Huge Scandals That Rocked Project Runway

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

"Project Runway" mentor Tim Gunn and host slash judge Heidi Klum left the show after 16 seasons, which came as a surprise to many fans. But, as we mentioned previously, Gunn had expressed displeasure with the quality of the contestants a couple of seasons prior, which was the first clue that his time on the show was coming to an end. Gunn and Klum weren't stepping away from the genre altogether though. In fact, they were just jumping to another ship. 

The two inked a deal with Amazon Prime to create their own show called "Making the Cut," which premiered in 2020. It too is a reality fashion competition, except it features designers and entrepreneurs who've already launched their lines, competing for the chance to win $1 million to use to grow their business, in addition to several other smaller prizes. So yeah, Amazon went all in with these two, and it seems to be paying off. As Entertainment Weekly put it, the show is "'Project Runway' with Amazon money," which is to say it put a "big-budget twist" on the stalwart series.

What prompted Klum and Gunn to branch out? It turns out, they felt they were being restricted, creatively. "Our imagination was bigger than what we were allowed to do," Klum explained in a press conference, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Everything kind of fell apart," she said. "We're the ones who were thinking creatively and innovatively about what we wanted to do," Gunn said in the same event.

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