Raised in Texas, Bennett is a mixture of a big city kid and true country
boy who likes to hunt, fish and design custom one-of-a kind dresses and other
tailored items for women. Bennett studied under some of the most prestigious
presidential tailors in the state. He currently has a dress shop in Austin,
Texas where he designs cocktail, formal, and wedding dresses, along with
suiting and garments needed for everyday at the office. NBC kicks off the New
Year with the new reality competition series "Fashion Star," that
will search for the next big brand in fashion. Featuring host and executive
producer Elle Macpherson along with celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole
Richie and John Varvatos, the series will give 14 unknown designers the chance
to win a multi-million dollar prize to launch their collections in three of
America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Each
week, the show will begin with an exhilarating fashion show unlike anything
seen before featuring musical performances, dancers and models in front of a
studio audience. Every fashion show will be built around a weekly challenge
that is designed to further develop and expand the designers’ brands. The
series will feature clothes designed for America to buy and has enlisted three
of the world’s top retailers to help in the decision making process. Caprice
Willard (Macy’s), Terron E. Schaefer (Saks Fifth Avenue) and Nicole Christie
(H&M) will serve as the judges who make on-the-spot decisions as they vie
for the right to purchase and exclusively carry the work of the up-and-coming
designers each week. At the end of each episode, America will have the chance
to immediately purchase the winning designs showcased on the episode that week.
What viewers see on TV that night will be on the streets and in stores
immediately. With just a single trip down the runway, "Fashion
Star" will change the lives and fortunes of these aspiring designers
forever. Each week, designers who do not sell any of their items to the
buyers will be up for elimination. In addition, celebrity mentors Simpson,
Richie and Varvatos will be able to save one of these designers from the
chopping block. The fashion designers featured on the show will include
everyone from the stay-at-home mom who makes her own clothes to sell at the
local community market to the recent design school graduate who has held jobs
with major design houses to an engineer who became a self-taught designer. Many
of the contestants will come to the competition with their own existing lines
and will be challenged to take their brand to the next level. All the
contestants will be put to the test to see how they react in a variety of
real-world scenarios to determine who has the vision and desire to build a
fashion empire and achieve his/her dream. With top experts as their guides and
mentors throughout the process, designers will have to be as adept in the
business of fashion as they are in their creativity as it’s up to them to make
their brand a national reality. In the end, one designer will successfully
combine fashion and business to become the next "Fashion Star" and
will receive the prize of a lifetime –$6,000,000 in orders for capsule
collections in Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue stores.
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