Project Runway 9 season opens with record 20 talented designers. However, only sixteen years to get one of the places to be on the show. Once the sixteen designers are chosen, they wake up in the morning with one of the most difficult challenges for the first time in series history.
In this season of the Emmy-nominated, the first reality series focuses on fashion designers, Project Runway sixteen designers face each other on the way to the track. Contestants will compete in weekly design challenges at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, until only three remain and face once more in the Fashion Week in New York in February.
Eager to give aspiring designers a chance to enter the hard-to-crack fashion world, supermodel Heidi Klum, once again the head of a group of industry luminaries, including top women and men's clothing designer Michael Kors and Elle magazine fashion director Nina Garcia, who serve as judges and industry mentors charged with selecting and molding the budding designers.
There will also be guest judges each week based on the specific problem. Tim Gunn, Chair of the Parsons The New School for Design, will guide the contestants through each of their challenges. The winning designer will walk away with $ 100,000 in cash to help launch her own line. Winning designs will be presented in an extension of ELLE, photographed by director of journal publishing world renowned Gilles Bensimon. They will also receive a tutorial on the design team of Banana Republic.
In this season of the Emmy-nominated, the first reality series focuses on fashion designers, Project Runway sixteen designers face each other on the way to the track. Contestants will compete in weekly design challenges at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, until only three remain and face once more in the Fashion Week in New York in February.
Eager to give aspiring designers a chance to enter the hard-to-crack fashion world, supermodel Heidi Klum, once again the head of a group of industry luminaries, including top women and men's clothing designer Michael Kors and Elle magazine fashion director Nina Garcia, who serve as judges and industry mentors charged with selecting and molding the budding designers.
There will also be guest judges each week based on the specific problem. Tim Gunn, Chair of the Parsons The New School for Design, will guide the contestants through each of their challenges. The winning designer will walk away with $ 100,000 in cash to help launch her own line. Winning designs will be presented in an extension of ELLE, photographed by director of journal publishing world renowned Gilles Bensimon. They will also receive a tutorial on the design team of Banana Republic.