Making the Cut Cast 2020
Meet the 12 Designers Competing on Amazon Prime's Making the Cut
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Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum are back together again! After leaving Project Runway, the duo are now cohosting Making the Cut, Amazon Prime's new fashion reality competition series. Unlike other shows, which tend to focus on a single aspect of competition, Making the Cut not only tests designers' fashion abilities but how capable they are at the business of fashion as well. The prize for the winner includes a whopping $1 million to support their fashion-empire dreams!
The contestants for the first season of the show range from young designers just getting their brands off the ground to industry vets with decades of experience, but they all have one thing in common: a genuine love for fashion. Ahead of the show's March 27 debut, meet the dozen contestants who will be competing for the title.
Sanders Bos
Bos is the youngest designer in the competition at only 24 years old! He's based out of Belgium, where he was raised and graduated from design school, and he currently runs a self-named fashion line of avant-garde styles.
Rinat Brodach
Born in Israel and educated and based out of the United States, Brodach already has some big-name clients for her sleek, minimalist-chic designs: Adam Lambert, Billy Porter, and Laverne Cox are among her celeb clients.
Ji Won Choi
With an international background including South Korea, France, and the US, this activewear-focused designer brings a casual-cool aesthetic that's been worn by Kendall Jenner and Beyoncé already.
Jasmine Chong
Malaysia-born and New York City-based, Chong comes from a family of designers and seamstresses. She produces a fashion line named after herself that's full of flowy, feminine pieces.
Jonny Cota
He runs Skingraft, a streetwear-focused brand with clothes for both men and women. His style has caught the eye of some major celebs, including Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj.
Martha Gottwald
In her brand Neubyrne, Gottwald embraces bright, sunny colors and bold prints. Although her career — and life — was almost derailed by a near-fatal car accident she was in just before graduating college, her fashion is endlessly cheerful and creative.
Troy Hul Arnold
Hul Arnold doesn't just make fashion — he teaches it! He's an adjunct professor at the famed Parsons School of Design, as well as creating his own gender-blurring line of menswear-inspired pieces for women.
Joshua Hupper
Pictured here (left) with his cofounder Qiaoran Huang, Hupper works out of Shanghai, where their Babyghost brand is based. Their designs are fresh styles targeted at young women with a fun twist.
Esther Perbandt
Perbandt is a true renaissance woman. Not only has she been running her menswear-inspired brand for 15 years (including 10 years with a physical store in Berlin), but she's also worked in the performing arts in film, theater, and music.
Will Riddle
Unlike some of the other contestants, Riddle has yet to launch his own label, but that doesn't mean you should count him out: he's had gigs working at Oscar de la Renta, 3.1 Philip Lim, and Kith.
Sabato Russo
He's the oldest designer in the competition at the age of 64, and he's got the decades of experience to back him up. He owns brand Sartorial Monk, as well as his own self-named line based on the idea of simple but elite fashion, based out of Italy.
Megan Smith
Smith runs her own line out of Los Angeles, Megan Renee, which features bold colors and creative structural elements for a vaguely 1970s-meets-modern look.
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Where can I watch Making the Cut?
Make sure to Making the Cut on Amazon Prime — if you don't have a membership yet, you can get a free 30-day trial today. Two new episodes drop every Friday.
