16 New Designers Set To Compete During Season Six Of Lifetime Television's PROJECT RUNWAY Diverse Group Of Contestants Set To Join Style Mavens Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Kors And Nina Garcia Beginning August 20

All-New Series MODELS OF THE RUNWAY to Air Immediately Following PROJECT RUNWAY

Summer sizzles on Lifetime Television with the premiere of the Emmy(R)-nominated and Peabody(R) Award-winning hit series Project Runway, on Thursday, August 20, at 10PM ET/PT, followed by the all-new companion series, Models of the Runway at 11PM ET/PT. Produced by The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films, Bunim-Murray Productions and Full Picture Productions, host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn and judges Michael Kors (leading fashion designer) and Nina Garcia (fashion director of Marie Claire magazine), will guide sixteen new contestants as they show off their design skills to see who makes the cut for New York Fashion Week. Project Runway also features influential guest judges from the worlds of fashion, music, film and television.

During Season Six of the series, the contestants will design at Los Angeles' Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM). The diverse group of 16 will get pared down to the finalists who will show their own lines in front of an audience of fashion industry influencers at New York Fashion Week. As part of the winner's prize package, an editorial feature on the victorious designer will run in an upcoming issue of Marie Claire magazine, and he/she will strut away with a cash prize of $100,000 from L'Oreal Paris to start a fashion line and a trip to Paris furnished by Evian.

The Season 6 Project Runway designers are:

- Althea Harper, 24 - Hometown: Dayton, OH; Resides in Brooklyn, NY
- Ari Fish, 26 - Hometown/Resides in Kansas City, MO
- Carol Hannah Whitfield, 24 - Hometown: Anderson, SC; Resides in Brooklyn, NY
- Christopher Straub, 30 - Hometown: St. Louis Park, MN; Resides in Shakopee, MN
- Epperson, 50 - Hometown/Resides in New York, NY
- Gordana Gehlhausen, 45 - Hometown: Yugoslavia; Resides in San Diego, CA
- Irina Shabayeva, 27 - Hometown: The Republic of Georgia; Resides in New York, NY
- Johnny Sakalis, 30 - Hometown: Long Beach, CA; Resides in Los Angeles, CA
- Logan Neitzel, 26 - Hometown: Blackfoot, ID; Resides in Seattle, WA
- Louise Black, 32 - Hometown: Temple, TX; Resides in Dallas, TX
- Malvin Vien, 24 - Hometown: Englewood, CO; Resides in Brooklyn, NY
- Mitchell Hall, 26 - Hometown: Melbourne, FL; Resides in Savannah, GA
- Nicolas Putvinski, 27 - Hometown: Moscow, Russia; Resides in New York, NY
- Ra'mon-Lawrence Coleman, 31 - Hometown: Chicago, IL; Resides in Milwaukee, WI
- Shirin Askari, 24 -  Hometown: Tulsa, OK; Resides in Garland, TX
- Qristyl Frazier, 42 - Hometown: St. Louis, MO; Resides in Brooklyn, NY

For more information about the Season Six designers, visit mylifetime.com.

Project Runway and Models of the Runway are executive produced by Jon Murray and Sara Rea of Bunim-Murray Productions (The Real World). Heidi Klum, Desiree Gruber and Jane Cha of New York City-based Full Picture also executive produce both series. John Miller and Barbara Schneeweiss oversaw the production on behalf of The Weinstein Company.