Overview
- Project Runway launched Season 22 on July 9 with a two-episode premiere on Freeform and episodes available to stream the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
- The season opens with the largest cast in the franchise’s history: 22 designers competing across a 10-episode run.
- Judges Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Law Roach returned to the panel with Christian Siriano as mentor and Tyra Banks appearing as a recurring judge.
- Producers staged a signature-look qualification in the premiere that awarded six designers immunity and eliminated six others, shrinking the field immediately.
- The season features a star-studded guest slate and crossovers with other reality shows, a strategy intended to broaden viewership while preserving judging impartiality through blind runway presentation.