'Project Runway' Winner to Dress Whoopi for Tonys

Their 'precarious' jobs aren't so 'glamorous' out of the spotlight, writes Ashley Mears

(NEWSER) - To most of us, Fashion Week is all glitz and glam—but behind the scenes, modeling is a “grueling” job, writes model-turned-professor Ashley Mears. It’s freelance work, so there are no benefits, and models “never know when their next job is coming.” It’s also grossly unfair: While some models may make thousands for a single show, others aren’t paid a dime to walk the same catwalk, Mears notes in the New York Times . More»

Poor Katie Holmes needs a better dress fitter

(NEWSER) - The Tony Awards were full of bright colors, from Lea Michele’s stunning yellow gown (good) to Angela Lansbury’s blinding red one (bad). Check out some of the best and worst dressed in the gallery, or for more, visit Radar . For last night's winners (Hollywood dominated!) click here . More»

Here's looking at you, Rachel Zoe and Patti Smith

(NEWSER) - Just days after celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe was too “distraught” over Alexander McQueen’s death to attend a Project Runway fashion show, the designer’s ex-partner called out fashion world “hangers-on” for their meaningless condolences. “It's been fashion, fashion, fashion,” George Forsyth tells the Daily Mail , “but what about him as a person? That's the real loss and the real waste.” More»

Like the rest of Season 6, finale was a bore

(NEWSER) - It was hard to care who won last night’s Project Runway season finale, but it was easy to say who lost: fans. The move to Lifetime—and, probably more important, the switch in production companies—proved disastrous for the once-brilliant reality show, Heather Havrilesky writes for Salon . “The story of Season 6 was that there was no story.” Either the contestants had no personalities or the producers did a terrible job finding them. More»

Pregnant actress gets the custom treatment, with mixed results

(NEWSER) - The Project Runway designers were hit with the “fun challenge” of crafting a maternity dress last night for “impossibly-beautiful-at-any-stage-of-fertility Rebecca Romijn,” writes Claire Zulkey for the Los Angeles Times:

• Malvin Vien: It was obvious he “was going to be in trouble when his vision was of a ‘mother hen,’” and alas, he ended up being eliminated.