The National Arts Club Fashion Committee presents:
FashionSpeak Fridays
Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fashion Friday, April 19th 6-8pm
"As you know in fashion, one day you're in, and the next day, you're out. " Heidi Klum
For ten glorious seasons we have heard the iconic line uttered on the groundbreaking television series, Project Runway.
To commemorate this decade of fashion eye candy, journalist Eila Mell goes behind the scenes of this television and fashion landmark with her new book, Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fashion. She reveals how the show began and developed over the years, highlights ten seasons of hits and misses, and reveals what the designers are doing today. She also interviews the people behind the scenes, the top designers as well as workroom mentor Tim Gunn and judges Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia, and Michael Kors.
Eila Mell is one of the industry’s go-to fashion authors, previously authoring New York Fashion Week: The Designers, the Models, the Fashions of the Bryant Park Era. Eila has been featured in a variety of media including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Zink Magazine, ELLE Canada, The Huffington Post and The Insider on CBS. She is also the New York editor and on-air correspondent of fashionWATCH Canada,.
Joining Eila in conversation are favorite contestants Andrae Gonzalo, Emilio Sosa and Viktor Luna .
Books will be available for purchase.
Project Runway-worthy fashions are highly encouraged!
FREE
RSVP: fashion@thenationalartsclub.org
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Project Runway All-Star designer, Andrae Gonzalo talks about his experience on the show.
BPR: This is Laura Kluvo from Blogging Project Runway and I'm on the phone with Project Runway All-Star designer, Andrae Gonzalo - Hi Andrae!
AG: Hello!
BPR: Congratulations on making the cast of the All-Stars!
AG: Thank you!
BPR: What is the best thing about being an All-Star?
AG: I have two answers actually. First, there was a period of time during the filming that we believed that Michelle Obama was going to be a judge. There was evidence that really fed that fantasy. That was probably the best fifteen minutes of my life...
Also, being an independent fashion designer is just so difficult and for the first time in the history of the show, the prize is so generous. Just contemplating the possibility of winning the prize... Not just the seed money, but the technology and the equipment and the SPACE. I live in New York and space comes at a really big premium. When you are making your own samples, you need a really big table and space is such a luxury.
Just the window - being able to look through that window into the opportunity, that was great.
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Thank you Andrae!
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Our polls for Episode 2 are closed. You agreed with the judges and felt that Uli Herzner deserved the win. Click here to see the results. You disagreed with judges and thought that Andrae should have been out. Click here to see the results.
Check back with us tomorrow for our Episode 3 poll.
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