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Christopher Palu of Massapequa on 'Project Runway'

Originally published: October 12, 2012 1:12 PM
Updated: October 18, 2012 3:13 PM
By ANNE BRATSKEIR. Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Barbara Alper | Christopher Palu from Massapequa, a finalist in Season 10 of “Project Runway”, sketches in his bedroom. (Oct. 4, 2012)

When "Project Runway" finalist Christopher Palu, 25, of Massapequa was 4, he noticed something amiss with a woman in a doctor's office.

"Mommy, those shoes do not go with that outfit," he loudly announced to the entire waiting room. Says Mom, Joann, "I could have died."

Maybe it was foreshadowing.

Today, his mom and the rest of the Palu family -- dad, Peter, and sisters, Christina,...