If you love you some Project Runway and are having one of those Obama-babies that were conceived on November 4th, then tomorrow will be an awesome day for you!
Christian Siriano, ostensibly the only reality show winner actually able to parlay his 15-minutes into financial success, is taking a break from designing Victoria Secret bras and dresses for Whoopi Goldberg and unveiling his new line of maternity wear, Fierce Mamas for Moody Mamas, at Belly Dance Maternity in the West Village.
Life after reality shows are a tricky thing, and not just for the obsessed fans that have to go back to watching scripted(!) television until a new season starts. Since almost all popular competition shows — be it Top Model, Project Runway, or Top Chef— go in cycles, the journey, inevitably, seems more exciting than the destination. Which is to say, once the winner is announced and the second placer goes home empty-handed save for their end soliloquy, nothing seems to change.
These people don't become famous in the ways you would imagine: first season Top Model winner Adrianne Curry is the most well-known of all Model winners, and that's only because she parlayed her success into other reality shows like Surreal Life, where she eventually met fame-whore and ex Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, and the two of them spun their relationship off into yet another reality show for VH1…and the spiral continues downward.
As for Project Runway, the success of the winners, and their subsequent prize of $100,000, seems to do little to launch their professional careers. Chloe Dao, winner of season two, is working for the home shopping network QVC, while first season winner Jay McCarroll is selling tshirts online. Not exactly the glamorous lifestyle imagined after being crowned by Heidi and Tim.
But there is one exception to this reality show obscurity rule. And you can probably guess which hot tranny mess that is:
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While Project Runway 4 winner Christian Siriano takes shots at the over-tanned contestant currently trying to out-tagline him on season five, none other than Harvey Weinstein comes out looking like the good guy in this week's round up of Runway gossip. Weinstein, supposedly, was willing to take his name off the Emmy application for the show, since only fifteen producers get to be attached to any single nomination. And since Weinstein has done little for the brand except milk its revenue potential for all the hair and makeup sponsorship deals it's worth, he so graciously agreed not to have his efforts acknowledged with the possibility of winning a silly little statute. How generous, and nicely spun, of him.
Oh no! We got some very distressing news from photographer and friend of Queerty Brad Walsh.
The Brooklyn-based homo went on an adventure in SoHo last week when an irate trucker decided to lay the anti-gay smack down. Walsh, who dates Project Runway’s Christian Siriano, summarizes:
Maybe-outgoing Elle fashion director Nina Garcia and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano filmed their Ugly Betty appearances last weekend, as Jossip was the first to tell you about, and now comes the photo evidence: This shot of the duo with the cast might be the last time Garcia was photographed as a Hachette employee. Sad!
Uber-gay Project Runway winner Christian Siriano sat down with Craig Ferguson yesterday. And, while we can’t say for sure, we’d like to think that our pleas helped fuel his disavowal of “fierce,” which threatened to undo our nation.
Not one to be without a catch phrase - or, rather, word - Siriano announced to the world that he’ll now use the word “expired,” as in “fierce is expired”.
News that Project Runway winner Christian Siriano would be making an Ugly Betty appearance was reported at least two weeks ago, but now ABC is confirming the rumor, and adding this twist: Judge and Elle fashion director Nina Garcia will also be appearing.
Which shouldn't be that surprising if you've been following our coverage of the meetings Elle EIC Robbie Myers and creative director Joe Zee have been taking. CONTINUED »
Access Hollywood is giddy to announce they've got Project Runway winner Christian Siriano on blast to cover Nickelodeon's 2008 Kids' Choice Awards. He'll be on the red orange carpet handing out Fierce Fashion Awards and says, "I think it's fabulous that I'll be on the red carpet checking to see if anyone is a hot tranny mess. Watch out - you know I'll be fierce with my comments."
Adds supervising producer Ryan Patterson: "Christian IS fierce, fabulous and ferosh and he is a pop culture catchphrase machine. He also really knows fashion - he's a style stud who will standout on the carpet with his one-of-a-kind hairdo and electric personality and most importantly, he'll be able to spot out whose fashion is a 'hot mess' and whose fashion is 'fierce.'"
Adds Jossip: Nobody should speak like this.
Now that he’s won Project Runway, Christian Siriano’s got a new mission: save Britney Spears.
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