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Aired winter 2010 · Filmed in Manhattan

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The return. Sixteen designers back in a Manhattan workroom, the network change behind the show, and a season whose main job is to remind the audience what Project Runway looks like when the city is doing its work.

Filmed
New York City
Premiered
Jan 14, 2010
Lifetime · Thursday 10/9c
Episodes
14
Format
Standard format · 16 designers
return to New York
Cast size
16 players
Sixteen designers, third straight season at this exact headcount.
Host
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum's seventh season at the helm
On this page5 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04Adjacent in the canon
  5. 05Also appears in
01The take

The quiet return to form.

The course-correct. Not the loudest season in the catalog, but the one that put the format back on the coast it was built for.
02The shape of the season

Third straight season at sixteen.

The return-to-form. Project Runway is back in Manhattan, back in a workroom that reads right, and back in a city whose garment district carries editorial weight on camera. The cast is steady rather than loud, and the season's main argument is that the format works when the location works. Not the season fans cite first, but the one that quietly restored the show's footing. The canon ranks it modestly because the steadying matters more than the spectacle here.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #14 slot.

Slot #14 of 21 in the Project Runway Editor's Canon. Season seven is the course-correct, and the canon ranks it honestly. Project Runway is back in Manhattan, back in a workroom that reads right on camera, and back in a city whose garment district pulls editorial weight for the field segments. The cast is steady rather than loud, and the season's main argument is structural — that the format works when the location works. Not the season fans cite first, and not the season that delivers a memorable workroom energy, but the cycle that quietly restored the show's footing after the relocation experiment. tiered.tv places it fourteenth because the steadying matters historically, but the run itself stays quiet.

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05Also appears in

Cross-references.