'Queer Eye' Star Tan France Scores New Netflix Show With Alexa Chung

Netflix is adding another major show to their lineup and they’re recruiting fashion icons Tan France of “Queer Eye” and Alexa Chung from MTV’s “It’s On With Alexa Chung” to lead it. The show is being described as the next “Project Runway.”

In a sort of “America’s Next Top Model” meets a baking competition show format, “Next in Fashion” features the two hosts/judges as they search for the next big fashion designer. France and Chung will watch as the 18 competing designers put together something that will impress them enough to receive the $250,000 prize and the prospect of selling their designed items.

“Next in Fashion” will also have guest judges from the world of fashion, including Tommy Hilfiger, Phillip Lim, Kerby Jean-Raymond, Beth Ditto, Christopher Kane, and Josefine Aberg, to name a few, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The trailer shows the competition unfolding in a big room with tables and materials for the designers to craft their inspired creations. In a similar fashion to “The Great British Bake Off,” the judges move around the room, asking about the artist’s choices and what inspired them to take things in that direction during each episode.

At the end of the competition, there is a fashion show, where models wear the competing designer’s hand-crafted designs and walk down a runway. The trailer teases us with a shocking gasp, in which France sees a jaw-dropping dress.

France and Netflix have been busy collaborating together on a few different fashion-related shows, first with Netflix’s own revival of “Queer Eye,” “Dressing Funny,” which features France giving makeovers to famous comedians, and now “Next in Fashion.”

“Next in Fashion” premieres on Netflix on Jan. 29.