bennett. Click here for the full press release.

Here is a well-organized breakdown of the new and returning shows. It's kind of hard to keep everything straight.

Conspicuously absent from the list is Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

Christian Siriano was in Chicago for a fashion show last Friday. Click here for the story from our friends at Second City Style.

Click here for a new interview with Isaac Mizrahi about filming "The Fashion Show."

Finally, in what will be the final post regarding this matter, Kenley pleads guilty.

Weekend News

Christian Siriano has designed a limited edition make-up collection for Victoria's Secret. Click here for more information. Is there anything Christian can't do?

Laura Bennett is quoted in this Forbes article. This article also mentions a new reality show all about Laura on Bravo!

Look for Laura on Monday's episode of Oprah - "The Secret Life of Moms."

Meanwhile, I am watching the finale of season three on Bravo this morning - it never gets old - and seeing lots of promos for "The Fashion Show."

Meet The Cast of "The Fashion Show"

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Meet The Hosts and Judges of "The Fashion Show"