From Voltage To Project Runway

submitted by rex

Jul 10 2006 — 2:00am

Pretty much every time I run into a girl in the Minneapolis fashion scene (a surpisingly large lot — Aveda hair sculptors, Voltage models, Target designers, L’Etoile party hotterati), I ask her about the current episode Project Runway. This pinch of pop culture, which is always good for an hour of convo, just got a lot better. Katherine Gerdes was one of many designers to show off her wares at last year’s Voltage, but she has since become the first Project Runway designer who is in your MySpace Extended Network. The progeny of Minneapolis creative types (her mom founded Creative Kidstuff; her step dad runs Hell’s Kitchen), Gerdes is profiled in Sunday’s PiPress. Wishlist your TiVo for Wednesday, when the new season premieres.

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24 Reader Comments

rex Jul 10 2006
1:12 pm

It’s awesome that Design Collective helping to spin off talent.

msparber Jul 10 2006
1:16 pm

Don’t forget the Style Network’s Instant Beauty Pageant, one episode of which happened to be shot at the Mall of America, and one of the contestants in this episode happened to be my girlfriend (I was also in the episode.)

I don’t have cable, so if someone wouldn’t mind videotaping the episode for me …

Reader Jul 10 2006
1:19 pm

msparber, was costume make-up her talent?

msparber Jul 10 2006
1:25 pm

She taught the audience how to watusi.

moe Jul 10 2006
2:17 pm

Excellent post and I can’t wait for the new season to begin!

zenrhino Jul 10 2006
3:53 pm

Tough to beat the hometown talent when it comes to fashion and fashion photography.

tmayhem Jul 10 2006
5:00 pm

so is this the proper way to hit on aveda girls or something?

msparber Jul 10 2006
5:06 pm

Do we have a word for Aveda girls? Avedatrons?

tmayhem Jul 10 2006
5:12 pm

how about ’swarm my neighbourhood at lunch time and give dirty looks because my haircut isn’t cool enough-a-trons?’

msparber Jul 10 2006
5:13 pm

Well,seriously, they’ll cut your hair for, like, 30 cents and a handful of chicklets. Get your hair done right, man.

taulpaul Jul 10 2006
5:41 pm

She’s too young for you Rexy. :P

rex Jul 10 2006
5:52 pm

Didn’t you hear? Hanging out on MySpace for just 20 minutes a day reduces your age by 10 years. (Doing the math, I’m -340 years old.)

taulpaul Jul 10 2006
5:56 pm

and add 1 for every impure thought and times you’ve touched yourself in the last year and you get the total of kittens that have perished by your hand(s).

*booting up my Cray*
*caluculating*
*caluculating*
*caluculating*
*caluculating*

this might take awhile

*caluculating*…

rex Jul 10 2006
6:04 pm

Dude, unlike some people, I didn’t get married — I can actually act on impure thoughts.

ANYWAY, someone should totally throw a Project Runway party on Wednesday. I would, but, ya know.

Someone get Gretchen on this task.

msparber Jul 10 2006
6:10 pm

Uh-oh. Time to bust out the ceiling cat again:

tmayhem Jul 10 2006
6:11 pm

I think they’re just trying to drum up business with their scornful looks at my hair. I won’t fall for abusive advertising practices like that!

taulpaul Jul 10 2006
6:16 pm

I’ll set up a webcast so you can hang out in the mpls suburbs, and we can snicker at the designs.

taulpaul Jul 10 2006
6:24 pm

So Max,

Is this considered genocide?

taulpaul Jul 10 2006
6:26 pm

or maybe Catnipcleansing…hmmm

msparber Jul 10 2006
6:28 pm

I think you already know the answer.

mike s Jul 10 2006
9:02 pm

Good to see you back, Rex.

kristoff Jul 10 2006
10:22 pm


ANYWAY, someone should totally throw a Project Runway party on Wednesday. I would, but, ya know.

I heard the party will be on at HELL’S KITCHEN Wednesday! Go meet the girl who whipped together seperate dresses for both
Emma Berg and my wife (sorry, no hotlinking that one!) just hours before the blow-out mplsart party. They looked ab fab.

Hope she does well.