'Project Runway' Explained Completely and Finally

“’Project Runway’ is a parable about the meritocracy of New York, and its narrative engine is assimilation — even when the language of the judges sometimes expresses the opposite…. Is it any wonder so many immigrants or children of immigrants thrive on the program? Especially the boys, who have already been through two gantlets: getting into mainstream America, as a foreigner, and then getting out of mainstream America, as a homosexual.”