DARLINGS! Our World is FALLING APART!!

First, Lifetime and now TMZ tells us THIS!


""Project Runway" diva judge Nina Garcia has been given her walking papers from her post at Elle magazine. You are out!

Up until today, Nina had been the Fashion Director at the women's monthly. Sources tell TMZ the environment at the New York offices of Elle is currently "nuts."

TMZ contacted reps at Lifetime -- "Project Runway's" new home -- and the Weinstein company to see if her new freelance status will affect her fate on the series, but have not heard back."

We'd been hearing rumors that she was facing the axe for a long time now and to be honest, one of our first thoughts upon hearing about the Lifetime deal was "Uh-oh. What does this mean for our chica?"

This blows! WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO US, POODLES? WHAT?!? They're tearing our little Runway world apart!! What's next? Tim gets caught with a hooker? Heidi gets fat?

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