Project Runway All Stars recap: Prince of Prints

Thankfully thats not the challenge. (Miss you, Nina!) Apparently the company works with designers to create fashionable phone cases. Credit: Pawel Kaminski/Lifetime And with that in mind, the designers must create their own print for a print-on-print challenge. (The winning designer will get to design a phone case for OtterBox.) Dom, of course, is thrilled this challenge was custom-made for her. This is a setup, Ken jokes when Nina and Alyssa explain the challenge....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 513 words · Jennifer Hanson

Project Runway All Stars recap: Rebel With a Cause

Alyssa Milano said it, so it must be true. The winner of the challenge will design a look for N:Philanthropy. But the brand is also giving the challenge its inspiration. Credit: Pawel Kaminski/Lifetime Yvonne says the N:Phil girl is modern and sophisticated, but she fights with a purpose. They call her a rebel with a cause. And thats exactly what the designers have to do. Do we really need to include it ineverychallenge!...

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 691 words · Megan Tucker

Project Runway All Stars recap: State of the Art

It’s the avant-garde challenge! The bobbin has run out of thread. Or rather, Ken has. Credit: Pawel Kaminski/Lifetime Hes decided that hes had enough of Sams designs and decides to confront him head-on about it. Ignore everyone else.Especiallythis week! Sam immediately is drawn to an owl, which the designer calls digital taxidermy. I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it does look cool. And it captures a moment in time, something Sam draws his inspiration from....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 531 words · Mr. Matthew Silva

Project Runway All Stars season 5 finale recap: New York State of Mind

One All Star is left standing Its so satisfying to get what youve hoped and dreamed and prayed for. Heres how it happened… The final three met Alyssa on the 102nd floor of One World Trade Center. Credit: Pawel Kaminski/Lifetime They have four days and $3,000 each to complete it. Kini wants to design for an uptown girl who hangs out downtown, a.k.a. a Park Avenue princess who likes to use funky silhouettes....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 429 words · Adam Reeves

Project Runway All Stars season 5 trailer is full of drama

Thats mostly thanks to Ken Laurence, from season 12, who it would seem makesanother dramatic exit. But that is almost to be expected. What we didnt expect: a naked runway. Credit: Lifetime Alyssa Milano, what does that even mean!? Milano will be joined once again by judges Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman. (The full lineup of guest judges and designers can be foundhere.) And what exactly are the previous four winners ofAll Starsdoing in the workroom?...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 103 words · Shawna Sandoval

Project Runway All Stars season 5 winner feels 'validated'

And on Thursdays finale, she was named the top winner. How does it feel to be anAll Starwinner thefirstfemale All Star winner? Im just glad everyone is finally going to know! Credit: Pawel Kaminski/Lifetime And Im super happy and proud to be the first woman to winAll Stars finally. Its nice to break up the boys club they had going on. How did you approach this season differently than when you were on season 12?...

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Sharon Peterson

Project Runway Junior premiere recap: Welcome to New York

Im happy to report thatJunioris nothing likeThreads. Im not sure where casting found these 12 teens, but Im already in love with them all. Anyway, Ill stop talking about it so we can actually TALK ABOUT IT. Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime Jaxson,15, Kansas: Hes from a small town and has five calves and a bunch of farm cats. He designs for the BA women which is short for badass, something Jaxson is kind of uncomfortable saying....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Bryan Brooks

Project Runway Junior recap: #OOTD

The designers hit the streets of New York to find inspiration for ‘Seventeen’ magazine. Aya Kanai is the special guest on this challenge because surprise! Rude New Yorkers with blurred faces ignore and completely dismiss these adorable teens. Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime Peytie and Jaxson seem to have the worst time. They cant get anyone to even look their direction as they timidly say, hi. Samanthas got this, though. After finding their street fashion, the designers learn that the winning look will be featured inSeventeenmagazine....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Rachel Velez

Project Runway Junior recap: 'Finale, Part Two'

And the first-ever winner is… Back in the workroom, its clear who has the most work: Samantha. Everyone is feeling the time crunch. In a confessional, one of the producers asks Zachary, How are you going to finish? Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime Zachary is a sound-bite machine. Tim comes around to give them critiques on their edited work. So she scraps the idea of more color and sticks to her black-and-white guns....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 681 words · John Michael

Project Runway Junior recap: A Decade to Remember

The teens take on their first group challenge to not-so-disastrous results. The dreaded button bag. When Hannah walks onto stage with it, the kid designers all gasp. Credit: Barbara Nitke They know what it means: some pop in of team challenge. They all work together very well. Up in the workroom, Tim Gunn introduces them to Mimi Goodwin, a fashion blogger. Barbara Nitke/Lifetime The winning look will be recreated by Simplicity as a pattern....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Allison Kent

Project Runway Junior recap: A Very Special Guest

The First Lady stops by (virtually) to explain this week’s challenge. Michelle Obama talked directly to them about their challenge. Theyll be creating a fashionable look for the modern girl on the go. Credit: Barbara Nitke As an advocate for adolescent girls around the world, FLOTUS talks about her work withLet Girls Learn. So with that overly complicated explanation out of the way, lets get on to the challenge. He only designs gowns and couture....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Kyle Stanley

Project Runway Junior recap: All Dressed Up for the Car Wash

It’s time for an unconventional challenge! But the similarities are still there, and this week its in the Unconventional Challenge. (Favorite line of the night: Its a car wash, calm down.) Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime On the other side, Hannah and Tim and an abudance of car-wash supplies are there to greet them. However, thats not the case for everyone: Ysabel is struggling with her design. The most problematic is Jaxson, who is still struggling to finish the morning of the runway show....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 260 words · William Johnson

Project Runway Junior recap: Finale, Part 1

Except youre going to have to wait another week for therealfinale. Tonight was essentially a sneak peek. Hannah thanks Tim and says how happy she is to see Zachary around. Credit: Barbara Nitke/Lifetime But theres no time for gratitude now these designers need to get to work. They each have four weeks and $4,000 to create a six-look collection. These young designers need to go, go, go! Barbara Nitke/Lifetime Okay,now, they can go start working....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 520 words · Rachael Stewart