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America's Next Top Fashion Designer

Overview: This is a show I have made as a play off Project Runway. It has character from Monster High and Ever After High and is just something I have been creating and playing for years.

Genre:		Reality competition

Created by: 	Raquelle Richies

Starring:

Raquelle Richies Christina Aguilera

Nefera de Nile

Summer Pena

Ghoulia Yelps

Chloe Stevenson

Clawdia Wolf

Country of origin:	   United States

Original language(s): English

No. of seasons:	    8

No. of episodes:         64

Executive producer(s):

Raquelle Richies

Christina Aguilera

Honey Swamp

Running time:

30-60 minutes (Seasons 1-4)

60-90 minutes (Seasons 5-8)

Production company(s):

Aguilera Television

Raquelle Richies Studios

Original network:	   ANTFD (2014-2018)

Original release:	   June 1st, 2014 – February 12th, 2018

Judges:

Ghoulia Yelps           (Seasons 1-8)

Nefera de Nile          (Seasons 1-4)

Christina Aguilera    (Seasons 1-2)

Summer Pena           (Seasons 3-4)

Chloe Stevenson      (Seasons 5-6)

Clawdia Wolf             (Seasons 5-8)

Gwen Stefani            (Seasons 7-8)

Show Outline

America's Next Top Fashion Designer (A.N.T.F.D.) is an American reality television series on ANTFD, created by Raquelle Richies, that focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model, Raquelle herself. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials, and theme. Their designs are judged, and one or more designers is eliminated each week. During each season, selected competitors are progressively eliminated based on the judges' scores until only a few contestants remain; these finalists prepare a complete fashion collection for New York Fashion Week, from which a winner is determined. The show uses progressive elimination to reduce the initial field of seven or eight fashion designers down to two or three before the final challenge. Each non-finale challenge (all challenges except the finale) requires the designers to develop one or more pieces of new clothing to be presented at a runway show. The challenges range in creative diversity to test the designers' ability while maintaining their personal fashion design aesthetic. These challenges may include creating a garment from non-traditional materials, such as apartment furnishings, tape, paper, etc. The show takes place in Los Angeles for all of the seasons, with designers using a workroom at university's Parsons: The New School for Design. They shop for materials at a fabric store in L.A.'s Garment District (usually at MOOD Designer Fabrics) unless the challenge requires otherwise. The designers live together, grouped by gender, at Atlas Los Angeles for Seasons 1–3 (back again Seasons 5-8) and at New Gotham during Season 4. While on the show, the designers are prohibited from leaving their apartments without authorization, making unauthorized communication with family and friends, or using the Internet to research designs. Designers are also forbidden to bring pattern books or similar how-to materials with them during the show, or they risk being disqualified from the competition (as was the case of Howleen Wolf in Season 5). The designers are given a budgeted stipend to select and purchase fabric and notions, and then provided a limited amount of time to finish their designs (the shortest being two hours and the longest being two days, with the exception of fashion week when they are given two weeks). Often, the designers work independently, although on some challenges, contestants must work in teams or as a single collective group. Once the deadline is reached, the designers must dress themselves (in seasons 1-6) or dress their chosen model (in seasons 7&8) and select their hair, make-up, and accessories. Each contestant or model walks down the runway, and the garment the contestant made is rated by a panel of judges, who score each look overall from 0 to 10. The judges then interview the called four contestants who garnered the highest and the lowest scores (usually a top two and a bottom two) and share their opinions while listening to the designers' defense of his or her outfit, and then confer as a group in private about the winner and the loser. The host, Raquelle, then announces the winning and losing designers based on their scores and other considerations made by the judges. Typically, the winner receives immunity for the next challenge, and therefore cannot be eliminated; however, as the season progresses, immunity is disregarded to prevent the designers from getting easy passes to make it into the final round. Other incentives given to the contestants aside from winning immunity include the winning garment being featured in print media, worn by a famous celebrity, integrated into a limited edition look for a particular clothing brand, or sold at an online fashion store. Generally, the loser of each challenge is eliminated from the competition, with host, Raquelle, giving him or her a double air kiss on the runway and wishing the eliminated designer farewell by saying, "Goodbye, I hope to see your designs somewhere soon," before they depart.

After the final challenge before the finale, the remaining designers (the finalists) are then told to prepare a complete fashion collection of three to five looks (three in seasons 1-3 and five in seasons 4-8) to be presented at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park. The finalists are given two weeks and $3,000 for this task, which they perform at their own homes or studios. Prior to the finale show, the finalists must return to Los Angeles to oversee their casting, hair and make-up consultations, finishing touches to their clothes, final fittings, etc., for them to wear on the runway. The ultimate winner is selected by the judges, and receives $100,000 to start his or her own design line, a feature spread in "Christina Aguilera" magazine, and a mentorship from "Raquelle Republic."

Joining Richies in judging duties are acclaimed fashion designer, Ghoulia Yelps (all seasons), fashion icon, Christina Aguilera (seasons 1&2), Egyptian fashion designer, Nefera de Nile (seasons 1-4), worldwide athlete, Summer Pena (seasons 3&4), owner of the most popular boutique in the United States since 2014, Chloe Stevenson (seasons 5&6), script writer and movie maker, Clawdia Wolf (seasons 5-8), singer/songwriter, Gwen Stefani (seasons 7&8), and a fourth judge, typically a fashion designer, a celebrity, or a professional from an industry related to the challenge given.