Mondo Guerra

100 Colorado Creatives: Charlie Boots

#68: Charlie Boots Who is Charlie Boots? Yesterday you might not have known his name, but today Boots (aka Aaron Mulligan) is ready for his closeup. The young artist will make his public debut this weekend as the first-ever visual-arts fellow of the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program at P ... More >>

Mondo Guerra is just one of the stars of Denver Fashion Weekend Spring/Summer 2013

As the snow melts away, every young fashionista's thoughts turn to flirty frocks, bare shoulders and fabulous hair. And those are just a few of the things you'll see showcased at 303 Magazine's Denver Fashion Weekend Spring/Summer 2013, which takes over City Hall this weekend. Hometown fashion hero ... More >>

Want to be a reality TV star? Haunt Ghost Plate & Tap Sunday

Want to be part of a new reality show? The Breckenridge-Wynkoop restaurants are collaborating with Koncrete Media, a local production company, on a reality TV show, Mile High Social. And they're hosting a casting call from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 10 at Ghost Plate & Tap; the crew is looking for ... More >>

Casting call for local reality TV show at Ghost Plate & Tap Sunday

Want to be part of a new reality show? The Breckenridge-Wynkoop restaurants are collaborating with Koncrete Media, a local production company, on a reality TV show, Mile High Social. And they're hosting a casting call from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 10 at Ghost Plate & Tap; the crew is looking for ... More >>

Powerhaus Studio announces its PAIR artist-in-residence program for artists and designers

What do Westword MasterMinds do once they've been so designated? Sometimes, maybe even often, they find ways to spread it around and pay it forward, by offering opportunities to young artists and designers just coming up. And that's exactly what the three dedicated MasterMinds who comprise Powerhaü ... More >>

3 things to do for free this week, October 22-25, 2012

All zombie-d out from the weekend? Don't worry: There are no undead events on this list, just dead-free ones. From a bring-your-own records party to a RMCAD faculty art show to a live podcast taping and bash, you have many great ways to spend time this week -- without spending cash. (You can use all ... More >>

Photos: Relive Mondo Guerra's design career through his childhood Halloween costumes

As the first cousin of Project Runway celebrity Mondo Guerra, I can attest to the fact that Halloween in our extended family was always a treat. Since Halloween is one of Mondo's favorite holidays, he'd decorate his parents' house with cobwebs, tombstones and stuffed straw men, and on the big day wo ... More >>

Blue state v. red state: Which Colorado do you live in?

Colorado is a key swing state in the upcoming presidential election. In polls, Colorado looks like a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, with leads shifting back and forth by the day -- and which way the vote ultimately goes here could decide the national outcome. By the numbers, though, t ... More >>

CultureHaus hosts fashionable fun and a Fallene Wells sneak peek at the DAM

CultureHaus, the Denver Art Museum's art-loving social group for young professionals, is always coming up with new ways to have creative fun, such as tonight's Fashion to the MAX, a nod to the end of the DAM's most fashionable summer ever. Though the YSL show is over, his high style -- and the museu ... More >>

Mondo Guerra's collection for SEE Eyewear will launch in early 2013

Project Runway: All Stars winner Mondo Guerra has a new collaboration in the works, and it's slightly more utilitarian than the bold, fearless couture we came to expect from him on the show: a collection of funky and functional eyeglass frames for SEE Eyewear, a brand Mondo himself has been wearing ... More >>

Blonde Leading the Blonde

Stephanie Ohnmacht sails away with Frock Out 2012 honors

Last night's Titanic-themed Frock Out fashion fete at the Denver Central Library was a subdued affair, especially when compared to the last one two years ago, which was both a fashion show and a good-humored freak show, and maybe a little too messy for some people's taste. But the styles marched out ... More >>

Reader: Mondo should have won last time -- but at least he gets the big prize now

Mondo Guerra was the undeniable star his first round on Project Runway. Even though he didn't win the competition, he won hearts with his admission that he's HIV positive. And last Thursday night, he got his sweet revenge by winning Project Runway All Stars , which came with a hefty load of prizes ... More >>

Mondo Guerra win on Project Runway All Stars has Denver looking good

Mondo Guerra won it all last night, when he was named the winner of Project Runway All Stars. But this Denver designer has always shown that he was a cut above -- generous to other designers and supportive of causes close to his heart, including Colorado AIDS Project, the beneficiary of last night's ... More >>

It's a celebration, bitches! Mondo Guerra wins Project Runway All Stars

It must have been tough for Denver designer Mondo Guerra to keep a secret for so long, but on Thursday night, the reality-show contestant could finally let it out: He was the winner of Project Runway All Stars. In a watch party held at the Exdo Event Center, Guerra had gathered with a few hundred o ... More >>

Life is a carnival for Mondo Guerra: Party with Mondo for the Project Runway All Stars finale

Will Mondo get robbed again, or will he finally triumph? That's still the big question on the minds of loyal fashionistas across the very universe. But either way, we already know that Mondo Guerra has a bright future ahead of him.

Project Runway's Mondo Guerra says he's ready for his "own show"

Denver designer Mondo Guerra is about to emerge from the Project Runway vortex after a two-year stay, and he'll be the latest personality to try and prove that there are second acts in the lives of American reality-TV stars. Since Season 8 of the Lifetime reality show began filming in June 2010, an ... More >>

Project Runway All Stars finale (part one) leaves viewers in suspense

Last night was the first installment of the two-part finale of Project Runway All Stars, and it posted one of the toughest challenges in Project Runway history. The remaining three designers were challenged to create "mini collections" of five pieces in only four days -- the shortest turnaround for ... More >>

Project Runway All Stars trims down to the final three

Last night on Project Runway All Stars, the challenge for the four remaining designers was to create a ready-to-wear outfit for designer and guest judge Nanette Lepore's line that was "irresistible, feminine and timeless." The winning design would be featured on the Nanette Lepore label, and profits ... More >>

Runway Redemption

Designers light up the runway with special effects challenge on Project Runway All Stars

Last night's episode of Project Runway All Stars was brought to you by a deadhead near you. Or it might as well have been. The challenge asked the designers to create a look that would pop under a black light and impress guest judge Pharrell Williams.

A clothes call for Denver fashion survey -- deadline today!

Mondo Guerra, Denver designer!​The Yves Saint Laurent show will soon fill the Denver Art Museum, and Mondo Guerra seems to be running away with Project Runway All Stars (anyone else think it's suspicious that he's cancelling Denver engagements because he needs to be in New York in mid-April?). ... More >>

Mondo waves Jamaican flag for repeat win on Project Runway All Stars

It was World War III last night onProject Runway All Stars as the designers competed to see who could create the best national flag-inspired outfit. Each contestant was to take on a nation that represented a "major world region," but some of the countries wound up looking somewhat obscure.

MasterMind Awards honor our eighth class of artistic entrepreneurs

On Saturday night, Westword introduced the eighth class of MasterMinds -- artistic entrepreneurs who are changing the cultural landscape. Since we started the program, we have given more than $130,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations. The latest winners (click on the link for profiles): M ... More >>

Broadway challenge proves the perfect stage for Mondo Guerra on Project Runway All Stars

Last night's challenge in Project Runway All Stars was for the designers to create a dress for one of the characters in the Broadway play Godspell. They were given a $200 budget and sent off to Mood to buy "rich-looking fabrics" for their character's wardrobe -- which was to consist of separates tha ... More >>

Project Runway All Stars's Mondo Guerra benefits the Colorado Aids Project

Denver's most fashionable and charitable denizens turned out last night to attend a special Project Runway All Stars viewing party at Beauty Bar hosted by contestant and Denver designer Mondo Guerra. While Guerra hosts a viewing party at the venue every week, last night's event featured silent and l ... More >>

Fashion face-off on last night's Project Runway All Stars

​ This week's episode of Project Runway All Stars was "fashionmania," as Mondo Guerra, the Denver designer who won last week's challenge, put it.

Project Runway's Mondo, Fallene and Julie will dress up tonight's Good Exchange for Change

Last year's Goodwill-sponsored Good Exchange for Change Fashion Show and Clothing Swap, which came right on the heels of Mondo Guerra's stunning near-win on Project Runway, featured the local fashion superstar while banking on a trend-to-be: the clothing swap.

Project Runway All Stars already jumps the shark? Oh yes.

It's only episode three of Project Runway All Stars, and already they're jumping the shark by having the client for this week's challenge be a fictional character. Not just a fictional character, but a fictional animal character. A fictional Muppet character. That's right, the designers are making ... More >>

Runway rundown: A recap of last night's Project Runway All Stars

After the first episode of Project Runway All Stars, my head was reeling from all the changes that Lifetime had made to the basic Project Runway model (as well as from all the fun everyone was having at the viewing party with Mondo Guerra at Beauty Bar, the first in an ongoing series).

Professor Splash's belly flop proves America's Got Talent -- of a very strange kind (VIDEO)

Video below.​I made a marathon drive back to Colorado yesterday, arriving on the eve of this state's birthday -- just in time to watch a Coloradan make a splash on America's Got Talent, where the self-proclaimed Professor Splash executed a record-breaking belly flop into twelve inches of water ... More >>

A now-vacant building proves to be a lucky location for politicians

Fallene Wells on Project Runway, Mondo Guerra and the value of persistence

​Though the initial Project Runway pool of twenty contestants is not exactly exclusive to better-known capitols of design, it's certain that Denver made a huge impact on the show last year in the form of Mondo Guerra, who came in second place in the running and first place in everybody's heart ... More >>

Fallene Wells gets picked up for Project Runway: Denver is ON FIRE

Keep it sassy, Fallene.​That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (co ... More >>

Mondo Guerra on the Art of Costuming and dressing Tracy and Edna Turnblad

Q&A: Mondo Guerra on the art of costuming and dressing Tracy and Edna Turnblad

​When the Arvada Center's new production of Hairspray officially opens tomorrow night, Everyone, but everyone, will be checking out the costumes. That's because Denver hero Mondo Guerra designed them, putting his way with fresh and professional looks to the test. And besides, if Mondo wasn't m ... More >>

Party with Pride: Show your colors at nine of the town's biggest and best Pride celebrations

​It goes without saying that every LGBT bar and club in town will be overflowing this weekend with beer busts and boot scoots and just plain wild celebratin' of the imbibing kind. Check into your favorite, and you'll be well taken care of. But where do you go to see and be seen, raise a glass ... More >>

Sticking Together for Pride

This weekend: Meet Denver's Top Ten designers at the Denver Style Expo

​ When this weekend's Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city's top local designers, to a special people's choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But fo ... More >>

Denver’s Got Style!

Pozitive Influence

Epic adventures in fashion at Artopia

This blue-haired goddess is also a holy grail.​Whatever else happened in the Denver arts world this year, one thing is certain: Fashion blew up like a balloon with a terrorist in it. At the forefront of that boom, of course, was Mondo Guerra, who took second place in this year's season of Proj ... More >>

Photos: Mondo Guerra's fancy Goodwill clothing swap and fashion show

​Last night, Project Runway contestant and Denver's current fashion star Mondo Guerra was at the Infinity Park Event Center for a clothing recycling bonanza known as the Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap in Glendale. There was a fashion show featuring Goodwill clothing -- repurpos ... More >>

Wearing Goodwill on Your Sleeve

Mondo Guerra's limited edition t-shirts for Piper Lime speak out on World AIDS Day

Mondo Guerra's "Live and Love" tree tee.​ At the Denver Public Library's November Frock Out designer showcase, guest judge (and beloved local Project Runway runnerup) Mondo Guerra let a few cats out of the bag: He's staying in Denver because "it's our time;" after coming out as HIV-positive on ... More >>

Frock Out 2010: It's a circus out there!

​Oh, that Chris Loffelmacher. He promised a spectacle and, by god, he delivered. Last night's Frock Out 2010 fashion showdown at the Denver Central Library rocked it hard, baby, interspersing a drop-dead battalion of strutting models with sideshow curiosities both real and imagined on the runw ... More >>

The Circus is in town

Tee time with Mondo: Buy this and claim your 15 minutes of fame

Hey-ho, let's go: The Pondo Beara limited-edition T-shirt. ​Mondo, Mondo, Mondo -- what are you up to now? Not one to lock himself up and lick his wounds, Denver's favorite reality show runner-up Mondo Guerra, upset by Gretchen in the Project Runway Season 8 finale, is strutting his stuff all ... More >>

Designer Mondo Guerra plans to make a splash as Denver's first contestant on Project Runway

Carmelo Anthony could wind up LeBron-ing Denver and the Nuggets

Carmelo.​Three Denver blog posts for ya. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein would like to be confident that Carmelo Anthony will accept the Nugs' max offer. But he can't shake the feeling Denver might be "LeBron'd." BigMedia.org's Jason Salzman wonders when the Hasan family will get its $300,00 ... More >>