Five Gays on Project Runway's Demise
Choire Sicha is co-proprietor of The Awl and is at work on a nonfiction book for HarperStudio.
This season of Project Runway moved cities (to L.A.) and networks (to Lifetime)-and no one liked either one! As it limps to a close Thursday, Choire Sicha examines what went wrong.
Project Runway's Crazy Contestants
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Watch video of the best moments, from Christian Siriano's catchphrases to Kenley Collins' backtalk.
Project Runway's Jailbird Sings
Elizabeth Gates is a style correspondent for The Daily Beast. She is a graduate of The New School University and a former intern at Vogue magazine.
Kenley Collins, America's favorite infamous cat-hurling designer, talks about her debut collection at Fashion Week, her next reality show, and what she learned behind bars.
Shopping with Levi Johnston
Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
Sarah Palin's former future son-in-law, Levi Johnston, takes The Daily Beast's Renata Espinosa on a spending spree in L.A. and talks about David Letterman's intent ("I don't think he was trying to be malicious"); caring about how Bristol and Willow reacted ("I don't like to see anybody hurt, especially if it got to the girls and their feelings were hurt"); a possible reality show about hunting; style tips he's picked up from Tank-his mammoth bodyguard/manager/Tim Gunn-and his out-of-Alaska alter-ego named "Hollywood Ricky."
5 Shameless Celebrity Endorsements
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Seems like everyone out there's feeling the recession pinch, even celebrities. What other explanation is there for appearing in horrific commercials like these?
Jay McCarroll's Next 11 Minutes
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
His drama on the way to winning Season One of Project Runway kept fans in stitches. Now a new documentary celebrates the outrageously outspoken designer Jay McCarroll as he produces a show for Fashion Week.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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