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Aired fall 2016 · Filmed in Manhattan

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A familiar late-Lifetime run. Project Runway's fifteenth season holds the standard format in the Manhattan workroom as the classic era approaches its close.

Filmed
New York City
Premiered
Sep 15, 2016
Lifetime · Thursday 9/8c
Format
Standard format · Manhattan workroom
late-Lifetime classic cycle
Host
Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum's fifteenth season at the helm
01The take

New York.

A familiar late-Lifetime run. Project Runway's fifteenth season holds the standard format in the Manhattan workroom as the classic era approaches its close.

The catalog late-period. A recognizable cycle that runs the format the way the era had standardized it.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

A familiar late-Lifetime run. Project Runway's fifteenth season runs the standard format in the Manhattan workroom with no structural changes and a judges' table operating on autopilot in the best sense. The casting energy is even rather than loud, and the cycle plays as the catalog era at its most standardized. The canon places it lower in the Lifetime classic group because the season delivers the format cleanly without the workroom friction the era's stronger cycles carry.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #17 slot.

Slot #17 of 20 in the Project Runway Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.

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04What to watch for

3 moments, no spoilers.

  • Ep 1 · Field opener

    The cast registers quickly. Watch which workroom personalities the editing chooses to follow into the early challenges.

  • Ep 7 · Mid-run

    By this stretch the season has found its rhythm. Notice the standardized workroom-to-runway pacing the late-classic era runs on.

  • Ep 11 · Late field

    The pre-finale run narrows here. Watch the runway critique tighten as the field thins toward the closing collections.

06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Also appears in
Project Runway S15 — New York — tiered.tv