Project Runway at Fashion Week... Fall 2009

As you know, the fate of Project Runway hangs in the balance. The courts are still deciding which channel will be its home. But apparently, there's still been enough cash flow to produce an entire season, seal it in the can, and wait for airtime.

Case in point: Runway's tent show was today, in Bryant Park. Oddly enough, the Fashion Week site posted pics of the show, and didn't bother keeping it under wraps. Weird. So, we get to see the finalists' work before we get to see the season.

Now, just in case you want to keep the suspense under wraps, I'm not posting the pics here. It you're into spoilers -- check out the runway show here. Enjoy!

This morning at the Bryant Park tents, designer John Varvatos was sitting next to hiphop singer Akon. Season 4 winner, the fierce Christian Siriano, sat two seats away, looking balefully at the gregarious Season 1 winner, Jay McCarroll ... “This will be a little different,” host Klum told the crowd a few minutes later, as the cameras started rolling for the catwalk finale of the fashion reality show’s sixth season. “We’re all in a bit of limbo right now.”... because of the show’s legal imbroglio in the aftermath of a shift from taping in New York to Los Angeles and from airing on Bravo to Lifetime, not a single episode has aired, so the three collections showed in anonymity, separated by a brief blackout and the familiar sight of a model’s silhouette passing behind the backlit “Project Runway” logo scrim.IMG sources told me additional footage for the finale had been shot earlier that morning, prior to the arrival of the press and invited guests, complete with nondisclosure agreements to prevent leaks.... At the end of the show, Tim Gunn came out and briefly addressed the crowd. “I’m here as the nervous dad,” he said. “We really wish we could bring all three finalists out here -- but we can’t." [la times]