Heidi Klum & "Project Runway" Judges Take Over Fashion Week

Heidi Klum & "Project Runway" Judges Take Over Fashion Week
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YH hits the catwalk at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City where we catch up with the judges and host of "Project Runway" to get the scoop on the 12th season of the hit competition series! Nina Garcia shows off her Google Glass and explains her #BeNina initiative; Zac Posen discusses his journey from a young designer to a judge on the Lifetime show; and Heidi Klum offers some great advice to other up-and-coming designers! Hosted by Carly Henderson (@woah_carly).
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Hey guys, Carly here with Young Hollywood. We are in New York City at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. We're about to go in and chat with the Project Runway judges, Zac Posen as well as Nina Garcia. We've got the one and only hostest with the mostest, Heidi Klum. I can't wait. Let's go do this.
Hey guys, Carly here with Project Runway judge Nina Garcia. She is rocking the Google Glass. So tell us about this, how's your experience been with it?
It's been, this is a very exciting experience for me, the Google Glasses because I'm obsessed with technology and usually when I'm at the shows, I'm the one with the iPhone. I'm tweeting. I'm Instagramming. And now there's the Glass. So it is what I've come up with this season is that I want to have the audience experience what it's like to be Nina. So we've created #beNina.
Okay.
Which is, you can follow me, you're going to be able to follow me during Fashion Week and experience everything that I see from backstage to the front row to who I see, what I do like greeting you, like being backstage here. It's going to be the experience of being me.
So how does it work? Do you tell it what to do? You can power it with your brain, does it just like read your mind?
Not yet. Not yet. It doesn't read your mind, but you can power it through voice or you can power it through your finger. And it's really like a computer up here where you can you can say, "Google, take a picture."
Yeah.
"Glass, uh, take film this." "Glass, send an email." Um, it's very exciting.
That's amazing. Okay, so let's talk about Project Runway at New York Fashion Week. What can we expect?
Project Runway New York Fashion Week is for me it opens Fashion Week.
Yeah.
You know, it's one of those shows. We can expect today some very talented and creative designers. It's been a phenomenal season. I think that what sets these designers apart from last season, they're all very sensitive. They're almost to a fault perfectionists. There's some that are real perfectionists and have and that have many talents other than just fashion.
How's Fashion Week going for you?
Fashion Week is up and running and going. We've presented our secondary line, Zac Zac Posen yesterday and that's online.
Awesome.
And then Sunday we have our show and today we're here for the Project Runway finale show.
What's that like? What are you expecting?
You know, I haven't seen the collections yet. I've coached them all summer. Mentored them, gave them really strong good critiques. Uh, I expect the best. I think it's going to be great. You know, we had a very strong cast this season of designers. They're so talented. They were so driven. Uh, today is their day to shine.
Absolutely.
And I'm there to support and then critique later.
Yeah. What was it like going from being a designer yourself to being a judge of other designers?
Well, it's interesting, you know, I think the process in a fashion school and a design school is sort of similar. You know, you're able to look at other uh, students' work and you're able to, you know, when I went to school, my critiques were public. In front of my whole class. So it's sort of similar. I don't know, I took years of the different mentors I've had, great educators I've had.
Yeah.
And sort of tried to channel them. Uh, I have to leave my personal style and aesthetic at the back door.
Yeah.
And try to get the best individually out of each one of them.
Definitely and their styles are all so different and so different from yours as well. Do you feel like you've been inspired at all by working with all of these young designers or do you keep it totally separate?
Absolutely. I'm inspired every day by all kinds of people. You have to keep open in that way.
Hey guys, here with gorgeous supermodel and host of Project Runway, Heidi Klum.
Hello.
Hi. How's Fashion Week going for you?
Fashion Week is awesome, you know, I went to see BCBG yesterday. Today we have our own fashion show, Project Runway. So our new up and coming designers, which I hope you all love and will wear one day.
Yeah, definitely. Um, what do you think it's like for the contestants and designers to go from just showing their garments in front of you to showing in front of a live audience?
It's scary. It is very scary because, you know, when we shoot Project Runway, we are at Parsons and we're in this dark room. We have no audience.
Yeah.
So for them to show basically their baby that they have been working on for the last three months and now people are judging this, you know, and everyone is looking and saying, "Mm," or "Yes." You know, it's it's a little scary for them, especially at the end when they come out, you can always say see like how embarrassed they are to walk in front of the people. Some are really proud and they walk like this and, you know, others are like shy and they're like, "Hi." You know?
Do you give them advice for that?
No, I tell I mean I do tell them, "Before, have fun."
Yeah.
"You know, you worked so hard. This is your moment, enjoy your moment." But it's just every everyone deals with a situation like this differently.
So you're huge in the world of fashion. When you were young though, did you ever say, "When I grow up, I want to be dot, dot, dot"?
I still say that.
You don't think you've made it big yet?
No, I'm at the beginning.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah. Um, but when I, you know, when I feel like I've reached that point, I hope that I can give um, the support and the belief that people had in me. You know, when I was young, my second show I had a very major designer, Mr. Ford. Help me financially put on my show and I never met him and I hope one day that I can give that back too to other young creators.
Paying it forward.
Mhm.
Now you've become a fashion icon in so many respects. Do you have any A-list advice for aspiring designers, hosts, models? What would you tell them?
Well, my advice for designers would be to always squeak. Because you have to be the squeaky wheel. Because if, you know, you forget, there are so many amazing designers out there and when you're very busy, you know, you don't always call everyone and say, "Hey, can you like send me some clothes?" And that is someone, you know, like for example, Christian Siriano, who's a very good squeaky wheel. And the squeaky wheel gets the grease, you know, or how however they say that. Like I wear his clothes probably the most because he sends things all the time. Not for free, but he will say, "Here, wear this, you know, this is beautiful." And then you're like, "Wow, this is beautiful. I'm going to wear it." But if people forget then you won't. So I always tell people, "You know, send me new things. Let me see your collection."
Yeah.
Push for it. Push for it a little bit.
Yeah, you got to hustle. There are so many great designers out there. It's true.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Carly Henderson
Host of the Young Hollywood interview
- Nina Garcia
Project Runway judge and interviewee
- Zac Posen
Project Runway judge and interviewee
- Heidi Klum
Host of Project Runway and interviewee
- Mr. Ford
Major designer who helped Heidi Klum financially
- Christian Siriano
Project Runway winner and designer mentioned by Heidi Klum
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