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Vestavia boy to compete on ‘Project Runway: Threads’

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Bradford Billingsley, Project Runway: Threads

Designer Bradford Billingsley competes on “Project
Runway: Threads” with assistance from mom
Dana Billingsley.

Two Birmingham designers have competed on “Project Runway,” and both have finished in eighth place. Bradford Billingsley of Vestavia Hills has already outranked those previous contestants.

And he’s only 12.

On Thursday, Lifetime will air the spinoff “Project Runway: Threads,” featuring weekly duels among three fashion designers age 9 to 16. Bradford will compete in the premiere and has previously placed in Birmingham Fashion Week’s Rising Design Challenge.

He is in the eighth grade at Pizitz Middle School.

The show, filmed in Los Angeles, pits three designers against each other in a race to sketch and create apparel to impress the judges. The winner receives a $10,000 store credit at Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts Store, a scholarship to the summer program at L.A.’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and a sewing and embroidery studio from Brother.

Birmingham’s Ken Laurence competed in season 12, while Sandhya Garg was in the currently airing season 13.

“Project Runway: Threads” debuts at 9:30 p.m. Thursday on Lifetime, and will air then at 9 p.m. Thursdays in its regular time slot.

Bradford Billingsley

“Project Runway: Threads”

Bradford Billingsley, Project Runway: Threads

Dana Billingsley, left, and Bradford show off his fashion creations.

Video: preview of “Project Runway: Threads”

Update Oct. 24: Bradford Billingsley won the competition in the premiere episode. Full episode below, plus interview with the new winner.

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