KARLIE KLOSS PROJECT RUNWAY SERIES

WWD: Is “Project Runway” the new version of what designers used to mean when they said, “I grew up reading Vogue?” Is it inspiring the next generation of design talent?īrandon Maxwell: I think so. Amy Poehler played me on “Saturday Night Live.”…But memories…we had a real woman challenge with women who had just lost a lot of weight, and we had to take their clothes and fix them. I didn’t know what it was.Įlaine Welterorth: What would Christian Siriano be without “Project Runway?”Ĭ.S.: I of pop culture in a way. WWD: What are your favorite memories of the original “Project Runway?”Ĭhristian Siriano: You guys know I had never seen the show before I was on it, right? I was living in London, and then I moved to New York and my friend’s mom worked at Bravo and said you should audition for this show. WWD got an exclusive sit-down with Kloss, Siriano and the judges to talk about the new format and focus, and catering to the realities and challenges of today’s fashion industry. It’s the first time the CFDA has partnered with the show. The winning designer will receive the largest prize in the show’s history - $250,000 - a feature in Elle magazine and mentorship from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Special guests will include Marni Senofonte, Kendall Jenner’s personal stylist as well as the stylist behind Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Super Bowl 50 looks actress and Siriano muse Danielle Brooks designer Dapper Dan, and rapper and songwriter Cardi B. The show will also give viewers a chance to vote on their favorite designs and buy them online. Challenges will embrace the evolution of the fashion industry in the digital age, and its new channels of distribution, including flash sales. The show will put a new emphasis on inclusion, featuring models of all races and sizes, including the first trans person. The 17 designers competing have a range of experience, and hail from all over the world, including one contestant who is a Syrian refugee, and others who are from India and Samoa. We need to bring this back! And I think it is coming back, having looked at fall shows.Kim Kardashian’s Paris Couture Week Style I think we’re really missing the elegance. We also had glitter butterfly clips - very Britney Spears circa ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time.’” It is glittery eye shadow, which every morning in 7th and 8th grade, me and my best friend would ask, ‘Is there glitter on the eyes? Is there glitter on the cheeks?’ It was always glitter. “Everything! In 2000, that’s when Britney was IT, peak! Do you remember the Mariah video where’s she wearing that little pink top and the low-rise jeans? Stuff like that. I’m going to say the classic miniskirts and chokers.”

I feel like everything has come back into fashion from the 90s and early 2000s. Britney Spears was kind of my fashion inspiration in 2004.

KARLIE KLOSS PROJECT RUNWAY SERIES

Since season 1 of the reality series premiered back in 2004, we asked the cast members what early 2000s trend they would love to bring back to the runway, the red carpet, and mainstream fashion. Before the crew entered the party to sip cucumber martinis and catch a first dramatic glimpse of the upcoming season, the Cut decided to take a trip down memory lane with each of them.

The lineup now includes supermodel and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss, fashion designer and season 4 winner Christian Siriano, editor in chief of Elle Nina García, fashion designer Brandon Maxwell, and former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue Elaine Welteroth.Īccording to many on the red carpet last night, this season of 16 new designers will be the show’s most diverse one yet, and also feature the largest cash prize in the show’s history. Last night, at a cocktail and premiere event at Vandal in Manhattan, the new cast stepped onto the red carpet in celebration of the show’s return to Bravo on March 14. Project Runway is back with a whole new look. From left: Nina Garcia, Elaine Welteroth, Brandon Maxwell, Karlie Kloss, Christian Siriano

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