The host was Australian model Kristy Hinze and the judges were Sarah Gale and Jayson Brunsdon.
The prizes for the winner of Project Runway Australia included what was described as "$100,000 opportunity" to create their own fashion line to show in Melbourne Fashion Week, a Fiat 500 car, and having their clothes displayed in a six-page spread in Madison magazine.
(in order of elimination) The premiere episode of Project Runway Australia kicked off with the twelve designers introducing themselves.
They were also told that the Whitehouse Institute of Design was located 3 kilometres away and that the first person to reach there would get the best pick of materials.
The guest judge for this episode was Karen Webster, the director of L'oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.
At the elimination, Juli, Helen and Lui's designs are praised by the judges and Mark and Shane are in the bottom two.
Mark was unable to get the correct material for Juli and ends up having to use a salmon pink polyester instead.
The designers were told by Henry that they were going to attend an industry party where they had to impress Sophie Falkner.
After quickly skimming through The Daily Telegraph, the designers reach the Confidential section and see a picture of Brent and his model.
Lui, Leigh and Helen performed well but Juli and Mark's outfits were criticised.
While they are making the outfits, they are surprised by Kelly Rowland coming in and giving her opinions on their designs.
After this, Lui decides to take a risk and creates a whole new outfit in one hour and Helen removes the feathers.
Eventually Helen is eliminated because of the cheapness of the look and the height of the dress was a bit too revealing.
During the sewing portion of the show Leigh had a bit of a stress out about his mistake of getting brown instead of his intended black material.
Midway through the challenge the designers were told to take their models and unfinished garments outside and ask random people on the street for their opinions.
All four designers were finding this task extremely difficult, especially Petrova, who had an incident with hot glue, which caused her dress to become blotchy.