Let’s Make It Work People!

Illustration courtesy of Alan Gray

A perennial favourite, Project Runway reappears tonight at 9.30Pm on TV3 for it’s seventh season.  Patron saint of the pocket square Tim Gunn returns to mentor 16 designers competing for a cash prize of $100,000 to start his or her own line.  Heidi Klum is back as host and fashion pixie Nicole Richie will guest judge on tonight’s episode. 

Tim has been in the news lately for his new book "Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work” in which he reveals some exciting tidbits about fashion insiders. He recently discussed some of his anecdotes on The Daily Show and recounted seeing infamous Vogue editrix Anna Wintour being carried downstairs by her coterie of bodyguards because she couldn’t walk in her mammoth Mahnolo Blahnik stilettos unassisted.  When the PR team for  ‘Nuclear Wintour’ (as she is famously referred to) asked Tim to apologise for his observations, Tim fired back the witty riposte that he’d only apologise for implying that maybe Ms Wintour ‘doesn’t know how to work a Mahnolo’.  Tim also talks about his own personal experiences in his new tome, and about growing up as a gay man with a homophobic father.

Tim’s a true gentleman of the fashion biz and rejects the sense of entitlement that seems to pervade his chosen field, saying ‘The industry has an overabundance of bad behavior’.  We can’t wait to see Tim’s perspective on this seasons designers and to hear his trademark catchphrase, ‘Make It Work!’

And in Project Runway alumni news, Christian Siriano says that he often gets catcalls from guys mistaking him for an Asian lesbian!  At his most recent runway show he denied Hailey Duff a front row seat as he considers her ‘trashy’.  As his only other celebrity seat request was ‘old’ Brooke Shields we think he may want to reassess his scale of celeb importance.