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Project Runway

YOU Choose Your Materials!

TV Flash files “YOU Choose Your Materials!” as hour 157 of 303 in the TV Flash guide — Project Runway (2004–present) on Bravo/Lifetime, season 12, episode 5, aired 2013-08-15, 90 min.

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This leaf is S12E05: listed hour 157 of 303 in the Project Runway guide, hour 5 of 15 in season 12. It aired 2013-08-15 (90 min). The listed hour before it is “Tie the Knot” (S12E04). Next is “Let's Go Glamping!” (S12E06).

Project Runway — YOU Choose Your Materials! (S12E05)

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It's the ultimate unconventional challenge when the designers are split into small teams to create a luxurious mini collection inspired by items from four completely varied retailers. Fashion designer June Ambrose serves as a guest judge.

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Where does YOU Choose Your Materials! sit in the Project Runway guide?

S12E05 is listed hour 157 of 303 — hour 5 of 15 in season 12, season 12 episode 5.

When did Project Runway S12E05 air?

YOU Choose Your Materials! aired 2013-08-15 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.

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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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