Project Runway

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How Fashionable

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The Fab Four

How Fashionable

The Dirty Dozen

Frock Out Denver Unveiled

Project Runway Menswear Challenge

Let the Countdown Begin: Project Runway Season 5 Starts Wednesday

Shear Genius faces its final cut next week

Up and Coming

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

From Geek to Chic

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Frock City

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Talking Shoppe

Tran and Josh Wills are on an arts-and-crafts mission.

Simply Smashin' Fashion

Tran and Josh Wills are on an arts-and-crafts mission.

Clothes Call

Tran and Josh Wills are on an arts-and-crafts mission.

Style to Spare

Need a little black dress? How about a flippy summer frock? Denver's fashion designers have you covered. Just ask Cydney Payton.

Farce of a Champion

Need a little black dress? How about a flippy summer frock? Denver's fashion designers have you covered. Just ask Cydney Payton.

Cred Sheet

Stuff you need to know to avoid ostracism.

It's the Real Thing

Matt Lawrence spends a night in the tank for being too real.

Stephen Colbert on Jared Polis calling him gay

A masked Stephen Colbert.​One more quick hit about Jared Polis' beer-bonging appearance on The Colbert Report. On his Twitter feed earlier this week, host Stephen Colbert tweeted the following: "Can't believe Jared Polis called me gay. Ridiculous. In other news, totally fired up for Project Ru ... More >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Top Chef Just Desserts , round eight: CelebriTea sweepstakes

Zac's dessert was Inspired by the Pink Panther​I really like this batch of contestants on Top Chef Just Desserts -- well, perhaps not "I focus on me" Morgan, who does seem to be a bully in the kitchen -- and also the general dynamic among them. Several are clearly fond of each other, and almos ... More >>

Starz Denver Film Festival: James Franco, Aron Ralston make 127 Hours go by just like that

Aron Ralston.​Director Danny Boyle's films are becoming a staple of the Starz Denver Film Festival's Big Night showcase. In 2008, Slumdog Millionaire joyously filled this festival slot, anticipating its march to a Best Picture Oscar. And on Friday, Boyle's latest, 127 Hours, was introduced by ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

50 reasons we're glad we live in Denver and not the United States

Denver, how we love you.​The morning after election day, the author R.L. Stine tweeted, "I'm so glad I live in New York City and not in the United States." It's a sentiment we appreciate except for one thing: We'd much rather live in Denver than either New York City or the United States. Duri ... More >>

Wearing Goodwill on Your Sleeve

Denver, how we love you.​The morning after election day, the author R.L. Stine tweeted, "I'm so glad I live in New York City and not in the United States." It's a sentiment we appreciate except for one thing: We'd much rather live in Denver than either New York City or the United States. Duri ... 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 >>

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 >>

Pozitive Influence

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Realism be damned, Hairspray gives us exactly what we want

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Fallene Wells showcases "puking clown" on Project Runway, but she's not clowning around

​On Colorado Day, it seemed very appropriate to run into one of the creative entrepreneurs who are as much a part of this state's landscape as the Rockies: Denver designer and hair stylist Fallene Wells, one of our 2010 MasterMind winners and a contestant on this season's Project Runway.

Project Runway invades Denver at the Cut 'n Sew: Yves Saint Laurent Challenge

Fallene Wells, decked out in H&M, hosted the event.​Denver fashion fixture and Project Runway Season 9 contestant Fallene Wells showed off her Tim Gunn skills at yesterday's Cut 'n' Sew event. Amidst the H&M hoopla at Denver Pavilions beginning at 10 a.m., local designers Melissa May, Tricia H ... More >>

Reader: $100 H&M prize for a YSL design contest could be the unkindest cut

Tricia Hoke, working without a net...and almost without a machine.​While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver's best designers showed off their skills in a Cut 'n' Sew competition emceed by Project Runw ... More >>

In Stitches

Tricia Hoke, working without a net...and almost without a machine.​While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver's best designers showed off their skills in a Cut 'n' Sew competition emceed by Project Runw ... More >>

Tinsel Town

Tricia Hoke, working without a net...and almost without a machine.​While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver's best designers showed off their skills in a Cut 'n' Sew competition emceed by Project Runw ... More >>

Project Runway's Fallene Wells looks to Kickstarter to sew up new fashion line

Part of the Modern Nouveau Collection.​Denver designer Fallene Wells will use the most modern of fundraising mechanisms to gather money a clothing line that harkens back to the past, specifically the 1920s. Wells, who starred on season nine of Project Runway, kicked off a campaign on Kickstar ... 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).

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

This week's designs are for the Queen of Muppets, Miss Piggy.​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 f ... More >>

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.