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…)

Ever wonder what happens to the cast-off T-shirts worn by prisoners?

No, we didn’t either.

Until we heard about Raquel Allegra. The L.A.-based designer gathers worn-out jailbird white Ts by the ton and then magically turns them into delicate, sheer pieces of clothing/art.

Her designs are amazing transformations: she distresses, stretches, cuts, makes sheer, rips and creates spider-webby looks out of the L.A. County Jail rejects to make everything from tops to dresses to men’s shirts to scarves. (more…)

Let us give thanks.

Advance buzz on Running in Heels, the Style network’s new reality series that premieres Sunday, is breathless, in all those fashion-reality-show ways: There will be clothes to ogle, pretty people living in a pretty SoHo loft, Nina Garcia (in her new role as fashion editor at Marie Claire) losing patience with people, and interns crying. We cannot wait.

Unlike Stylista, the CW network’s show where interns at Elle magazine compete to be the last one standing, no one gets kicked off of Running in Heels. Instead, the show will strive for more of “a documentary feel,” according to Joanna Coles, the editor of Marie Claire (this makes us raise our eyebrows in amusement, but maybe our definition of “documentary” isn’t what’s relevant here.) Four camera crews record the adventures of interns Ashley, Talita and Samantha (left to right, in above photo) as they learn their way around a fashion magazine and, more importantly, get involved in all sorts of (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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