"Fringe" Actress Jasika Nicole Wears Siriano

Photo: Mazur

This dress is from Christian's Fall 2009 Collection. Jasika looked lovely at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Party Sponsored by BlackBerry and Verizon Wireless on April 29th at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.

From The Mailbox

Photo: Ben Hoffman

Project Runway Season Four designer Sweet P (one of her new designs is above) will be one of the judges for the "Discarded to Divine" Fashion Design Contest in San Francisco on May 7. Click here for details.

Click here for a new interview with Kevin Christiana.

Kayne Gillaspie will serve as a judge for the O'More College of Design 11th Annual Fashion Show at the Tennessee Preforming Arts Center on May 7th. Click here for more information.

Jennifer Diederich is designing a custom gown for actress Kellyn Lindsay to wear at the Cannes Film Festival. Click here to follow the story.

Rami Kashou will be one of the judges for the Orange County Rock Icon Design Competition on Saturday. Click here for more.

Bid on "Lunch with Tim Gunn" at the Darien Connecticut YMCA Spring Benefit on Saturday. Click here for more.

Click here for a report from Tim Gunn's visit to Dallas yesterday.

Join Diana Eng at "Fashion Hacking" May 10

I just wanted to let you guys at Blogging Project Runway know that I am hosting Fashion Hacking: Open Working Studio on May 10th which is open to the public.

I will be bringing a bit of Project Runway to my hacker group, NYC Resistor on May 10th when we host Fashion Hacking: Open Working Studio. Come and hack fashion with us. BYOC (bring your own clothes) and we’ll have the tailoring tools, sewing machines, conductive thread, LED’s, soldering irons, and the Laser Cutter to help you hack clothes into fashionable technology. Fashion designers and hardware hackers will be on hand to help you.

This is an open working studio which means that you are free to circulate, work on your own project and look at other projects. Come to session 1, come to session 2, come to both sessions.
Session 1, 1-3 pm, $20
Session 2, 3-5 pm, $20
Buy tickets here.

NYC Resistor Hackspace
397 Bridge St., Floor 5, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Also check out Diana's book here.

From The Mailbox

Project Runway Season Two designer Andrae Gonzalo will be teaching sewing classes at Reform School in Los Angeles. Click here for details. BPR's own Christine Haynes is also on the schedule.

Click here for a new article about "The Fashion Show" from the New York Post. Thanks Mark.

See Christian Siriano's Payless Shoe collection preview here. It's not exactly what we saw on the runway...

Heidi Klum Hosts the "LG Rumorous Night" Party in LA

Photo: John Shearer

Heidi has designed skins for LG Phones and hosted a launch party in Los Angeles on April 28th.
Click here for more including video from the party.
Click here for more photos.

Celebrity Bridal Gowns by Christian Siriano

Brides.com features Christian's sketches for Uma Thurman, Rachel Bilson, Amy Adams and Zooey Deschanel. Click here for more. Thanks Laura G.

Tuesday News

Michael Kors has opened a new flagship store in London. Click here for photos.

Attention Dallas, Tim Gunn will be at Kate Spade NorthPark Center on Wednesday from 1-3 PM and at The Galleria on Thursday from 6-8PM. We'd love a field report and photos.

Entertainment Weekly asks if "fashion-reality" shows are over. Not for me!