The Fashion Show (U.S. TV series)

The Fashion Show
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Eli Holzman
Starring	Isaac Mizrahi Fern Mallis (season 1) Kelly Rowland (season 1) Iman (season 2) Laura Brown (season 2)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	22
Production
Running time	42 minutes
Production company(s)	Left/Right Productions
Distributor	FremantleMedia
Release
Original network	Bravo
Original release	May 7, 2009 – January 25, 2011
External links
Website

The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection (originally styled as The Fashion Show) is an American reality television series which premiered on May 7, 2009, on the Bravo cable network. The show focuses on fashion design and featured hosts fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi and supermodel Iman. The contestants competed against each other to create the best clothes and were restricted in time, materials, and theme, with the resulting designs judged and one or more designers eliminated each week.^[1] The show was originally co-hosted by singer Kelly Rowland, however, she was replaced by Iman in Season 2.^[2]

It replaced Bravo's first fashion-competition TV show Project Runway, following its move, accompanied by no small amount of controversy, to Lifetime. Internationally the show was broadcast on Dutch television RTL 5^[3] and was broadcast on British Pay-TV channel Really.^[4] Bravo made no move to renew the show after the second season ended 25 January 2011.

Format

Season One

Season One featured Kelly Rowland and Isaac Mizrahi as hosts. The hosts were also judges and were joined by Fern Mallis and Laura Brown in the judging panel.

Fifteen designers competed to win $125,000 and have their fashions sold in retail. America chose the winner as these designers were presented with challenges that tested their skill.^[5]

Season Two

New host Iman (who had previously hosted the Canadian edition of Project Runway), returning host Isaac Mizrahi (who would go on to judge Project Runway's All-Star season), and returning judge Laura Brown of Harper's Bazaar gathered together as the second season introduced a new format. The contestants were split up into two fashion "houses." Each fashion house was expected to assemble a cohesive fashion show for each episode, from the ground up, including everything from the lighting, music, the set, and of course the fashions.

Simply called The Fashion Show during the show's first season,^[6] the second season restyled the title to The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection.

Season 2 premiered on November 9 at 10pm/9pm Central, and featured 12 designers competing to create the ultimate collection as well as the chance to win $125,000 provided by TRESemme Professional Hair Care.^[7]

In one episode, Calvin Tran declared about having to work with other contestants, "Oh, here go hell come!" It became widely ridiculed on The Soup.

Contestants

(ages stated are at time of contest)

Season 1 Challenges

• ^Note 1 : Team 1, consisting of Angel, James-Paul, Lidia, Merlin were selected as the top team. But Lidia was chosen as the individual winner of this challenge and won an immunity.
• ^Note 2 : Team 3, consisting of Haven, Johnny R., and Reco, were selected as the top team. But Johnny R. was chosen as the individual winner of this challenge.
• ^Note 3 : The remaining eight contestants were separated into four teams consisting of: Anna & Haven; Johnny R. & Merlin; Lidia & James-Paul; and Daniella & Reco. The four teams each created one outfit.
• ^Note 4 : The remaining four contestants all presented an entire collection on the runway from which the judges chose three to be voted upon by the show's viewers.

     (WINNER) Designer was chosen by viewers as the winner of The Fashion Show.

     [(1ST) RUNNER-UP] Designer came in second place in the votes.

     [(2ND) RUNNER-UP] Designer came in third place in the votes.

     (FINALIST) Designer was selected by judges as a finalist to be voted on by viewers.

     (WIN) Designer was selected by judges as the winner of the challenge.

     (HIGH) Designer had one of the best designs determined by fashion show audience.

     (LOW) Designer had one of the worst designs determined by fashion show audience.

     (LOW) Designer was in the bottom two.

     (OUT) Designer was eliminated.

     (QUIT) Designer voluntarily left the competition.

     (SAFE) Designer was declared safe; Team was in the middle of the pack.

     [SAFE¹] Designer was on the winning team.

     [SAFE²] Designer was on the losing team.

• Bold Text: Designer was team leader that week.
• ^Note 6 : Teams were disbanded on Week 4, thus rendering it an individual competition from there on out.

Season 2 Contestants

Elimination Order

• Francine Simmons
• Mike Vensel (Quit)*
• Tamara Jones
• Rolando "Ro" Tamez
• Golnessa Farmanara
• David Caldwell
• Cindy Ayvar
• Eduardo de las Casas
• Cesar Gallindo
• Dominique Pearl David
• Calvin Tran
• Jeffrey Williams

^[8]

Season 2 Challenges

     (WINNER) Designer was chosen by viewers as the winner of The Fashion Show.

     [(1ST) RUNNER-UP] Designer placed second in the voting.

     [(2ND) RUNNER-UP] Designer placed third in the voting.

     (WIN) Designer was selected by judges as the winner of the challenge.

     (HIGH) Designer had one of the best designs determined by the judges.

     (LOW) Designer was in the bottom two.

     (OUT) Designer was eliminated.

     (QUIT) Designer voluntarily left the competition.

     [SAFE¹] Designer was on the winning team.

     [SAFE²] Designer was on the losing team.

• ^Note 7 : In Week 2, House of Emerald Syx was renamed House of Emerald.
• ^Note 8 : In Week 7, designers were randomly paired by taking rings (diamond, gold or platinum) out of a bag.

References

External links

• Official website