O.G. Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll (season one) is coming out with a documentary chronicling his career post-show, Eleven Minutes, and I am looking forward to how it will address the help/hurt dynamic of exposure in the fashion industry through reality TV. Because I actually care about some of these people. It will be in theaters on February 20th… hopefully one in town (though Film Editor Erik Henriksen assures me I should keep my expectations very low), but if not there’s always the internets.

“It’s like America’s Next Top Model—not one of those has become a famous model.” No kidding.

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Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and...