PROJECT RUNWAY.....Project Runway Season 11 Finale NYC Fashion Week Show: Photo Recap

"Project Style 2012" Winner Attends Project Runway Season 11 Finale Fashion Show at NY Fashion Week--with ME!







Hello Kids!! I'm back from my travels (Finally! And well, for now!). In the past two weeks, I've been to NYC to shoot the Look Book for my new dress line "NV Nick Verreos", attend NY Fashion Week shows, parties and yes, the Project Runway Season 11 Finale. Then I returned home to LA for a couple of days (long enough to shake off the snow from the blizzard of 2013!) and I was off again on plane, to do an event in New Hampshire (yep-back to snow country!) so...I apologize for the delay in posting this wonderful Photo Pictorial Recap of my time in NY Fashion Week and attending the Project Runway Season 11 Finale Fashion Show with the winner of Project Style 2012. So, without further ado...






As you may now (if you've been keeping up on all things NICKVERREOS.COM, I was the Official Spokesperson--along with the fab Jeannie Mai of Style Network's "How Do I Look?", of this fun Style Contest "Project Style: Seeking Top Trendsetters". The contest, sponsored by Forest City Malls, is an online style competition that featured young stylistas putting together outfits using gift cards from various Forest City Shopping Centers, They they created fun videos featuring their outfits and put them on YouTube. The public voted, and the finalists of the local contests then went head-to-head (or peplum to skinny jean!) in Project Style "Style-Off's" in their local malls, with some of them hosted by moi!









Then, all the winners of the local "Style-Off's" competed to win the grand prize trip to the
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City plus a shopping trip in Soho with me! The National Project Style Winner was April Yang, a 19 years old, from Murrieta California. I had the pleasure of hosting her local "crowning" at the Project Style "Style Off" in the Promenade Temecula Mall.




Her grand prize was to attend a NY Fashion Week show and I pulled some strings and got her a ticket to attend THE Project Runway Season 11 Finale Fashion Show at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week in Lincoln Center.







As you may remember a couple of weeks ago, the weather in NYC--and the East Coast--turned a bit KRAZEE--as a BLIZZARD happened! And yes, it began to take effect the DAY of the fashion show--on Friday. I remember waking up in my hotel, pulling the blinds and seeing the snow falling heavily outside my windows. I though "Uh Oh!". But no snow, blizzard or 20 degree Fahrenheit freezing weather could keep us from attending a fashion show at NY Fashion Week.






We arrived at Lincoln Center slushing through the ice and snow covered entrance (and blowing freezing winds). The Project Runway fashion show didn't begin until about 10 AM and we made sure to get there early to take in the scene...







After making our way through the Lincoln Center main tent and all the various sections--I spotted some Project Runway Alumni--and naturally, I made April pose and take some pre-fashion show photos with them (PS: she was SOOOO excited--just look at her big smiles in every photo!):
































































After the show...I got some photos of April--the Project Style 2012 Winner--on the runway. She had THE BEST time. I was so happy that she got to experience the fabulousness of attending a NY Fashion Week show--especially the very coveted Project Runway Finale Fashion Show--and being my VIP guest. That's what the Winner of Project Style should get!















After the show, we enjoyed a lovely lunch in Soho and then, I took her shopping--yes, IN THE NYC BLIZZARD! I took her to several MAJAH fashionista stores including UK-based Topshop and Japan's Uniqlo: