(Stella, we miss you.) There’s the bitchy twink who is annoyingly good. There’s the one who really, really loves leather. ![]() We have the stern bohemian who only likes to design in black. The casting, though narrower than Project Runway’s, follows some familiar patterns. Oh, and the cash prize is a whopping $1 million. The designers have an unseen seamstress who assembles their garments once they’ve figured out the pattern (a luxury and a practicality-designing looks that can be mass produced is a key to this whole thing). Every episode features a big runway show in some exotic location, all filmed with the cinematic gloss of The Hills or, more contemporarily, Chef’s Table. The show is eager to show off its wealth, flying contestants to New York only to immediately jet them off to Paris for a run of episodes, followed by a stint in Tokyo. Making the Cut is about money, honey-not something as quaint as simple talent. The series is still about the art of design, but the commerce side of things-the building of a Brand-weighs heavy on the contestants and judges’ minds. Which is to say, they’ve teamed up with Amazon for Making the Cut (premiering March 27), a new fashion design competition series that takes a harder, more business-minded approach to determining who’s in and who’s out-excuse me, who makes the cut and who doesn’t. It could run for dozens more seasons unbothered.īut what of Heidi and Tim? What became of them? Well, it seems they got sick of Runway’s relatively DIY, stuck-on-a-soundstage amateur hour and fully sold out. No one expects the winners to go on to great fame and fortune anymore, really the fun of the series is just watching the process. ![]() I may mourn Klum’s relative kookiness whenever Kloss is droning on flatly, but otherwise Project Runway remains what it always was: an entertaining series about fashion designers-some scrappy, some genuinely talented, and a rare few (usually the winners) who are both of those things. ![]() Instead, though, model Karlie Kloss and past Runway winner Christian Siriano stepped into Klum and Gunn’s roles and the show soldiered on just fine. An era had ended and the show was doomed. When Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn left Project Runway, the fashion competition show they’d hosted for 16 seasons, many fans of the series figured all was lost.
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