Project Runway

More on the DVF X HP Fashion’s Night Out Event

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Diane Von Furstenberg is collaborating with HP on a Fashion’s Night Out event to be held at her Meatpacking District studio. Guests will be able to play with fancy new HP technology as well as a photo booth where participants can pose in DVF looks and print the images on wireless printers.

We’ve already touched on the trend of tech companies trying to target girls and this isn’t the first step HP has taken to build a presence within the fashion world. Last year, the computer makers collaborated on a laptop with Vivienne Tam, which debuted in her Spring 2010 runway show. In March, Project Runway contestants were challenged to create fabric patterns on HP computers and turn them into actual garments. Tam guest judged. HP also did a collaboration with Sex and the City 2.

Furstenberg isn’t typically big on collaborations, but we think it would be interesting and not so surprising if a DVF-designed HP laptop came out of this event.

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Ten Questions For Project Runway

1) Oh, Project Runway, why? Georgina Chapman AGAIN? Harvey, why don’t you just put yourself up there as a judge and be done with it? (Oh, and congratulations on the impending bundle of joy.)

2) Did Team Luxe really think they could sneak that neutral nightmare past Michael Kors, the king of camel sportswear?

3) Should we really trust Michael C a designer who wears Ed Hardy shirts everyday? I’m not sure they’re even genuine Ed Hardy.

4) We can forgive Tim for making up the phrase “youthened up,” right?

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Ten Questions For Project Runway

1) Do you think Philip Treacy ever throws a diva fit and just hollers and screams at everyone? His reserve is impressive.

2) Did Ivy say she was inspired by hospital curtains?

3) The upside down rose hat didn’t work with Heidi’s mom-shag, did it? At least now we know why she was wearing it a few months ago.

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Ten Questions for Project Runway

1) How fantastically snarky is the editing this season? The St. Gretchen montage at the beginning of the show was classic.

2) Should we continue the Tim Gunn word-of-the-week? This week you must use “Schiaparelli-like” in a sentence. Alternatively, I’ll accept “woolly animal balls.”

3) Why didn’t Betsey Johnson do any cartwheels?

4) ”Mustache or no mustache?”–Mondo (This is a question I ask myself everyday.)

5) Was Michael’s comment: “Everyone knows you love a hot glue gun” to AJ a euphemism or not?

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More Fashion’s Night Out Details From Around the World, Including Where Hamish and Rachel Zoe Will Be

Sick of hearing about Fashion’s Night Out? If so, you’re going to be suffering for the next month–and not just here, but all over the world. We have for you another round up of new details–the last one you’ll get from us before Monday’s big reveal on Nyc.gov (which won’t include events outside of New York, by the way). Click through for news from all over.

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Ten Questions for Project Runway

1) Oh, another challenge where the winner’s design gets to appear in a *yawn* Marie Claire ad?

2) What is with the new trend of the designers blaming their models when things are not going well? We’re talking to you Creepy Jason “She is NOT a runway model” and Peach “There’s nothing there.”

3) Doesn’t Tim have the best vocabulary? Your assignment is to use the word “discordant” at least once today.

4) Which contestant quote was better: “She looks like she’s covered with Barbie’s sofa” or “That skirt is so short it should be in a rap video”?

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Ten Questions for Project Runway

1) Did Tim’s voice get deeper? And does he seem bored? And are these things possibly related?

2) Who wore bangs better, Selma Blair or Heidi?

3) Is it ironic that the judges have bitched so much in the past about contestants who too literally copy famous designers, and then the show allowed that fugly Valentino Petale rip-off bag to be used?

4) I have so many questions about Casanova, I don’t know where to begin. To summarize: Is he a joke or really on the show?

5) Who wants to adopt Peach as their mom, despite her taste in pants?

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Piperlime to Replace “Bluefly Accessories Wall” on Project Runway

For those of you out there still watching, season eight of Project Runway begins July 29 on Lifetime.

There are several changes in store for the long-running program. First, each episode of the new season will have a running time of ninety minutes (yes, you heard that right), which we can only hope will mean more Tim Gunn screen time. Next, the number of contestants has increased to seventeen from the usual sixteen.

Finally, the famed “Bluefly Accessories Wall” will change to the “Piperlime Accessories Wall”. The company has redesigned the wall by painting it Piperlime’s signature green, and will have a shopable “accessories wall” on its website so that viewers can purchase styles that are featured on the show.

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Apocalypse Now: Five Styles I’m Going to Try If the World Is Ending

Last week, a giant statue of Jesus was hit with a lightning bolt and burned to the ground—regardless of what faith you keep, that seems like a pretty universal sign for “not good.” Here are five trends I’d like to try—pending, of course, that the world’s going to end either way.

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Project Runway’s Open Casting Call

Do you have what it takes to be the next big fashion designer? Do you have a big personality? Project Runway wants you! Season Eight is casting now, and just in case you missed the deadline for submitting your application, the producers are holding an open casting call here in NYC. On Friday, May 7th [...]

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What Should Happen to Project Runway?

The season 7 finale of Project Runway is now behind us. (For those who haven’t Googled it yet, Seth Aaron won.) People have been mumbling with increasing intensity about the decline of the show, myself included. PR was so ground-breaking in the beginning, especially for those of us who love fashion. To see the process [...]

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Ten Questions for Project Runway

1. What did Season 7 winner Seth Aaron do to his eyebrows and who flat-ironed only the sides of his hair? Someone get him to the Garnier hair studio, pronto. 2. This is a three part question: Isn’t Faith Hill a country singer? Are country singers known for their fashion savvy? Isn’t Faith Hill a [...]

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