'Project Runway Canada' Looking To Launch The Next, Or First, Canadian Fashion Star
With nothing but snips of hearsay to cling to until Project Runway returns to Bravo next month, we were pleasantly surprised to learn through Reality Blurred that Canada already has a version of the model-trafficking reality TV sensation on the air. Premiered recently on Slice (the #1 cable network for Canadian women!), Project Runway Canada adheres closely to the original's pattern—only in place of Tim Gunn is some other guy with a hockey 'stache, and in place of host Heidi Klum is the regal Queen Bowie herself, Iman.
(In a gross miscalculation on the part of the producers, however, she doesn't send off contestants with a curt "Nabadeey," but instead the pun-groaner, "You just don't measure up.") One particularly confident candidate's pledge of "making it to Toronto Fashion Week—it's my destiny" may not exactly induce chills in viewers, but the Canadians have still managed to hit all the Runway notes, and we'll be tuning back in to find out how the contestants fare on next week's tucques-and-jumpers challenge.
