Daniel Vosovic

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Daniel Vosovic
Born
Daniel Vosovic Jr.

(1981-03-25) March 25, 1981 (age 44)
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Education Fashion Institute of Technology
Occupation fashion designer
Television Project Runway Season 2 (2nd)

Daniel Vosovic Jr. (born March 25, 1981) is an American fashion designer best known as the first runner-up in the second season of the American reality television series Project Runway .

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Early life and education

Daniel Vosovic Jr., born to his parents Daniel Vosovic Sr. and Sharon, had grown up in Lowell from age thirteen onward. [1] There, he attended art-related classes of and graduated in 1999 from Lowell High School. [2] Then he attended Grand Rapids Community College, including its courses on clothing construction and fashion design, and then graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.; New York City) in 2005. [2] [1] When he was an undergraduate, he competed at the Milano Studia la Moda (Milan). [3] Also, he worked at the Woodland Mall location of Banana Republic for several years. [4]

Vosovic is of Serbian and Slovak background. The father of his grandmother operated a tailoring company in Serbia. [5]

Project Runway season 2 (2005–06)

Daniel Vosovic Jr., a 24-year-old aspiring designer from Lowell, Michigan, first competed in the second season of the series. [2] He won five challenges before the Fashion Week. As Lorilee Craker of The Grand Rapids Press noted, "Vosovic was not an obvious frontrunner" initially because "[h]e wasn't flamboyant enough" to garner more airtime in post-production results. Nevertheless, his challenge wins and "clean and savvy clothing creations" made him a viewers' "favorite to win" the season. [1]

In the fourth episode, [a] where he made his first challenge win, Vosovic was the leader of his winning three-person team for the team lingerie challenge. In the challenge, a team must design three pieces under one "vision"; his team's "vision" was Lederhosen-based. [8] His second challenge win occurred in the sixth episode: creating "a day-to-evening ensemble for Banana Republic." [9] Required by the challenge, Vosovic partnered with Andrae Gonzalo, [4] who shared Vosovic's second challenge win.

Vosovic's third challenge win occurred in the eighth episode: creating photos of whatever inspired a contestant and then selecting only one for a dress to base upon. He selected a photo of a Japanese orchid as his inspiration. [10] He then won the fourth time a challenge where he was required to use "real plants and flowers", [4] earning him an immunity from elimination. The judges heavily panned a design he made in the tenth challenge of the season, but he was automatically safe due to the immunity. [11] [b]

Vosovic's dress—"a gleaming navy gown [...] cut high up the thigh"—for the final pre-Fashion Week challenge in the eleventh episode—designing for the supermodel Iman—was criticized the series's judges, especially by Nina Garcia who deemed it "[s]afe and a bit boring". Nonetheless, he earned his fifth challenge win, securing him a finalist position. [12]

For the Fashion Week, he envisioned his thirteen-piece [c] collection including "earth tones using brown floral lace prints" and a "white swing coat with brass buttons". [13] He named Oscar De La Renta and Narciso Rodriguez his inspirations due to their "calm and organized" runway shows. [1]

Personal life

Vosovic is openly gay. As revealed in the series, he already came out to his family before Project Runway. [14] [15]

Notes

  1. ↑ The first two episodes of the second series aired as the two-hour collaborated premiere on December 7, 2005. [6] [7]
  2. ↑ Nick Verreos was eliminated in the tenth episode, placing him fifth. [11]
  3. ↑ For the Fashion Week finale, the finalists—Vosovic, Chloe Dao, and Santino Rice—were assigned to construct twelve outfits for their own collections within five months after the second season's pre-finale taping on their own $8,000 budget. Later, they were assigned the final challenge of the season: with an assistance from an eliminated contestant of a finalist's choosing, build a thirteenth outfit to finish the collection within two days before the Fashion Week show on their own additional $250 budget. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Craker, Lorilee (February 15, 2006). "Reality TV makes him style star". The Grand Rapids Press . Grand Rapids, Michigan. p. A1. NewsBank 10FD2B00DE11AD78.
  2. 1 2 3 Craker, Lorilee (December 4, 2005). "Local designer to compete on Project Runway". The Grand Rapids Press . p. G3. NewsBank 10E57724D6DE33C8.
  3. ↑ McFarland, Melanie (February 27, 2006). "On Pins and Needles – Are You in or 'Owt'?". Seattle Post-Intelligencer . p. D1. NewsBank 110108E793DE6530.
  4. 1 2 3 "Dressed for success". The Grand Rapids Press . February 15, 2006. p. A1. NewsBank 10FD2B0083CCABE8.
  5. ↑ Vosovic, Daniel (October 26, 2008). "Project Runway winner Daniel Vosovic's home is like a truly real reality show". Chicago Tribune (Interview). Archived from the original on May 5, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
  6. ↑ Balta, Victor (December 5, 2005). "Fashion reality TV show focuses on real talent". The Daily Herald . Everett, Washington. NewsBank 115E23BED9B544B0. Two of the initial 16 contestants will be gone by the end of the first hour, and a third will say goodbye by the end of the night.
  7. ↑ "Area roots on Runway". The Grand Rapids Press . Grand Rapids, Michigan. December 8, 2005. Weekend section, p. 2. NewsBank 10E672831039ABD8.
  8. ↑ "Vosovic wows Runway". The Grand Rapids Press . Grand Rapids, Michigan. December 22, 2005. Weekend section, p. 2. NewsBank 10EB09B442D956F0.
  9. ↑ "On the Runway". The Grand Rapids Press . January 12, 2006. Weekend section, p. 2. NewsBank 10F2052153AB1090. The source does not mention Andrae Gonzalo as part of Vosovic's duo team for the sixth challenge of the second season.
  10. ↑ "Project Runway update". The Grand Rapids Press . January 26, 2006. Weekend section, p. 2. NewsBank 10F69DC9D99FE7F0.
  11. 1 2 "The final four". The Grand Rapids Press . Grand Rapids, Michigan. February 9, 2006. Weekend section, p. 2. NewsBank 10FB3CCDC2F18A40.
  12. ↑ Craker, Lorilee (February 16, 2006). "Still at it – Lowell designer makes it to finale". The Grand Rapids Press . Weekend section, p. 23. NewsBank 10FD896770395E10.
  13. ↑ Long, Colleen (February 10, 2006). "Project Runway takes off at New York Fashion Week". Associated Press. NewsBank 110051C1DA780BF8.
  14. ↑ Craker, Lorilee (March 2, 2006). "Last wrinkle – Finalists thrown another chore in first half of show's finale". The Grand Rapids Press . Grand Rapids, Michigan. Weekend section, p. 24. NewsBank 1102170286551BE8.
  15. ↑ Urban, Robert (March 9, 2006). "Project Runway's Exciting Second Season Comes to a Close". AfterElton. Archived from the original on December 26, 2007. Retrieved December 16, 2007.
  16. "Modest designs on the future". Tampa Bay Times . March 10, 2006. Arts and Entertainment section. NewsBank 131DFC4E6FC5BC80.
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