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01The take
New York.
The catalog season. The show looks at its own history without slowing down to celebrate it.
02The shape of the season
A rhythm worth tracking.
The milestone. Ten seasons in, Project Runway has outlasted most of the fashion-competition genre it spawned, and the tenth-cycle run plays as the show taking stock without losing the rhythm. Sixteen designers, a Manhattan workroom that has hosted nearly two hundred episodes by this point, and a judges' table that no longer needs to introduce itself. A confident catalog-era season — not the loudest run, but a steady one that the canon places mid-pack on merit.
03Where it sits in the canon
The #08 slot.
Slot #08 of 20 in the Project Runway Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.
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