Fashion in a reality key: all the TV “Project Runways”

2023 Author: Devin Ellington | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 14:26

, presented by supermodel Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, fashion consultant who mentors young stylists, is a reality competition in which a variable number between 12 and 16 new fashion talents compete against each other, creating clothes with given themes or materials. A panel of judges, including Heidi Klum herself and the stylist Michael Kors, decides, episode after episode, who is IN (and wins the challenge of the episode) and who is OUT (and is forced to leave the program). The three remaining competitors have the opportunity to present their collection at New York Fashion Week and the winner, in addition to a cash prize, is offered a photo shoot on Marie Claire. In Italy, the dubbed US edition is broadcast on Sky. But many countries have decided to buy the format and create their own Project Runway: the Australian version of the program, for example, is presented by Megan Gale.

The Fashion Show he started by mimicking Project Runway, tracing its concept and modality, but with its second edition it has taken a different path that reflects with greater relevance, according to the critics, the real world of fashion. Instead of competing against each other as individual designers, the participants of The Fashion Show are divided into two groups from the start: each group forms a different fashion house, and its teams compete by presenting an entire collection. by installment. The group is the true essence of creative work, especially when this requires various steps, both planning and implementation, such as fashion design.

The Fashion School instead it is an all-Italian project: it defines itself as a docu-soap and, shot at the Istituto Marangoni in Milan, will be broadcast on Sky Uno starting from 24 September. He will follow the lives, aspirations, projects and daily problems of a group of twelve fashion students, accompanying them to the fashion show that will be the goal and conclusion of their experience.

On the sidelines of these three, most important projects, gravitate all those mini-reality, more or less transient, in which a group of "experts" try to correct the stylistic choices of unsuspecting badly dressed. From Ma come ti vesti (Real Time) to the American TRANSform me, TV does not seem to want to leave room for the daily drama of how to dress in the morning.