6/21/2023 0 Comments Keenie project runway![]() Following her Miss Trinidad & Tobago title, she became more involved in charitable work. The foundation was established by her family for the empowerment of young people in underprivileged areas. Īyoung-Chee had been involved in philanthropy since 2003, when she became a member of the TallMan Foundation. I am of mixed origin, mainly Chinese, Indian and Caucasian, and although my particular mixture is a minority, I represent the unusual combination of ethnicities that defines us as a people." įollowing her success as Miss Universe Trinidad & Tobago, Ayoung-Chee went on to host a number of Caribbean television and web-based shows, including her own fashion show, Make It Yours. When asked, "Is your Asian heritage an issue since you represent a country with an overwhelming African and Indian heritage?" Ayoung-Chee replied, "Trinidad & Tobago is unique in its ethnic make-up because it is a country with people of all races. She is the second title Miss Universe Trinidad & Tobago in the franchise's 44-year history to be of Chinese descent. Miss Universe Trinidad & Tobago įollowing her return to Trinidad, Ayoung-Chee entered the 2008 Miss Universe competition and won the title of Miss Universe Trinidad & Tobago. She remained in New York until 2007, when her brother, Pilar died. She continued her education in London and New York, studying graphic and interior design at Parsons School of Design and Central St Martins School of Art and Design. Joseph's Convent, Port of Spain, that she became passionate about art and design. During her attendance at an all-girls secondary school, St. From an early age she pursued classical ballet training. She is the only daughter in a family of eight. She founded the fashion lines Anya de Rouge and Pilar and the online fashion retailer cANYAval.Īnya Ayoung-Chee was born to Trinidadian parents in New York City but moved to Trinidad at the age of two she therefore holds dual Trinidadian and American citizenship. ![]() She was the winner of Project Runway 's ninth season in 2011. She was Miss Universe Trinidad and Tobago 2008 and was a contestant in the Miss Universe 2008 pageant. So did it make a difference? Let’s look at all of her outfits.Miss Universe Trinidad & Tobago 2008 (winner)Īnya Ayoung-Chee (born Octo) is a Trinidadian fashion designer, model and television host. There won’t be extra Mood money for her, and she won’t get any more advice from Tim (at least on camera.) But the issue with most dummy collections is that Nina and Zac can’t tell the contestants how badly their styling choices are working against them. Kenya was afforded something extra though, something that no other decoy collection has gotten prior to now: judges feedback. Anyone who actually believes that doesn’t understand how money works.) (Seriously, Lifetime is going to spend $10,000 and then not have her show those clothes on the runway? That’s beyond nonsensical. From 2009-2013 it was given to at least the Top 8, if not more.) And by showing that Kenya had a budget and a collection they made it even harder to pretend decoy collections don’t happen. ![]() This season they finally got close to admitting that they give a budget, time and a slot in their NYFW presentation, not just to the finalists, but to the entire Top Six? (Since 2014 that is. After all, the last we saw of Swapnil, Tim was doing everything he can not to pull a Tyra and scream “We were all rooting for you! How dare you?” How many viewers would believe that a week or two later, he gets a call from the producers telling him he gets a budget to make a decoy collection and he’s going to NYFW after all?įor that, I have to commend Project Runway. I’ve met loads of people who have no idea that, say, Swapnil and Meline showed in New York in Season 14. And for the audience at home who are not that into NYFW, and who aren’t twitter nerds, and fashion geeks, this pretense still remains. Bravo kept it to one or two at most, while there were entire years during the early Lifetime run where the entire Top Ten had collections walk the runway.Īnd yet, the program has always pretended like this is not the case. From Kara Janx in Season 2 to Mychael Knight in Season 3 to our latest editions, every single season has had at least one dummy collection to keep the audience from figuring out the winners. Project Runway has featured decoy collections during New York Fashion Week to hide who the finalists are since the show’s popularity first took off. Our second decoy collection for Project Runway’s NYFW Spring 2018 show was the closest the TV’s show’s come to admitting dummy collections exist. ![]()
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