Reason to live: Project Runway Season 6 will actually air. On television, even, now that NBC (which owns Bravo) and Lifetime have settled their multi-million-dollar legal spat.

Reason to worry: The show is moving to Lifetime. So things are changing, after all, and The Style Insider’s anxiety level about whether (more…)

Here’s how Project Runway usually works:

A cast of brilliant, edgy, fashion misfits bent on showing the world their particular brand of creativity is chosen to compete for a chance to win $100,000 and to show their work at Fashion Week. The contestants, corralled and mentored by gentleman extraordinaire Tim Gunn, work their way through all manner of challenges as the viewers watch. Someone gets eliminated every week after intense scrutiny and occasionally caustic remarks by judges Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia. There is drama. There are tears. There is, often, some truly awful fashion. And by the time we get to Fashion Week, everyone who watches is firmly in the camp of one designer or the other, and watches with bated breath to see whose collection will win.          

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Jupiter must be aligning with Mars, or some other celestial event is taking place, because there are more celebrities than ever coming out with their own fashion lines, or stepping up to become spokespeople for fashion houses. Here are just a few of the latest:

Heroes star Hayden Panettiere is designing a second handbag for Dooney & Bourke. Not only is the actress their spokesmodel, but now she’s created the “Hayden Clutch”  (with a little help from Peter Dooney) that will be sold starting in December for $295, say the enterprising Off the Rack bloggers at People.com. The clutch (pictured above with Panettiere) features a lion’s head gold clasp because that’s Hayden’s astrological sign.

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