"Fringe" Actress Jasika Nicole Wears Siriano

Photo: Mazur

This dress is from Christian's Fall 2009 Collection. Jasika looked lovely at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Party Sponsored by BlackBerry and Verizon Wireless on April 29th at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

From The Mailbox

Photo: Ben Hoffman

Project Runway Season Four designer Sweet P (one of her new designs is above) will be one of the judges for the "Discarded to Divine" Fashion Design Contest in San Francisco on May 7. Click here for details.

Click here for a new interview with Kevin Christiana.

Kayne Gillaspie will serve as a judge for the O'More College of Design 11th Annual Fashion Show at the Tennessee Preforming Arts Center on May 7th. Click here for more information.

Jennifer Diederich is designing a custom gown for actress Kellyn Lindsay to wear at the Cannes Film Festival. Click here to follow the story.

Rami Kashou will be one of the judges for the Orange County Rock Icon Design Competition on Saturday. Click here for more.

Bid on "Lunch with Tim Gunn" at the Darien Connecticut YMCA Spring Benefit on Saturday. Click here for more.

Click here for a report from Tim Gunn's visit to Dallas yesterday.

Join Diana Eng at "Fashion Hacking" May 10

I just wanted to let you guys at Blogging Project Runway know that I am hosting Fashion Hacking: Open Working Studio on May 10th which is open to the public.

I will be bringing a bit of Project Runway to my hacker group, NYC Resistor on May 10th when we host Fashion Hacking: Open Working Studio. Come and hack fashion with us. BYOC (bring your own clothes) and we’ll have the tailoring tools, sewing machines, conductive thread, LED’s, soldering irons, and the Laser Cutter to help you hack clothes into fashionable technology. Fashion designers and hardware hackers will be on hand to help you.

This is an open working studio which means that you are free to circulate, work on your own project and look at other projects. Come to session 1, come to session 2, come to both sessions.
Session 1, 1-3 pm, $20
Session 2, 3-5 pm, $20
Buy tickets here.

NYC Resistor Hackspace
397 Bridge St., Floor 5, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Also check out Diana's book here.

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...

Heidi Klum Hosts the "LG Rumorous Night" Party in LA

Photo: John Shearer

Heidi has designed skins for LG Phones and hosted a launch party in Los Angeles on April 28th.
Click here for more including video from the party.
Click here for more photos.

Celebrity Bridal Gowns by Christian Siriano

Brides.com features Christian's sketches for Uma Thurman, Rachel Bilson, Amy Adams and Zooey Deschanel. Click here for more. Thanks Laura G.

Tuesday News

Michael Kors has opened a new flagship store in London. Click here for photos.

Attention Dallas, Tim Gunn will be at Kate Spade NorthPark Center on Wednesday from 1-3 PM and at The Galleria on Thursday from 6-8PM. We'd love a field report and photos.

Entertainment Weekly asks if "fashion-reality" shows are over. Not for me!

From The Mailbox

Heidi admits that she and Seal are hoping for a girl.

Heidi is also on the cover of the June issue of Ocean Drive magazine. Click here for the story from JustJared.

Nick Verreos gave a "How to Dress for the Workplace" talk at "Out For Work" last weekend. Click here for more.

Daniel Franco served as a judge at the California State University Northridge TRENDS Fashion Show. Click here for more.

Kevin Christiana served as a judge at "Project Earth Day" in New York.

Project Runway Season Two designer Heidi Elnora (Standridge) will be at Rock the Runway in Birmingham on Friday. Click here for details.

The Bride Wore Pistol

Photo: Karen Cunningham for NYT

Kit's "Eye Candy" dress was worn by a NYC bride on April 5th. Click here for the full story. Don't miss the slideshow.

Photo: Karen Cunningham

Tim Gunn to Receive Honorary Doctorate From Alma Mater

Tim Gunn will serve as the Commencement Speaker as well as receive an Honorary Doctorate degree from The Corcoran College of Art + Design on May 23rd. Details here.

Attention designers: There is still time to send in your application for Project Runway Season Seven. Deadline is April 30th. Click here for more information.

A Note From Blayne Walsh

hi hi hi BPR!
my show was AMAZING! it was so beautiful and perfect and worthwhile and just...plain...magic!


Photo gallery here. enjoy!

xoxo,
neonliciousnation! aka blayne

Germany's Next Top Model Features Robert Best

Part 1 / Episode 11 / GNTM 2009 - MyVideo Project Runway Season Three designer, Robert Best appears in this episode. Of course, Heidi is adorable. Thank you Yireh.

Christian Siriano News

Photo: Getty Images

Project Runway Season Four winner, Christian Siriano has been very busy. Where does he get the energy?

On April 23rd, Christian attended a screening of "Obsessed." More photos here, and here.

Christian also donated a custom-designed cocktail dress to benefit the American Ballet Theater.

Beginning on Sunday, through May 11th, enter code "MM09" when you check out at Moody Mamas to receive a 30% discount.

From The Mailbox

Tim Gunn is featured in the May 4 issue of OK! magazine. Jezebel has more.

Steven Rosengard will be designing fashions for the next Miss Puerto Rico Pageant. Click here for the press release. Thanks Jimmy and Susan.

This article from the New York Daily News includes more information about Lifetime's new programming as well as this gem from Tim: "I just want to express my huge relief that 'Project Runway' has come out of the ether and landed at Lifetime. It's thrilling for all of us associated with the show. I've never worked with such extraordinary, thoughtful, compassionate and just plain smart people ever."

Beyonce Wears a Jillian Lewis Design

Photo: Devaney

Rain in NYC yesterday caused Beyonce to reach for this fabulous coat by Jillian Lewis.

Photo: Devaney

A similar coat from Jillian is available here.

Thanks Lewaa.

From The Mailbox

Leanne Marshall's line for Bluefly will be eco-friendly. Click here for more.

Click here for a new interview with Tim Gunn.

Click here for Seattle Fashion Week coverage of Blayne Walsh. Thanks Julia.

Click here for Rondi's recap of the Project Runway Canada Finale.

Season 6 Debuts August 20!

Pictured from L to R at the big annuncement: Tim Gunn, Andrea Wong, Nina Garcia and Bob Weinstein. Photo: Thos Robinson, courtesy of Lifetime Networks.

Okay - this makes more sense:

NEW YORK, NY (April 21, 2009) – Lifetime Television sews up the summer with the highly anticipated Emmy®-nominated and Peabody® Award-winning hit series Project Runway, premiering on Thursday, August 20, at 10PM ET/PT. Produced by The Weinstein Company and Bunim-Murray Productions, host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn and judges Michael Kors (leading fashion designer) and Nina Garcia (Fashion Director of Marie Claire Magazine), will guide sixteen new contestants as they show off their design skills to see who makes the cut for Fashion Week. Filmed in Los Angeles and New York, Project Runway also features influential guest judges from the worlds of fashion, music, film and television.

"I am a huge fan of Project Runway and could not be happier that Season Six will be premiering on Lifetime, the #1 network for women," said Andrea Wong, President and CEO, Lifetime Networks. "The talent in this all-new season is nothing short of amazing, and I can’t wait for all of the fans to see the incredible work of these brilliant designers."

Models of the Runway, an exciting new companion series, will air at 11:00PM ET/PT, beginning August 20, immediately following Project Runway. Each 30-minute episode will give fans a behind-the-scenes look at the reality competition – from the models’ perspective. Viewers can experience the drama, anxiety, joys, tears and frustrations as the models themselves face elimination each week and compete for a cash prize and photo spread in Marie Claire magazine.

So it's a Thursday night, 10:00 p.m. run for Season 6. We can't wait!

From The Mailbox

Freelance photographer Katie Sokoler went out this past week and captured some great shots, including this one of Christian Siriano and boyfriend Brad Walsh at Tori Spelling's book release party.

Christian is participating in a great benefit event for St. Jude's Hospital called Design Cares where he will recreate a "dream evening gown" design from one of the St. Jude's patients that will be modeled and walked down the runway by his winning Season 4 model Lisa Nagri.

Tim Gunn continues to be the primary font of new information concerning Season 6. This time, he tells Style Hop that the Models of the Runway show "will air during the 30 minutes after Project Runway and will follow Heidi’s mentor-ship of the models, much like mine with the designers.” Style Hop also reports that the premiere date for Season 6 will be revealed "later this week". We'll wait and see if Harvey Weinstein's previous reveal of August 15 has stood firm. UPDATE: See post above.

Kara Janx has a sample sale going on this week, featuring 50 - 80 % off her spring/summer collection.

Quote of the day from BPR fave Elisa Jimenez: “I will be forever known as the girl who spits on clothes. That’s not so bad.”

Yankee Doodle Dandies

Photo courtesy of Wes Feld Design

Okay - we love this. The most storied franchise in Major League Baseball picked a couple of class guys to outfit the luxury suite staff at the sparkling new Yankee Stadium. Let Wesley Neault and Daniel Feld tell the rest:

Hi BPR!!!

It has been a crazy few weeks for us at Wes Feld. Thursday, April 16th marked the grand opening of the new Yankee Stadium. After several meetings with the Yankees, including Ms. Jenny Steinbrenner, we created a great little wardrobe for each of the the staff members of the luxury suites.

The looks included a raglan-cap sleeved dress with ruffled shirt yoke, a relaxed trouser and striped shirt with piped bias yoke, and a pleated wrap skirt and striped shirt with shadow ruffle. It was down to the last second sewing over 170 pieces in just under a month and tailoring each of the garments to every single staff member.

We have to especially thank Stella Zotis who is an angel sent from fashion heaven. Even though she was feeling a bit under the weather, Stella spent several late nights with us making sure everything was finished for opening day. We adore and are forever greatful to her! We also wanted to thank our dear friend Brian Dargiewicz who also came out to the rescue! He's an amazing guy, learning how to sew buttons on the spot. Phewwwwf..... it's finally done and we can go back to working on our own collection!!!

Stella does the Yankees! Just another springtime in New York...

Season 6: "purported cheating"

Tim Gunn continues to do his part in building the Season 6 hype machine with this juicy nugget he dropped on The Miami Herald:

What can we expect from Season 6?

"It's a great season. I'll say there's a big-time shocker, some purported cheating . . . The blogs will be clogged. They won't be able to vent enough about it.''

Paired with his recent promise to make one of the judges wear a winning dress, it sounds as if we may be in for some Season 3 type drama! More of this to come, we're sure.