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"   Photo: Jeffrey Kilmer   Christian Siriano has become the great Project Runway success story\u2014at least commercially. He&amp;#039;s got a Payless shoe collection, a cosmetics line for Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret Beauty and, of course, a clothing line that still packs the New York Fashion Week tents. Yesterday&amp;#039;s crowd included Katrina Bowden, Alan Cumming and Veronica Webb, the latter of whom said, &amp;quot;I love Christian. We&amp;#039;re friends and I&amp;#039;m such a fan. He gives fashion that spark!&amp;quot; Earlier in the day, the 10 designers left on the show&amp;#039;s 8th season showed their collections (though only three were finalists) with the hopes of following in Siriano&amp;#039;s footsteps. And they have reason to hope for such success. Aside from Siriano, a handful of other PR blessed designers are showing their collections this week. Webb also popped into Season 6 designer Irina Shabayeva&amp;#039;s September 8th presentiona; she&amp;#039;s showing for the second time. Meanwhile, Logan Neitzel and Althea Harper are bringing their collections to New York Fashion Week and making a go at mainstream success. The former made quite an impression on ELLE&amp;#039;s fashion editors, but it&amp;#039;s still unclear whether or not Project Runway builds enough momentum to catapult a designer without Siriano&amp;#039;s cartoon-sized personality from the reality TV world into the fashion industry. Sure, they show the season or two after but most drop off within a year. Pre-season 6 only season 2 finalist Daniel Vosovic and season 3 contestant Malan Breton will show their work this week and Breton was eliminated in the second episode. Only one&amp;#039;s moved as far away from the fashion week spectacle as possible \u2014 Seth Aaron&amp;#039;s debuting his collection of solar-powered clothing in Portland, Oregon next month. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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