According to a reporter from The List who was in attendance during the panel, upon being asked how true to life the challenges on “Project Runway” were, Christian Siriano explained that he regularly works with the producers to bring in relevant elements of pop culture when developing the challenges given to the show’s contestants. Not everyone seems to see Siriano’s input in the same way, however, as Elaine Welteroth proceeded to chime in, “If you think he’s sassy on-camera, you should see him off-camera … His favorite thing to do is to boss everybody, all the producers, around.”

It’s clear that Siriano is detail-oriented, as he discussed in an interview with Guest of a Guest in relation to a collection he designed for shoe store Payless in 2011. Sharing how he went from high fashion to designing a more affordable collection for the retailer, he said, “It’s pretty amazing, they’re really responsive to showing me the steps because like, in all honesty, I can create something from nothing, so it’s easier for me to design something seeing it in between the processes than seeing before and after. I really have to see the whole process. And that’s really how you find design details. If you’re like, ‘Oh, I need to change that buckle,’ or ‘it needs a little bit more curve or a little bit more of a sharp edge.’ Those are important.”

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Luckily, it sounds like Siriano’s eye for detail hasn’t affected his “Project Runway” gig.