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Missy Schartz at Entertainment Weekly (who was at the Bryant Park show last February) says they filmed the segments where you see designers on the runway separately, on the same day they had the real show in front of the public. (See her recap where she mentions this here: [www.ew.com]) They had to stick a bunch of extras in some seats to fill up the front rows for those shots. Schwartz surmises that they are probably all employees of Lifetime. (I'm guessing also Bunim-Murray.)
So they basically held two shows: One for the public, in which the designers' identities were hidden, and then a second one in front of just the judges and a few extra seat-fillers, where they had the designers come out and introduce themselves - and then appear later to walk with the models at the end of their shows.
Then they spliced the two together to create the illusion that the public got to see who the designers were. (Which, as Brian points out, is totally stupid, because the whole world knows that didn't really happen.)
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Do you know if they did something similar when Project Runway was on Bravo or was this one of Lifetime's brilliant innovations?
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They couldn't do that for this season, because none of the episodes had aired when Fashion Week happened. So they had to keep every designer's identity a secret.
They'll probably go back to the old model next season. That season starts Jan. 14, and fashion week will likely be in late February. So they'll probably do the "decoy" thing and show six or seven collections at Fashion Week again.
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#tips
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There was a fascinating article in one of the rags about how the Bryant Park fashion shows for each season are too far in advance of the actual season.....what is actually shown in the fashion shows doesn't reflect what will actually be in stores because its too far in advance. Its a throwback to an earlier time when it took much longer to produce and ship clothes.
There's been a lot of talk about changing the dates for the Bryant Park shows.
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The P.R. show is always the last day of Fashion Week, which is a Friday. So that means they'll hold the final on Friday, Feb. 19.
Now the show starts on Thursday, Jan. 14th, so that means they'll actually have time to air six episodes before the final runway show (1/14/ 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 and 2/18). So that means, if they have 16 designers again, they'll be left with 10 still standing by the time the runway show happens.
But I think they'll do a double-elimination just before the runway show (as they did in the last season in 2008). So there will be 9 left. And then maybe they'll show nine collections (where five or six will be decoys).
But that's still alot of decoy shows. The most they did before, I think, was six shows (three decoys) in 2008.
Obviously, if they have fewer than 16 contestants, the number of decoys needed would fall accordingly.
This is why I'm really surprised they waited in until 1/14 to air the premiere. I thought they' do it on 1/7, to squeeze in that extra week before the final show.
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Also, MTA: everyone knows you are full of shit when you stall at the same stations every day for five minutes at a time and claim there is train traffic ahead.
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WHICH ONE IS IT!?
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I'd come up there and argue, but I think Septa's on strike again.
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