Santino Rice

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Santino Rice
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Rice in July 2006
Born
Santino Quinto Rice

1974 or 1975 (age 50–51)
Education Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
OccupationsTelevision personality, fashion designer

Santino Quinto Rice (born 1974 or 1975) is an American fashion designer and television personality. He is best known for his appearances on the reality television programs Project Runway , RuPaul's Drag Race and On the Road with Austin and Santino .

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Early life and education

Santino Quinto Rice was born and grew up at Fifth Street in St. Charles, Missouri, the city where his ancestors lived in early 1800s. His mother is of African-American and Italian background; his father, of Jewish and Native American background. Rice attended a preschool program at Lindenwood College (now Lindenwood University) and then graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart (St. Charles). When he attended St. Charles High School (Missouri), he played basketball, worked for a student newspaper, and gained interest in fashion design. [1]

With a scholarship offered to him, Rice concurrently attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM; Los Angeles) in 1990s. [1] [2] [a] After school, he performed voice-overs, appeared as an extra in certain films, and was an assistant costume designer. Also, after arrival in Los Angeles, he worked for other designers. He left St. Charles in 2002 and has not returned by 2006. [1]

Project Runway season 2 (2005–06)

Rice at age 31 first competed in the second season of the American competition reality television series Project Runway . [1] When the season premiered, he was considered "one of the most talented of the bunch" by Jill Radsken of Boston Herald [3] and an "early frontrunner[ sic ]" of the season. [4]

As the season progressed, Rice further earned his "villain" reputation for his onscreen "egomaniacal[ sic ]" personality. [4] Katherine Nguyen of The Orange County Register described him as "talented" and "arrogant". [5] Rice himself asserted to O'Fallon Journal that he was "confident" rather than "arrogant". On the contrary, he admitted appearing "overconfident and arrogant" throughout most of the season but further asserted that he was more than what he had seemed onscreen. [1]

In the fourth episode, Rice had an elimination contention due to his performance in the team lingerie challenge and "his tirade against the judges". A competitor Marla Duran "was disappointed with Rice's catty comments about" Duran's all-female team, which included just Diana Eng and Guadalupe Vidal, for the challenge. [6]

Nonetheless, Rice won two of the season's overall pre-finale challenges, two of which were of its first five. Besides winning the season's first challenge, he further won the season's fifth challenge: designing a party dress for a socialist Nicky Hilton. [1]

Post-Project Runway career

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Rice in 2010 in makeup for L.A. Zombie

Personal life

Notes

  1. ↑ Rice was eighteen years old in April 1993 when he attended FIDM. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlson, Maggie (January 8, 2006). "A star by design". O'Fallon Journal. O'Fallon, Missouri. News section. NewsBank 123F864B00AD5ED0.
  2. 1 2 Howard, Rebecca (April 18, 1993). "Here Comes the Bridesmade (But About That Dress...)". Los Angeles Daily News . p. W1. NewsBank 0EF61892C169376D.
  3. ↑ Radsken, Jill (December 7, 2005). "Television Review: Runway success – This fashion reality show has drama all sewn up". Boston Herald . The Edge section, p. 37. NewsBank 1305FA1915630D48.
  4. 1 2 McFarland, Melanie (December 13, 2005). "Project Runway Is Appealing by Design". Seattle Post-Intelligencer . p. E1. NewsBank 10E7FC576D11FE90.
  5. ↑ Nguyen, Katherine (December 21, 2005). "A dream to design". The Orange County Register . Santa Ana, California. Life section, cover page. NewsBank 10EC87BBD365AED8.
  6. ↑ Lauer-Williams, Kathy (January 4, 2006). "Bethlehem designer survives week four of Project Runway". The Morning Call . Allentown, Pennsylvania. p. E5. NewsBank 10EF244FAC8F7880.

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