Season 19 of Bravo’s Project Runway ended with an epic all-female finale. In traditional Project Runway style, the episode saw Christian Siriano visit each of the finalists’ homes to see how their collections were progressing. Brandon Maxwell, Elaine Welteroth and Nina Garcia then had the task of deciding who should be crowned the 2022 winner.
Chasity Sereal, Shantall Lacayo, Coral Castillo and Kristina Kharlashkina were the four women who faced off in the Bravo show finale. Let’s take a look at who won Project Runway 2022 – some fans were thrilled with the outcome and others were furious, saying the judges “made a mistake“.
Project Runway’s finale looks explored
After being pressed by Christian Siriano in their hometown, the Project Runway finalists returned to the studio to dress their models and experience their final show of Season 19.
Tommy Hilfiger joined the judges to give his thoughts on the finale and he even suggested that Chasity should aim to dress JLo, Beyonce and Ariana Grande in the future.
All four women gave it their all in the final, but there could only be one winner!
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Here’s who won Project Runway 2022
Chasity Sereal, Shantall Lacayo, Coral Castillo and Kristina Kharlashkina poured passion, creativity and originality into their final collections, however, it was 37-year-old Shantall Lacayo who was crowned the season 19 winner.
Shantall based her collection on her culture. She is from Managua, Nicaragua and now lives in Miami.
Speaking about her collection, she said: “It’s very wearable but very unique at the same time“.
Shantall made sacrifices to compete in this year’s Project Runway competition, leaving her young son, Franco, and her husband at home.
Follow the Project Runway 2022 winner on Instagram here @shantalllacayo.
Fans React to Project Runway Season 19 Result
Many Project Runway fans were thrilled that Shantall was the winner of season 19. One person tweeted In capital letters: “Yes, Shantall is the winner of Project Runway. I’m so proud of her“.
Another one wrote: “There is no doubt in my mind that Shantall was the winner. Talk about talent“.
However, many people also tweeted that they weren’t impressed with the result: “Raise your hand if you think the Project Runway winner was the wrong choice. (My hand is currently hitting the ceiling in my living room.)”.
Another one twitter user noted: “Twitterverse has spoken, Coral deserved to win and Shantall’s collection was a major snoozefest and we don’t care what the judges think, they got it wrong.“
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