Bravo’s Project Runway returns with a slate of 16 fresh designers

Bravo is prepared for us to satisfy the subsequent slate of designers vying to hitch final season’s winner, Geoffrey Mac, within the pantheon of the longstanding hit competitors sequence. The sixteen rivals in Undertaking Runway‘s nineteenth season could have their work reduce out for them as the primary to compete within the wake of the pandemic, charged with serving to “revitalize the style trade.”

Within the season premiere, airing Thursday, Oct. 14, at 9 p.m., the aspiring designers are instructed not merely to make it work, within the immortal phrases of the present’s former mentor Tim Gunn, however to do extra: the bolder, the higher.

“The time is now for daring, brilliant, don’t-hold-back, in-your-face coloration,” they’re advised. Moreover, they’ll be divided into two groups and targeted on creating “cohesive collections of monochromatic excessive vogue appears to be like celebrating coloration.”

Season 4 winner Christian Siriano returns as mentor, joined by judges Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell, and Elaine Welteroth. Visitor judges for the brand new season will embody actors Billy Porter and Taraji P. Henson, supermodels Karlie Kloss and Gigi Hadid, designers Jason Wu and Christopher John Rogers, mannequin and TikTok creator Knowledge Kaye, and Bravo chief Andy Cohen.

The successful designer will obtain a grand prize of $250,000 furnished by FriXion Erasable Pens, whereas Maybelline New York and TRESemmé return as unique make-up and hair care companions.

The designers will compete in 90-minute episodes with challenges together with producing a “hauntingly” stylish look, an avant-garde look from fake fur, an unconventional cocktail gown with a twist, and — new this yr — the final word Actual Housewives reunion outfit for girls from The Actual Housewives of Orange County, The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis, and The Actual Housewives of Potomac.

The season’s runway exhibits will likely be set at Lincoln Middle and the hidden gardens at Rockefeller Middle, all earlier than the finalists make their debut presenting a set throughout New York Trend Week.

This yr’s designers are Octavio Aguilar from Miami, Darren Apolonio from New York, Kenneth Barlis from San Diego, Caycee Black and Bones Jones from Brooklyn, Coral Castillo from Los Angeles, Meg Ferguson from Tulsa, Prajjé Oscar Jean-Baptiste from Philadelphia, Kristina Karlashkina from New York, Katie Kortman from Japan, Shantall Lacayo from Miami, Aaron Michael from Mississippi, Chastity Sereal from Houston, Zayden Skipper from Atlanta, Sabrina Spanta from Michigan, and Anna Yinan Zhou from San Francisco.

New episodes of Undertaking Runway air each Thursday starting October 14, at 9 p.m., on Bravo, and can be found the next day on Peacock. Go to www.bravotv.com/project-runway.

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