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Every season we got to see a whole new group of high-fashion wannabe's competing for top prizes featuring $100,000 in seed money to launch the winner's own design line at New York Fashion Week.

Project Runway Season 5

Project Runway Season 5 premiered on Wednesday, July 16 with a change-up in the regularly scheduled time slot. This season, tune in an hour earlier at 9PM for a whole new summer of fun fashion. Also look forward to supermodel Heidi Klum once again joined by Nina Garcia, Michael Kors, and Tim Gunn to pick through a brand new crop of fashion hopefuls on their way to industry stardom.

Guest judges this season include Austin Scarlett, Natalie Portman, Sandra Bernard, Apolo Ohno, Brooke Shields, RuPaul, LL Cool J, Rachel Zoe, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Cynthia Rowley.

Meanwhile, next season say goodbye to Bravo, and say hello to Lifetime, as the show packs up its scissors and thread to take up residence at the "women's" cable channel for a whole new Project Runway Season 6.

Project Runway Season 5 Contestants:

- Blayne, 23 - Hometown: Yakima, WA.; Resides in Seattle, Wash.
- Daniel, 25 - Hometown: Great Barrington, MA.; Resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Emily, 27 - Hometown: Sacramento, CA.; Resides in Los Angeles
- Jennifer, 27 - Hometown: East Syracuse, NY.; Resides in Pistoia, Italy
- Jerell, 28 - Hometown: Houston, TX; Resides in Los Angeles
- Jerry, 32 - Hometown: Butte, MT.; Resides in New York City
- Joe, 41 - Hometown/Resides in: Troy, MI
- Keith, 26 - Hometown/Resides in: Salt Lake City, UT
- Kelli, 27 - Hometown/Resides in: Columbus, OH
- Kenley, 25 - Hometown: Pompano Beach, FL.; Resides in Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Korto, 33 - Hometown: Liberia; Resides in Mabelvale, AR
- Leanne, 27 - Hometown: Yuta, CA.; Resides in Portland, OR
- Stella, 42 - Hometown: Astoria, NY.; Resides in New York City
- Suede, 37 - Hometown: Seven Hills, OH; Resides in Barryville, NY
- Terri, 39 - Hometown: Chicago, IL.; Resides in Columbus, OH
- Wesley, 23 - Hometown: Blackstone, MA.; Resides in New York City

Episode 2 : "Green" (as in environmentally friendly) cocktail dress challenge. Who won and who took a walk:

Suede turns his crazy mess of a design around to win! - in one of the most grueling challenges in recent memory.

Pretty much everyone was put through the ringer, except for and Kenley and Stella, with the worst bashing suffered by young Wesley who becomes an early and obvious elimination ....

Episode 3: See you next week when team Project Runway designs for a client's special day...

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