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Project Runway

Sky's the Limit

TV Flash files “Sky's the Limit” as the first listed hour of season 12 — Project Runway (2004–present) on Bravo/Lifetime, season 12, episode 1, aired 2013-07-18, 90 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S12E01: listed hour 153 of 303 in the Project Runway guide, first listed hour of season 12. It aired 2013-07-18 (90 min). The listed hour before it is “Reunion” (S11E15). Next is “Million Dollar Runway” (S12E02).

Project Runway — Sky's the Limit (S12E01)

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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

In the season premiere episode, the designers arrive on the runway of an airfield. In this unconventional challenge, skydivers begin to fall from the sky and the designers learn that they must use the colorful parachute materials to create a look that will help define their aesthetic. Kate Bosworth serves as a guest judge.

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Where does Sky's the Limit sit in the Project Runway guide?

S12E01 is listed hour 153 of 303 — first listed hour of season 12, season 12 episode 1.

When did Project Runway S12E01 air?

Sky's the Limit aired 2013-07-18 and is listed at 90 minutes.

Bravo or Lifetime — does the move matter?

It premiered on Bravo in 2004 and moved networks while remaining a franchise pillar. Timed challenges, Gunn, Heidi's verdict are the grammar.

In the series

Why this series still plays

One day you're in, the next you're out, and Tim Gunn is murmuring make it work like a secular blessing. Project Runway turned designer panic into elimination sport — timed challenges, fluorescent craft, Heidi's verdict, mentorship as the actual weekly drama.

One day you're in, the next you're out, and that is not a catchphrase so much as a crime-scene label on a workroom. Eli Holzman and Jonathan Murray's Project Runway premiered on Bravo in 2004, later Lifetime, remaining a franchise pillar: Heidi Klum as host/judge, Tim Gunn murmuring make it work like a secular blessing, Nina Garcia, Michael Kors. Aspiring designers, timed challenges, fluorescent craft, elimination sport. Gunn as mainstream mentor icon. Twenty-two seasons and counting in this pack, 303 episodes.…

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