Project Runway Season 8 Contestant Guide: A few facts and a lot of opinions

Sing with me now:

It's the most wonderful time of the yeeeeaaaaar! With designers a-sewing and Timmy Gunn telling you he is concerned, it's the most wonderful time of the yeeeeear!

Yep, it's back. Project Runway embarks upon another season of weird garments, idiotic models, dramatic designers and clothes made of tissue boxes starting July 29th. I can hardly wait for the first episode, my head may explode with pure anxiety until then. Luckily, to keep my head from exploding, Lifetime has given me (all of us) the designers' audition tapes, home visits and a little more info, so that I can judge them all and be wrong about when they will be auf'ed. Read on and make some predictions of your own.