Project Runway Is on Its 15th Season! And 14 Other Things You Never Knew About the Show

One of the show's producer, Sara Rea, revealed that when Michael Jackson died, the producers chose to not tell the designers because they were in the middle of a challenge. "That sounds so silly, right? But, at the time, you don't know if that's going to affect someone negatively and we didn't think it was fair to say that in the middle of a challenge," she said. "So we waited until the challenge was over and then told them the next day. We like to be very careful about not disrupting their focus."