Project Runway (season 7)

Project Runway (season 7)

Runway Season 7 contestants
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 15
Release
Original network Lifetime
Original release

January 14 – April 22, 2010

Additional information
Filming dates June 2009 – July 2009 & February 2010
No. of contestants 16
No. of tasks 11
Winner Seth Aaron Henderson

Project Runway Season 7 is the seventh season of the television show Project Runway. The first episode aired on January 14, 2010 on the Lifetime.[1]

Season 7 featured the return of the show to New York City, following a move to Los Angeles for Season 6.

Returning as judges are supermodel Heidi Klum, fashion designer Michael Kors, and Marie Claire fashion director Nina Garcia. Tim Gunn returned as a mentor to the aspiring designers.

The winner of this season of Project Runway will receive an editorial feature in an issue of Marie Claire magazine, a cash prize of $100,000 to start his or her own line, an opportunity to sell the line on Bluefly.com, and a $50,000 technology suite from Hewlett-Packard to create, design, and run his or her business. The winning model of this season will receive a $25,000 cash prize and take part in the winning designer's fashion spread in Marie Claire.

Anthony Williams and Mila Hermanovski later appeared in Project Runway: All Stars in 2012, with Anthony placing 9th out of 13th, and Mila placing 6th. Emilio Sosa, in the same year, competed in the second season of the All Stars edition and again placed first runner-up, losing to Anthony Ryan Auid from Season Nine. In 2013, Seth Aaron Henderson competed in the third season of All Stars, winning the competition. In 2014, Jay Sario competed in the fourth season, placing 6th out of 14.

Contestants

Designers

Designer Age Hometown Place of Residence Place Finished
Christiane King 30 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Los Angeles, California 16th
Pamela Ptak 47 Pittsfield, Massachusetts Riegelsville, Pennsylvania 15th
Ping Wu 34 Chengdu, China Chicago, Illinois 14th
Jesus Estrada 21 Mazatlán, Sinaloa San Diego, California 13th
Anna Lynett 23 Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin Los Angeles, California 12th
Janeane Marie Ceccanti 27 Willows, California Portland, Oregon 11th
Jesse LeNoir 25 Painesville, Ohio Orlando, Florida 10th
Ben Chmura 30 Meriden, Connecticut Tampa, Florida 9th
Amy Sarabi 25 Plano, Texas Oakland, California 8th
Maya Luz 21 Santa Fe, New Mexico New York, New York 7th (Quit)
Jonathan Peters 29 Woonsocket, Rhode Island Providence, Rhode Island 6th
Anthony Williams * 28 Birmingham, Alabama Atlanta, Georgia 5th
Jay Nicolas Sario 31 Manila, Philippines San Francisco, California 4th
Mila Hermanovski 40 Dallas, Texas Los Angeles, California Second Runner-up
Emilio Sosa 43 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic New York, New York Runner-up
Seth Aaron Henderson 38 San Diego, California Vancouver, Washington Winner

Models[2]

Model Hometown Age Place Finished
Kelly Gervais Livingston, New Jersey 19 16th
Elizaveta Melnitchenko Salzburg, Austria 19 15th
Sophia Lee Taipei, Taiwan 26 14th
Sarah Bell Cincinnati, Ohio 22 13th
Kasey Ashcraft Salisbury, Maryland 24 12th
Megan Davis Des Moines, Iowa 19 11th
Alexis Broker Denver, Colorado 25 10th
Alison Gingerich Leesburg, Ohio 23 9th
Holly Ridings Roscoe, Illinois 24 8th
Valeria Leonova Tula, Russia 23 7th (Quit)
Cerri McQuillan Dublin, Ireland 23 6th
Monique Darton Brainerd, Minnesota 24 5th
Brittany Oldehoff Fort Lauderdale, Florida 20 4th
Brandise Danesewich Saskatchewan, Canada 32 3rd
Lorena Angjeli Tirana, Albania 20 Runner-up
Kristina Sajko Zagreb, Croatia 29 Winner

Challenges

Designer Elimination Table
Designers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 10 11 2 12 3 13 4 14 Eliminated Episode
Seth Aaron HIGH IN LOW IN IN WIN IN HIGH WIN HIGH LOW HIGHADV WINNER 14 - Finale, Part 2
Emilio WIN IN IN IN HIGH INLOW IN WIN WIN WINWINADV RUNNER-UP
Mila IN HIGH WIN HIGH LOW IN HIGHLOW LOW LOW LOW LOWADV 3RD PLACE
Jay IN WIN HIGH IN IN HIGH WIN IN LOW IN LOW LOW OUT 13 - Finale, Part 1
Anthony LOW IN LOW IN WIN INLOW IN HIGH OUT WIN OUT 12 - The Big, Top Designers
Jonathan IN IN HIGH IN IN LOW IN WIN LOWLOW OUT 11 - Sew Much Pressure
Maya IN IN HIGH HIGH IN IN HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH WD
Amy IN HIGH IN WIN IN LOW IN LOW OUT 9 - Takin' It To The Streets
Ben IN IN IN IN HIGH IN INOUT 8 - The Elements of Fashion
Jesse IN IN LOW LOW IN HIGH OUT 7 - Hard Wear
Janeane IN IN IN IN LOW OUT 6 - A Little Bit of Fashion
Anna IN IN IN LOW OUT 5 - Run For Cover
Jesus LOW LOW IN OUT 4 - Design Your Heart Out
Ping HIGH LOW OUT 3 - High's and Low's of Fashion
Pamela IN OUT 2 - The Fashion Farm
Christiane OUT 1 - Back to New York
     The designer won Project Runway Season 7.
     The designer was advanced to Fashion Week.
     The designer won the challenge.
     The designer came in second but did not win the challenge.
     The designer had one of the highest scores for that challenge, but did not win.
     The designer had one of the lowest scores for that challenge, but was not eliminated.
     The designer was in the bottom two, but was not eliminated.
     The designer lost and was out of the competition.
     The designer withdrew from the competition.

Models of the Runway

Model Elimination Table5
Model 1 26 311 47 5 68 7 8 91112 10 11 12 1310 14 Episode
Kristina SH SH AW SH AW AW AW AW MH AW MH SH SH WINNER (SH)14 - Finale, part 2
Lorena JC MH MH MH BC BC ML ML ML ES ES ES ES ES
Brandise JP JP PW ML MH JP MH MH ES MH JP MH MH MH
Brittany JE JE JC JE ES JC JS JS JS JS JS JS JS OUT13 - Finale, part 1
Monique ML ML JP JS JS JS AS ES AW ML AW AW OUT 12 - What Do You Mean, I'm Not Going to Bryant Park...?
Cerri AL AL AL AL AL MH JP JP JP JP SH OUT 11 - Second Chances
Valeria AS JC ML JC SH SH SH SH SH SH WD9 10 - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Holly ES ES AS ES AS ES ES AS AS OUT 9 - To Pick Me or Not to Pick Me
Alison AW AS ES JP JP AS BC BC OUT 8 - It’s a Hairy Situation
Alexis MH AW BC BC JL JL JL OUT 7 - Hard to Wear
Megan JL JL JL JL ML ML OUT 6 - Role Models
Kasey JS JS JS AS JC OUT 5 - I'm Ready for My Close-Up
Sarah PP PP SH AW OUT 4 - Heart to Heart
Sophia BC BC JE OUT 3 - Modeling Difficulties
Elizaveta PW PW OUT 2 - Excuse Me, Is My Butt Showing
Kelly CK OUT 1 - Walk This Way
     The model won Project Runway Season 7.
     The model wore the winning design that challenge.
     The model wore the losing design that challenge.
     The model was eliminated.
     The model was brought back into the competition.
     The model withdrew from the competition.

Designer legend

Rate The Runway Results

Designer Elimination Table
Designer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Seth Aaron HIGH IN LOW IN IN WIN IN HIGH WIN WIN HIGH HIGH IN WINNER
Emilio WIN IN IN IN IN IN OUT IN WIN LOW WIN WIN IN OUT
Jay IN HIGH HIGH IN HIGH HIGH WIN HIGH LOW HIGH LOW LOW IN
Anthony IN HIGH LOW IN HIGH IN IN IN HIGH IN HIGH LOW
Jonathan HIGH IN IN HIGH IN LOW IN WIN LOW LOW OUT
Maya IN IN WIN HIGH IN IN HIGH IN HIGH HIGH
Ben IN IN IN IN WIN IN LOW LOW
Jesse IN IN LOW LOW IN HIGH LOW
Janeane IN IN IN IN LOW OUT
Anna IN IN IN LOW OUT
Jesus LOW LOW HIGH OUT
Ping IN OUT OUT
Pamela LOW LOW
Christiane OUT

Episodes

Episode 1: Back to New York

Original Airdate: January 14, 2010

The designers were asked to create a garment that represents who they are as a designer. They selected five fabrics each from a wide selection provided by Mood. The designers were preassigned models for their challenge and given one day to complete their design.

Episode 2: The Fashion Farm

Original Airdate: January 21, 2010

The designers were asked to create a party look from a burlap potato sack for their models to wear to an industry event. As the clients for this round, the models were allowed to choose their designers.

Episode 3: The Highs and Lows of Fashion

Original Airdate: January 28, 2010

The designers were taken to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and shown ten iconic looks by famous designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Madame Grès, and Cristóbal Balenciaga. They were then asked to create a high-end signature look worthy of a master collection. The designers were placed in teams of two and given $500 per team to create their looks. As the winner of the last challenge, Jay was automatically a team leader. Tim drew the names of the other team leaders via a random lottery; those team leaders then selected their partners in the order they were chosen, as indicated in the table below.

On the second day of the challenge, the teams were asked to create a second "look for less", using only 10% of the budget for the first look and inspired by the signature look of one of the other teams. Heidi mentioned, when about to eliminate one of the bottom four designers, that two of them might be out.

Team Team Members Second Look Inspired by
1 Jay and Maya Janeane and Ben
2 Jesus and Amy Ping and Jesse
3 Anthony and Seth Aaron Jesus and Amy
4 Janeane and Ben Mila and Jonathan
5 Mila and Jonathan Anthony and Seth Aaron
6 Ping and Jesse Emilio and Anna
7 Emilio and Anna Jay and Maya

Episode 4: Design Your Heart Out

Original Airdate: February 4, 2010

The designers were asked to design a look for a Fashion Week gala. The looks were required to feature the color red and elements with Campbell's branding, and were modeled by women who had been impacted by heart disease. Designers had a budget of $100 to purchase fabrics and other elements and one day of time to finish the design. The winning garment was produced and sold on projectrunway.com, with proceeds going to the American Heart Association.

Episode 5: Run for Cover

Original Airdate: February 11, 2010

The designers were asked to design an outfit for the cover of Marie Claire magazine. The winning design was worn by Heidi Klum on the cover of the April 2010 issue.

Episode 6: A Little Bit of Fashion

Original Airdate: February 18, 2010

The designers were asked to create a fashionable children's look to be modeled by a group of girls aged 5–9. Later the designers were asked to create an additional companion look for their adult models.

Episode 7: Hard Wear

Original Airdate: March 4, 2010

The designers were asked to create an innovative look and an accessory from materials sourced from a hardware store.

Episode 8: The Elements of Fashion

Original Airdate: March 11, 2010

The designers were asked to create a look inspired by one of the four classical elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.

As the winner of the last challenge, Jay was allowed to choose his own element. After that, two designers were allotted to each element. The designers got to choose their element in the order in which Tim drew their names out of a bag.

The designers and their elements were as follows:

Element Designers
Earth Mila, Emilio
Water Maya, Ben
Air Jay, Jonathan, Seth Aaron
Fire Anthony, Amy

Episode 9: Takin' It To The Streets

Original Airdate: March 18, 2010

The designers were asked to create looks inspired by a distinctive New York City neighborhood. They were divided into four teams of two, with Tim drawing the names of team leaders at random. Each team was responsible for creating a day look and an evening look.

The teams and their neighborhoods were as follows (team leaders are named first):

Neighborhood Team Members
Chinatown Anthony and Maya
East Village Jay and Mila
Upper East Side Amy and Jonathan
Harlem Emilio and Seth Aaron

Episode 10: Hey, That's My Fabric

Original Airdate: March 25, 2010

The designers were asked to design and create their own print fabric as the basis for their looks.

Episode 11: Sew Much Pressure

Original Airdate: April 1, 2010

The designers were asked to create a red-carpet look for Heidi Klum.

Maya chose to withdraw from the competition because she felt that she was too young and was not developed enough as a designer. Since Maya withdrew from the competition, Anthony was brought back, and won the challenge along with Emilio.

This challenge marked a record-breaking third consecutive win for Emilio.

Episode 12: The Big, Top Designers

Original Airdate: April 8, 2010

The designers were asked to create a look inspired by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Jay and Mila were both kept in the competition and asked to design collections, but only one of them would show at Fashion Week. This challenge boosted Emilio's own record from three consecutive wins to four.

Episode 13: Finale - Part 1

Original Airdate: April 15, 2010

Four designers were given budget of $9000 and four months to finish a ten piece collection for New York Fashion Week. Tim Gunn visited the four remaining designers as they worked on their collections at home. When the designers returned to New York, Mila and Jay were asked to show three looks on the runway for the judges to decide which one of them would show at Fashion Week.

Episode 14: Finale - Part 2

Original Airdate: April 22, 2010

Three finalists work the last part of preparation, including model casting and hair and makeup counseling, for the final New York Fashion Week. Each showed their collection at Fashion Week before the winner of Project Runway Season 7 was announced. Although not televised, all the seasons contestants showed collections to prevent the audience from leaking the identities of the three finalists.[3]

Episode 15: Reunion Special

Original Airdate: April 22, 2010

A half-hour show after airing of Project Runway Season 7 Finale, hosted by Tim Gunn and Nina Garcia. All 16 designers and 16 models gathered together to talk about the events on the show and off camera scenes. There are a few highlights in this reunion episode: Designers being disloyal to their models, the conflict between Ping and Jesse, Anthony's controversial comments about Mila, Cerri's negative comments about Jay's design, Maya's withdrawal from competition, and others. Maya was also awarded the Fan Favourite prize.

References

  1. ↑ mylifetime.com Accessed on December 17, 2009
  2. ↑ http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/lifetime-reveals-project-runway-and-models-of-runway-models-10115.php
  3. ↑ "'Runway' Show Turns into a Maze of Faces" (February 13, 2010) Anderson Herald Bulletin, Indiana
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