"Project Runway" has officially gone from catty, cult Bravo series to pop culture phenomenon. In just the last few weeks, it's been mentioned on "Desperate Housewives," and "Ugly Betty's" little brother gushed, "This is my 'Project Runway' moment, and I'm going to make it work!"

As its audience has grown more mainstream, so has its tone.

As the legal battle over the rights to "Project Runway" was waged, Season Six's contestants found themselves cooling their high heels for about a year. But now the show, which moved to L.A., is finally at home on Lifetime and airing at 9 p.m. Thursday.

The wait may have been worth it for Ra'mon-Lawrence Coleman, a designer who is clearly ahead of his time. If he had his way, all men would follow his example of wearing man brooches and shorts with calf socks. "It's already happening," he insists. "You see men rolling up their pants with higher socks. And the great thing about doing runway is that you can create a fantasy, take it a bit furthur than the everyday interpretation. Maybe a brooch could be reinterpreted into a tie clip."

Born and raised in Bronzeville, he has a unique background for "Project Runway": He left medical school, where he was training to be a neurosurgeon, to enroll in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he switched to studying performance art and fashion. Since then, Coleman, 31, has worked for Target and Kohl's and moved to Minneapolis. Right now he's getting ready to show his own label, Ra'mon-Lawrence, at New York's Fashion Week.

They won't be denying us our "Project Runway" much longer. The catty competition returns to the catwalk on August 20 on Lifetime, with all your favorites onboard: Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia.

There's also an "exciting new companion series," "Models of the Runway," a 30-minute glimpse behind the scenes as sullen beauties compete for a spread in Marie Claire.

The multitasking supermodel host of "Project Runway" confirms that she is pregnant with her fourth child. Her family with singer Seal already includes Leni, 4, Henry Günther, 3, and Johan Riley, 2.

And after a lengthy legal battle, the sixth season of "Project Runway" will be born, too. Bravo's NBC Universal parent company, the Weinstein Company, and Lifetime were tussling over money. But the long-awaited fashion smackdown will finally air on Lifetime Aug. 15.

Well, no great surprise, the winner of season-five "Project Runway" is ...

Aaaaargh! For the second year in a row, the judges on "Project Runway" couldn't make the hard choice and copped out on the final elimination ...

"Project Runway" is -- was? -- in the middle of its last season on the NBC-owned Bravo cable network. Earlier this year, the show's producers announced they were moving the popular fashion-themed reality show to Lifetime for season 6. But in the U.S, court system, one day you're in and the next day you've got an injunction against you ...

Chicago's Terri Stevens designed this samurai spectacular for her drag queen.

Why can't our Terri get some love on "Project Runway"? Thus far on the season, Terri Stevens from Chicago is always the bridesmaid, never immune. And while last night's winner was deserving -- Joe, the straight guy, made a drag queen deliriously happy! -- we can't believe Terri's jaw-dropping "Blade Runner" geisha get-up didn't take the top slot.

And by the stone-faced shots in the green room after the runway, hoo boy, looks like she can't believe it, either.