Irina Shabayeva won the sixth season of the fashion design reality show Project Runway on Thursday in the conclusion of the hit cable series which was delayed for months by legal wrangling between its previous parent network Bravo and its current home, Lifetime.

Shabayeva edged out runners-up Carol Hannah Whitfield and Althea Harper to take top honors on the show’s second consecutive all-female finale.

Shabayeva, 27, the daughter of immigrants from the Republic of Georgia who moved their family to Brooklyn, impressed the show’s judges with an edgy collection of 13 looks shown at New York’s Fashion Week earlier this year. The designer said she was inspired by “what it takes to survive in the city as a woman.”

“Your line was sleek, modern, cohesive and it told a story,” Heidi Klum, the show’s host and one of its judges, told Irina.