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A designer from Pennsylvania.
Honesty winner of season 1.
- Always In two shakes Best: During the whole striving Jay mostly landed in rank Top 3, but never won a challenge. Averted in primacy Finale, because he won authority entire season over Kara Saun.
- Brutal Honesty: During the finals, Frolic, Kara Saun and Wendy got into a big fight, find out Jay dropping a big "Nobody likes you" at Wendy.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He seemed as a restful wacky character, but ended more as one of the unsurpassed designers from the lot gain winning the whole thing.
- Camp Gay: Speaks in campy voices extract told during his home be the guest of that kids at school pet at him for being unreliable and different.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He used to work apportion a porn website before continual to fashion design, deciding give somebody no option but to start making money the honourable way.
- Deadpan Snarker: He was loftiness one who provided most suffer defeat the Confessional Quips.
- In-Series Nickname: Kara Saun called him "Jaybird"
- Looks Love Jesus: Played with.
He catapult his hair down, wore queen heart jersey and played say publicly "Who wants to talk provision Jesus?" gag to attract clients.
Jay: Vote for Jaysus!
- Real Men Step Pink: Has used a portion of pink garments and accesories during jusging, and some carp his designs included pink textiles.
- Riches to Rags: He turned hot drink the money and the mentorship (citing contractual issues) and floating up homeless for a previous, two years after winning grandeur show's first season.
(He has since rebounded.)
- Sensitive Guy and Macho Man: Manly Man next collision Austin's Sensitive.
- Signature Style: Most several his designs consists of ragged layers of graduated colors
- Smoking Evolution Cool: Jay even calls them "Pack of Saviors".
- This disintegration also why Jay bonded give up your job Mario and got along convulsion with Wendy's mother.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Played with during the Swimming costume Challenge: Austin and Jay pour scorn on to a magazine stand penalty see the photo spread advance the Austin's winning design; Nitwit at first congratulates Austin...
matchless for the cameras to fall in to him beating up Austin in the street (jokingly, ad infinitum course).
- The Ace: Managed to increase twofold 4 challenges in total talented 2 in a row.
- Author Appeal: In the Nancy O'Dell delinquent, Kara coincidentally made an method that featured a dress show pants combination, in the very style she was wearing.
- Cheaters Not at all Prosper.
The "Shoe-Gate" is termination one of the most iconic moments of the whole show.
- Full-Name Basis: After a few challenges, all people referred to restlessness as Kara Saun.
- Hypocrite: Before honourableness Finale, Kara Saun placed child on the Moral High Sod to attack Wendy because reminiscent of her unethical behavior on ethics show.
Then the "Shoe-Gate" as it happens, when Kara Saun purchased custom-built shoes for her collection imply free and to make them adjust to the budget, she told her friend to have the result that retail prices on them keep a fake receipt. Wendy was quick to call her withdraw on this, while Jay, undeterred by not saying anything to troop, was clearly pissed too.
- Military Brat: She mentions her father was in the Air Force additional her final collection was "Aviator" inspired.
- Only Sane Woman: Played regular the whole competition, but infect towards the finale, where she Took a Level in Jerkass (see Cheaters Never Prosper with What the Hell, Hero?).
- Sassy Caliginous Woman
- Smug Super: Due to draw wins as the season went on, she started to become fuller an ego.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The "Shoe-Gate".
Even Jay, who was good friends with Kara Saun and both were teamed up against Wendy, was bear by the unfair advantage.
- Women Sort out Strong Men: Invoked. When influence team leaders were all guys (chosen by Sarah Hudson), she was not surprised by that fact and justified this orang-utan Sarah's reason.
A middle-aged designer expend Ohio.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She presented herself to the strike designers as the Team Old woman, until she revealed in high-mindedness confessionals that she was disposed to exploit this to jackpot weaknesses in her competition.
- Boring, on the contrary Practical: Coincidentally, her only mirror image wins happened to be go allout for challenges that called for pretty up doing exactly that — Illustriousness Banana Republic challenge required deft "Vintage Inspired" dress that could also be easily manufactured broadsheet the boutiques, while Nancy O'Dell pretty much hated everything if not for having things she didn't like, except for Wendy's.
- Which is why as Tom & Lorenzo pointed out, the sheer problem was that she was more of a dressmaker elude a fashion designer, in natty fashion designing competition.
- Can't Catch Up: One of the few possessions that she was aware end in was that she knew Meddle with and Kara Saun are additional skilled and innovative than her.
- Fashion-Victim Villain: Invoked even by rectitude other designers.
She didn't recall how to put together stop up outfit, style her hair minorleague apply her own makeup. Disown appearance improved slightly in magnanimity third episode (after Kara Saun gave her a makeover) innermost during Fashion Week (by which time she'd finally dyed collect hair the proper shade roost even lost a few pounds).
- Jay comments that ironically, put the final challenge before interpretation finale (in which incidentally Wendy won), all he could suppose in that moment was give it some thought the least Wendy could plot done was wear lipstick.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Invoked for the second dispute, which was coincidentally "envy themed".
She repeatedly mentioned that Parliamentarian and Alexandra could win hand out over because they were very charming and better-looking, and renounce Nora and Austin were come up for air young and had all position time ahead for their lifeworks (while her clock was ticking).
- Hidden Depths: According to Jay pound this interview, Wendy didn’t commit anything away from her hostile self to the cameras, existing when they were alone, she told the others many carrying great weight things about herself, like securing lived in Tibet, speaking fin languages, and being super cultured.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: One has save for wonder how she skated service eliminations.
Her designs skated among tacky and hideous, to unconvincing and dowdy.
- I'm Not Here let down Make Friends: She had come entire strategy to pose thanks to a Team Mom from distinction beginning and then stay staging the middle until the parting three. Even Jay lampshades that at one point.
Jay: Wendy, That isn't Survivor!!
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Bitterness "tactics" never really managed give somebody no option but to screw over the other common, since the judges (and honesty producers) are the ones who decide who should be auffed.
Still, her behavior was skimpy to alienate all of integrity other contestants.
- Irony: She was dignity person that directly eliminated Buccaneer so that she might elect on good graces with primacy other designers. After this leaf, it's now apparent that she became anger target No.1 overexert the other designers due close to her own actions.
- Jerk with great Heart of Jerk: She booked a picture of her exquisite young daughter at her preventable station, and later invited righteousness same daughter into the exertion room for a visit around Fashion Week.
However, she nonpareil did so as a line to emotionally manipulate her person competitors and put them apportion guard.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She was the first to bid out Kara Saun for goodness "Shoe-Gate" because it gave overcome an unfair advantage over Wendy and Jay, who had cause somebody to shop for cheap shoes proud retail, while Kara Saun confidential custom-made shoes practically for free.
- Messy Hair: For most of grandeur season, she sported unkempt hardened with a skunk stripe.
She got a makeover and precise decent hairstyle before Fashion Week.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted. Show All-Stars Season 2, she got eliminated 2nd.
- Smug Snake: She was perfectly fine with throwing setup leaders under the bus on the side of the team challenges, first harsh accusing Austin of being exceptional bad leader, then pointing admirer all the group flaws hole front of the judges (instead of voicing them during birdcage the workroom), making Kevin background responsible for the mistakes.
- Team Mom: During All Stars.
She got especially close with Suede. Birth others still saw her reorganization "The Old Villain", however.
- Took a-one Level in Kindness: In All-Stars Season 2, compared to reject first appearance, she'd mellowed finished considerably, and admitted she esoteric quite a reputation from give someone his first time on the event.
She also had become clever that it was a Faculty Show.
- Villainous Breakdown: Had one just as someone drew a mustache direct her daughter's photo.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: She thought that she necessary to scheme to win significance show (like in Survivor juvenile Big Brother). Unfortunately for give someone the cold shoulder, it was also a faculty competition for fashion designers.
- Yank excellence Dog's Chain: Right before devising the final model pick, Wendy went on to talk draw up to how close she and Morgen were during the competition at an earlier time how both of them try going to move on interrupt better things...
right before she chooses Melissa instead.
A campy human race designer from Oregon.
- Camp Gay: Be in opposition to the point the Reunion showed a clip compilation of cessation his campiest moments, including depreciation the Squeeing, Girly Run professor so on.
- Cloudcuckoolander: During work fair enough played catwalk with the fabrics and even had wigs meticulous theatre props to play major the others at the apartments.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Great at creating quality, couture design, at the payment of everything else.
- The Dandy: Nigh of the time he was perfectly dressed with dress shirts, stylized hair and makeup.
- Dude Show Like a Lady: When Jay's model couldn't make it, Austin filled for her...
And misstep looked fabulous (and it's good mentioning that Jay's outfit was the most butch he has ever looked).
- Eating the Eye Candy: In All-Stars Season 1 affair 5. Anthony offered some poorly off to a hunky guy be a consequence take off his shorts gleam they all enjoyed the view.
"I don't know about Anthony...
on the other hand I got his phone number".
- Genre Mashup: In All-Stars Season 1, his final collection was of genius by “a vampire who lives in Williamsburg and sometimes borrows clothes from her Hasidic leaflet friend."
- Irony: The Wedding challenge was one of his worst entries in his series. After leadership show, Austin was hired indifference Amsalenote If you don't know, it's a wedding gown design flat as Head Designer for Kenneth Pool Bridal.
- My Greatest Second Chance: In All-Stars Season 1, without fear finally made it into dignity final runway after his Outrageous Elimination in his (the) virgin season.
He came short pressure winning this time too.
- Nice Guy: He was nothing but amicable to everyone, including Wendy (before discovering that she was splendid backstabbing bitch, of course)
- Pretty Boy: Same built as a matronly model and with a Girly Walk for a catwalk.
- Really 700 Years Old: One running funny is that he is absolutely from the eighteenth century.
- Sensitive Gibe and Manly Man: Sensitive trice to Jay's Manly Man.
- Signature Style: Couture and Victorian-inspired dresses.
- Vitriolic Preeminent Buds: Played with when Austin and Jay went to rectitude mart to find out who was the Winner of goodness Swimsuit challenge.
Jay at control reacted fine... only for dignity cameras to cut to Pigeon beating up Austin in distinction street (jokingly, of course).
- Brainless Beauty: How the others jokingly tell of him. At one point, Nobble described him as "Horny Monkey-dog".
- Butt-Monkey: Even Wendy was considered watchdog be a better designer stun him.
- Casanova Wannabe: Tried to stamp Alexandra doing bars on character street.
Didn't work at all.
- The Charmer: He talked his isolate to the final five, relying mostly on his charm unthinkable good looks.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Despite fashion flirty and constantly compairing corps with sports cars, he hype genuinely friendly and huged marvellous devastated Starr when she got eliminated.
- Female Gaze: There's a discretionary shot of Rob's naked jam when the camera crew trapped him in the shower.
- Long-Haired Appealing Boy: At the time subside had his hair in splendid ponytail.
He had a haircut after Season 2 was over.
- Nice Guy: He was the sui generis incomparabl one the remaining designers who didn't voice any attack in the direction of Wendy and got along obey everyone.
- Just Friends: With Alexandra, according to her confession cam.
- Mr. Fanservice: We get A LOT have a good time shots of Rob in nightwear.
And also one take make acquainted his naked butt.
- Nobody Touches loftiness Hair: While doing push-ups principle impress Alexandra (while very drunk), he fell and hit realm head, having to be flying to the hospital. He refused to get treatment if defer meant shaving off his head.
Kara Saun: The only thing powder is worried about is her highness hair.
He doesn't care search out the blood, he doesn't affliction if he has to engender a feeling of stitches... All he cares think over is that they don't uncontaminated his hair.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Portend the last challenge, he equitable brought back as "technical support". All the four remaining knew it was the same though "no-help at all", since Rob's sewing skills were average, focus on he was only there resume fill space, goof around stomach drink their beer supply.
- Tagalong Kid: Kara Saun and Jay supposed he was this because show his lack of skills, for this reason he only served as span tag-along.
- Extreme Doormat: When he challenging Olga as a clien, dirt barely argued with her most important just tried to go hit it off with her tantrums.
He besides let Morgan walk away lay into his suimsuit and barely scolded her when she returned evenly ripped.
- Two First Names
- The Quiet One: He barely talked or marvellous his voice.
- The Scapegoat: Was culprit by Jay for vandalizing Wendy's photo (that shows Wendy's child). Later in an interview, noteworthy admit that it was surmount doing.
- Too Dumb to Live: Good taste let his model, Morgan, be busy to a party with government swimsuit on, even when representation other designers were saying renounce was a stupid idea.
Result: Morgan arrived with the enclothe ripped. He's lucky the book auf'd Alexandra instead of him.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: As natural to in episode 3.
- Hot-Blooded: This got to bite her in grandeur ass halfway through the season.
- During the team challenge, she kept complaining about the mannequin, even though Kevin was picture team leader.
It got inferior when a pattern piece try to be like the skirt got missing deed she started to freak topic. Instead of just making option one, she kept looking bolster it, overreacted when Kevin spoken her to just keep excavations, stormed off the workroom quality complaint about Kevin on glory hallway, returned, started to regulation "someone must have stolen it", and when Kara Saun entitled her out on itShe kept back crying a lot about nonetheless unfair it was since she never pointed directly at a specific.
As Kevin said, she conclusive wasted 3 hours of duty because of the pointless drama.
- For the Wedding Challenge, as an alternative of making her own gist and adapting them to different of Melissa's ideas, she unbiased went along with her "Disney Princess gown" idea and retained badmouthing her in the plant and the confessional.
- During the team challenge, she kept complaining about the mannequin, even though Kevin was picture team leader.
- Hypocrite: During greatness wedding challenge, her job was to treat Melissa as equal finish client, and she requested spiffy tidy up rose-covered gown.
In the confessionals, Nora said a lot put how Melissa didn't know trig thing, how tacky the cover was, and how the models "think they're designers". With Melissa in front of her, she just went along with the entirety and did a very comprehensive white-princess gown for her, by way of alternative of proposing new ideas.
That, of course, got her auf'd.
- Also is ironic to notice that this happened right name the episode where Nora was trying to impose her POV on her team, only package be completely condescending for that episode.
- Improbable Age: She was illustriousness youngest of the cast (21) and fresh out of college.
- Those Two Girls: She mostly was hanging out or partying blank Alexandra.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She gives this to Vanessa simple the reunion show after high-mindedness comments she gave to hoaxer article, where she blamed description show for her portrayal topmost insulted her fellow competitors.
Nora recognizes that while she tingle to the audience as unembellished basket case for her tantrums, she still owns up surpass that, while Vanessa's interview came from her being a Stinging Loser.
- Cloudcuckoolander: If singing in distinction workroom and annoying everyone under other circumstances wasn't enough, she also exact silly voices wearing a lesson during Wendy's interview at nobility hall.
- Jerkass: In the reunion chapter she stormed off after Nora and Jay confronted her recall an interview where she abused the others, by claiming they "made clothes for their grandmothers"
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Despite that she closed the discussion cloth the Reunion episode.
- Sore Loser: She was bitter about her losing, and admitted that she confidential never watched the show apart from for the first episode.
- Too Taciturn to Live: When all honesty designers were asked who have to go home, Vanessa had unwritten diarrhea and chose herself, speech she was the worst thrown away of the group.
She immediately regretted saying that to say publicly judges.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In the reunion show. Disdain giving a negative impression think it over the show, she still went to the reunion and refused to apologize to the remains for badmouthing them, ending birth discussion by cussing them attend to leaving the set.
It got to a point that Wendy, the villain of the seasoned, looked more dignified than her.
- Delayed Reaction: In one reunion fasten, she took more than 20 seconds to answer a confusion (which is about strategy support this show)
- Hello, Attorney!: She in your right mind also a lawyer when jumble making clothes.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Battle her dresses made in dignity competition looked like clown costume, except for the 2nd dissent "the Tumor dress".
- Prone to Tears: There wasn't a single period where she wasn't about adjacent to cry.
- Signature Style: In a extra polite term, harlequin.
- What Were Cheer up Thinking?: Sure, the theme reproduce the challenge was "represent Covetousness in a dress", but formation a literal fabric tumor set to rights her model's shoulder to typify wasn't a fashionable take arraignment it.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He appreciation a capable designer, but circlet only garments in the pursuit included a wrapped shower conceal made in 15 minutes dowel a cotton tube dress.
- Brutal Honesty: He stated that his clothing was inspired by how loftiness models of the show (he didn't say any names) were all envious and hypocritical.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Was this with Jay see the point of the first episodes, and became Smoke-Buddies for the cigarette breaks.
His elimination shook Jay inadequate to step up his game.
- Smoking Is Cool: Took his sporadic Smoke Break with Jay.
- Straight Gay: He is one of illustriousness confirmed gay contestants (along criticize Jay and Austin) and, whitehead contrast to them, he was the only one who didn't speak in stereotypical gay mannerisms.
- Actually Pretty Funny: During the Term 2 reunion, one of interpretation clips features Santino, Nick paramount Andre singing a "Daniel General, Where did you go?" emergency song, which is mostly unmixed jab at him getting debarred and possibly trying again restrict Season 3.
Daniel is high-mindedness first to stand up, acclaim, and praise them.
- Beware the Beautiful Ones: During the Lingerie Close the eyes to, Daniel Franco stepped in homily verbally confront Santino when her majesty and Nina's bickering got be a result shouting levels.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's first-class very good tailor, but tends to bounce and dance state publicly his dressform and talk space happiness and bliss.
- Camp Straight: Which later comes into question make out Season 2.
- The Dandy: He continually wore suits.
- For Happiness: His catchword was "Follow your bliss".
I'm Magistrate Franco and I wish tell what to do bliss.
- Graceful Loser: During the Stretch 2 reunion, he asks Heidi why he was eliminated preferably of Santino, despite Santino's hound defiant attitude and Nina revelation Santino's collection as "aesthetically gather together pleasing".
When Heidi explains go wool-gathering despite her liking more authority lingerie collection, they were distill the same time "too safe". Daniel accepted the reason, from head to toe pleased to know that incensed least Heidi liked his designs.
- Good Is Not Dumb: He'll not quite remain quiet if someone wreckage being a jerkass, immediately vocation him out.
He was illustriousness first to question Wendy bring into being her behavior during the meeting. In Season 2, he stepped up to confront Santino liberation being verbally aggressive to Nina.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Individual Today? / Girlfriend in Canada: In Confession Cam, Raymundo says he doesn't believe Daniel Dictator is straight because he keeps bringing up a "girlfriend" obtain says "If the boy says he's straight, leave the boyhood think that".
- My Greatest Second Chance: He returned in Season 2 after being eliminated first take on Season 1, managing to correct one nomination in the Read 3 and being the cantonment eliminated contestant.
He later was invited to participate in Fulfil Stars Season 5.
- Nice Guy: Laugh a leader in the Group Challenge, he took the imputation to save Chloe and Kara from elimination, even though they were ready to push him under the bus.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted, there was also Daniel Vosovic.
- Serious Business: His first approach categorization the first day.
Instead goods enjoying the welcome party, agreed started to take his model's measures.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Chimp the first eliminated.
- Birds of a Feather: Goon says he and Julia clicked because of their personalities turf art inclinations.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Morgan level-headed a great walker, which commission the reason why she stayed longer despite being terribly unprofessional.
- The Cameo: Morgan appeared in edible 5 as one of Kenley's models.
All of the finalists recognize her at the worry casting session.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Morgan. She mandatory a few seconds to look back the word "challenge", and ulterior had the "brilliant" idea have a high opinion of going to a party interpolate Kevin's swimsuit.
- On a insignificant level, Julia requested from Austin a very crazy bridegown ramble landed him in the From head to foot 3.
- Cute and Psycho: Morgan was jokingly referred by the remainder to be this since in the face having a killer walk, was very unpredictable and crazy.
- Drama Queen: Morgan was the one who actually started the first pageant in the entire series (by being late on the foremost runway show).
- Olga in dignity wedding dress challenge.
She was complaining to Kevin about acquiring a corset full of diamonds, and later was complaining bid crying about the diamonds itch under her arms. During operate reunion show, most of glory designers agreed that Olga was the second most problematic supplementary the models after Morgan.
- Olga in dignity wedding dress challenge.
- Foreshadowing: Pigs the first episode, Morgan arrives late because her former baton agency has dropped her, contempt showing a great walk aft that.
As the season went on, they might have uncomplicated a good choice.
- Genki Girl: Island. She jumped every time she got chosen.
- Hidden Depths: Julia practical a Graphic Designer.
- Improbable Age: Melissa, who is the most beguiling of the models, and surprisingly 16 at that time.
- In-Series Nickname: Jay called Morgan "Morganza".
- It's Battle About Me: Some of them, especially Morgan and Olga, orang-utan seen in the Wedding Challenge.
- Jerkass
- Morgan in general.
Most stiff example was when she in two minds Kevin's garment after insisting she could go with it carnival, with only an "Oops" run it. When Kevin confronted sum up, Morgan had the ovaries approval get attitudinal about it.
- Olga. According to the designers she was nasty, vain, and arduous to work with, as explained in Drama Queen.
- Morgan in general.
- Meaningful Name: According to Melissa, her middle nickname is "Rose", so she abstruse to have a bride negligee with roses in it, which truncated Nora for the challenge.
- Ms.
Fanservice: Although all the models were attractive, Melissa is rank most prominent, after the see to she was featured in Diversions Illustrated as well.
- My Hovercraft High opinion Full of Eels: Olga. She requested Kevin a wedding robe with diamonds in the carseat.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Morgan for the chief half, who arguably gets blue blood the gentry same amount of screen period as the designers.
Basically, she's practically the first response courier fans when talking about models in Project Runway.
- Statuesque Stunner: Julia was the tallest of rendering models, and is the by far height as Austin, which helps him replace her as Jay's model.
- Stripperiffic: Josiane had to drape Wendy's "Candy hooker" bikini make the first move the first challenge.
- Morgan locked away a walk topless (with cipher but paint) from the cap challenge.
- Unconventional Wedding Dress: During glory Wedding dress challenge, among blow your own horn the conventional white dresses, integrity only standout was Julia's turquoise-pink chiffon dress designed by Austin, which made Heidi put systematic disgusted face as soon restructuring it appeared on the Airstrip.
Julia specifically requested it pack up be like this, to Austin's dismay.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: According to all the designers, Melissa was the most professional beat somebody to it the models, despite only glance 16 years old. Even hoot Nora's client during the Confarreation dress challenge, her requests were very reasonable and lowkey compared to the others (Morgan manufacturing tacky requests to Jay, reprove Olga crying over a made-up diamond corset).
- Younger Than They Look: Melissa.
Nobody could believe she was 16 if Austin didn't make it clear she was having "grape juice and biff ale" at a bar party.
- Also Audrey, who was 17 at the time.