Project Runway Season 22 Finale: Jude Mikulencak's Winning Suits and the Four Collections

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Key takeaways

• Jude Mikulencak won Season 22 with five looks of structured suiting — a 23-year-old who trained at a Brooklyn tailor’s bench. What his winning collection was cut from, and what that jacket shape costs, is new below.
• The finale aired Sept. 10 and is on Hulu and Disney+; all four collections are below.
• The format was five looks in five days on a shared budget — short even by finale standards, and it shows in how much of the judging came down to construction rather than concept.

Quick answer — Four designers each built a five-look collection in five days: Anna Molinari, Jude Mikulencak, Bi Pham and Joseph McRae. It aired Thursday, Sept. 10 on Freeform and is on Hulu and Disney+ now. Jude Mikulencak won with the quietest collection of the four, clean suits cut close to the body. What each one sent down the runway is described below. The prize is $200,000, an Elle feature, CFDA mentorship and professional representation to launch the winner's brand.

When did the finale air, and where can you stream it?

Season 22 ran July 9 to Sept. 10 without a break. Our sister desk, Streaming On Air, tracks exact drop times for streaming shows.

Who is in the finale, and who is the fourth finalist?

Episode 9, "Put a Ring on It," sent three designers through: Anna Molinari, who won the bridal challenge, along with Jude Mikulencak and Bi Pham. Then the judges said there would be a fourth, and the episode ended without naming them. The finale settled it in its opening minutes: Joseph McRae joined the other three, and Naheim Muhammad and Bryan Barrientos did not.

Win counts above follow the season 22 progress chart on Wikipedia, cross-checked against SI Lifestyle’s weekly recaps. Heidi Klum hosts, Nina García and Law Roach judge, and Christian Siriano mentors.

What did the four finalists send down the runway?

The brief was five looks on a $7,500 budget, with an eliminated designer from earlier in the season as each finalist's assistant. Below is only what at least two outlets described the same way. Most recaps spent their words on concept and judging rather than cloth, so the fabric column is thin on purpose.

We left out a much-discussed black look from Pham, described in detail by only one recap, and every color or fabric no second outlet repeated.

What was in Jude Mikulencak’s winning collection?

Five looks of structured suiting, built with Naheim Muhammad as his finale assistant — the same clean-lined tailoring he showed all season. That much every outlet agrees on. The fuller garment-by-garment descriptions we found each rest on a single recap, so we are not printing them as fact.

His training explains the cut: Uptown New Orleans, no sewing machine until 17, then Pratt Institute and a bench at Robinson Brooklyn in Williamsburg, where he still designs. He calls his label tailored, historical and goth-adjacent.

The panel talked about the cloth, not a concept. “The work and the craftsmanship is undeniable,” Law Roach said. García praised how he held masculine and feminine tailoring together in one line. Klum’s doubt was the fair one: whether any single look was surprising enough to remember. Against a garbage-bag gown and the loudest streetwear of the night, clean suits read as restraint.

His stated plan is one-of-a-kind commissions rather than a rack of sizes, so nothing from the collection is for sale. What you can see on screen is how a cut jacket behaves:

Stage clothes solve a different problem: earlier in the season he dressed a ballroom pro in menswear built to move, which is the engineering we unpacked in the ballroom costume rules.

How do you get the tailored-suit feel at a normal price?

His direction is the one that translates straight to a store: a matched jacket and trouser with a sharp shoulder.

Prices were taken from each brand's own product feed at 10:34 a.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. None of these are the runway garments; they are the same shape at three budgets. The low option comes as a set, which is the cheapest route to the matched-suit look the finale rewarded. If you only want the jacket, here is a wool blazer ladder read off each brand's own site:

For how a costume department would source the same idea, see our wardrobe explainer.

Can you buy anything from this season yet?

Yes. David's Bridal put the two pieces from Molinari's Episode 9 bridal win into production: a ceremony gown and a celebration dress, both live right after the episode aired at stores and davidsbridal.com/project-runway. The announcement called them modern corsetry with lingerie-inspired detail and published no prices, so check the page rather than a roundup's number.

What does that corset look cost at three price levels?

The signature of Molinari’s bridal-challenge look, not the season winner’s suits, is a boned or corseted bodice under lace. Here is roughly what that silhouette costs now, low to high.

All three prices came from each brand's own product feed at about 2 a.m. ET, Sept. 9, 2026. The Siriano gown is scale, not a suggestion — he mentors the show. More comparisons in the Love Story slip dress at three prices.

What does the winner actually get?

Cash and a magazine page are a season's worth of attention; a CFDA mentor and an agent are the difference between a collection and a company.

Why does the finale land on the opening day of New York Fashion Week?

The show explains how a collection gets built; the week shows what reaches stores next spring. The Emmys followed on Sept. 14 — see the carpet times and streams, what the carpet showed and TV Fashion This Week.

What does this page cover now that the finale has aired?

The four collections, the winning one in detail, and what is buyable at a normal price. The winner is named because his collection is the story; the scoring and finale recap live at Reality On Air, the competition-show calendar at Activewear On Air, and more cast dressing under Reality Looks.

Sources

• Just Jared — season 22 episode schedule and finale date
• Primetimer and SI Lifestyle — episode 9, finalists, prize; SI Lifestyle’s episode 6 recap — the episode 5 and 6 challenge winners
• David's Bridal announcement — the two produced looks
• CFDA — September 2026 NYFW schedule
• TVLine, Reality Blurred, SI Lifestyle and The TV Cave — episode 10 collections, budget and judging
• Wikipedia, Project Runway season 22 — finalists, ages, panel and finale brief; the winner’s post-show interview — background and plans; Robinson Brooklyn’s own site — services, location, lead time. Where only one outlet described a garment, we left it out.
• Prices: Quince, The Frankie Shop and Argent product pages, Sept. 22, 2026, 12:45 a.m. ET (blazer table); brand product feeds, checked Sept. 9, 2026, 2 a.m. ET (corset table) and Sept. 11, 2026, 10:34 a.m. ET (suit table)