My mother (she works for a newspaper) decided to stick her nose into this when I asked her to read it.
She stole my laptop, carried it downstairs, and wouldn't give it back.
But I finally finished it. I hope I did well...copy being PMed to Yoshi in just a moment.
Project Runway
It’s the usual reality show drama - except this drama is about who stole whose dye for their latest design. Project Runway, airing on Bravo, is an original reality show, focusing on fashion designers. Twelve designers, some just out of college, compete in weekly design challenges for the chance to win a spread in Elle magazine as well as $100,000 to start their own design line and a mentorship with Banana Republic. Every week, a different challenge is given to the designers: anything from a simple word to a style. They choose their material, model, and then get their creative juices flowing.
The designers struggle to make an outfit to wow the judges within their time limit with the materials they chose. The next day, they fit the outfits to the models they chose and the models do their job: strutting down the runway. In typical reality show fashion, one designer is eliminated. Another designer is chosen as the winner of that round, making them immune to disqualification in the next round. This process continues week by week until three designers remain. These top three will face-off at New York’s Fall Fashion Week.
During episode one, the designers were told that they were going to choose their materials from a store where the best designers shopped. They imagined a fabric shop - however, the organizers of the show had a different idea. The designers, none yet eliminated, were taken to a supermarket, much to their shock and surprise. For episode two, they were given plain white cotton (“the official fabric of Project Runway”). The theme? Envy. By the time episode three rolled around, ten designers remained. They were told to create something that fits in with Banana Republic’s winter collection: either “my grandmother’s attic,” a theme where the colors are pinks and yellows, or “art deco,” in dramatic blacks, silvers, and whites.
The show also has two websites where they sell merchandise for the show and designs from the twelve participants, as well as auctioning off the dresses that were made for each episode. The popularity of some of the participants is obvious from the auctions; whilst (at the time of writing), one dress made for episode three is going for over $400 with twenty bids, another is going for a mere $25 with six bids.
The show will span over ten episodes, continuing until February 2005. Project Runway airs every Wednesday at 9/8c and is sure to hook even those who usually dismiss reality television. My mother, who usually is not a fan of reality TV, found herself coming back whilst I was watching the show to see their latest designs and ask, “Who got eliminated? What did she make? Who made that one?” Whether you be thirteen or forty, Project Runway is worth tuning in to.
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by the way, how would I go about sending it to Yoshi? 
