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Who Won PROJECT RUNWAY Season 8?

Project Runway Season 8 Winner
PROJECT RUNWAY Season 8 has come to an end and another winner has been crown.

So who won Project Runway? After a tough deliberation, Northwest-based designer Gretchen Jones has been named the winner of Season 8 of Project Runway.

Gretchen Jones narrowly beat out fellow designers Mondo Guerra and Andy South and walks off with $100,000 from L’Oréal Paris to start her own line, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, a $50,000 technology suite by HP and Intel to create her own vision and run her business and the opportunity to design and sell an exclusive collection on Piperlime.com. In addition, Jones’ model, Millana Snow, will also appear in the designer’s editorial feature in Marie Claire and receive $25,000 from L’Oreal Studio Secrets Professional.

Any thoughts? Did Jones deserve to win? If not, who was your pick?

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Project Runway Season 8 Winner

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  • Silver Lotus

    A travesty! Over the course of season 8 mondo consistently created real fashion (isn’t that the point?). Andy came close to that. But Gretchen was very inconsistent, and even her best stuff wasn’t nearly as interesting as many of the other designers. Most of the season 8 designers produced ho-hum work.

    Project Runway has lost its edge.

    But the worst thing about the finale was that awful outfit worn by Jessica Simpson. Having weight issues is fine (so many folks do). Whoever chose that outfit made a BIG mistake – it made Jessica look squat and even heavier than she is. Fire your stylist Jessica! Get Stacy and Clinton to help – they’ve shown over and over again that curvy gals look great when they embrace their bodies instead of hiding behind sacks.

    • william

      Agreed Silver Lotus! Mondo produced an exciting and original fashion show with different shades of style and color while still being definitively “Mondo”. He is one of the most distinct and distinguished designers Project Runway has ever had and while Gretchen may be a “worthy” designer her ready to wear collection was very samey and run of the mill. There is only ONE Mondo. There are a thousand Gretchens.
      SHAME ON YOU Project Runway.

  • joan Stembridge

    I am so disappointed. I loved Mondo’s collection. It was edgy, modern and bright. Gretchen’s look was dull and boring. I think her personality will give new meaning to the word tempermental!

  • http://www.modelmayhem.com/1479185 Riley M

    It is my opinion that Project Runway has just about run its course. It has lost touch with the golden rule of television (keep the fans coming back), and the only rule of good business (sell sell sell).

    As a hair/makeup specialized model, I will admit that I am not an authority on the clothing front of fashion, but I am close to a fashionable market nonetheless. However, as a graduate student of the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Carnegie Mellon, I can weigh in on what I consider to be some obvious flaws in Gretchen’s win.

    I base my statements henceforth on fan reactions by percentage observed through internet statistics.

    Fashion is an industry, one based entirely on customer appeal, and tailored precisely to a demand economy. Regardless of Gretchen’s potential to impress a future ‘high fashion’ minority, her current collection falls egregiously short of previous winners’ abilities to -sell – clothing to a wide and varied market. It is my opinion that the judges made a severe error in not picking a fan favorite. Mondo’s print usage, for example, is a favorite in the first place because fans want the product he has to sell. Even Andy’s previous designs, which are currently up for sale on Amazon.com, have significantly more promise in terms of market returns that do Gretchen’s unpopular color schemes and unflattering cuts.

    To summarize, since I have truly said a good deal;
    The decision to declare Gretchen Jones is, from free-market industrial perspective, an egregious mistake. He market group is smaller, and thus she will not be a significant asset to the industry, or at least not to the degree of her competitors.

    So, it is with a heavy heart that I professionally and personally renounce this once-great program.

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