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Project Runway Season 7 
Winner Seth Aaron Henderson Original run January 14, 2010
– April 22, 2010Filming dates June 2009
– July 2009 & February, 2010No. of episodes 15 No. of tasks 11 No. of designers 16 Season chronology Previous Season 6 Next Season 8 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 Network.[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.
Contestants
Designers
Order of Elimination
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, Mexico 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 (withdrew) 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 3rd Emilio Sosa 43 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic New York, New York 2nd Seth Aaron Henderson 38 San Diego, California Vancouver, Washington 1st - Anthony was originally eliminated after Amy, but returned to the competition following Maya's withdrawal
Models[2]
Order of Elimination
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 (withdrew) 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 2nd Kristina Sajko Zagreb, Croatia 29 1st Challenges
Project Runway
Designer Elimination Table Designer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 10 11 2 12 3 13 4 14 Episode and Number Eliminated Seth Aaron HIGH IN LOW IN IN WIN IN HIGH WIN HIGH LOW ADV - WINNER 14 - Finale, Part 2 Emilio WIN IN IN IN HIGH IN LOW IN WIN WIN WIN ADV - RUNNER-UP Mila IN HIGH WIN HIGH LOW IN HIGH LOW LOW LOW LOW IN ADV 3RD PLACE Jay IN WIN HIGH IN IN HIGH WIN IN LOW IN LOW IN OUT 13 - Finale, Part 1 Anthony LOW IN LOW IN WIN IN LOW IN HIGH OUT WIN OUT 12 - The Big, Top Designers Jonathan IN IN HIGH IN IN LOW IN WIN LOW LOW OUT 11 - Sew Much Pressure Maya IN IN HIGH HIGH IN IN HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH WD 10 - Hey, That's My Fabric Amy IN HIGH IN WIN IN LOW IN LOW OUT 9 - Takin' It to the Streets Ben IN IN IN IN HIGH IN IN OUT 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 - ^Note 1 : Team Emilio and Seth Aaron co-won Episode 9, for the first time since Season 2.
- ^Note 2 : Maya withdrew for personal reasons at the beginning of Episode 11. Anthony, who was originally eliminated in Episode 10, was brought back to take her place. Also, two winners were chosen for this challenge: Emilio and Anthony. Each of their dresses will be worn on the red carpet by Heidi Klum and Jessica Alba.
- ^Note 3 : Emilio was advanced to fashion week first during the judging session. Seth Aaron was also advanced to fashion week. Jay and Mila will both create collections for fashion week, however only one will advance to compete at Bryant Park with Emilio and Seth Aaron.
- ^Note 4 : Jay and Mila each presented three looks to the judges. After much deliberation, they concluded that Mila was more ready to show at fashion week than Jay. She advanced to the finale, and Jay was consequently eliminated.
- 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 2 3 46 5 6 77 8 9 10 11 12 139 14.1 14.2 Episode Kristina SH SH AW SH AW AW AW AW MH AW MH SH SH SH WINNER 13 - Finale Lorena JC MH MH MH BC BC ML ML ML ES ES ES ES ES OUT Brandise JP JP PW ML MH JP MH MH ES MH JP MH MH MH OUT Brittany JE JE JC JE ES JC JS JS JS JS JS JS JS OUT 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 WD8 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 - ^Note 5 : The aftershow "Models of the Runway" fully reveals the eliminated model of a future challenge.
- ^Note 6 : In place of the models, a group of women with heart disease modeled the designs. Colored boxes in this column refer to the models assigned to the winning and losing designers.
- ^Note 7 : In this episode the models walk the runway with 5-9 years old girls.
- ^Note 8 : Cerri was originally eliminated in Episode 10; however, she was brought back after Valeria, Seth Aaron's model, voluntarily withdrew to accept a job at Donna Karan.
- ^Note 9 : Only Brandise and Brittany walked the runway because their designers Mila and Jay had to compete for the final slot at Fashion Week.
- 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
- Amy: AS
- Anna: AL
- Anthony: AW
- Ben: BC
- Christiane: CK
- Emilio: ES
- Janeane: JC
- Jay: JS
- Jesse: JL
- Jesus: JE
- Jonathan: JP
- Maya: ML
- Mila: MH
- Pamela: PP
- Ping: PW
- Seth Aaron: SH
Episode summary
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.
- Guest Judge: Nicole Richie
- WINNER: Emilio
- ELIMINATED: Christiane
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.
- Guest Judge: Lauren Hutton
- WINNER: Jay
- ELIMINATED: Pamela
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 4 designers that 2 of them might go.
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 - Guest Judge: Matthew Williamson
- WINNER: Mila
- ELIMINATED: Ping
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 will be produced and sold on projectrunway.com, with proceeds going to the American Heart Association.
- Guest Judge: Georgina Chapman
- WINNER: Amy
- ELIMINATED: Jesus
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 would be worn by Heidi Klum on the cover of the April 2010 issue.
- Guest Judge: Joanna Coles, Editor in Chief of Marie Claire
- WINNER: Anthony
- ELIMINATED: Anna
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.
- Guest Judge: Tory Burch
- WINNER: Seth Aaron
- ELIMINATED: Janeane
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.
- Guest Judges: Isabel Toledo and Stephen Webster, jewelry designer
- WINNER: Jay
- ELIMINATED: Jesse
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 - Guest Judge: Roland Mouret
- WINNER: Jonathan
- ELIMINATED: Ben
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 - Guest Judges: Francisco Costa (sitting in for Michael Kors) and Molly Sims
- WINNERS: Seth Aaron and Emilio
- ELIMINATED: Amy
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.
- Guest Judge: Vivienne Tam
- WINNER: Emilio
- ELIMINATED: Anthony
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.
- Guest Judge: Jessica Alba
- WINNERS: Emilio and Anthony
- ELIMINATED: Jonathan
- WITHDREW: Maya
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.
- Guest Judge: Cynthia Rowley
- ADVANCED: Emilio and Seth Aaron
- ELIMINATED: Anthony
Jay and Mila were both kept in the competition and asked to design collections, but only one of them will 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 ten pieces 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.
- ADVANCED: Mila
- ELIMINATED: Jay
- Had Jay been chosen rather than Mila, there would have been an all-male final following 2 all-female ones.
Episode 14: Finale - Part 2
Original Airdate: April 22, 2010
Three finalists work the last part of preparation, including casting model, hair and makeup counseling, for the final New York Fashion Week. Each shows their collection pieces at Fashion Week before the winner of Project Runway Season 7 is announced.
- Guest Judge: Faith Hill
- WINNER: Seth Aaron
- ELIMINATED: Mila and Emilio
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
- ^ mylifetime.com Accessed on December 17, 2009
- ^ http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/lifetime-reveals-project-runway-and-models-of-runway-models-10115.php
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