Jack Mackenroth
is an American swimmer, model and fashion designer who competed in the fourth
season of American reality show Project Runway. Mackenroth is originally from Seattle, Washington area where he lived with his
mother, Connie, and their younger siblings, sister Sarah and brother man. Her
parents divorced when he was 8.
He studied at Somerset Elementary School in Bellevue,
Washington, where he was known as "Jack Kietz." As a child, remembers
his days with a variety of activities, like "swimming and soccer and piano
lessons." He has not spoken with his father since he was 15 or 16 years. His sister, Sarah Kietz, relates that when a child Mackenroth was riding his
bicycle on a boat parked on the side of the road that requires twelve stitches.
Although it was a late bloomer and had problems in the facility at the time he
reached high school, began to express themselves through sewing. "I was a kid
in the club total. He went out with all children in the alternative school, and
we all made our own clothes and cut our own hair," he says. "I always
had a knack for it and wanted to look cool, but I had no money, so they only alter
the elements already had. At the same time, it really irritates my mother, but
look at me now ! "
Mackenroth was per-med at the University of California, Berkeley in the first
two years, following the footsteps of her mother who was a nurse at Harbor view Medical
Center Seattle, but later graduated with a double major in Fine Arts and Sociological
of he thought it could actually make a living in the fashion industry.