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Project Runway

Shoes First!

TV Flash files “Shoes First!” as hour 159 of 303 in the TV Flash guide — Project Runway (2004–present) on Bravo/Lifetime, season 12, episode 7, aired 2013-08-29, 90 min.

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This leaf is S12E07: listed hour 159 of 303 in the Project Runway guide, hour 7 of 15 in season 12. It aired 2013-08-29 (90 min). The listed hour before it is “Let's Go Glamping!” (S12E06). Next is “Having a Field Day” (S12E08).

Project Runway — Shoes First! (S12E07)

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After a shocking elimination, the designers realize they need to step it up to impress the judges. For the challenge, they do some "sole-searching" in the Marie Claire shoe closet and create a look based solely on the shoe they picked. Marie Claire's Editor-in-chief Anne Fulenwider and Big Bang Theory Actress Kaley Cuoco guest judge.

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Where does Shoes First! sit in the Project Runway guide?

S12E07 is listed hour 159 of 303 — hour 7 of 15 in season 12, season 12 episode 7.

When did Project Runway S12E07 air?

Shoes First! aired 2013-08-29 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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