Tending to her "Project Runway" finale duties, Heidi Klum took to the catwalk at Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday (September 9).

The Victoria's Secret beauty was decked out in a bright orange frock as she joined Nancy Dubuc, Jessica Simpson, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week display.

The previous evening, Heidi celebrated the September cover of City magazine - during which time she chatted with PopEater about the end of the season.

"We're down to the final three but today we had all 17 designers back for the reunion," she said. "And they're very emotional designers, they ask a lot from themselves. And I think that's why season eight has been very successful, because they reveal a lot of their feelings and people can connect more with that."

As for the latest crop of contestants, Miss Klum dishes, "They're softies this season! And they get aggravated fast--they fight quite a bit and they show their emotions a lot. Today [at the reunion] one of them who [had been eliminated] wanted me to tell them why they had to leave. They didn't understand it! They said, 'People came to me and told me the other person's design was so much uglier,' why did I have to leave? It's so sad!"