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.

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