‘Project Runway’ all-star lineup to be announced in US Weekly

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Apparently we won’t have to wait much longer to find out which stitch is which -- the contestant lineup for the long-rumored all-star installment of ‘Project Runway’ will be revealed in the pages of US Weekly magazine scheduled to hit the street Wednesday.

A representative at Lifetime, the new home of Season 6 of the fashion reality show, confirmed that the all-star contestants would be announced on July 22, but declined to elaborate on the total number of familiar faces we’d see or even the format of the show. We’ll provide details as soon as we have them.

In the meantime, we can begin to speculate on the Season 6 cast members above. While we’re always excited to see up-and-comers prick their fingers raw sewing children’s finger paintings into wedding dresses through the night, we’re much more interested in the, shall we say, personal style? Who will be remembered for their signature flourishes (think Jeffrey Sebelia’s neck tattoo or Christian Siriano’s modern take on the Flock of Seagulls ‘do) or birth a new ‘hot, tranny mess’ of a catchphrase?

And how far will local boy Johnny Sakalis make it? If the going gets tough, will Johnny Saks start intimidating the other mobsters designers in his path?

-- Adam Tschorn + Whitney Friedlander

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