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Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
I think Michael Kors has designs on Daniel's beautiful white coat!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
and the sweater with the satin trim. loved both of those pieces. daniel seems a michael kors kinda guy. and i think he'll do very well there!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I liked Chloe and Daniel throughout, so I didn't care which of them won, as long as it wasn't Santino! LOL

Best perk, IMHO, of Chloe's win was the hot little Saturn car. I noticed it when Tim drove the red one around and looked it up on the Saturn site. I didn't realize at the time that part of the winner's prize WAS the car (only not in red). CAR fashion design makes much more sense to me than clothes! :-)

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
I don't disagree that Chloe's designs had a nice finish to them and her seams were beautiful. I just found them rather dated. Not my style, I guess

(I sort of wish we could see Kara's runway show.)

All three are quite talented, have promising futures, and will do quite well.

Interesting about the mentorship, thanks for that info Tish.

Apparently, Chloe plans to stay in Texas and grow her store (Lot 8) rather than move to NYC.

Jhezzie
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07-05-2001

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 12:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhezzie a private message Print Post    
You can see Kara's show, Wendo.http://www.bravotv.com/

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 12:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
Thanks Jhezzie. Caught it; not impressed.

Sadiesmom
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03-13-2002

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sadiesmom a private message Print Post    
Isn't part of a runway show be that the outfits are extreme, wthout an off the rack look? I think the problem with Daniel's outfit is that there was not a consistant look. I am sure when the designs are translated to saleable items, they are toned down, how can you do that when they are already toned down? I thought it was the different sillouette that made Chloe's more memorable - she also heavily used color, unlike the others.

Daniel seemed to have a lot of pieces, but nothing to pull them together, Santino had a subdued pallette and workmanship problems, which I think may have made it impossible to spotlight.

Here's the thing with Santino - he did not have a woman to fit the garments on, but didn't he have measurement of at least one of the models to go on? Why would Chloe and Daniel be able to fit woman better without thier models, that Santino? I think that Chloe's family is all short and not of model dimensions. There might just be some sort of body proportion that Santino did not get. Or maybe he tried to finish too much before he came back to New York. I agree his models came late, but Isn't that normal?

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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Santino seemed to always have 'fit' problems. They all have form to work from and then do final fittings on the actual models. That's one of the reasons I was so surprised that Daniel's main model's dress was too long.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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CHLOE COUTURE
From Runway, to her way
Despite success, designer won't stop being nice — and won't leave Houston


By JOY SEWING
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Being nice usually doesn't get you far in the cutthroat fashion world, but it worked for Chloe Dao, winner of Bravo's Project Runway reality show.

"It's too hard not to be nice," the designer said Thursday at Lot 8, her Rice Village boutique where she sells her designs as well as others'.

Dao, 34, is so polite that she wouldn't even say a bad word about loud-mouthed designer Santino Rice, who annoyed judges, other competitors and viewers with his brash remarks.

"I think he's a real designer and artist. I'm glad he was in the final three," she said. "I got used to his personality. By the end of the show, I understood him."

On Thursday, at her Houston store, fans poured in to get a photo with the diminutive Dao (just 4 feet, 11 inches), browse her collection of men's and women's clothing and snap up Lot 8 T-shirts, which quickly sold out.

Wearing a Lot 8 tank and jeans, she spent the early morning doing phone interviews and a live segment with NBC's Today Show. Between calls, she unpacked the 13-piece New York Fashion Week collection she designed for Project Runway. And she chatted with customers, smiling a lot.

Her goal on the reality show was to make it to Fashion Week. She created her collection in two months working in the garage of the Jersey Village home she shares with her mother.

"Fashion Week was a fantasy that came true," Dao said.

On Project Runway, designers are tested on their ability to create garments under tight deadlines and extreme conditions. The final show was taped Feb. 10, so Dao has known for several weeks that she won. A legal agreement with the show kept her quiet about the results.

Dao beat Daniel Vosovic and Santino Rice with an evening-wear collection that was praised by the judges for its sophistication, wearability and detailed construction, particularly Dao's placement of seams.

Her collection with minidresses and short skirts was well done, using rich hues — chocolate brown, pearl blue and sea green in designs that flowed with femininity.

"I think there's a couture thing going with Chloe that is not at all what we've seen before," said designer Michael Kors after the show. Kors, model Heidi Klum and Nina Garcia of Elle magazine judged the series. Actress Debra Messing was guest judge for the finale.

"I don't think my life will change," Dao said Thursday. "Maybe I'm being naive. I will try to make it work. Fashion is about having a good factory and good employees, and I can do that here."


Money and a mentorship
Dao will receive $100,000 to develop her clothing line, plus a new $24,000 Saturn Sky two-seater sportscar, a spread in Elle magazine and a mentorship with Banana Republic.

Dao plans to work with Banana Republic's design team by phone. She remains firm that she won't move to New York.

The young entrepreneur appears in the current issue of Forbes magazine and on the cover of Forbes' Asian edition.

Last year, her boutique netted $100,000 on sales of $400,000. Since December, when Project Runway began, she says business has nearly doubled. She's currently working to sell her clothes from her Web site, chloedao.com.

She has been so busy with the show she hasn't had time to work on her line. Lot 8 is currently out of her designs but hopes to be restocked by April.

Dao, who is Vietnamese-American, moved to Houston from Laos in 1979 with her parents and seven sisters. She studied fashion at Houston Community College and New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. She also worked with evening-wear designer Melinda Eng in New York.

In 2000, she returned to Houston and opened Lot 8, named for the eight girls in her family. She co-owns the boutique with her sister Sydney. Dao doesn't know when she'll receive the prize money or how she will use it.

Last week, the store closed briefly for a perfectly timed expansion into the adjacent space at 6127 Kirby. Dao says the move had been in the works for six months.

Of all the prizes she won, Dao most looks forward to the new car.

"I drive a 1996 (Toyota) Corolla that's so dented I'm embarrassed to valet it. I'm excited. I get a car I can valet," she said.

joy.sewing@chron.com

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3713827.html

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Thanks for the articles.

Congratulations, Chloe! I liked a few garments from each of the designers' runway shows but there wasn't one collection I loved way more than the others. This year's were very different from season one's. I remember really liking both Jay & Wendy's (mostly because of her color palette).

Jan
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08-01-2000

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
4' 11" !!!!!!!

Froggiegirl621
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02-14-2003

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Froggiegirl621 a private message Print Post    
What's so bad about being 4'11"?

Jhezzie
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07-05-2001

Friday, March 10, 2006 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhezzie a private message Print Post    
...Fashion is about having a good factory and good employees, and I can do that here."

Oh. I guess that's it then.:-)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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I thought this was interesting (actually the whole article is rather interesting!)

Zulema Griffin, 28

To describe costume designer Zulema as fearless and intimidating is an understatement. She accused the other designers of stealing her form and once said to fellow designer and teammate Kara Janx, "I don't care if you have to cry and cut, but you better cry and cut."

Is there anything one should never do on camera?
I don't feel like I was fairly edited on the show. I'm married to an editor.

You never talked about your husband on the show.
My wife. I did talk about her, they just chose not to air it.

They make you out to be this fabulous straight, single woman.
I know. The people who [the producers of the show] want to look good will look fabulous even though they're monsters. People who say almost nothing can be made to look like the devil. With reality shows, there's a script.

But is there a general rule on not talking about family, ex-boyfriends or sexual experiences?
No, because did you know I was gay or married?

No.
They air what they want to air. There are no general rules.

http://www.nerve.com/regulars/sexadvicefrom/projectrunway/

Sle
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11-10-2003

Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 4:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sle a private message Print Post    
Doing the mentorship by phone sounds disappointing. Banana Republic should rethink their terms if they choose to offer future mentorships.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
LOL Froggie - absolutely nothing at all. It's just that they way they edit, I never knew she was so tiny!

My best friend of many years ago, was 4' 11" - and she was one tiny bundle of total energy and fun!!!!

Froggiegirl621
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02-14-2003

Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Froggiegirl621 a private message Print Post    
Just wondering, Jan. Shorties unite!

Lurkin
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02-15-2002

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 4:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurkin a private message Print Post    
Re: Zulema's article

I never got the impression she was fabulous nor straight. Just a bi&^h . And don't think that can all be blamed on editing

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 6:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
ROFL!!!!

and I am with the shorties (5' here)

Producerchic
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06-29-2004

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Producerchic a private message Print Post    
I knew Chloe was tiny (you could especially see it when she was standing next to Grace)... but I didn't think she was THAT tiny!

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
You know, it's interesting. I've been pondering the article from Nerve about Zulema. I had no idea she was a lesbian either; nor that she had a partner. There were many times where we heard about the sexuality of the boys (Nick, Daniel, Andrae) and the difficulties of being a gay man.

Yet, we got nothing about Zulema or her partner. I would think that during the times the boys talked about their lives that Zulema would've done the same.

I wonder why the producers/editors chose not to include such clips? Hm.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
That part didn't make sense to me either. They certainly didn't keep the guys sexuality hidden.

Jhezzie
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07-05-2001

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhezzie a private message Print Post    
That's odd. I guess fashion is known as a real straight industry. LMAO!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
Tim's final podcasts on the PR site--he has a two-parter for the finale--is really excellent and he takes serious issue with many of the opinions the judges gave. Among other things, he rails against the idea that Santino's clothes didn't fit. H also says that Daniel's stuff looked like something from Talbot's. Heehee.

But what does Tim know?

Landi
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07-29-2002

Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 5:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i think with zulema there was just too many stories to edit into the hours. she also was a little strange with her "shatangay" beitchy personality.

OMG it does look like talbots! maybe that's why i liked most of it! LOLOLOLOL!