Dom Streater (2024)

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Where is Dom Streater now? ›

Streater has since parted ways with the lifestyle chain, working full time as lead designer for her own Dom Streater Studio in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia-based designer Dom Streater's edgy fashion line helped her snag the win on Thursday's “Project Runway” finale, but it certainly wasn't an easy victory.

All Stars: Season 6

Anne Fulenwider mentored the designers. Season 6 features eight new All Stars designers, and eight designers who have competed on All Stars previously. The winner of this season was Anthony Williams.

Dom Streater took home the top prize on Season 12 in 2013. She went on to present a collection at New York Fashion Week before becoming a designer for Urban Outfitters. She later founded her own line of ready-to-wear dresses, T-shirts, and accessories, and in 2016, she won Season 5 of All Stars.

Christian Siriano, the winner of season 4, is the most successful Project Runway alum, with a thriving career, including dressing celebrities like Lady Gaga and Michelle Obama.

Fashion designer and Project Runway winner Dom Streater and her husband Ivan.

The most infamous fight of Project Runway was not the product of a high-stakes challenge but of Season 2 contestant Santino Rice's imagination. Deploying his spot-on impression of Tim Gunn, Rice created a fictitious Red Lobster date tiff between the mentor and designer Andrae Gonzalo.

Streater, 24, from West Philadelphia, bested three other designer finalists to take the title following the debut of her “Retro Redux” collection at New York Fashion Week.

“You need to have a strong aesthetic, you need to have a strong will of character, and, by golly, you need to have some big cojones.” But the show's success hasn't exactly trickled down to all of the designers. Runway doesn't pay the contestants, and many must quit their jobs to be on the show.

Essence - Dom Streater, the first African American winner on Project Runway, debuts first New York Fashion Week collection.

What happens to designers after a Project Runway? ›

On "Project Runway," fashion designers compete against each other for a grand prize. Past winners, like Christian Siriano and Leanne Marshall, went on to create successful brands. Other winners, like Gretchen Jones, have expanded their careers beyond designing.

Bradon, a former dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Group, has become the go-to costume designer for choreographer Jessica Lang (the two met at Julliard) and her dance company.

Honolulu fashion designer Andy South first gained national recognition in Season 8 of Lifetime Television's reality competition show, Project Runway. In 2012, Andy announced that he was now a she, a transgendered female. Her mother renamed her Ariyaphon Southiphong, or Ari for short.

The season eight competitor was the first Puerto Rican fashion designer to ever participate on Project Runway. He is a spokesperson for Microsoft's HP Touchsmart PC and continues to show his designs at Fashion Week.

After leaving New York, McCarroll now teaches at Philadelphia University and has a fashion line on QVC. McCarroll is a designer for Field of View winter guard in West Chester, Pennsylvania. McCarroll has appeared numerous times on the PBS TV show Quilting Arts.