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You had a look of horror during the premiere when Veronica suggested leggings to someone. Are they ever appropriate?
I have my biases and I am just not a legging person. The goal of [most people] is to look longer and leaner and they just cut your leg off and interrupt that line and it just is not flattering. Of course, Veronica and I frequently disagree about certain items of apparel, but I always say, "You look great in everything. You can wear them." She could wear a garbage bag and people would believe it and she'd look chic.

Is there any value to saving something just in case it comes back in style?
When things do come back it is done with a freshness or through a lense of modernity that it still makes it different. I'm more of an advocate of giving it to Goodwill or Dress for Success. Then if it does comeback, it will be with a new degree of energy and I'll want that newer item.

I hear we're getting more 'Project Runway' in November. Were you able to juggle both shows?
Yes, thanks to the most wonderful boss in the world at Liz Claiborne. It is a phenomenal season.

Lots of crazy people and antics?
When I say it is phenomenal, I'm really talking about the design work and it is at the highest level ever. For my interaction and engagement with the designers it is really about the content of the work and not like, "You'd better fix this sleeve, this is terrible." Content wise it is full and it is great. I will also add that it is really true that fashion is a matter of taste. I never knew going into the judging who was going to go home. I was never correct. There was one case where I went into the producers of the show, and said, "It is just too bad that so-and-so's work is so egregiously awful that the entire audience will know from the onset that he's out." Damned if he didn't win the challenge.

What are we going to see you wearing at the Emmys?
I'm going to be wearing a tuxedo by Ted Baker of London. I'm going to be covering the red carpet from the other side of the stanchion for the 'Today' show. I get to look at everybody and not be a sweaty, horrible wreck. I walked the red carpet at the Emmys for our first season. I can't tell you how horrible the experience was. My refrain is that I felt like a mongrel at the Westminster Kennel Club. I have such respect for people who do this. It is excruciating having photographers yell at you, "There's Chris O'Donnell. Get out of my way. I don't know who you are." Horrifying.

I wish you and the show good luck at the Emmys this year.
I just hope that we'll win. I heard that Ryan Seacrest was hosting and I thought ...

The fix is in?
That's exactly right! How can 'American Idol' win if he's hosting? Talk about looking like the deck is stacked. Then I'm thinking, "Good, no they can't win." But watch, they will. Frankly, I was hoping last year that they'd win, really and truly. Because then it would be our time the next year, but the fact that 'The Amazing Race' won four times in a row? That's ridiculous. We'll see ...

You've got your day job and these two shows, is there time for another book?
I'm taking stabs at a style book for men. I think men would benefit from it.

Maybe on 'Guide to Style' season two we'll see a guy transformed?
Oh, I hope there is a season two! I just hope that people watch this season. ['Runway'] fans are going to see more dimensions of me than they've seen before and I hope that isn't a turn off.

How odd is it to have the women you are helping throw your "make it work" catchphrase back at you?
[Laughs] I have to tell you it is surreal. Going by a billboard that has your picture and your name on it is really surreal. I am the luckiest guy in the world and I keep pinching myself thinking I'm going to wake up from this dream. When all of this happens to you after you turn 50, you have a sincere appreciation for the phenomenon on it. It is just staggering to me.

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