Jessica Simpson, John Varvatos, Nicole Richie
NBC's new reality competition Fashion Star got off to a slow start last Tuesday, but producers say they're still heartened by the fact that the show's winning designs have been selling well online. The retailers involved — including Macy's, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue — say they're selling out of many ...
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Elle Macpherson
Viewers are probably expecting Fashion Star to be NBC's version of Project Runway.
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Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman is pregnant with her third child, People reports.
This is the first child for the 41-year-old actress and...
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Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson might be carrying pregnancy weight, but viewers will see a slimmer version of the singer when her reality competition show Fashion Star premieres in March.
"I wasn't pregnant when we shot it. It will be amazing to see myself with a waistline," she said on a call Thursday, according to US Weekly. "I'll be like a big blob sitting on the couch watching myself thin."
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Whitney Port
The City's Whitney Port has landed a new gig as a judge on Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model.
Port, 26, will join Tyson Beckford, Elle Macpherson and British fashion photographer Julien Macdonald for the show's eighth cycle.
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Nicole Richie, John Varvatos, Elle Macpherson, Jessica Simpson
At first glance, NBC's upcoming Fashion Star may sound like a knockoff of Lifetime's Project Runway and Bravo's The Fashion Show. But executive producers, including original Runway co-creator Jane Lipsitz, insist Fashion Star goes one step further.
As host and executive producer Elle Macpherson told reporters at NBC's winter TV preview Friday, it was important to "create a show that was just as much about shopping as it was about fashion."
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Nicole Richie, Jessica Simpson
NBC gets into the fashion business this midseason with Fashion Star, hosted and executive produced by Elle Macpherson (yes, playing the role here of Heidi Klum).
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Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie and designer John Varvatos have signed on as celebrity mentors on NBC's new reality series, Fashion Star, the network announced Thursday. They join fellow mentor Jessica Simpson and host Elle Macpherson.
"NBC could not have asked for better additions to the celebrity mentors than John Varvatos, one of the most well-known menswear designers in the nation and international style icon and creative director, Nicole Richie," Paul Telegdy, NBCS' executive vice president of alternative programming, said in a statement. "Both are trendsetters and tastemakers and their design skills and expertise will be invaluable to our contestants on the series."
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Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson has signed on as a celebrity mentor on NBC's Fashion Star, the network announced Monday.
Hosted by Elle Macpherson, Fashion Star is a new realty competition series that searches for the next big brand in fashion, and...
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Elle MacPherson
NBC will launch its search for the next big designer with a new reality competition series, Fashion Star.
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Fashion Star will feature 12 unknown designers, who will be put through a variety of business and design challenges each week. Notable fashion designers and buyers from big retailers will serve as judges and will also bid against each other to purchase the work from the contestants. When each episode concludes, viewers can purchase the winning designs showcased that night.
Super model Elle Macpherson will host.
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