Ashley Nell Tipton
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About
Fashion designer and winner of season 14 of Lifetime's Project Runway. She is the first ever designer to win with a plus-size collection.
Before Fame
As a child she would make clothes for her Barbies and at seven years old learned to sew on her grandmother's sewing machine. She graduated from Fashion Careers College with a degree in fashion design in 2012. Her senior year collection received much attention and even went to New York's Full Figure Fashion Week that same year. She joined Project Runway in 2015, won the season, and her collection was shown at New York Fashion Week in 2015.
Trivia
In 2015 actress Gabourey Sidibe wore pieces from her collection to the Teen Choice Awards.
Family Life
She is the youngest of four children. Her grandmother passed away just before she heard about the Project Runway applications and she applied in honor of her grandmother's life.
Associated With
She was able to meet her idol Kelly Osbourne through Project Runway.
