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Seth Aaron Henderson
- Born Winner: He won both Season 7 and All-Stars Season 2. Subverted in All-Stars Season 7, where he was eliminated 3rd.
- Bumbling Dad: Dresses as a punk-rock cloudcuckoolander, is a wacky fashion designer for a living and has a sitcom-like family. They also have a Elastic Bed in their backyard, and both father and son were in glee dragging Tim to it.
- Chekhov's Skill: He told that, being a father, he knew what his daughter liked and did a lot of her outfits himself. By the time of the Kid Challenge, he was the only one who made both a fun and cute age-appropiate dress, but also made her a little purse, which the little girl pointed out as her favorite part of the outfit.
- Dark Is Not Evil: While many people initially assumed that he was going to be a clone of Jeffrey Sebellia, he inmediatelly gained sympathy after showing his real nice and quirky persona in the first minutes of the show.
- The Determinator: He auditioned more than 5 times until he was chosen. And he ended up winning the season.
- Establishing Character Moment: When he arrived to his apartment room, the first thing he did was happily jump on the bed, and then cursing when the bed turned out to be not so soft.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Before the castings, Seth Aaron recalled all his previous auditions before he finally got casted. His first videos had him with bleached blond hair, while the most recents had his usual black. Also his wedding pictures show that his natural hair color is dirty-blonde.
- Face of a Thug: Before the show started, many assumed he was a Jeffrey clone because of his neck-tattoo and the punk-rock look. Once the show started, he was shown to be a wacky Nice Guy.
- Fridge Logic: Seth Aaron stated that his winning collection for Season 7 was inspired by 1930s German and Soviet aesthetics. After a lot of people went "Uhhhh... wait, doesn't that kind of include the Nazis?", he had to hurriedly explain that wasn't what he meant. invoked
- Happily Married
- Nice Guy: He was one of the few people who didn't badmouth anyone, and even Emilio was cool with him.
- Odd Friendship: With Emilio, who surprisingly made a good and functional team with.
- Perky Goth: Tattoos, black polished nails, punk-rocker clothes, and a very upbeat and quirky persona, all in one package.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Casually drops Cluster F-Bomb, but it's always for nice statements.
- Two First Names
Emilio Sosa
Mila Hermanovski
- '20s Bob Haircut: Her signature hairstyle in Season 7, to the point she and Maya bonded over this, and funny enough, Brandise styled her hair like thi for the finale when she started to team up with Mila. In All-Stars she lets her hair grow longer and dyes it brown.
- Author Appeal: Most of her entries on the show were black and whites. In her home visit, her house was mostly black and white, and even her dog was a dalmatian.
- Bigot vs. Bigot: She and Jay, to the point Tom and Lorenzo entitled a post "Pissy vs. Prissy. You get to choose who is who".
- Cool Big Sis: To Maya. They immediately clicked as friends and named themselves "The Bang Sisters".
- Drama Queen: Downplayed. She complained about Alexis not choosing her for the second challenge (and spent most of the workroom time sending indirects to Anthony about it), and also complained about the others not congratulating her for getting Top 2. She didn't do a drama out of those, but she did annoyed most of the others by going on and on.
- Fag Hag: Inverted. As far as shown, the other gay competitors didn't want to be with her.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted in All-Stars Season 1, where she placed 6th.
- Perky Goth: According to her teen photos.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Signature Style: Black and White (most of the time) and Color-blocking.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky.
Jay Nicholas Sario
- Bigot vs. Bigot: Mila and Jay, to the point Tom and Lorenzo entitled a post "Pissy vs. Prissy. You get to choose who is who".
- He and Cerri in the reunion show.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He was a fan favorite, but in the reunion special, after Cerri (one of the models) expressed her dislike of his designs in a confessional cam, he insulted Cerri by saying she had bad teeth and thick legs. Everyone there called him out, and he still grinned about it.
- Camp Gay
- Deadpan Snarker
- Keet: Whenever his outbursts of happiness were visible.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted in All-Stars Season 4, where he placed 6th.
- Squee: He occasionally did this when paired with his favorite model.
Anthony Williams
- Camp Gay: He was the most flamboyant from the gay contestants.
- Eating the Eye Candy: In All-Stars Season 1, he used the opportunity during the challenge to pay a handsome guy to take off his shorts, which the women and the other contestants also were glad to watch.
- Keet: During the workshop, the other designers made bets about how much time Anthony could be quiet. He didn't last more than 15 minutes.
- My Greatest Second Chance: Brought back from elimination after Maya forfeit.
- Subverted in All-Stars Season 1, where she placed 9th.
- Sassy Black Queen
- Stealth Insult: During the "Apology Reunion", Anthony apologised to Mila while clasifying her as an "Old Classy Lady". Also added that althought they weren't in bad terms, he still wasn't friends with her enough to give her a kidney.
- Sweet Home Alabama
Jonathan Peters
Maya Luz
- '20s Bob Haircut: Her signature hairstyle in Season 7, to the point she and Mila bonded over this, thought her hair was longer.
- Always Second Best: She got so frustrated by this, which made her opt to retire from the competition.
- Although judging from her interview
, it was more like she wasn't ready yet.
- Cool Big Sis: Mila was this to her. They immediately clicked as friends and named themselves "The Bang Sisters".
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Won Fanfavorite. invoked
- Improbable Age: She was the youngest of the cast (21).
- Non-Gameplay Elimination: She retired from the competition before the last two challenges.
Amy Sarabi
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Not her persona, but some of her designs stand out as this, like the fish-clown-chicken pants and the hair-bowl outfit.
- Nice Girl: She barely had anything bad to say about her fellow designers.
Ben Chmura
- Author Appeal: He used to be a comic book illustrator before venturing into Fashion Design. He gets eliminated for designing pants that had an "underwear-looking" seam in the crotch, which resembled a superhero costume.
- Happily Married: He made a home-call to his husband.
- The Quiet One: He didn't get enough camera time.
- Straight Gay: The audience didn't know he was also gay until his phone call with his husband.
Jesse LeNoir
- Brutal Honesty: He had to be blunt with Ping about her design not working for the challenge and also calling her out for not accepting his suggestions. The viewers still Misblamed him for the elimination.
- Camp Straight: He is an actor and a Fashion Designer.
- Designated Villain: Invoked. His whole drama with Ping, even though he was just trying to save their team by questioning Ping's decisions.
- Only Sane Man: When paired with Ping. Too bad the viewers blamed Ping's elimination on him.
Janeane Marie Ceccanti
- Prone to Tears: She is the very first to cry in the confessionals. With only 15 minutes in.
Anna Lynett
Jesus Estrada
Ping Wu
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Her designs were mostly inspired to let the body move freely. In the first challenge, she spends a while fighting off a big roll of fabric.
- Drama Queen: She cried when she had to eliminate a model, and also got into arguments with Jesse, dismissing all his opinions as "not respecting her as Team Leader".
- Funny Foreigner: To the point other designers referred to her as "Ping Pong"
- Prone to Tears: She cried a lot during the show, including the reunion.
- Token Minority: She was the only Chinese contestant.
Pamela Ptak
- Genki Girl: She was very enthusiastic about the challenges.
Christiane King
The Models
Last season of "Models of the Runway" segment.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even though Brittany didn't have the best relations with Cerri, she was visibly shocked when Jay directly insulted her.
- Friend to All Living Things: Brandise describes herself as "I get along better with animals than other people".
- Girl Posse: By the last three weeks, the models were divided in two groups: The Older girls (Kristina, Brandise, and Cerri) vs. the younger girls (Lorena, Brittany, and Monique)
- Hidden Depths: Alison plays the guitar and sings.
- Hot-Blooded: Cerri.
- Im Not Hereto Make Friends: Alexis.
- Jerkass:
- Brandise. She said aloud she hoped Jay was eliminated instead of Jonathan, right next to Brittany (Jay's model). Saying they weren't fond of each other is an Understatement.
- Alexis also always brought up eliminations and mentioned them with glee every time there were fewer models in the competition, to the chagrin of the other girls. They theorized maybe she was putting up a Hidden Heart of Gold-hiding facade because she didn't want to get emotionally attached to anyone.
- The Jinx: Brittany got to think she was cursed because Jesus landed in the Bottom 3 three times and Jeanine was eliminated. This got better once she started working with Jay.
- Nice Girl: Lorena, Brittany, and Alison, who were notable for never talking ill about the other girls.
- Non-Gameplay Elimination: Valeria. She was ready to reject the gig she had with United Colors of Benetton, even when it offered her a big opportunity and double pay, but Seth Aaron encouraged her to take it.
- Perpetual Frowner: Sophia. One of the reasons the designers didn't want her (the other reason being that she was allergic to hairspray, so they couldn't do her many styling choices), made her the third eliminated model. The designers sarcastically commented that she was allergic to hairspray and smiling.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Brandise had pitch-black hair, coincidentally teaming with Mila in the Finale, both sharing a similar style.
- Reality TV Show Mansion: They all lived together in the same apartment and the show mostly consisted of the drama inside the dorms.
- Retroactive Recognition: Lorena was one of the models for Season 5's Joe's Decoy collection.
- Stripperiffic: Holly had to use a metal bikini because Emilio ran out of enough material for a dress. The styling didn't help at all.
- The worst part was that after the challenge, Emilio switched models and chose Monique instead.
- Sassy Black Woman: Monique. From the "Young Models" cliqué, she was the one who wasn't shy from arguing with Cerri and Brandise.
- Statuesque Stunner: Holly was the tallest of the group. Despite being an attribute many designers wanted from a model, this eventually made it difficult for fittings when the main issue was the limited resources.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Brandise. She was one of the tallest models and the one who had the most negative comments about everyone.
- Tranquil Fury: During the last challenges, Brandise and Cerri were openly stating they wanted Jay auf'd right next to Brittany. Brittany, instead of arguing with them, just stayed quiet, while Lorena could tell she really was pissed by their comments.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Alexis kept saying she was "playing the game", by applying the same approach as Wendy Pepper in Season 1. Needless to say, all her "mind games" (which, by the way, only consisted of annoying the other girls about who would get out of the house next) didn't have anything to do with the actual process since the designers were the ones who chose who stayed anyway.
