(Spoilers if you haven't watched the last two episodes)
Project Runway is back with talented, amazing, kind-hearted designers...oh and Gunnar.
After a season 9 that wasn't a fan favorite, season 10 of the design-competition is looking good so far, with amazing designers (Ven! Melissa! Sonjia!), annoying villains (Gunnar! Lantie! Dmitry!) and cooky personalities (Kooan! Buffi!).
In the first two episodes boring Beatrice and angry Lantie was eliminated. To be fair, Buffi should probably have been eliminated in episode two after a horrible candy-design, but luckily Lantie was given the boot, partly because of her bad attitude and unwillingness to be creative.
Power rankings:
14th place: Raul. We haven't seen much of Raul so far. The designs we have seen from him haven't been noteworthy and his latest design was quite bad actually.
13th place: Fabio. He seems like a nice guy, but his designs have been kind of boring and one dimensional. I would like for him to do something a little more out-of-the-box next time.
12th place: Alicia. I'm afraid Alicia does not stand out with her designs and doesn't bring a whole lot to the table. The mediocre strategy has worked so far for her, because there has been some truly bad designs in the first two episodes, but she could be in trouble in upcoming episodes.
11th place: Buffi. She's has a really nice personality, but I'm afraid her style is just not in the judges, or anyone else's, taste. Her candy-design in episode two is probably the worst thing I have seen so far in season 10. She really needs to step it up.
10th place: Nathan. Another designer we haven't seen much of. His designs the first week was okay, while his designs the second week definitely had something good to it, despite the fact that it was really heavy. I wish he would try to do something crazy and something he haven't tried before, just to see what would come out of it.
9th place: Kooan. He's probably not going to make it to ninth place, as the judges are already annoyed by him and he doesn't seem to listen to their critique. He's pretty good TV though and the producers are probably interested in keeping him around for a little while.
8th place: Elena. I'm not sure how bad she really wants to win. She has shown a bit of an attitude and her designs haven't been that great, but she definitely have a style and I'm intrigued to see where she's going to go the next couple of weeks.
7th place: Andrea. I hated her design the second week, both before and after her consultation with Tim. I'm not sure if her experience is going to carry her far or her lack of creative thinking is going to get her out early.
6th place: Melissa. We haven't seen anything from her that is not black. Despite of this, Melissa is still one of my favorites so far. I'm very intrigued by her as a designer, but she still needs to show she's is able to actually use other colors than black, if she wants to go far.
5th place: Christopher. He has done pretty good, and after he became Gunnar's enemy number 1, he's probably going to stick around for a while. His designs have been good, but nothing spectacular.
4th place: Gunnar. It's clear that he's very passionate about this and I'm guessing he's gonna go really far, but is there any way producers will let him win? I don't think so.
3rd place: Sonjia. She seems very focused and has some great ideas. I don't think her style is going to carry her to the win, but I think she's going to go pretty far.
2nd place: Dmitry. Okay, this may be a long shot, as he kind of have a bad attitude and is not very nice in his confessionals, but he has made some interesting pieces and I am very curious to see how far he can, and wants, to go.
1st place: Ven. He's the clear front-runner right now, not only does he have a creative mind, but his sewing abilities are amazing. Charisma-allergic Ven is definitely the one to beat right now.
(Spoilers if you haven't watched the last two episodes)