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Nina Garcia Dishes on Project Runway’s Tricky Challenges
September 23rd, 2009 / Author: Laura LaneTV Weekly Recap: The Diet Detective and Tim Gunn!
April 24th, 2009I’m not the type of girl to let just anyone snoop around my kitchen.
But when I heard that behavioral specialist Charles Stuart Platkin, star of the new reality series I Want to Save Your Life, was in town, I decided to extend an invitation.
On the show, Charles helps overweight people get control over the poor eating habits and set them on the path of a healthier and happier life.
“It’s a show with a heart,” he says.
While his guests apply to be on the weight loss show, their first meeting is a total surprise.
“I spy on them first,” says Charles, who enlists their family and friends to follow them at work and play.
“I try to review their behaviors.”
Once Charles has grasped their food and lifestyle habits, he makes his move.
“It’s kind of like an intervention, and typically, it’s a bad food moment,” he says.
“It’s not too humiliate them, but many people who are overweight tend to say, ‘I don’t eat a lot,’ but it’s right there, it’s undeniable.”
Charles stays with them a week to help incorporate exercise and healthy eating into their lives. He returns in four months to review their progress.
“There’s a likelihood they’ll keep it off because they are doing it where they are in life, in their own environment, with their family members’ encouragement,” he explains.
“Taking somebody and putting them in a camp, that’s not the real world.”
Which brings us back to what’s in my kitchen, or more aptly put, what isn’t.
“You need more fruits and vegetables,” Charles advises, adding that this non-cook should stock up on organic frozen meals and try making food in batches on the weekend.
But don’t take my word for it. Check it out for yourself…
I Want to Save Your Life premieres Saturday, April 25 at 10 p.m. on WEtv.
In other news: I attended the Lifetime upfront this week, where they announced that Project Runway will finally debut on the network Aug. 20.
At my table was none other than new Marie Claire fashion director Nina Garcia, working a fierce jodhpur pantsuit, and Tim Gunn, who looked polished as always.
Being around these two, anyone could have a fashion meltdown, but my nerves were soothed when Tim exclaimed he loved my BCBG Generation high-waisted dress.
And Tim would like me to share some advice with the rest of my pint-sized fashionistas:
“Learn to get things altered to fit,” he declares.
So true!
Till next time, fellow fanatics!
Project Runway: Summer Release
April 21st, 2009
After a long scuffle between networks, Project Runway is finally ready to debut on its new home channel, Lifetime this summer.
Host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn and judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia are all set to return to the airwaves on Aug. 20, as the show moves from Bravo to Lifetime.
“I am a huge fan of Project Runway and could not be happier that Season Six will be premiering on Lifetime, the #1 network for women,” says Andrea Wong, President and CEO, Lifetime Networks. “The talent in this all-new season is nothing short of amazing, and I can’t wait for all of the fans to see the incredible work of these brilliant designers.”
In addition to getting Project Runway back, a new seires, Models of the Runway, will air right afterwards, featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the competition from the models’ perspectives.
Project Runway: Season six secrets revealed!
February 25th, 2009
Spoiler alert! Project Runway judge Nina Garcia’s move from Elle magazine to fashion rival Marie Claire made a strong case that the fashion competition series wouldn’t be just changing networks, but periodicals as well.
While the switch has never been confirmed by the show, the appearance of Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles at the season six Project Runway New York Fashion Week show last Friday pretty much sealed that it’s a done deal.
But that’s just the tip of the yet-to-run season’s many secrets, OK! reporter Laura Lane learned after the TV Fanatic snagged her a seat at the runway presentation in Bryant Park.
Contrary to rumors that eight of the designers from the upcoming season would be showing their collections, only three designers’ threads made their way down the runway. And according to Runway models, the three finalists are women, again!
The series will start off (when it finally makes it on air!) with a special celebrity guest, none other than Lindsay Lohan!
According to her mom, Dina, who spoke with Laura after the show, Lindsay has “an amazing style. She’s been into fashion since she was young. I couldn’t get her out of malls when she was five. She just loves shopping and fashion.”
Like those Christian Louboutin boots, okay?
Project Runway’s debut on Lifetime is still on indefinite hold, but you can see more of Nina and the whole Marie Claire team on their new series Running in Heels, which premieres March 1 at 8 p.m. on Style Network.
Project Runway Secrets Revealed
February 20th, 2009
Although the final designers’ collections from Project Runway were shown this morning during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in NYC, the show still doesn’t have an air date after wrangling between the Bravo and Lifetime Networks.
In the meantime, certain secrets about the show came to light this morning, when a few models who were in the show revealed to OK! that there will be three finalists, all of them women, and two of them blonde.
Doesn’t make for much information until the season starts, but the guy designers apparently have no hope of a win this year.
That magic number of three finalists was a relief to Season 4 winner Christian Siriano, who says Heid Klum told him there would be a whopping 10 collections shown from the contestants!
"I thought it was going to be like ten shows coming down the runway," he says. "[Heidi) told me that too. She lied. She’s got to twist the stories.”
Christian liked the third collection best, adding, "I thought there were pieces I could do without but I thought they were really strong.”
Judge Nina Garcia, however, wouldn’t pick a favorite, but did reveal that the winner would be chosen today.
"We’re judging this afternoon," she tells OK!, adding that they didn’t have any information as to when the show would premiere.
Heidi Klum Blows Off Project Runway Party
October 21st, 2008
It sounds like a case of Project Run Away.
Project Runway host Heidi Klum, 35, said “auf wiedersehen” to the show’s finale party — choosing to go to a friend’s fashion show instead.
And it wasn’t just the supermodel who ducked out of the bash either.
“Tim Gunn, Nina Garcia and Heidi were all in L.A. but none of them showed up,” a
Bravo insider told OK! at the Oct. 15 party, which was sponsored by Martell Cognac.
“The show has a new production company so the party was a last hurrah for most of
the crew," said our source.
"Everyone was disappointed that Heidi didn’t show. It was a slap in the face.”
Where was Heidi? At Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier’s runway show, “It ended around 9 p.m., but she was in no hurry to leave,” source told OK!.
Project Runway Changes Its Cover
September 26th, 2008
After five seasons, there are plenty of changes in store for the next go-around for reality hit Project Runway. In addition to the previously announced move from NYC to L.A., and from Bravo to Lifetime, OK! has learned that the show will be taking its magazine partnership away from Elle, who has featured all the previous Runway winners’ work in its pages, and moving to Marie Claire.
The change in masthead shouldn’t come as too huge of a shock — Runway judge (and former Elle fashion director) Nina Garcia recently made the same move herself when she was named Fashion Director for Marie Claire.
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OK! caught up with Nina at a Marie Claire party on Thursday to celebrate her joining the magazine, and the opinionated fashionista was just gushing with good things to say about her new gig. "I’m very excited about Marie Claire," she told OK!. "It’s a magazine that is deeply passionate about women’s issues. It offers practical, yet beautiful fashion. That ties very much into my philosophy, my books. It’s the perfect match."
The two-part finale for the current season of Project Runway airs Oct. 8 and 15 on Bravo.
Project Runway Goes to Hollywood
September 12th, 2008
At the NYC Marie Claire party honoring Project Runway judge Nina Garcia, OK! got a firsthand peek at the changes hitting the show for it’s sixth season, including a move across country, to L.A.!
"We’re in L.A.! What could be more exciting about that?" Garcia told OK! exclusively. "I think you’ll see a Hollywood-celebrity angle."
Set to begin airing in January, 2009, the show’s jump to the West Coast isn’t the only change audiences will see this season. The show will move from the Bravo Network to the Lifetime Network and will feature the designers confronting new challenges.
"We do have some new twists and things for them [designers]," says show creator Heidi Klum. "The look will change a little bit; The style of the room and the runway, where they work, their house, the way they live together. The gist of the show will stay the same, but they [designers] will make it different."
And expect a lot more celebrity judges!
"We will have a lot of celebrities on," Heidi tells OK! exclusively. "A lot of people know more about the show that didn’t in the beginning. So we do have more people who call now and want to be on the show, versus before."
Heidi Klum, Tina Fey Style Peabody Awards
June 25th, 2008
30 Rock and Project Runway are among winners at the Peabody Awards held at Waldorf-Astoria in NYC. Style is on everyone’s mind.
What’s the key to Heidi’s style?
“You have to feel good in what you wear,” the mom of three says. “You have to feel good when you walk out of the house, and really mean it.”
Her Project Runway costar Tim Gunn agrees Ms. Klum’s style is just right.
“Heidi has incredible self-awareness about what looks good on her,” he says. “She’s a master of fit. She knows. You can’t pull anything off on Heidi. You can’t delude her into thinking something looks good on her when it doesn’t. She knows. It’s everything from the hair to the makeup to the shoes.”
What are his summer picks and pans?
“I love summer because people can be relaxed and appropriate as opposed to relaxed and inappropriate,” Tim says. “It’s a time to loosen up. For men, I’m in favor of suits with an open shirt. For women, I think it’s a great time to wear flat shoes and not be like ‘I’m not dressed up enough.’ Sure you are! The only thing I caution everyone is keep that bare midriff covered. I don’t understand – unless you’re at the beach – I don’t get it.”
Any tips 30 Rock star Tina Fey – who says she owes her look to an army of gay guys — can share?
“I have learned what works for me,” she says. “You would never see me in any bias-cut garment ever. That’s the biggest thing I’ve learned. Also I had a friend who told me ‘don’t wear what fashion designers tell you; you wear what they wear.’ When you think about it, they’re almost always in a white shirt or a simple dress. When they do it, they look fabulous. So dress like the actual fashion designer.”
Project Runway judge Nina Garcia urges experimentation.
“You have to try a lot of things, and be open to a lot of things. I think we sometimes – myself included – we say ‘this is what works,’ and we won’t experiment. But experimentation is part of it. Sometimes you’ll be surprised. For a long time, I wouldn’t wear color, but color works really well. It’s one of those things you really have to push and experiment with.”
Nina’s favorites for summer include gladiator sandals, flowers and color “done carefully.”
For more on Heidi Klum and Tina Fey, pick up the OK! on sale everywhere Thursday. “Tori’s Miracle Baby Girl” is the cover line.
