Altho the fully completed sixth season of Project Runway has yet to see the light of day, Bunim-Murray productions (the same production company that created The Real World and is now in charge of producing the Lifetime TV version of PR) has posted information on their official website about the season 7 casting. As you may recall, the Weinstein Company (which owns Project Runway) reached a settlement agreement earlier this month with NBC Universal (the parent company of Bravo TV, PR’s former network home) to let the show make the move to Lifetime. Unfortch, the settlement came after the entirety of season 6 was filmed and fully completed. It remains to be seen when/if that season will air on television … but progress waits for no one. Casting for season 7 is now underway:

Project Runway is now casting for Season 7!!! Have what it takes to show your stuff at New York fashion week? This is your chance! The minimum age to apply for the show is 21. Project Runway will be holding invite only calls in the following cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Seattle If you can get to one of the cities listed above, please fill out the application (Download) and follow all directions that are on it. The deadline for us to receive applications is April 24th, so there is no time to waste. Fill out the application and get us all of your info NOW! Questions? Send your e-mails to prcasting@bunim-murray.com.

See our FAQS for information on how to make an audition tape. We prefer submissions on VHS and VHS C, but we will also accept Mini-DV, Hi-8, and DVD. If you submit on DVD, it must be a full-size DVD, NOT a mini-DVD.

The application for Project Runway is 20 pages long, is due by next week and can be downloaded HERE … interested folks should get crackin’ if they hope to make it on the show. I’m encouraged that production on the next season is getting started … now, if we could just find out when season 6 of Project Runway will air on TV, I’d be all set. I really hope that Lifetime doesn’t drop the ball on this series. Now that they can legally air the show, I don’t know what they are waiting for … air the damn thing already. Making Project Runway fans wait any longer than they have to for new stuff is not a good way to win the favor of the fanbase.

In other Project Runway-related news, former contestant and season 5 loser Kenley Collins’s day of reckoning has finally come to pass. As you may recall, Kenley was recently arrested for assaulting her ex-fiancée Zac Penley with various items (including a cat) after the couple argued or something (Penley was sleeping when he was allegedly assaulted by Kenley). After the jump, find out Kenley’s fate and learn what punishment she was handed for her alleged felonious feline crime …

Boo! The beyotch got off with a small fine and a slap on wrist:

It looks like Kenley Collins has got as many lives as the cat she was alleged to have hurled at her fiance. The Project Runway star was originally charged with felony assualt for lobbing the kitty at Zac Penley at their New York apartment. But today she walked out of court with nothing more than a $120 dollar fine and a two-year restraining order. The moody designer was allegeded to have chucked the feline at her now-former fiance, Zac Penley, while he was asleep last month — followed by a computer, a few apples and some water. At an earlier hearing she pleaded not guilty to the second degree felony assault and argued that she’d just set the cat down on a comforter — so a Brooklyn judge told Kenley that the charge would probably be reduced to a misdemeanor. But she got away even more lightly than that. According to E! News, Kenley was allowed to plead guilty on April 14 to a count of “disorderly conduct” — which is considered a violation and not a crime, so it won’t go on her record. The judge gave her a $120 ticket and an order that stops her from having contact with her former fiance for two years. The site reports that the district attorney said the sentence was reduced because Penley received no medical treatment and the cat did no serious injury to him.

Blah. What a joke. I think if someone is stupid enough to throw a cat at someone then they should have the book thrown at them. Tho, I can’t say that I’m really surprised. Let’s hope that Kenley has learned a lesson from all of this and that she refrains from attacking other people in the future. Should we never hear from her again, I’d be totally fine with that, too.

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