Santino Rice Biography (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Santino Q. Rice (born August 20, 1974), a St. Charles, Missouri native, is a fashion designer living and working in Hollywood. The openly bisexual Rice participated as a contestant on the second season of the Bravo reality show Project Runway and was one of the three designers selected to show at Olympus Fashion Week, along with Chloe Dao and Daniel Vosovic and finished third behind them. Santino also appeared in the Miss Universe 2006 pageant as a judge. He was asked by MTV VJ SuChin Pak to design her dress for the 2006 MTV Movie Awards.
Project Runway
Rice was a contestant on the second season of Project Runway. He lasted throughout the season, landing a third place finish after showing during New York Fashion Week. Santino Rice won in the first episode, the Road to the Runway challenge, and the fifth episode, the Social Scene challenge starring Nicky Hilton. He also was in the top 3 during the second episode, the "Clothes Off Your Back" challenge; the third episode, the "All Dolled Up" challenge; and the eleventh episode, the ""What's Your Line"" challenge. Additionally, he was in the bottom two in the fourth episode, the "Team Lingerie" challenge; the sixth episode, the "Window Shopping" challenge; the seventh episode, the "On Thin Ice" challenge; and the tenth episode, the "Makeover" challenge.