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Project Runway

Butterfly Effect

TV Flash files “Butterfly Effect” as hour 164 of 303 in the TV Flash guide — Project Runway (2004–present) on Bravo/Lifetime, season 12, episode 12, aired 2013-10-03, 90 min.

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This leaf is S12E12: listed hour 164 of 303 in the Project Runway guide, hour 12 of 15 in season 12. It aired 2013-10-03 (90 min). The listed hour before it is “Next Generation...” (S12E11). Next is “Finale, Part 1” (S12E13).

Project Runway — Butterfly Effect (S12E12)

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Designers are affected by the previous double elimination and now realize they can't play it safe if they want to go to fashion week. For the challenge, the designers are asked to take a risk and create an Avant Garde look. Emmy Rossum guest judges.

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Where does Butterfly Effect sit in the Project Runway guide?

S12E12 is listed hour 164 of 303 — hour 12 of 15 in season 12, season 12 episode 12.

When did Project Runway S12E12 air?

Butterfly Effect aired 2013-10-03 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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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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