In real life, jerks aren’t successful. Nobody wants to work for a jerk. If you’re a jerk, you’re going to have problems that more socially astute people will never have. You’ve created unnecessary barriers for yourself. This business is not the exclusive domain of hoity-toity design school graduates. Rather, the latter are the exception, not the rule. And again, fashion is not survival of the fittest one. There is lots of room in this business for talent and brains wherever you’re coming from. Successful companies are constituted of talented, hard working teams who are led by team oriented leadership. Success doesn’t mean mandating that your underlings comply with your slightest whims; there is no royalty here. Anyone can make it in this business. The messages propagated by Project Runway are unmitigated fiction that insults the commitment of people who’ve made this their chosen vocation. It is insulting to have one’s career summarized by such a caricature.