Kenley Collins Sings!

The Project Runway Season 5 designer sings with Jetblack Bullseye.

What do you think?

News from Kenley Collins, Malan Breton and Jack Mackenroth

Project Runway season 5 designer, Kenley Collins is singing in a 50's inspired rock band called Jetblack Bullseye. Catch a performance on December 9th at The Trash Bar.

Malan Breton and Jack Mackenroth are among the stars featured tonight at "A Very Mary Holiday". Tickets are still available. Click here for more information.

Kenley Makes Us Dizzy

So here's a question we haven't been asked in a while, what's Kenley Collins been up to lately?. Why, funny you should ask:



New York based rocker Collin Schiller adds: �I knew Kenley was the perfect girl for the role when I dreamt up the video, and she offered great input and style direction on set�.

Hmmm. I would be careful with this one Collin!

Monday Morning Mailbox

Please check out the BPR Page on myLifetime.com. Big thanks to Tropical Chrome for ALL of our quotes this week!

Be sure to enter your "Top Five Looks" of season six in our reader poll.

There is still time to vote in the "Your turn to be the judge" poll for episode 12. The judges did not choose a winner, but we will.

Christian Siriano's designs - and many others - are now available through a new service called "Rent the Runway." It's kind of like Netflix but with designer clothes. Read more here.

Kenley Collins is now offering plus sizes.

Kenley Collins's Spring Collection Now Available

Photo: KenleyCollins.com

Kenley's Spring collection is now available for purchase at her online store. This royal blue silk shantung gown is available for $1200.00 in sizes 2 - 12.

Photo: KenleyCollins.com

This cream-colored silk aviator jacket is $240 and available in sizes 2 - 12.

Kenley is also offering a full line of hair accessories.

Click here to shop.

Weekend News

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Attention McLean Virginia: Tim Gunn will be at the Tyson Galleria on September 19th. Click here for details.

Project Runway Season Six designer, Qristyl Frazier visited her alma mater, Stephens College last night. Click here for more.

Click here for a fresh look at Kenley Collins and her new line.
Jail inspired her.

Click here for an entertaining look at last night's designs from The Cut.

From The Mailbox

Kenley Collins is featured in this Threadbanger video.

Click here to read an article about Project Runway Israel.

Click here to read about Austin Fashion Week. Don't miss the video which includes an interview with Project Runway Season Three designer Kayne Gillaspie.

Click here for a post about Nick Verreos's trip to Paris.

Kenley Collins Finale Design Available on eBay

One of Kenley's designs from the Project Runway Season Five Finale Show is up for auction on eBay. Click here to bid. Thanks Jon.

Also, Kenley is blogging about The Fashion Show. Click here for her thoughts on last night's episode.

From The Mailbox

Nick Verreos reports on the opening night gala of the 70th Anniversary of the �Wizard of Oz� exhibition in Los Angeles on June 9th. Click here for the story from California Apparel News.

Will we soon see a Tim Gunn label? Maybe....

Click here for Diana Eng's latest DIY tutorial from Craftzine. Follow Diana step-by-step to re-fashion a t-shirt into a swimsuit cover-up.

Click here for a new interview with Kenley Collins.

Project Runway Season Six "Superfan" promotions were shot in Waukegan, Illinois yesterday! Can't wait to see these on Lifetime.

A New Interview With Kenley Collins

Kenley is looking fabulous modeling her latest designs. Click here for the full story.

From The Mailbox

Tim Gunn will be in Illinois this week. Tim is speaking at Illinois State University on Wednesday night.
Click here for tickets.

On Thursday he will visit the Kate Spade store at 56 Oak Street.

Bravo is currently in production on another Fashion-Reality Show called "Launch My Line." This is in addition to "The Fashion Show."

(BPR mentioned the show here, it was originally titled "Celebrity Sew-off.")

Click here to read advice for Project Runway season seven hopefuls from Nick Verreos.

Click here to read about Bravo's merchandising strategies.

Kenley Collins is scheduled to appear in court today.

Don't miss Tim tonight on "The Biggest Loser."

Kenley Collins Arrested

Photo: Laura Kluvo

Kenley Collins has been arrested for assaulting her fiance, Zac Penley. According to TMZ, there are several charges and she spent the night in jail.

This photo is from the BPR brunch on February 20th where Kenley was proudly showing off her ring and discussing her wedding plans.

More from the New York Post:

"It was a miscommunication," Collins told The Post after getting released without bail from Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday morning.

"Fights happen, And that's that. There is no case."

According to law enforcement sources, an enraged Collins woke Penley up just after 7 a.m. by hurling their cat in his face. Then she threw her laptop, and as he fell crawled on the floor, slammed a door on his head. She threw three apples, and doused him with water, before he was able to dial 911.

Everyone is chiming in on this one:

People Magazine

New York Daily News

As always, stay tuned!

Designer Updates

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A few of your of your favorite PR ddesigners have checked in to say hello! First, here's Rami Kashou:

Hi BPR

i hope this finds you well.

I wanted to share with you the following. Malin Akerman of "The Watchmen" wore my project runway finale lace gown to the red carpet premiere tonight! she looks fabulous..

Also I am speaking at Princeton University on March 5th about my career, PR, as well as my life growing up and how i got into design. cheers :) Rami

Next up is Uncle Nicky who is always working on something. This time, another gorgeous Barbie design:

Over the weekend, I had the honor and privilege of unveiling my one-of-a-kind design for Barbie at the glamorous FIDM Debut 2009 Gala in the Santa Monica Barker Hangar. Click here to read all about it!

Photo/Illustration: Nick Verreos

And finally, we saw Kenley Collins at the PR6 finale sporting this beautiful "Botanical Bliss" veil . She looked glamorous, and so can you! Check out the new items she has for sale on her website.

BPR at the Season Six Finale

Although we have plenty of posts from the finale show, there is still a little more to share.

Arriving at the tents we were greeted by many of our contest winners. Some of you I hadn't seen for quite a while - many I had never met in person - but all of you felt like friends. We were very excited and curious about the show.

We also spotted many of the designers from past seasons.

It wasn't hard at all to locate our seats...

...and I would like to thank Erin N and everyone at Full Picture who helped everything to run so smoothly.

When the first designer's collection came out, I was very eager to see it and I felt a little disappointed. I leaned over to The Scarlett and said, "Maybe this is a decoy."

Now of course, it never fails, that after I say something like this, "Designer #1" will be my favorite in the show. So, I am already apologizing for that comment.

I am in the definite minority for claiming "Designer #2" as my favorite, but I will stand by my choice. First of all, this was the collection that Amanda Fields worked and she looked absolutely gorgeous. Second, there was color and detail in this collection that made me feel happy.

The third collection seemed to be everyone else's favorite and choice to win.

Tbone also noted that there were 13 looks in each collection and it was possible that there was a "Thirteenth Look" challenge. Perhaps a LBD. Only speculating. It just seemed that there was a lot of black going on.

When Heidi came back to thank everyone after three collections it was obvious that these were the finalists. Just these three. It felt really short after seeing six collections last season!

At the conclusion, we worked our way down to the runway to visit with some of our old friends. I kept thinking that "someone" would be hosting a brunch, but no invitation had arrived. So... I thought we should just host something ourselves.

I spontaneously invited anyone within range to join us. We wound up with quite a nice group. Leanne Marshall, Kenley Collins, Wesley Nault, Daniel Feld, Kelli Martin, Jennifer Diederich, Malan Breton, Jerell Scott, Stella Zotis, Joe Faris, Blayne Walsh, and their spouses, sweethearts and friends all joined us. We also invited our fellow bloggers and contest winners. I'm not sure how many were there, but it was great fun, and we didn't want it to end.
Click here to see photos from the BPR Brunch.

Thank you everyone for joining us!

From The Mailbox

Check out The Kluminator on the brand new website Modelinia. Thanks to everyone who sent this link!

Tim Gunn is just as confused about season six as we are. Click here for the story.

Snowflakebebe has uploaded a bunch of candid photos from Malan Breton's show here. Look for Daniel Feld, Wesley Nault, Amanda Fields, Stella Zotis, Kenley Collins, and Diana Eng. Thanks Snowflake!

Click here for a great review of "Eleven Minutes."

From The Mailbox

Sweet P and her husband Sage Vaughn are featured in the February issue of Papermag. Click here to read more.

A belated Happy Birthday (yesterday) as well as BEST WISHES go out to Kenley Collins! Kenley has recently announced her engagement to Zak Penley and they are planning an October 2nd wedding in Manhattan. (Thanks to Wes and Daniel for the tip.)

Season Four designer Victorya Hong appeared as a guest judge in the premiere episode of Project Runway Korea. Click here for the story.

Evening Update

Christian Siriano designed this outfit worn by Lady Gaga on The Today Show. Click here for more. Thanks Brad.

Tim Gunn will be a guest tomorrow (Wednesday) on The Bonnie Hunt Show. Tim will help determine the "World's Most Horrible Holiday Sweater."

Kenley Collins gives us Number Six in Time Magazine's Top Ten Awkward Moments of 2008.

Finale Music - Korto Momolu

You loved the music that Korto Momolu used in her Project Runway Season 5 finale show at Bryant Park and now it can be yours. The composer 'Joshua' has the music available for purchase - click here and look for the selection called 'binti.'

Just as a reminder, you can also purchase 'CAT,' the finale music used by Kenley Collins by clicking here. You can also purchase 'Cookie Breath,' the music used by Leanne Marshall by clicking here.

Finale photo courtesy of Lisa Gilpin

BPR Podcast wtih Kenley Collins

Laura K talks with Kenley Collins, Project Runway Season 5 finalist. You can hear the podcast here.

Kenley teaches in New York at Sew Fast Sew Easy. You can see Morgan modeling for Kenley at Fashion Week here. You can shop for her fashions and accessories at KenleyCollins.com.

From The Mailbox

Christian Siriano is profiled in this Wall Street Journal article.

Click here for the latest from Project Courtroom. Sigh.

More from Christian here.

Can Kenley Collins make it as a designer? Check out Page Six.