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Project Runway: Reality TV, Sweatshop Conditions

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ARBEIT MACHT FREI Klum
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You'll be glad to hear that they really do cut, sew, sweat, and bleed fashion on Bravo's beloved Project Runway. "It's pretty hard," says uber-strudel/show hostess Heidi Klum. And according to the fetching Seal-bait, it's made a bunch of whiny crybabies of her latest crop of budding garmentos.

"The first three episodes were a little bit of complaining and being a little bit overwhelmed and overtired," said The Body at a Runway promotional event in Lincoln Center last week. "Some actually were saying, 'I can't believe that this is really how it goes. We've watched it on television—we thought that this was cheated or it was cut a certain way. But we really have to make this outfit in one day!'" Clearly, this is a bastardized form of child-labor.

What, then, about all of those celebrities out there with their own quote-unquote clothing lines? Could they hack it on Runway?

Runway judge Nina Garcia thinks "It would be fun to see J. Lo, Gwen Stefani, Beyoncé" go head to head. But Heidi remains suspect, reminding us of the true task at hand. "You know, they actually have to sew and cut fabric, and do all of that stuff." And, once more, with feeling: "It's pretty hard."

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