Project Runway season 16 made a bad decision to let Shawn and Claire Buitendorp face off in an epic twin battle instead of just eliminating one of them.
A lament about Project Runway’s twins, who won Twinning
A recap of Project Runway 16’s second episode, “An Unconventional Recycling,” which gave more focus to Twinning winners Claire and Shawn Buitendorp.
Project Runway 16 changed more than just its models
A recap of Project Runway season 16 episode 1, which introduced models who have a range of sizes, plus other changes. And twins.
Project Runway season 16 will have models from size 0 to 22
Project Runway season 16’s contestants will design clothes for models who are model-size and plus-size, addressing a problem in the fashion industry.
Please, Project Runway Junior, never grow up or get old
Tim Gunn agrees: Project Runway Junior is the best Project Runway. And its second season—which began its conclusion last night on Lifetime—hasn’t changed that at all. This is a talent competition that is everything a talent competition should be: challenging, joyful, emotional, and all together wonderful, a celebration of art and struggle. From Tim Gunn to the edit, the contestants are treated… continue reading
Why Tim Gunn would choose Project Runway Junior over the original
Tim Gunn loves Project Runway Junior so much, he’d choose it over the original. He explained why on NPR’s Ask Me Another.
Tim Gunn bowling is the best thing you’ll see today
One of the many highlights of Project Runway season 15 was Tim Gun bowling during his finalist home visits. Watch the birth of a jock.
This year will end and 2017 will begin in the best possible way: Project Runway Junior season two
Lifetime has announced the premiere date for Project Runway Junior season two, which starts at the end of 2016 and will continue into the new year.
Recap: Project Runway 15’s launch party
A recap of Project Runway season 15’s premiere episode, “An Unconventional Launch Party,” with three highlights: champagne, creativity, and laughter.
Project Runway season 15’s cast, premiere date, and guest judges
Lifetime announced the premiere date for Project Runway 15, along with its cast. All its judges—Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia, Zac Posen—and Tim Gunn will return.
More Project Runway, Junior, All-Stars coming, plus fashion Shark Tank
Lifetime has renewed Project Runway and its spin-offs for six collective seasons, and also picked up a Shark Tank-like series, Fashion, Inc.
Why Project Runway Junior is the best Project Runway
Lifetime’s Project Runway Junior ends its first season tonight having absolutely eclipsed the show’s other attempts at spin-offs—Project Runway: All Stars, Project Accessory, and the dismal kid-centered Project Runway: Threads.
This surprises me even as I write it, but the show is better, in many ways, than the original. Project Runway Junior has everything about the original series that I love and none of the things I don’t.
The wonderful surprise of Project Runway Junior
Project Runway Junior is, surprisingly, not another MasterChef Junior, a charming show with talented kids. Nor is it like one of the many clones that popped up after MasterChef Junior’s success, most of which failed to see what made the original so great (talent + charm + seriousness). It is also not, thankfully, Project Runway: Threads, the 2014 well-intentioned but flop of a… continue reading
Thoughts on bias and whether Tim Gunn failed as a mentor with Swapnil
Sometimes on the Internet—a very nice place that was ruined once humans started using it—people accuse me of bias in my television criticism. Considering that criticism is writing designed to share my opinion, analysis, and preferences, this kind of accusation makes me laugh, and also makes my face turn all Madeline Kahn in Clue. What these fine folks mean actually… continue reading
Project Runway breaks the fourth wall and Tim Gunn breaks down
There’s something about Project Runway recently that has made it feel a little lifeless and listless. Maybe it was the move away out the city to a studio. Maybe it’s the casting. Or maybe it’s just the nature of this reality competition: Throughout its life, it has dipped into mediocrity (a weak start on Lifetime; a terrible final season on Bravo) and… continue reading