Education
He attended high school at the Denver School of the Arts.
He attended high school at the Denver School of the Arts.
Mondo also came out to be Human Immunodeficiency Virus positive on the show. Guerra was also the first contestant on the show to come from Denver, Colorado. Guerra is a fifth-generation Mexican-American from the Denver area.
Guerra was on the eighth season of, aired in 2010.
During the tenth challenge, he revealed to the judges that his pattern of bright, bold plus signs on a pant was inspired by his Human Immunodeficiency Virus+ status, and that he had been keeping his Human Immunodeficiency Virus status a secret for ten years. Guerra came in second place in the final competition held at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Gretchen Jones came in first place, and Andy South came in third. On November 30, 2010, Guerra appeared with Liza Minnelli, Kenneth Cole and Cheyenne Jackson on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell and usher in World Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Day.
Also in commemoration of World Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Day, he designed a limited edition of T-shirts, one with a Day of the Dead sugar skull and one with a tree of life.
These shirts were sold on Piperlime.com starting at midnight on December 1, 2010. Foreign each shirt sold, $20 was donated to amfAR. In his statement to Fox News Latino for his motivations in doing this, he said, "“The Day of the Dead is celebration of our loved ones who have passed. When I was thinking of World Aids day I wanted to create something very true to who I am, and what I know.
Who I"ve known and miss and those people in my life that still fight this disease.
lieutenant’s about love and continuation.”.
After placing in the top, but not winning, on a number of challenges, then placing in the bottom but not being eliminated in the seventh (Resort Wear Challenge) episode, he won the challenges on the eighth (Jacqueline Kennedy Challenge), ninth (L’Oreal Makeup Challenge) and tenth (Himachal Pradesh Pattern Challenge) episodes. He also won $20,000 for the ninth challenge, which involved both a “couture” look and a “ready-to-wear” look. Executive Producer Heidi Klum (who had pushed for Guerra to win over Jones in a lengthy split debate over the winner) appeared in a modified version of one of Guerra"s final collection gowns for the Los Angeles premiere of the movie Black Swan a few weeks after the airing of the final episode. Guerra was the winner of the 2012 series: All-Stars, beating out Season 1 designer Austin Scarlett and fellow Season 8 designer Michael Costello.
