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1	! Series/ProjectRunway Designers from Season 10
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6	!Dmitry Sholokhov
7	* TheAce: In All Stars 4. He won Season 10, and though it takes him 8 episodes to actually ''win'' a challenge (much like his own season, in which he didn't win until Episode 9), he is never in the bottom two and only once in the bottom three. He makes it into the finale with a dress that more than one judge calls the best thing they've ever seen on Allstars. [[spoiler: It's no shock that he walks away with the prize for the second time.]]
8	* AmbiguouslyBi: Maybe? He seems to show interest in men on occasion, but he also makes comments about "the way [Heidi] moves". He never makes any spoken indication of what he is or is not attracted to, so who knows.
9	** Even more so in ''All-Stars Season 4'', he seems to actively tease about the ambiguity. In the "Love Life" episode, he very pointedly avoids discussing his orientation, unlike most of the other male designers. And when he says that he is single, he also mentions that he thinks he's ready to "meet the perfect... person."
10	* DeadpanSnarker: ''Endlessly'', especially in All Stars. He started off quieter in Season 10, but threw quite a bit of shade then too.
11	* DoubleEntendre: In the "love life" episode of All-Stars, as his dress walks the runway.
12	-->'''Michelle''': Dmitry's first vinyl!
13	-->'''Dmitry, [[DeadpanSnarker completely deadpan]]''': I'm not a virgin anymore.
14	* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Referring to Ven as a "one-way monkey" when he meant to say "one-trick pony."
15	* OnlySaneMan: Of Team 6 in episode 5. Repeatedly cuts through screeching fits in an attempt to keep the team on track.
16	* RealMenWearPink: Before becoming a designer, he was a professional dancer. Also, he occasionally wears pink.
17	* TheStoic: Comes with the territory being from Belarus.
18	** NotSoStoic: Loses it a bit when forced to work with Elena, and again when he gets a video from his father in Belarus.
19	* TakeThat: To designers who are scared of Nina when she shows up as a guest judge for an episode of All Stars 4.
20	-->'''Dmitry''': You know who doesn't love Nina? People who ''suck''.
21	* TallDarkAndSnarky: He's one of the few designers not dwarfed by his high-heeled model on the runway, has dark hair, and is incredibly snarky.
22	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Very much the technician in both of his seasons, contrasting most obviously with Fabio in Season 10 and then with Sonjia in All Stars 4.
23	* WellDoneSonGuy: He was distraught that his father wouldn't be able to watch his collection because he was in Belarus. He also teared up when his friend showed him a video message from his father, in which he expressed pride in Dmitry's work and congratulated him.
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25	!Fabio Costa
26	* DumpsterDive: He mentions in his demo reel that he doesn't shop for groceries. He just goes to the market's back alley and takes the discarded cans, defining himself as a "Freegan".
27	* MyGreatestSecondChance: Placed 2nd in his original season. Subverted in ''All-Stars Season 4'', he placed 5th.
28	* NiceGuy: Fabio may not always agree with other designers, but he is invariably kind. If placed at the bottom during team challenges, he refuses to disparage his teammates; when forced to choose whether Melissa's or Ven's work is weaker after a poorly executed mini-collection, Fabio makes a point of saying he only chooses Ven because he is personally closer to Melissa.
29	* RealMenWearPink: Wears what are essentially dresses several times, leading to Michael Kors joking during the real women challenge that it took a boy in a dress to get his female client to wear a dress, and at one point wears a crown of pink flowers.
30	** He's also the only one who had any idea of how to deal with the babies in episode 11, and says that when he first came to New York did a lot of babysitting, much to the other contestants' amusement.
31	* StraightGay: Although it alternated with CampGay every once in a while.
32	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: A performer type in both of his seasons, contrasting most obviously with Dmitry. It served him better in Season 10 than in All-Stars.
33	* TwoferTokenMinority: He is gay and Brazilian.
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35	!Melissa Fleis
36	* AuthorAppeal: Most of his pieces are black, and when she uses color, are traditional goth ones (deep blue, purples and red)
37	* MyGreatestSecondChance: Placed 3rd in her season. Then subverted in ''All-Stars Season 3'' as she was the third eliminated with all her looks being in the bottom.
38	* PerkyGoth: Most of her designs and wardrobe is black, but her personality is generally upbeat.
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40	! Christopher Palu
41	* BigotVsBigot: He and Gunnar. Both were equally as catty and whiny.
42	* BrokenPedestal: At the beginning of the Lexus challenge, he was thrilled to be paired with Andrea, whom he considered a CoolTeacher. By the end of the challenge, he was close to crying because of how poorly they worked together and how blase she was about her mistakes.
43	* DramaQueen: He's a classically dramatic Runway contestant, overreacting to various issues and [[ItsAllAboutMe making everything about himself]].
44	* ItsAllAboutMe: Tends to talk about every drama on the show by how it affects him and how everything happening revolves around himself.
45	* JawDrop: He has A LOT of these when paired up with Andrea, shocked at how casually she was laughing about her mistakes on their collaboration.
46	--> '''Christopher''': ''(ConfessionCam, imitating Andrea)'' Hahaha, I f*cked up again, hahaha. ''(big JawDrop)''
47	* MenDontCry: Subverted, he's close to flat-out crying for almost all of the third episode while he's on the runway.
48	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to Andrea leaving the competition in the middle of the night, and believes that it's [[ItsAllAboutMe because of what he said to the judges about her]].
49	* MyGreatestSecondChance: He placed 4th both in Season 10 and ''All-Stars Season 3''.
50	* ProneToTears: He's on the verge of tears ''very'' frequently, especially if he's placed in the bottom three or encounters any kind of obstacle.
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52	!Sonjia Williams
53	* TheCutie
54	* MyGreatestSecondChance: Eliminated right before the finale in her season, in ''All-Stars Season 4'' she wins multiple challenges and makes it all the way to the end in this one. [[spoiler: Subverted when Dmitry takes the season once again.]]
55	* OnlySaneMan: When forced to work with Christopher and Gunnar, who despise each other. Recappers Tom & Lorenzo theorized that she took them aside and read them their rights, which kept the drama from boiling over.
56	* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:In the reunion episode after All Stars Season 4, she gets pretty sour about Dmitry's win and says it's unfair for former winners to be in All Stars]].
57	* TechnicianVersusPerformer: A very classic performer type in both of her seasons. She doesn't even ''sketch'', has multiple crises based in having no plan and no idea what to do, and yet manages to pull fantastic things out of thin air with shocking regularity. Her most dramatic contrast is to Dmitry, especially in All Stars.
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59	!Elena Slivnyak
60	* DramaQueen: In the unconventional materials challenge, she called in [=EMTs=] for a ''hot glue burn''. Crafters everywhere laughed themselves silly.
61	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Won Fan Favorite.
62	* HotBlooded: She had bursts of anger during Season 10. In ''All-Stars Season 3'' she was more in control.
63	* InVinoVeritas: When the designers go out for a fancy dinner, Elena apologizes to Dmitry for her [[{{Jerkass}} hostility]] earlier in the season. He theorizes that "wine is working".
64	* {{Jerkass}}: Mostly to Dmitry and Buffi.
65	** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Possibly. We see a softer side with her client in episode 6, and with her mother in episode 9.
66	* SirSwearsalot: Tim [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it when she's eliminated, asking, "What will we do in the workroom without '''[[ClusterFBomb beep beep beep beep beep]]'''?"
67	* MyGreatestSecondChance: Placed 6th in his original season. In ''All-Stars Season 3'', she placed as 2nd Runner-Up.
68	* NervousWreck: She regularly panics in the workroom, especially once her designs have been in the bottom three a few times.
69	* NoSocialSkills: Elena does not play well with others. Everyone ''dreads'' being placed with her in a team challenge.
70	* RaisedByWolves: Several other competitors theorize this about her.
71	* TheStoic: She starts off this way, which makes it all the more interesting when she's put with {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Buffi for a challenge.
72	** NotSoStoic: As seen in Episode 5 and onward.
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74	!Ven Budhu
75	* TheAce: Pulls off the nigh-impossible feat of winning '''two''' challenges in a row.
76	** BrokenAce: ... only to very nearly get eliminated in episode 6, and even closer in episode 9, with him finally being eliminated for real in Episode 10.
77	* AuthorAppeal: By his own admission, really likes the color red, as the tour of his apartment shows.
78	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In episode 6, he completely fails to grasp that he shouldn't be saying things implying that his client is "fat", like mentioning that he doesn't have a belt in the right size. He also repeatedly refers to her as "a plus size", says she has no shape, and laughs while telling Tim that Terri is "like a size 14" (which ''isn't even plus size'').
79	* HumiliationConga: From episode 6 onwards things go downhill very fast.
80	* ManipulativeEditing: Venomously claimed that his controversial behavior in season 10 episode 6, in which he called his client "plus-size" and "big" and eventually leading her to tears, was subject to this. Tim Gunn, [[InvertedTrope on the other hand]], claims what the audience saw of Ven was the "nice version" of his atrocious behavior.
81	* {{Jerkass}}: In episode 6, Ven constantly complained about his client's figure. The other designers were horrified. See DiggingYourselfDeeper above.
82	* NeverMyFault: Even after the show, Ven still tweeted how the show set him up with that client, showing he didn't learn anything.
83	** JerkassHasAPoint: However, Tom & Lorenzo did seem to give credence to Ven's claim that the show set him up with that particular client, either [[SecretTestofCharacter to see how he would handle going out of his comfort zone]] or even expecting him to have a problem with it. However, even if production expected problems from him, Ven didn't have to be such a jerk to his client. He could have taken a lesson from Gunnar, who may also have been set up with his client by production in hopes of seeing him act like a jerk but was very nice to his client instead.
84	* NoSocialSkills / LackOfEmpathy: See above, since he honestly doesn't seem to get why his behavior is a problem. In fact, his complete failure to communicate with his client very nearly gets him eliminated.
85	* SignatureStyle: The judges remark that it's very easy to spot his pieces, and he winds up using the same technique so often that Heidi explicitly warns him that if he uses it again he'll probably get eliminated.
86	** It should be noted that many of his pieces were sleeveless and/or strapless, and contains rose patterns in some way.
87	* TheStoic
88	** NotSoStoic: One of the rare emotional moments from him is when his sister visits the room, along with the other designers' relatives, and Ven shed some tears of joy.
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90	!Gunnar Deatherage
91	* AwesomeMcCoolname: Come on. His name is '''Gun'''-nar '''Death'''-e-'''rage'''.
92	* BigotVsBigot: He and Christopher. Both were equally as catty and whiny.
93	* BrokenBird: Tried to pull this card for the print challenge, saying the "birds" represented his bullied childhood. Judges eliminated him anyway.
94	* '''CampGay'''
95	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In Season 9, he had his hair longer and brown. By this season he dyed half his hair blond, got a new haircut, and grew out more his neckbeard.
96	* FashionableAsymmetry: Has one-half of his bangs dyed blond while the other is his natural color.
97	* HiddenDepths: Despite his earlier behavior, episode 6 shows that he honestly cares about his client and builds a great relationship with her. He also went out of his way to be nice to Ven's client Terri, according to Terri herself.
98	* {{Keet}}: To the point of making Season 9's Anthony Ryan look calm in comparison.
99	* MyGreatestSecondChance: He got selected again after being eliminated in the pre-selection in season 9.
100	** Subverted in ''All-Stars Season 4'', he placed 9th.
101	* NiceGuy: At least that was his image during the Season 9 selection. He was one of the four first to go home before the first challenge, and accepted the decision very gracefully. This contrast led the viewers to see him as he...
102	** TookALevelInJerkass: Right at the very first episode of Season 10, he started to act more bitchy. Some people suggest that he was playing it for the camera.
103	** TookALevelInKindness: He zigzagged with the above since he occasionally showed he could still be nice to his clients and fellow competitors.
104	* SitcomArchnemesis: He seems to be deliberately cultivating a rivalry between himself and Christopher for a while, but they make up during the print challenge. Sadly, Gunnar is eliminated at the end of the same episode.
105	* SmugSnake: Initially acted like this until around episode 6.
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107	!Alicia Hardesty
108	* AuthorAppeal: Her design aesthetic reflects her own tomboyish style, featuring plenty of jumpers and overalls.
109	* HideYourLesbians: Averted (a welcome change from Season 2, when the producers edited out any mention of Zulema's wife). Alicia openly presented her girlfriend to the viewers in the demo reel tour of her home.
110	* OnlySaneWoman: In episode 8, she gets trapped in a team challenge with Dmitry and Elena, who ''despise'' each other and take every opportunity to snipe. Alicia pays for the drama.
111	* {{Tomboy}}: See AuthorAppeal above; her own clothing is very reminiscent of the designs she sends down the runway.
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113	!Nathan Paul
114	* BlackAndNerdy
115	* TheGenericGuy
116	* NiceGuy: Mostly seems to just go about his business in the background and avoid personal drama.
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118	!Raul Osorio
119	* {{Jerkass}}: When he returned to the competition, he was constantly complaining during the team challenge and bickering with Elena.
120	** During his second elimination, after giving everyone a goodbye, he outright insulted Elena and said to her "I hate you".
121	* {{Hypocrite}}: During the team challenge, he complained about how everyone in the group was being selfish, while ''he was only worried about saving his own ass and punching the others before they did it to him''.
122	* NeverMyFault: In both his eliminations he refused to recognize he didn't do great during the competition and left saying the show wasn't his thing.
123	* NotQuiteSavedEnough: Gets brought back into the competition after Andrea and Kooan leave, and while he wasn't eliminated that week, he gets eliminated the following week.
124	* SoreLoser: The first time around, he said his elimination was a mistake by the judges. By his second elimination, although he thanked the judges for the opportunity, he insulted Elena and said to the ConfessionCam that the show wasn't his thing anyway.
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126	! Buffi Jashanmal
127	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her quirky style and personality make her a lot of fun to watch.
128	* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: She proudly admits it's her signature style, combining glitter, animal prints, sequins and neon colors, all in one outfit.
129	* NiceGirl: At least tries to get along with everyone despite snark aimed at her, and is a genuinely sweet person in real life.
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131	!Kooan Kosuke[[note]]This contestant died on 2020 from a viral brain inflamation[[/note]]
132	* BreakTheCutie: Started as a Genki Boy, but his put in the Bottom 3 broke his competitive spirit.
133	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The standout of this season.
134	* FunnyForeigner: He had a high energy and a quirky style, from his crazy prints and his afro.
135	* {{Keet}}: To the point that when he stops acting this way [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness it makes other people worry]].
136	* NonGameplayElimination: Opted to leave the competition of his own accord.
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138	!Andrea Katz
139	* CoolOldLady: She appears this way at first, but her overly casual approach to the team challenge in Episode 3 leads to massive frustration for her teammate, Christopher. She [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves the apartment that night and drops out of the competition]].
140	* CoolTeacher: She is a professor at a University. Subverted since Christopher started with expectations of her being this until she ended up not taking the challenges seriously.
141	* CrazyCatLady: By her own admission.
142	* MeaningfulName: See above.
143	* NonGameplayElimination: See ScrewThisImOuttaHere below.
144	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the events of Episode 3, she leaves the apartment in the middle of the night. According to the producers, she refused to get out of her apartment.
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146	!Lantie Foster
147	* FantasticTimeManagement: heavily averted during the second challenge. She begins her (heavily ambitious) project, but ditches it partway through which leads to....
148	* TooDumbToLive: It's by now well known that any designers who go for cloth-like fabrics in the unconventional materials challenge are painting a target on their backs for the judges, so what does she do? Make a dress that's almost entirely made out of fabric with a few pieces of candy thrown on for posterity. Not helping her case was the fact that a few other contestants used clothlike materials but made a heck of a lot more effort than she did and were saved by their innovation and efforts to actually make something wearable and (in most cases) fashionable from candy[[note]]Buffi made the top, Dmitry made the hand-beaded skirt and Andrea had a candy dot apron[[[/note]]. The judges were not amused and she was unsurprisingly auf'd.
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150	! Beatrice Guapo

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