Here is a quick list of the rest of the designers.

McKell Maddox

McKell Maddox is a 29-year-old fashion designer from Brigham City, Utah. Her favorite designers are Coco Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier and the very first clothing she ever made was a patchwork jacket. She attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and has worked as a Jeremy Scott design assistant.

Michael Costello

Michael Costello, 27, is a fashion designer living in Palm Desert, California. He has been designing and sketching since he was 4 but has never had any formal training. He won the 2009 Project ASID Award, with Dorothy Willets, for a dress made from upholstery and wallpaper.

Michael Drummond

Michael Drummond, 31, is a knitwear designer and freelance stylist from St. Louis, Missouri. Michael won an internship award in 2006 at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and an award from St. Louis Fashion Week 2009. His favorite designers include Issey Miyake, the late Alexander McQueen and Viktor & Rolf.

Mondo Guerra

Mondo Guerra, 32, is a freelance designer from Denver, Colorado. Mondo has won the FGI Young Designer Award in 2002, the Project Tamarac Grand Prize in 2007 and Style Wars, Denver Art Museum in 2009. His training has been “on-the-job” experience in millinery, fashion and theater.

Nicholas D’Aurizio

Nicholas D’Aurizio, 32, is a handbag designer from New York, New York.

Peach Carr

Peach Carr, 50, is a freelance designer from Lake Forest, Illinois. Her first ever garment made was an A-line shift in the fourth grade. Peach is self-taught and her favorite designers include Valentino, the late Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga.

Sarah Trost

Sarah Trost, 27, is a costume designer from Toluca Lake, California. Sarah has a fashion degree from FIDM in Los Angeles, California and the first garment she made were doll clothes.

Valerie Mayen

Valeria Mayen, 28, is a full-time fashion designer, education and freelance illustrator currently living in Cleveland, Ohio. The first garment she ever made was a navy polka-dot sleeveless dress with pink buttons. She received her BFA in Illustration from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005 and has won the Creative Workforce Fellowship in 2009 and the COSE Arts Business and Innovation Award in 2010.

Who are you rooting for to win this season’s Project Runway?

A.J. Thouvenot

A.J. Thouvenot, 26, is from St. Louis, Missouri. With a BFA in fashion design from Lindenwood University, A.J.’s first ever design was a tunic made of rubber exercise bands. It never survived its first fitting. He currently works as a fashion designer for fashion label TrashBiscuit and does part-time retail sales at Sole and Blues STL. A.J. is avant-garde and forward thinking and is more comfortable making event-based clothes than typical every day clothes.

Andy South

Andy South, 23, is a freelance designer from Waipahu, Hawaii. He has an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science, Fashion Design from Honolulu Community College. His design influences include culture, people and Asian lifestyles, as well as punk, Goth and club-kid aesthetics. The first garments he ever made were Halloween costumes.

April Johnston

April Johnston, 21, is from Savannah, Georgia. The first garment she ever made was her prom dress and realized she had the potential to become a fashion designer. She has a bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and was one of the designers featured at the 2010 SCAD Fashion Show. Her favorite designers include Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.

Casanova

Casanova, 33, is from Astoria, New York.

Christopher Collins

Christopher Collins, 30, is from San Francisco, California. Christopher learned to sew from his mother and pattern and construction training in college. He won the Most Creative Award at a student fashion show and selected for Gen Art in San Francisco in 2008.

Gretchen Jones

Gretchen Jones, 28, lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the designer and director of her own label, MothLove. Unlike the other contestants, Gretchen got her design training solely from real world experience. She has worked as a buyer, wholesale vendor, trade show rep, production and design assistant and a model. Her design influences are rooted with minimal and conceptual art principles.

Ivy Higa

Ivy Higa, 30, is a fashion designer from New York, New York. She taught herself to sew and later studied at Parsons, The New School For Design. Ivy was also one of nine finalists for the Oscars Designers Challenge.

Jason Troisi

Jason Troisi, 33, is a landscape designer from Greenwich, Connecticut. With a fashion design degree from Parsons, he won the Gene Meyer Golden Thimble Award for menswear and 3rd place in a Birkenstock shoe design contest. For Jason, a great suit is a fashion must.

Kristin Haskins Simms

Kristin Haskins Simms, 38, is an apparel designer and freelance graphic designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first garment she ever made was a T-shirt jacket. She has no formal training in fashion design but says she realized she had potential after she showed a collection at Philadelphia Fashion Week.

Who is your favorite designer so far?

Meet the second batch of designers next week!

Some of the contestants and favorites include:

1. Daniel Vosovic

Season 2′s runner-up, Daniel Vosovic, has published a book since appearing on Project Runway called Fashion Inside Out in October 2008. He is planning to launch his clothing line on February 2010. He is also the winner of the Season 6 All-Star Challenge.

2. Santino Rice

Santino Rice is probably Project Runway’s most expressive and opinionated contestant ever. He finished 3rd in Season 2, behind Chloe Dao and Daniel Vosovic. Since the show, he has been creating Camel cigarette packs, designing clothes for an exclusive list of clients and preparing to launch his fashion line and clothing company.

3. Jeffrey Sebelia

Jeffrey Sebelia is the winner of Season 3 of Project Runway. He used his cash prize to expand his existing clothing company, Cosa Nostra.

4. Uli Herzner

Uli Herzner finished runner-up to Jeffrey Sebelia in Season 3. Since the show, she has designed clothes for different clients who loved her in the show. Currently, she has her own TV show, It’s Very Uli, on Plum TV.

5. Mychael Knight

Since Season 3 of the show, Mychael has created a custom line tee for Starbucks, appeared on Rip The Runway on BET and used his cash prize to launch his fragrance, Majyk.

6. Chris March

Since Project Runway, Chris has designed elaborate concert costumes for Madonna, Beyonce and Prince. He has since moved to New York City, where his creations have appeared on Entertainment Tonight, HBO, Martha Stewart and Rachael Ray, among others.

Despite all the legal battles the show experienced for the past nine months, all systems are now go and Project Runway Season 6 will premiere on August 20 on the Lifetime Network!

Here are some things to look forward to on the new season of Project Runway!

1. New Location

Sunny Los Angeles offers a fresh and new twist to the show. The change of scenery has reinvigorated a new spark in everyone involved in the production.

2. More and More Celebrity Judges

This season alone, the likes of Eva Longoria Parker, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilara, Rebecca Romjin and Bob Mackie, among others, serve as celebrity judges for the designers.

3. New Sponsors

There are a lot of new sponsors in Project Runway this season, changing the ones used in previous seasons. One big change is the magazine. Since Nina Garcia moved over to Marie Claire, the magazine sponsorship has also moved: from Elle to Marie Claire. TRESemme is also out and Garnier is in, and Bluefly will no longer provide the accessories and shoes for the models and designers. These will be provided by Macys.

4. New Prizes

There are no more cars being given away, but the prize now does include a trip for two to Paris, France!

5. Model Runway

After each episode of Project Runway, you will be able to watch Model Runway, which features the lives and troubles of the models of Project Runway.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the new season of Project Runway!

Admittedly, I love reality shows. But only to a limit. There are some shows, okay, a lot of reality shows that I would not dare watch. And there are some that I look forward to watching every season. These are some of them.

1. Project Runway

I love fashion and that’s why I love Project Runway. I love seeing new pieces constructed every week. They’re not always the most fashionable or the most wearable, but it’s always interesting to see what fashion designers can create under the most enormous amount of pressure. I’ve not always agreed with the judges each time, but I still watch it every time.

2. The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race is the reality show that fulfills the dreams of almost everyone in the entire world: to race around the world and get paid a million dollars if you emerge on top. It’s not the easiest situation, but it gets really crazy! It’s been 13 seasons, but it always gets interesting. The fact that there are different types of people joining every season and never put into the same situation twice is enough reason to tune in and see how they’ll react to every situation they’re thrown in.

3. American Idol

It has become boring the last two seasons, but American Idol still remains a favorite. I love listening to music, and I’m always trying to discover new music to listen to. American Idol gives me a chance not only to do that but to witness the evolution of a new artist. Sometimes that doesn’t happen, but, hey, it’s still fun to watch and pretend to be a judge.

What about you? Do you watch reality shows? What’s your favorite?

And I was right. Sadly, I now know if I end up watching an episode, it’s all over — I’m addicted. My downfall: my mother, Bravo TV, Project Runway, and Top Chef. She blind-sided me when she turned Project Runway on one evening while I was at her house visiting. Before I knew it, I was spellbound.

My addiction started harmless enough with the scanning of the television waves for repeats of the episodes I’d missed while I’d sit on pins and needles waiting for the next week’s episode to air — desperate to see if the contestants I liked were going to make it to the next level or be eliminated. Before I knew it, I was deep in the thralls of reality TV and sat for hours talking about Project Runway and Top Chef with my mom — fighting over who were our favorites and who we wanted to get the ax — on which we could never agree.

As I watched the last episode of Project Runway’s last season, I vowed this was it — no more reality TV for me. But I was thwarted by the evil genius that is Bravo TV’s advertising. How dare they show trailers of the upcoming season’s Top Chef!