Garden Stars as Inspiration for Project Runway
Posted in Gardens and Collections, NYBG in the News on October 15 2008, by Plant Talk
Sarah Richardson is Special Events Coordinator at The New York Botanical Garden.
If, like me, you’re a Project Runway fan, then you saw the episode a couple of weeks ago that featured The New York Botanical Garden as the stunning location for one of the show’s fashion challenges—designing an outfit inspired by nature.
Finally, I’m able to tell the secret I held for over three months.
I knew this first-hand information since the end of June, when scouts for the immensely popular show contacted our Special Events office after viewing all the amazing images of the Garden on our Web site. They were looking for a place for a “Bravo reality competition show” (they hadn’t yet revealed to us which one) with colorful, abundant flowers and plantings, in combination with a landmark that epitomized New York. Of course, the Botanical Garden and our iconic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory fit the bill, and we were in business—show business, that is.
That’s also when they told us they’d be filming Project Runway, and I was sworn to keep things under wraps, so to speak.
Find out how the day unfolded after the jump.