![]() My participating in “Running in Heels” was really minimal and I was happy that it was just minimal because I was starting my job at Marie Claireand it can be very intrusive to have the cameras following you around. ![]() How was being in “Running in Heels’ different from “Project Runway”? I would love to have another challenge where the designers get to travel abroad and experience Milan or Paris or London. In terms of international design, I think someone like Jean Paul Gaultier, who we were very close to having this season, or Donatella Versace. We’ve tried for several seasons to get him on and there have been scheduling conflicts. In terms of American designers, Marc Jacobs. He’s very gentle and soft-spoken and yet very tenacious in his determination. He wants it so badly and he’s very talented and I’m very impressed with him. I’m very happy he won “All-Stars.” When his season aired, he had a huge following people would stop me on the street and ask why he didn’t win. When I spoke with Daniel Vosovic after winning the All-Star Challenge, he said that you were his favorite judge because of your honesty.ĭaniel is lovely. She’s one of the judges we should have every time because she’s just very knowledgeable and has a CFDA and designers love her, so she’s one of my favorites. Diane Von Furstenberg has been very good, she’s very encouraging to the designers. Richard Tyler was very good and very articulate and he understood a lot about the way clothes are put together. What usually happens is that they get there and no matter what their real personality is, once that little red light goes on they panic and they don’t really say what they’re supposed to say or mean to say, but she was very good. Victoria Beckham, because she was very honest and she had a very clear point of view and she wasn’t scared of saying what she meant. We did one where you went and worked with the plants and foliage. The Twizzlers dress was one of my favorite dresses. When I saw that challenge, I thought “This is going to be terrible, what can possibly come out?” and I was very surprised. The first challenge ever where they went to the supermarket and Austin Scarlett made the corn husk dress is up there with my many favorites, then we also did the candy one and we went to the Hershey’s candy store. The ones that involve fantasy have been the most surprising and the most enjoyable. What have been some of your favorite challenges over the span of the show? Some of them just stand by their design and that’s fine, what can you do? I think that we all have a lot of years of experience and we have seen a lot of designers, so my criticism is for them to help them grow and for them to get better but it’s a question of personality also. I really am interested in them getting the most out of the panel that is there. I am not there to be critical just for the sake of being critical or to make good TV. I don’t mind giving them further comments on it. I am always very happy to go into the reason why I don’t think their design is strong or not. Speaking of which, what’s the line between a designer sticking up for his or her design and just making excuses? So much of the personality is included in the talent. ![]() It’s also important for the designer to be personable and articulate and deal with what it takes to be a designer. The most fun to watch are the most fun to judge, but when it comes down to the last episode, we were really looking for the fact that it could translate into something that is salable has a sense of practicality. Some of the challenges require fantasy and creativity. Obviously what I’m looking for the most is creativity, but I also like to see a sense of practicality. With what criteria do you judge the show’s runway shows? It was impossible to be there for an entire month. He has another job, he’s a designer and work on his collection, and I had to fly to Paris to see the fashion shows for the fall. and in that time period that we filmed, it was very difficult to be there the entire time. The reality is that both Michael and myself have other jobs besides “Project Runway” and he probably had to work on his following collection and I had to go to the collection. Several fans of the show have missed seeing you and Michael Kors in the judges’ chairs these last few weeks. Considered by many to be the most no-nonsense of the judges, Nina took the time to talk to us about her favorite moments of the show, her judging criteria and her occasional aversion to the camera. Nearly every week on ‘Project Runway,’ host Heidi Klum is joined by co-judges designer Michael Kors and Marie ClaireFashion Director Nina Garcia. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. ![]()
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