Daniel Vosovic

Project Runway Alum Daniel Vosovic Makes Cute Bags, Chronicles Design Process



Remember Daniel Vosovic from the second season of Project Runway? Well, the 26-year-old budding designer has been keeping very busy since his successful stint on the Bravo reality show (he won five design challenges). He may have lots of balls in the air, but when it comes to starting his own fashion label, Mr. Vosovic is nothing but slow and cautious.

“Right after the show, I really had to make a decision of what to do,” he told us, before recalling a conversation he had with himself. ‘“Do I want to start a collection or work for someone else? No, I need more experience.’ So I’ve been working on the foundation of what my future company will be. I’m working with my management team now on the launch for my signature line,” he said, adding that the line should launch in about a year and a half. In the meantime, he’s been collaborating with a new hotel chain called NYLO, designing a collection of uniforms for the staff.

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Q&A with Project Runway's Tim Gunn and Daniel Vosovic

On Saturday at Macy's, Amy Odell sat down with Project Runway season two runner-up Daniel Vosovic and Parsons fashion department chair Tim Gunn to talk reality shows, spring looks, and what everyone really thought of Project Runway winner Chloe Dao's collection. In tomorrow's paper: her report from the first day of the season three auditions. Tim Gunn's voice is big. It booms and fills the room in a warm kind of way. He talks with his hands; he wore his signature black pinstripe suit and a black turtle-neck. When it comes to criticizing fashion in any way, he immediately adopts his "Project Runway" hyper-critical expression.

Observer: One girl, a model for someone else, said she went to Parsons and you were kind of a celebrity at the school.

Tim: Ha, ha, ha, ha! Well it's funny the students infrequently talk about the show. I don 't know whether they think it's not cool to engage me in a conversation about it. But what is funny are phrases like "make it work." I mean it 's a Parsons term--it's a phrase I used at Parsons for years and now that it's kind of branded on the show, when I use it at Parsons people laugh. It's like, "No, no, no, no, no. It was born here, it's mean to be here!"

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Tim: They usually shout that from cars. Ha, ha, ha, ha!