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With the premiere of Project Runway tonight and Product Runway coming up on August 28th, what better time than now to catch up with Project Runway alum and Seattle native Jack Mackenroth? We got a chance to catch up with Jack and get the deets on PR, Tim Gunn, Kevin Christiana, and the fashion design event coming to Seattle next week.

There’s been a Seattle Fashion Week since 2003, though it’s possible that you haven’t heard about it until now…and that’s because like any annual BFD event in the works, each year it gets bigger and better. But this year--from the major sponsors, packed after-parties, talented designers, and headliner Blayne Walsh from Project Runway--it was pretty hard to miss.

April 16-18, 7 p.m. // Fremont Studios // 155 N 35th // $20-150 per showcase, dress code enforced

• The Central District's Police scanner solidifies Seattle's recent ranking as 26th in the list of cities with the highest car theft rates. Watch out if you own a 1992 Honda Accord.
• Georgetown is hoping for cleaner air and quieter truck traffic, as the Port of Seattle considers giving $7 million in rent breaks to companies that hop on the green truck bandwagon.
• Publicola shares the final four names thrown into the nominee hat for Interim King County Executive.

It’s springtime in Seattle, and for a fashion writer that means it’s fashion show season—and our favorite—student fashion shows. Like any opening exhibition or thesis project, it’s a time to get excited, embrace your inner proud mama, and feel some serious inspiration from our local, young talent. That is, if the long-ass corporate-produced recruiter video pitch, constant intercom recruitment announcements and enrollment application swapping frenzy doesn’t kill the energy for you.

The Project Red Dress student fashion design competition took place at the posh Fairmont Olympic Hotel last Friday night, so we strapped on our Manolo heels and pretended to be on assignment for Vogue. Rosie Kohlmeier won first place and a $3,000 scholarship, which makes it two for two for the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard-- the little independent fashion school that could… and just did--again.

Other than the perfunctory post-holiday shopping sales, Seattle's fashion community pretty much goes in hibernation in January and February—with the exception of the second annual Project Red Dress fashion competition. The Seattle chapter of Fashion Group International is brightening up our fierce-less February with the largest student fashion design contest to hit Seattle, and not a minute too soon for those interested in fashion beyond North Face fleece.

Show of hands: who here is not at work because you called in "gay"? (That's kinda what we thought.) Today is Day Without A Gay, an awareness-raising event brainstormed by gay rights activists in L.A. to coincide with International Human Rights Day. Skipping work is a sacrifice (time is money) in and of itself, but organizers have also asked participants to spend their day volunteering for human rights organizations and to try to avoid making any purchases. Thus far, we've heard of two people in the entire city who are joining in the fun: one Starbucks barista and one former Project Runway star (Jack Mackenroth, of course). H/t to JSeattle for the PR spin!

• The Beacon Hill Blog reminds us that this time last year, it was snowing.
• The Rainier Valley Post continued their personal-meets-professional coverage of the stabbing death of their neighbor, Noemi Lopez. The RVP is calling for their readers to boycott the Seattle Times for their lack of coverage of the story and invites readers to come to a candlelight vigil in Noemi's honor.
• Capitol Hillebrities spotted everyone's favorite tanorexic and Seattle Project Runway alum Blayne out and about this weekend.

• Since doing your civic duty (not to mention voting in a historical election) might not be enough to get you to vote today, the Big Blog brings you 7.5 things you can get for free on Election Day.
• Capitalizing on tragedy, local gangs are in the midst of a string of retribution shootings, presumably in response to the shooting we mentioned in yesterday's Neighborhood News. What's that saying? It seemed so trite, but now so true: "two wrongs don't make a right."
• If you live in Phinney Ridge, Wallingford, or Fremont, and you didn't have power yesterday morning, you can blame it on a goose. The bird paid the ultimate price for flying too close to your neighborhood power lines.

A fake tanning salon, of course! The Orange One will be at Wallingford's Desert Sun next week! Set up your tent now to make sure you get to shake hands (check for streaks after shaking) with Blayne-licious.

It's getting down to the real talents (save Joe and Ms. Pants and Blazers only) on Project Runway and we have to admit to being a little (okay, a lot) surprised that Seattle's own licious-loving Blayne is still in the picture. Despite being kept around for his personality and catch-phrase creations after a disastrous first few designs, Blayne has stayed in the middle of the pack for much of the season.

Seattle’s reality TV lovers are loving life right now. Along with Blayne on Project Runway, we can add a hopeful on America's Next Top Model to our cadre of locals to root for (or laugh at, depending on your feelings for Blayne): Elina.

This cycle promises to be juicy. We've been promised a transgendered model (Tyra will love this!), as well as some sort of sex slavery tie-in (oh my). Check out MidSeasonReplacements.com's list of the fourteen models who are on this season (warning: lots of leg ahead), complete with tidbits of moderately interesting gossip about each one.

We missed Project Runway last night (we were here), but apparently Blayne did a funny Chewbacca imitation and created a beautiful wreck of a drag-queen outfit. Thoughts? Comments?

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As if Blayne wasn't enough for us, Project Runway is kicking up the Seattle street cred tonight when the gayest reality show on God's green earth crams both West Seattle's pride and joy and our own Olympic® hero Apollo Ohno together in one big gay hour. (To be fair and to avoid lawsuits, we'll admit that Ohno is not gay.) We imagine the designers will have to design something for the ice rink—appropriate, given crazy high temperatures across the nation and the start of the summer Olympics® coming up this Friday. But, any excuse to see muscle-clad men in high fashion unitards is fine by us.

It would seem someone in Seattle not only likes Blayne, our uber-tanned licious-loving local on Project Runway: someone loves him. The self-described "crazy drunk boy at R Place" admits to hyperventilating after meeting The Blayne (oops, wrong contestant), but valiantly asks for another chance via Craigslist's Missed Connections.

Last week, Seattlest was embarrassed when the one local chap to make it onto the Greatest Reality Show That Ever Was (Blayne) turned out to be the camera-hoggy, catch phrase-happy, can-tanned queeny diaper-dress designer. So, we were thrilled pleased to see he somehow toned it down for week two. There was only one obnoxioulicious catch phrase moment, and even his fake-n-bake tan looked a little less, well, fake-n-bakey.

Like the rest of the world, we tuned in for the season premier of Project Runway last night. We knew that West Seattle barista Blayne would be part of the cast. (Does the name Blayne make anyone else think of this?) The guy is crazy-obsessed with fake-n-bake tanning, and his catchphrase is sure to drive us batty. But, his first diaper-inspired design was just wacky enough to get him through to round two.

On Friday evening, Seattlest made our way down to the fashion event of the season: Product Runway at the South Lake Union Naval Reserve. Nineteen teams competed to show the best couture creation made of interior design elements.

Bravo!-glam event of this spring, twenty teams from several of Seattle's best design firms will showcase the innovative (and hopefully, fierce!) haute couture lines they've been challenged to design from manufacturing materials like upholstery, plastics, and lighting. Though this won't be on TV, the entertainment value of this one-night-only fashion show looks very promising.

We have it on good authority -- namely, the UnSpun list of Best Pub Quizzes in Seattle, which we created last week and which has been voted on by a whopping 4 people -- that the quiz at the Old Pequliar is the 9th best trivia quiz in Seattle.

BOOK CRUSH: Librarian Nancy Pearl´s latest book is Book Crush, a guide to books you loved when you were growing up. How does she know? Head over to the launch party and find out.

Barack Obama has hope, but Mike Daisey has the audacity to sit down just one hour prior to his one-man show, Stories from an Atlantic Night Café, and write an outline that will be his only guide when he steps on stage. Seattlest chatted with Daisey via e-mail as he made the cross-country trek from his home in Brooklyn to Seattle prior to his performance at CHAC on Sunday night.

--Notable Project Runway personnel who have not yet signed a contract for the show's fourth season: Tim Gunn.

Last night a record 450 teams packed into the Old Pequliar for Seattlest Trivia. Sadly we had to disqualify 432 of the squads when they would not participate in the mandatory drug testing. The remaining 18 team answered questions on tragic romances, the World Series, John C. Reilly movies, and Project Runway.

The big drama on Project Runway this week was Jude Law getting thrown off the show for having contraband in his room at the PR compound and we have to say that it was more than a little disappointing how quietly he went into that good night. Can you imagine past villians getting thrown off the show for having fashion books in their room? Santino would have popped a neck vein and whipped Gunn with it until he repeated, "whatever happend to Andre" ad infinitum, but Jude just sat and took it. And left.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

Obviously the streets of the Emerald City will be empty between 1-5pm on Saturday, when the Seahawks play, but what are people doing the rest of the weekend?