Project Runway: Junior season 1
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| Project Runway: Junior | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
| No. of tasks | 10 |
| No. of contestants | 12 |
| Winner | Maya Ramirez |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Lifetime |
| Original release | November 12, 2015 – February 4, 2016 |
| Season chronology | |
The first season of the American reality television series Project Runway: Junior premiered on November 12, 2015 on Lifetime. It featured twelve teen designers aged between 13 and 17. The designers were described by Tim Gunn as "kids [who] have grown up watching this show" (Project Runway).
The show was co-hosted by Tim Gunn and Hannah Jeter, with Gunn also serving as the designers' workroom mentor. In his role as mentor, Tim Gunn had a "Tim Gunn Save" with which he could bring back an eliminated designer once during the season at his discretion. The three judges were fashion designer Christian Siriano (Project Runway Season 4's winner), fashion critic and designer Kelly Osbourne and Aya Kanai, Executive Fashion Director at Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines. Of note, unlike other versions of Project Runway, the only episode with a guest judge was the finale.
According to Executive Producer Sara Rea, Project Runway: Junior is a re-creation of the original adult series with no concessions in the difficulty of challenges or critiques being made for the contestants' ages. The unconventional challenge featured items from a car wash and one challenge was introduced by First Lady Michelle Obama.[1] The winner of Project Runway: Junior received a full scholarship to the prestigious Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in California, a complete home sewing and crafting studio provided by Brother, a feature in Seventeen Magazine and a $25,000 cash prize to help launch their line plus a Visionworks shopping spree. [2]
The winner of the competition is Maya Ramirez, while Samantha Cobos placed as runner-up.
| Name | Age | Hometown | Placement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha Johnson | 16 | Westlake Village, California | 12th |
| Ysabel Hilado | 17 | Cerritos, California | 11th |
| Jesse Hansen | 16 | Swampscott, Massachusetts | 9th/10th |
| Victoria Cohen | 17 | Westlake, Ohio | 9th/10th |
| Matt Sarafa | 17 | Manhattan Beach, California | 8th |
| Bridget Austin-Weiss | 16 | Brockton, Massachusetts | 7th |
| Jaxson Metzler | 15 | Minneapolis, Kansas | 6th/5th |
| Zach Lindsey | 16 | Louisville, Kentucky | 6th/5th |
| Zachary Fernandez | 16 | Berkeley, California | 4th |
| Peytie Slater | 15 | Carlsbad, California | 3rd |
| Samantha Cobos | 16 | Queens, New York | Runner-up |
| Maya Ramirez | 13 | Toledo, Ohio | Winner |
Challenges
| Designers | 1 | 2 | 31 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Eliminated Episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maya | HIGH | IN | LOW | HIGH | WIN | LOW | WIN | WIN | ADV | WINNER | 10 - Finale, Part 2 |
| Samantha | WIN | HIGH | LOW | IN | HIGH | HIGH | WIN | LOW | ADV | RUNNER-UP | |
| Peytie | IN | HIGH | LOW | WIN | WIN | IN | HIGH | HIGH | ADV | 3RD PLACE | |
| Zachary | IN | WIN | HIGH | HIGH | LOW | HIGH | HIGH | SAFE | ADV | 4TH PLACE | |
| Jaxson | HIGH | IN | HIGH | LOW | HIGH | LOW | OUT | 7 - #OOTD | |||
| Zach | LOW | IN | HIGH | IN | HIGH | WIN | OUT | ||||
| Bridget | IN | IN | WIN | IN | HIGH | OUT | 6 - Superstar Clients | ||||
| Matt | IN | LOW | LOW | IN | OUT | 5 - Race to the Red Carpet | |||||
| Victoria | LOW | IN | HIGH | OUT | 4 - OMG! That's Michelle Obama | ||||||
| Jesse | IN | HIGH | LOW | OUT | |||||||
| Ysabel | IN | OUT | 2 - Unconventional Car Wash | ||||||||
| Sami | OUT | 1 - Welcome to New York | |||||||||
- Results
- The designer won Project Runway: Junior Season 1.
- The designer advanced to Fashion Week.
- The designer won that challenge.
- The designer had the second highest score for that challenge.
- The designer had one of the highest scores for that challenge, but did not win.
- The designer had one of the lowest scores for that challenge, but was not eliminated.
- The designer was in the bottom two, but was not eliminated.
- The designer lost and was eliminated.
- The designer lost, but was brought back to the competition by Tim Gunn.
^Note 1 : Although on the losing team, Maya and Jesse received positive feedback about their designs.