![]() And all are already ensconced firmly in the fashion world, if somehow behind the scenes: contestant Kiki launched Fubu’s womenswear another is an Italian designer who offers Philipp Pleinian utterances and leads a sort of softcore Dolce & Gabbana brand and two graduated from Central Saint Martins, which is the fashion-world equivalent of “I went to school outside Boston.” The prize is $250,000, courtesy of Net-a-Porter, which is to retail what Netflix is to Hollywood-the glittering, glamorous disrupter who figured it out before anyone else knew things were changing at all. The pool of contestants, for one, have a bountiful room of fabrics at their disposal (and are reminded that the hosts can get them anything else they might need). Next In Fashion arrives with a familiar premise-contestants compete in weekly challenges to create the best looks, which are presented in a runway show judged by a panel of fashion cognoscenti. The cult favorite Bravo show, rebooted in 2019 on Lifetime, struggled to produce any real fashion stars beyond red carpet good Samaritan Christian Siriano, and the one-time host and mentor Tim Gunn, whose “Make It Work!” mantra transcended its cable TV environs to become a sort of Rosie-the-Riveter “We Can Do It!” for pop culture addicts in the late Bush era. ![]() Did Project Runway walk so that Next in Fashion could run? Netflix’s reality television fashion competition effort certainly seems, on the face of it, like a course corrective for Project Runway.
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