Project Runway Season 22 Finale: What Time It Starts, Where to Watch — and the Winning Bridal Look You Can Already Buy

Key takeaways

• The Project Runway season 22 finale airs Thursday, Sept. 10 at 10 p.m. ET on Freeform. It streams on Hulu and Disney+ the next day.
• Anna Molinari, Jude Mikulencak and Bi Pham are through. A fourth finalist was promised on air and never named, so three eliminated designers are still in play.
• Molinari's winning bridal look is already on sale at David's Bridal, which makes this the rare fashion competition where you can buy the garment before the season ends.

Quick answer — Freeform, Thursday, Sept. 10, 10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT. Episode 10 of 10, titled "The Finale." Hulu and Disney+ post it Friday. The finalists show original capsule collections, and the prize is $200,000 plus coverage in Elle, per SI Lifestyle's recap.

Most of what we cover here is clothing that showed up on television by accident of plot or party. A finale is the opposite. The garments are the whole event, they were built to be judged, and for once somebody on camera will say out loud what the fabric is.

What time is the Project Runway season 22 finale?

Season 22 started July 9 and ran ten weeks straight, so Thursday is the end of it. If you have been catching up on Hulu rather than watching live, note that Friday is the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 and several networks are shifting schedules around it — Freeform's next-day drop is on a streaming clock and is not affected, but the linear repeats may move. Our sister desk tracks exact drop times for streaming shows if you need the hour rather than the day.

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. Joseph McRae, Naheim Muhammad and Bryan Barrientos are the three waiting.

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

Can you buy anything from this season yet?

Yes, and this is the part worth knowing even if you skipped the season. David's Bridal put Molinari's two winning pieces into production: a corded lace sheath wedding dress and a cropped tank with a midi skirt for the after-party. Both went up right after the episode aired, sold at David's Bridal stores and at davidsbridal.com/project-runway. The company's announcement described the pair as modern corsetry with lingerie-inspired detail, and did not publish prices, so check the page rather than trusting a number from a roundup.

That is unusual. Television wardrobes are normally loans, samples or one-offs that never reach a rack, which is a problem we wrote about at length in how TV wardrobes actually work.

What does that corset look cost at three price levels?

The signature of the winning look is a boned or corseted bodice under lace. Here is roughly what that silhouette costs now, low to high.

All three prices were pulled from each brand's own product feed at about 2 a.m. ET on Sept. 9, 2026. The Siriano gown is there for scale, not as a suggestion — he mentors the show, and his corset work is the reference point the finalists are being measured against. More of these comparisons live in Shop the Look.

What happens on a Project Runway finale runway?

Finalists get months and a budget at home, then bring back a capsule collection instead of a single garment. Judging shifts with it. A weekly challenge rewards a good idea executed in two days; a finale rewards a point of view that survives eight or ten looks without repeating itself. Designers who coast on one strong silhouette tend to fall apart here, and quiet technicians tend to win.

Season 22 has been front-loaded with wins for Mikulencak, which historically means very little. Bi Pham sending a black gown down a bridal runway last week is the sort of move that either reads as a coherent voice across a collection or as a stunt, and Thursday is when that gets settled.

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

New York Fashion Week runs Sept. 10 through 15 this season, opening Thursday with Henry Zankov's debut for Diane von Furstenberg and closing with Thom Browne. The CFDA's preliminary schedule lists about 70 shows and presentations. Freeform putting a design finale on the same night is not a coincidence, and it is a useful pairing: the show tells you how a collection gets built, the week tells you what will be in stores next spring.

The week after that belongs to the carpet. The Emmys land Monday, Sept. 14, and we have the carpet start times and streams plus the gown shapes to expect already up. Everything on the calendar between now and then is in TV Fashion This Week.

What we will and will not cover after it airs

We will update this page Friday with the collections themselves — fabrics, silhouettes, and what is buyable at a normal price. We do not do winner announcements or elimination recaps here. Our reality desk handles those at Reality On Air, and the competition-show calendar sits at Activewear On Air. More cast-dressing coverage is filed under Reality Looks.

Sources

• Just Jared — season 22 episode schedule and finale date
• Primetimer and SI Lifestyle — episode 9, finalists, prize
• David's Bridal announcement — the two produced looks
• CFDA — September 2026 NYFW schedule
• Prices: brand product feeds, checked Sept. 9, 2026, 2 a.m. ET