Project Runway: Where Are They Now?


For the reason that hit actuality present “Undertaking Runway” first aired in 2004, we have watched season after season of would-be designers stitching, chopping, and crying. We have additionally seen them battle by way of “unconventional” challenges, provoke mannequin walk-offs, bore Nina Garcia, and “make it work” irrespective of the style emergency. Whereas Heidi Klum stated auf wiedersehen to the present in 2017, together with Tim Gunn (they each went on to helm Amazon Video’s competitors sequence “Making the Reduce”), the present’s recognition stays sturdy. The sequence’s seventeenth season premiered again on its authentic community, Bravo, with an all-new panel that featured season 4 winner Christian Siriano and supermodel Karlie Kloss. Since then, designer Brandon Maxwell and journalist Elaine Welteroth joined as judges in season 18, with Kloss stepping down from the official title in season 19, which Shantall Lacayo gained.

At BravoCon 2022’s “Undertaking Runway of Their World” panel on Oct. 16, Siriano and Welteroth introduced season 20 as an all-star theme, which is able to deliver again a number of the most gifted designers from earlier seasons to compete towards one another for the title. Nonetheless, we nonetheless haven’t got a confirmed date, and different particulars are nonetheless below wraps.

In the meantime, how have the beforehand topped designers fared since their “Undertaking Runway” second of fame, and what are they engaged on now? Forward, we have rounded up each winner since season one and gathered details about their lives post-“Undertaking Runway.” Learn by way of to brush up on something you might need missed whereas studying concerning the new contestants by way of the years.

— Extra reporting by Sarah Wasilak and Robert Khederian