About Project Runway Season 7

"Project Runway" Season 7 gets back to the show's roots in New York City starting Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 10 pm et/pt, as judges Michael Kors and Nina Garcia return for the entirety of Season 7 to weigh in on the best and worst of the runway. Shot and distributed in High-Definition (HD) for the first time, and hosted as always by supermodel and fashion maven Heidi Klum, the hit series provides budding designers with an opportunity to launch their careers in fashion, under the watchful eye of mentor and Liz Claiborne Chief Creative Officer Tim Gunn.

"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 oversee the production on behalf of The Weinstein Company.

About Bunim-Murray Productions
Bunim-Murray Productions is the leading independent producer of innovative entertainment content. The company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series “The Real World.” Bunim-Murray’s current programming includes the hit series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” Launched in 2006 to better reach the Digital Generation, Bunim-Murray’s M Theory Entertainment is a spin-off entity focusing on new media initiatives. Bunim-Murray also recently launched BMP Films, a documentary film division, which premiered its first documentary, “Autism: The Musical,” at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Bunim-Murray Productions is based in Van Nuys, California. It was founded in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim.

About Full Picture
Full Picture marries talent with innovative formats to execute original ideas that capitalize on the company's extensive expertise, experience and relationships. Full Picture co-created and executive produces “Project Runway,” the four-time Emmy-nominated, PGA-nominated and Peabody Award–winning series, and “Runway” companion series “Models of the Runway” and CW’s “Stylista.” Full Picture also produces “Style Studio,” “Mind Body Balance” and “Pursuit of Health” for MSN Entertainment.

About the Weinstein Company & Dimension Films
The Weinstein Company (TWC) was created by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films Corporation in 1979. TWC is a multi-media company that officially launched on October 1, 2005. Dimension Films, the genre label that was founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, is also included under the TWC banner.

Films released in 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films include: the highly anticipated musical "Nine," directed by Rob Marshall, featuring an all-star cast including Daniel Day Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Judi Dench, and Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson; and John Hillcoat’s “The Road” starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.

About Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons is part of The New School, a legendary progressive university in the heart of Greenwich Village that prepares and inspires students to bring actual positive change to the world. A pioneer in art and design education since its founding in 1894, Parsons has cultivated outstanding artists, designers, scholars, businesspeople and community leaders for more than a century. Today, with design thinking vital to solving complex global problems, Parsons is leading new approaches to art and design education.

Throughout their journey, Parsons students are instructed by artists, designers, architects, photographers, illustrators, scholars and critics. Under the guidance of this renowned faculty, students learn to weave together different areas of expertise to radically rethink fields as diverse as fashion, architecture and media design. Parsons students develop critical thinking skills and apply them to real-world situations. In more than 25 distinct undergraduate and graduate degree programs, students collaborate at the vanguard of design, with new programs in Fashion Studies, Transdisciplinary Design, and Fashion Design and Society, furthering Parsons' imprint on the future.

All of these possibilities befit Parsons' tradition of challenging conventions, anticipating trends and improving the world — a tradition embodied by alumni, who lead their fields by creating art and design that matters, and by students, who find at Parsons the tools to design their own creative future, from the ground up.