Project Runway Australia
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| Created by | Eli Holzman |
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 44 |
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| Producer(s) | FremantleMedia Australia |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
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| Original network | Arena |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 7 July 2008 – 17 December 2012 |
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Project Runway Australia is a reality television show based on the American program Project Runway, wherein fashion designers residing in Australia compete by making specific garments for weekly challenges. The show features Megan Gale as the host, and Peter Morrissey and Claudia Navone as judges. Alex Perry acts as a mentor to the contestants, as Tim Gunn does in the American version. Production began in May 2008, and the show premiered on Arena 8.30 p.m. (AEST) Monday 7 July 2008. The show ended after 4 seasons, with the final season airing on 17 December 2012.
The prizes for the winner of Project Runway Australia included what is described as "$100,000 opportunity" to create their own fashion line to show in Melbourne Fashion Week, a new car, the model of which changes throughout the seasons, and having their clothes displayed in a six-page spread in the now defunct Madison magazine.
The original judging panel consisted of fashion model Kristy Hinze, Sarah Gale, a fashion buyer and a fashion trends forecaster, and Jayson Brunsdon, a fashion designer in Australia. Brunsdon has dressed celebrities including INXS, Princess Mary, and Linda Evangelista. For the first two seasons, Henry Roth served as the mentor to the designers. He is a fashion designer who lived in New York for 10 years and was a judge on the program Style Court.
Hinze, Sarah Gale and Brunsdon were replaced by Megan Gale, Kirrily Johnston and Jarrad Clark respectively for the third season, with Alex Perry replacing Henry Roth as mentor.
In 2012 fashion designer Peter Morrissey and fashion stylist Claudia Navone joined the show as judges. Megan Gale remained as host.
Project Runway uses progressive elimination to reduce the initial field of 10 or more fashion designers down to 3 or 4 before the final challenge. Each non-finale challenge (the scope of one episode) requires the designers to develop one or several pieces of new clothing to be presented at an in-house runway show. The challenges range in creative diversity to test the designers' ingenuity while maintaining their personal design aesthetic. These challenges may include creating a garment from non-traditional materials, such as car parts or recyclable materials; to designing for a certain high-profile person (example, singer Kelly Rowland), a corporate fashion line (example, Myer, or centered around a specialized theme such as "cocktail party", "wedding gown", or "bikini".
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