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	Name: Heidi Klum ( Host / Judge) Presently signed with Elite Model Management, Heidi continues to model and pursue an acting career, which has blossomed in 2001. She made a cameo appearance in Sex and the City, sharing the runway with Sarah Jessica Parker.
	Name: Nina Garcia (Judge) Born and grew up in Colombia, and moved to the United States at the age of fifteen to go to school. Studied liberal arts at Boston University and later attended the Fashion Institute of Technology. Had an internship which grew to a full-time job working in Perry Ellis's public relations department. The fashion director of Elle magazine.
	Name: Michael Kors (Judge) Long Island native and former student at Fashion Institute of Technology, designer Michael Kors has been the master of easy chic since he started his own label in 1981. The clean, modern lines of his luxury classics and sportswear appealed mostly to the pampered Park Avenue and East Hampton ladies until Kors recently expanded his brand to include MICHAEL, an upscale menswear collection. Kors continues to make his mark on fashion with the success of his KORS label, accessories and a fragrance line.
	Name: Timothy Gunn (Fashion Contsultant) Timothy Gunn is Chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design. He was appointed Chair In August 2000 with the charge of retooling and invigorating the curriculum for the 21st century. Under Gunn's direction, the department has been repositioned as the indisputable leader in fashion design education in America and as one of only a handful of leading programs in the world.

	Name: Raymundo Baltazar Age: 24 Hometown: Loas Angeles, California A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, currently lives in Los Angeles with three dogs and one fat cat.

	Name: Chloe Dao Age: 33 Hometown: Houston, Texas Chloe Dao, a Vietnamese born in Pakse, Laos, is living the American dream. Born the sixth child of eight girls in her family, she emigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1979 and settled in Houston, Texas.

	Name: Marla Duran Age: 51 Hometown: Allentown, Pennsylvannia Her line is primarily based on item shirts using vintage inspired prints. Marla enjoys a strong following and shows her line twice a year, currently at Atelier at the Rhiga Royal in New York. She has taken workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Peters Valley, studying the art of shibori, dye techniques and discharging, which are always incorporated into her work.

	Name: Diana Eng Age: 22 Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida Diana Eng strives to integrate fashion and technology. She hopes to make the fashion-minded more interested in the research process and the scientific-minded more interested in fashion as a form of self-expression.

	Name: Kirsten Ehrig Age: 37 Hometown: Los Angeles, California Specifically, she has represented countless garment manufacturers and other businesses in litigation and arbitrations. Many of her clients are up-and-coming designers from the Los Angeles area.

	Name: Daniel Franco Age: 33 Hometown: Los Angeles, California He holds both a bachelor of fine arts degree from Otis College of Art and Design and an associate’s degree in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

	Name: Andrae Gonzalo Age: 32 Hometown: Los Angeles, California Andraé Gonzalo believes that a love of fashion need not only be the sole propriety of the superficial and the dim. Born, reared, and educated in Los Angeles, California, Gonzalo attributes his philosophy of design to his city's weather patterns.

	Name: Zulema Griffin Age: 28 Hometown: New York, New York Zulema Griffin began her career as a fashion model with the prestigious Ford modeling agency; gracing the pages of Bazaar, The Face, I.D., Essence, Interview and Paper magazines. She has worked with photographers such as Peter Lindberg, Steven Klein, Barron Claiborne, and Nina Schultz.

	Name: Kara Janx Age: 29 Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa Kara translates her skills and techniques into her clothes, which have a concentration on various surface treatments. Most of the pieces are both hand-cut and hand-screened, lending to a very tactile finish. All graphics are hand drawn and pull inspiration from the clean lines and precision of architecture.

	Name: Emmett McCarthy Age: 42 Hometown: New York, New York Emmett attended the Educational Center for the Arts, a talented and gifted high school for Visual and Performing Arts in New Haven, Connecticut. In New Haven, teacher, sculptor and artist Anna Broell Bresnick encouraged Emmett to nurture his ability to design clothing. Emmett studied fashion design and earned his B.F.A. at Parsons School of Design.

	Name: Santino Rice Age: 30 Hometown: Los Angeles, California Santino is constantly looking for something he has never seen before. Known for bringing an exotic and handcrafted touch to his garments, Santino believes in the concept of infusing worth and importance to a garment, he does this through handwork and various finishing techniques.

	Name: Heidi Standridge Age: 25 Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia Heidi Standridge, a native of Sardis, Alabama, grew up with big aspirations in a tiny town. Despite little exposure to fashion, she began drawing and designing clothes as a young child, often creating innovative pieces from her family’s discarded clothing.

	Name: Nick Verreos Age: 38 Hometown: Los Angeles, California After graduating from UCLA and The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles (FIDM), Nick has worked as a Designer and Patternmaker for various Southern California design houses. Currently he is an instructor at FIDM as well as a freelance patternmaker. He also co-designs a small line he created with his partner five years ago called NIKOLAKI, which has been showcased in “Smashbox Los Angeles Fashion Week.”

	Name: Guadalupe Vidal Age: 25 Hometown: Los Angeles, California a young designer who aims to revolutionize the fashion world by infusing fresh perspective and intriguing designs. Her fashion career began at a young age when she began designing and sewing clothes in her garage. Her interest in design flowered into a passion for millinery, accessories, furniture design, graphic design, costume design and styling.

	Name: Daniel Vosovic Age: 24 Hometown: New York, New York a recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, has traveled the world over in order to broaden his fashion technique and cultivate his talents as a designer.

	Name: John Wade Age: 24 Hometown: Los Angeles, California After two years in junior college, he left for Los Angeles to finish up his bachelor’s degree in fashion design at California State University, Northridge.


	Name: Allison McAtee Age: 25 Hometown: Erie, PA

	Name: Alyssa Daughterty Age: 20 Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

	Name: Cara Roberts Age: 24 Hometown: Darin, CT

	Name: Claudia Age: 22 Hometown: Germany

	Name: Danyelle Age: 22 Hometown: Baltimore, MD

	Name: Eden Age: 18

	Name: Eliza Age: 18

	Name: Grace Age: 22 Hometown: San Diego, CA

	Name: Heather Brown Age: 20

	Name: Lesley Ann Age: 22

	Name: Maria Lucia Age: 20

	Name: Melissa Braiser Age: 21 Hometown: New York, NY

	Name: Rachel Hartzog Age: 19

	Name: Rebecca Holliday Age: 22 Hometown: Savannah, GA

	Name: Shannon Fluet Age: 24 Hometown: Boston, MA

	Name: Tarah Age: 18 Hometown: North Carolina

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