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10 Need To Know Facts about Project Runway Season 13

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(B to F, L to R) Project Runway returns for Season 13 with 18 all-new designers, including Emily Payne, Tim Navarro, Kini Donovan Zamora, Charketa Glover, Alexander Knox, Sean Kelly, Fade Zu Grau, Nzinga Knight, Korina Emmerich, Kristine Guico, Emmanuel Tobias, Caroline Slutskaya, Angela Sum, Mitchell Perry, Sandhya Garg, Jefferson Musanda, Hernan Lander and Samantha Plasencia, Fashion’s favorite reality competition is back! “Project Runway” season 13 premieres on Thursday, July 24th at 9/8c on Lifetime. Here’s what you need to know about the brand new season:

1. The winning designer will receive $100,000 from Red Robin to help launch his/her business and the opportunity to design a fashion accessory for all the Red Robin servers. Season 13’s beauty sponsor is Mary Kay and the accessories wall is provided by ALDO. Other sponsors include Lexus, Marie Claire magazine, Brother, Samsung, and Best Western International.

2. Lifetime’s #RunwayRedemption contest invited “Project Runway” fans to vote one lucky former contestant back to the competition — who will it be? Season 11’s Amanda Valentine, season 12’s Alexander Pope, or season 12’s Ken Laurence?

3. The #RunwayRedemption winner will join the 18 new designers for the final stage of the audition process — but only 16 will make the cut and move on to the first official challenge.

4. For their first challenge, the designers must create a look using only the contents from their “mystery trunks.”

5. The Tim Gunn “save” is back — meaning he can override the judges and save one designer from elimination.

6. Emmy award winning actress Julie Bowen from “Modern Family” will join the panel as the season’s first guest judge. Other guest judges this season include Elisabeth Moss from “Mad Men,” Shay Mitchell from the hit series “Pretty Little Liars,” Olympic gold medalist downhill skier Lindsey Vonn, entertainer Dita Von Teese, fashion designer Christian Siriano, British television personality and renowned photographer Amanda de Cadenet, and YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota.

7. Five of the 18 new designers call Brooklyn, NY home — Sean Kelly, Nzinga Knight, Kristine Guico, Korina Emmerich, and Jefferson Musanda.

8. “Project Runway” is creating a one of a kind, full-season experience with Instagram. Use #InstaRunway on Instagram to show your look inspired by each week’s Project Runway challenge, and your photo could be shown on-air during the following episode!

9. “Project Runway” will be at your fingertips in the most interactive season yet. Play along on your mobile phone, tablet or computer while you watch live on Thursday nights by voting on trivia questions about the episode, who has the best look, and who you think will get auf’d.

The top five scorers each week will be featured on-air at the end of each episode. The more questions you answer, the higher your chances of seeing yourself on the leaderboard. Whether you’re on computer or mobile device, just navigate to myLifetime.com and log in using Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram on Thursdays starting at 9/8c to play while you watch!

10. Help your favorite designer win a weekly prize of $1,000! Two ways to vote:

1. Vote online by clicking your favorite designer’s bubble and then clicking the “vote” button.

2. Tweet your vote by using the designer’s hashtag on Twitter

Votes will be counted once every 5 minutes on the site and Twitter. Voting opens each week on Thursday at 9 pm ET and closes the following Wednesday at 12 pm ET. The winners will be revealed during each episode and the designer with the most votes throughout the season will win a grand prize of $10,000!

Now you’re ready to enjoy “Project Runway” season 13 — happy watching!

Meet Team Mondo Interns Jekolia Matuszewicz & Kellehanna E’Shawn

With new Team Mondo interns Jekolia (L) and Kellehanna (R).I have often said that if I wasn’t in fashion, I would love to be an art teacher. Luckily, working with interns allows me to experience the best of both worlds.
This summer, I have the pleasure of working with two bright, talented students — Colorado College sophomore, Jekolia Matuszewicz, and Denver School of the Arts junior, Kellehanna E’Shawn. These two ladies are real winners. Literally! I first met them as a judge for their respective competitions and was blown away by their creativity. Jekolia is the reigning Miss Modernism and Kellehanna took first place at this year’s Good Exchange Fashion Show presented by Goodwill Industries of Denver.
The interns and I are working on some very exciting projects. I’ve asked them to help me bring a special runway presentation to life for Urban Peak’s Urban Nights fashion show, benefiting homeless youth in Denver. Not only will we be creating a capsule collection together, the ladies will also be backstage with me as we prepare for the runway show.
As if that wasn’t enough, I’ve also challenged each intern to develop her own independent project.
Busy bees in the studio.Jekolia sees herself as an emerging fashion activist and believes design is a vehicle to drive social and environmental progress. In that spirit, she’s come up with an idea to raise money and awareness for her service sorority’s philanthropic efforts. As a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Jekolia aims to create book bags and backpacks out of vintage and global fabrics, with a percentage of sales supporting Reading is Fundamental, the largest children’s literacy nonprofit in the U.S. I’ll be helping her design and collect fabric for the bags as well as broadcasting her project via social media and on MondoGuerra.com.
Kellehanna is exploring uncharted fashion territory as one of the first designers to participate in The Cotery, currently in private beta testing. The new company offers a platform for pre-sales of garments on their website and once a style hits its sales goal, The Cotery handles all of the manufacturing, fulfillment and customer service through their facility in Los Angeles and their offices in Boulder, CO. Kellehanna’s mini-collection will feature a blend of her original artwork with touches of my signature prints. I’ll also be helping broadcast Kellehanna’s project online.
Stay tuned to the MondoGuerra.com blog for more updates on Jekolia and Kellehanna’s progress!
xo!
MONDO