The show features Megan Gale as the host, and Peter Morrissey and Claudia Navone as judges.

He is a fashion designer who lived in New York for 10 years and was a judge on the program Style Court.Hinze, Sarah Gale and Brunsdon were replaced by Megan Gale, Kirrily Johnston and Jarrad Clark respectively for the third season, with Alex Perry replacing Henry Roth as mentor.

[5] Project Runway uses progressive elimination to reduce the initial field of 10 or more fashion designers down to 3 or 4 before the final challenge.

Each non-finale challenge (the scope of one episode) requires the designers to develop one or several pieces of new clothing to be presented at an in-house runway show.

These challenges may include creating a garment from non-traditional materials, such as car parts or recyclable materials; to designing for a certain high-profile person (example, singer Kelly Rowland), a corporate fashion line (example, Myer), or centered around a specialized theme such as "cocktail party", "wedding gown", or "bikini".

As the season progresses, Immunity is disregarded to prevent the designers from getting an easy pass to make it into the final round.

Unlike some other Project Runway franchises, in the Australian version, the three finalists do not all present at Fashion Week.

Prior to the show, the finalists must return to Melbourne to oversee model casting, hair and make-up consultations, finishing touches to their clothes, final fitting on their models, and also may be thrown an additional challenge, such as designing an additional outfit to blend in with the collection.

Otherwise, they might be forced to eliminate a crucial aesthetic factor in their presentation, or risk affecting their potential scoring from the judging panel should they stand by their decision to use a forbidden item.

This usually happens during the start of every episode save for the first, with the winner of the previous challenge receiving first pick, and the other designers picking models in order through host Hinze's random draw of large red shirt buttons with their names stored in a black velvet bag.