“Designers, make it paintings!” Project Runway contestants have been stitching up a typhoon since 2004 — and one of the winners are still changing the sport of the rage business to at the moment.
The long-running reality series challenges up-and-coming designers to create original clothes limited by way of time, subject matter and theme. From 2004 to 2018, the display was hosted by way of Heidi Klum with model guru Tim Gunn performing as a mentor for the competition. The longtime costars confirmed in September 2018 that they would not be returning for the display’s seventeenth season after signing onto Amazon Prime’s Making the Cut. They were changed by way of Karlie Kloss and season 4 Project Runway winner Christian Siriano.
“We were in lockstep … I never dreamed that [Project Runway] would have a second season,” Gunn informed Variety in a joint interview with Klum in March 2020. “Who knew? … There’s a love and respect there that we’ll always have.”
Through its more than 250 episodes, Project Runway has been a champion for diversity and innovation in the model business. Despite dealing with “stigma” for his unconventional upward thrust to the highest of the design world, Siriano credited his time at the sequence with helping him transform a household identify.
“Right now, in our global, with what’s going down in our tradition and the entirety, I feel such as you simply have to seek out new techniques to improve your corporate and your brand. Young designers and young businesses are going beneath every single day,” he instructed the Washington Post in April 2019. “So I in point of fact handled it as, ‘I can show the world what I can do — and possibly bring a new generation of shopper to us.’ And I imply, obviously, when I was on that display, I was 21 years old — a real child! And now, having a trade, Forty employees, a real company, folks can see what you start with and what you'll be able to turn it into.”
As Kloss and Siriano step into their new roles on the runway, they’ve introduced alongside shiny new voices at the judges’ panel, like designer Brandon Maxwell and former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue Elaine Welteroth.
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“I feel it’s been cool to turn into the legacy logo of Project Runway into one thing that feels truly relevant for this second, this time,” Welteroth advised Parade mag in April 2020. “We all had a say and had enter. It felt like there was once no reason to proceed on with a legacy logo like Project Runway if it wasn’t going to truly reflect what’s happening in the world right now and if it wasn’t going to be inclusive.”
Scroll down to have a look back at Project Runway winners through the years.
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