![]() With a passion for creating and helping others, Siriano and his team worked relentlessly to produce cloth masks in his studio. The designer and his atelier began cutting patterns for masks-a crucial item for frontline workers facing the COVID-19 stricken city. I think we’re all finding our daily struggles,” he says.ĭuring the peak of the pandemic in New York City, just weeks after showing at New York Fashion Week, Siriano made headlines, but not for his glamorous red carpet gowns. But I do think any independent company that hasn’t been around for 50–100 years, has to pivot and figure it out. “I think the big brands always will survive in their world because it just is what it is. I think they’re going to hold onto it in case something happens again.”Īnd though Siriano is a world-renowned designer, he’s well aware his 13-year-old fashion house faces different challenges than a 100-year European house fashion like Chanel or Dior. People are not shopping the same way and they’re not spending what they used to spend,” he says, adding, “I do think people will get excited about things again, but I don’t think people are going to spend the money the same way. So it’s going to be a great payoff after the episode,” he says.“Fashion took a big hit and is still taking a hit, we’re in a really, really wild, strange, pivotal change moment. “What you’re going to find out is that there’s a major Project Runway connection for one of the Housewives at their reunion, and it’s already happened. The winning look is so elegant it was refreshing to see.”Īnd while viewers will have to tune into Thursday evening’s themed Project Runway episode to see the Housewives-catered creations for themselves, Cohen shares a little future reunion teaser sure to appease Bravo superfans everywhere. It’s usually an entire glitter sequin parade, and I felt like they channeled a more elegant approach. The dresses “felt chic and modern, and that’s not always the case when the reunions happen. Siriano agrees that the designers did “an incredible job” with their pieces. were all pretty excited afterward about the experience.” “Mainly, it was very successful and really exciting. They all killed the runway,” he says, before adding that the designers did their part as well by designing several killer outfits. I’m ultimately their biggest fan and their biggest cheerleader. I got there and I didn’t see any of them before the runway show, so the first time I saw all the Housewives was when they were coming down the runway. Nearly two decades and more than 10 Housewives franchises and spin-offs later, the reunion dress has become a powerful pop-culture symbol.Ĭohen is not only the Housewives whisper: He’s also the ladies’ biggest cheerleader. ![]() But in fact, the Radio Andy host tells Vanity Fair, this type of collaboration means more now than it would have in the early 2000s. This Housewives and Project Runway crossover sounds like something Cohen himself-an executive producer of Project Runway’s first seasons-would have dreamed up years ago. Cohen, naturally, will help determine who aced the assignment. ![]() ![]() Walking the runway as patrons are The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Shannon Beador and Gina Kirschenheiter The Real Housewives of Potomac’s Gizelle Bryant, Karen Huger, and Wendy Osefo and The Real Housewives of New York City’s Luann de Lesseps and Leah McSweeney. In the fashion-design competition series’ January 6 episode, the remaining seven designers are challenged with designing for different Real Housewives icons-specifically, to conceptualize and execute a future reunion-special dress for different Bravolebrity clients. Andy Cohen is adding one more gig to his Bravo repertoire: Project Runway judge. ![]()
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