Laura Bennett Biography
Laura Bennett (Laura Eugenia Bennett) is an American architect and fashion designer. She is best known for being one of the finalists for the 3rd season of Bravo’s show Project Runway in 2006. Laura started working in Shelton, Mindel & Associates, her husband’s architectural design firm. The company is best known for designing the Polo Ralph Lauren headquarters in New York City.
Laura Bennett Age
Bennett was born on the 2nd of August 1963 in New Orleans, Louisiana. As of 2019, she is 56 years old. Bennett’s zodiac sign is Leo.
Laura Bennet Family
Details of her parents and family information are currently under review.
Laura Bennet Education
Years later, she joined the University of Houston for her undergraduate studies. Sometime after graduating with her undergraduate degree in architecture from the school, she furthered on her studies at Columbia University located in New York City.
Laura Bennet Project Runway
Her designs for Project Runway tended to be mostly conservative evening wear, and on more than one occasion, despite agreeing that she had a very glamorous, definitive point of view, the judges expressed their concerns that she was aiming strictly for an older market, although she did win one of the weekly challenges. She was also known for completing her garments in short amounts of time. Tim Gunn has joked on her speed often in his podcasts.
In the next-to-last episode, while preparing for Olympus Fashion Week, she accused fellow finalist Jeffrey Sebelia of hiring outside help to complete his line (which Michael and Uli had also raised concerns about). After an investigation by Bravo producers, no substantial proof was found for Bennett’s claim and Sebelia continued in the competition. Bennett ultimately was the second runner-up after Uli; Sebelia was the winner.
In the competition, she mostly created conservative evening wear. On some occasions, the judges showed their concerns that she was mostly targeting an older client base despite the fact that they agreed that her designs were amazing so much so that she even managed to win one of the weekly challenges.
Laura was also noted to have been fast in completing her designs. This aspect of her design was many at times joked about by fashion consultant Tim Gunn in his podcast. By the end of the show, she emerged as the second runner-up after Uli Herzner, the 1st runner-up, and the winner, Jeffrey Sebelia, who she accused of cheating a while before the end
Laura Bennet Net Worth
American architect and fashion designer and one of the four finalists on Bravo’s July 2006’s Project Runway (Season 3). With an estimated net worth of $400,000.
Laura Bennet Husband
Laura was married to Peter L. Shelton, a renown architect who co-founded Shelton, Mindel & Associates. However, Peter died in August 2012 of cancer in their home in New York. The year after, she moved her family and business to the Laros Estate in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Whilst there, she started practicing archery.
Within six months in the craft, she managed to grow her expertise so much that she was competing at a world-class level. Laura even participated in the 2014 World Indoor Archery Championships.
Laura Bennet Children
Bennett has six children: one daughter Cleo (born 1988), from her first marriage, and five sons: Peik (born 1996), Truman (born 1999), Pierson (born 2002), Larson (born 2003), and Finn (born Dec 1, 2006), whom she discovered she was pregnant with while competing on Project Runway, with her late husband, architect Peter L. Shelton. On August 26, 2012, Shelton died of cancer in their New York home. Shelton’s work as a co-founder of Shelton, Mindel & Associates, and a memorial to him was in the November 2012 issue of Architectural Digest.
Laura Bennet After Project Runway
After her experience with Project Runway in 2006, Laura started fervently pursuing a career in fashion design. In February 2008, she introduced her first collection on QVC.
Writing
Besides her work in Fashion design, Laura also started writing after leaving Project Runway. She started out by writing for the Web site The Daily Beast. She wrote articles on topics ranging from family life with her six children to fashion on the red carpet as well as several other topics in between.
In 2010, she released the book, “Didn’t I Feed You Yesterday? A Mother’s Guide to Sanity in Stilettos”. She released her second book, “Handmade Chic: Fashionable Projects That Look High-End, Not Homespun”.
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