Chloe Dao

By TheFashionGuru Project Runway is ensnared in a legal mess that might keep it off the air, but Tim Gunn is still thinking about his designers, even planning to film at New York’s Fashion Week next month. He told New York magazine, “I want the designers on the show to get the exposure.”

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By Nic NBC Universal’s lawsuit against Lifetime TV has moved to federal court!!Entertainment Weekly does a Q&A with Leanne Marshall, Season 5 winner Chloe Dao (looking HOT), showed her new collection, seemingly to great approval Despite the fact that Season 5 of Project Runway was not a...

By The Bolsavik The boutique is Lot 8, website here, a corporation owned by celebrity fashionista Chloe Dao and her sister Sydney. Dao (pictured below, by abc13.com), a Vietnamese-American born in Laos, was the winner of Bravo TV’s Project Runway. …

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By jasmined I hepped the ladies at Disgrasian™ to a Salon story on Penn Masala, and their awesome song, “The Facebook Skit”.I couldn’t make myself watch A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, which premiered on VH1 last night. I said a few days ago that she’s taken the place of Kim Jong-Il in that she is the perso...

By vietq 6. Chloe Dao: This past spring, Vietnamese designer Chloe Dao became the first Asian woman and the least dramatic contestant to win Bravo’s Project Runway (fans can attest to the catty attitudes of season one winner Jay McCarroll and season three winner Jeffrey Sebelia). Dao played it nic...

By vietq Are you a fan of Project Runway? Chloe Dao, the winner from season two, sat down with our own visual stylist, Audrey Mansfield, for a candid conversation about her career, her experience on the show, and how she’s following her dreams. For more information on the Lot 8 boutique: www.lot8onl...

By vietq CHLOE DAO Chloe didn’t have connections when she landed in New York City, but she did rack up six years of hands-on experience on NYC’s Seventh Avenue. In 2000, Chloe, who is Vietnamese American, returned home to Houston, Texas, and pooled enough cash to start Lot8 boutique. Then, she won th...

By vietq Dao, who had a store in Houston prior to becoming a contestant on Project Runway, says courting freestanding retailers can be risky. That’s because designers with these deals must worry about production and shipping costs, as well as maintaining enough cash to cover costs if the merchan...

By vietq Are other creative occupations due for representation? High end sales people and business managers? How about video game designers and biotech researchers? Quite a contrast to the negotiating entity (the union) of the industrial age. Now, their career options are exploding. Chloe Dao...

By vietq We’re always competing against Dallas. Even New York. But fashion is so global right now. So what if I’m in Houston? Todd Oldham came from Dallas, I think, and he’s a great designer. There are a lot of people who are well-known designers who didn’t come or weren’t born in New York City.

By vietq One simple word: unimpressed. Chloe Dao was Project Runway Season 2’s winner. While on the show her designs were elegant and fit in all the right places for the women that modeled them. Granted The Chloe Bag by Chloe Dao is meant to be used as an overnight bag or carry on, the color and saying look...

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By vietq Dao’s sportswear collection will debut on QVC in May and includes tops, dresses and pants ranging from $30-75. WWD calls the highlight of the collection a replica of a dress Dao designed for the final challenge of “Project Runway” at fashion week in New York. Quality, Value, Convenience. We...

By vietq Part of Dao’s prize for winning “Project Runway” was a year of representation by Designers Management Agency, which approached QVC about a collaboration. “QVC liked the idea of working with me because they are trying to reach the younger market, and ‘Project Runway’ does have a huge foll...

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By vietq When Chloe Dao wrote to us last May with an update on her life post-Project Runway, she mentioned that she had been invited to showcase her work at The Smithsonian Institution. Here’s the latest from the Vietnamese American Heritage Project:

By vietq After emigrating to Houston, Texas from Pakse, Laos in 1979, Dao’s parents naturally encouraged Dao & her seven sisters to study hard and pursue sensible careers. However, after watching her first episode of CNN’s Style with Elsa Klensch at the tender age of 10, Dao had other plans.

By vietq In the “whatever happened to…” category, we find Chloe Dao. Remember her? She was the second winner of Project Runway, and after her triumph, she retreated back to Houston, Texas to quietly continue building her business at her boutique Lot 8 far from the spotlights of either coast. She has...

By vietq Chloe Dao: Founding Fashion Success on Family he pig person’s knack for making the most of warm, supportive relationships with those closest is exemplified by the way Chloe Dao turned six years of experience on New York’s Seventh Avenue into an exciting young fashion house of her own. She...

By vietq That is, after all, how the 34-year-old Vietnamese-American refugee became a successful fashion designer, entrepreneur and winner of last season’s “Project Runway,” the Bravo channel’s popular reality series that takes place in New York’s fashion world.