By Laura L. Griffin 9/10/12 12:21pm

Fashion Week Observed

Anna Francesca - Front Row - Spring 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

A Real-Time Debate on Fashion Week Etiquette: Manners de la Mode

Today, as we stumble across the halfway point of the Blackberry-clutching, cab-stealing marathon known as Fashion Week, we’ve invited some friends and experts to join us in a lunchtime conversation, using discussion tool Branch, on Fashion Week etiquette: In a week so schedule-crazed and tailored to larger-than-life personalities, does civility even exist?

Joining us:
Peter Davis, editor-in-chief of Scene magazine
Scott Lipps, president of model agency One Management
Mary Alice Stephenson, style and beauty expert
Kelly Cutrone, of the fashion PR world and America’s Next Top Model judge Read More

By Drew Grant 2/15/12 9:00am

Menace to Society

Outfit by Holy Tee, Skybox by American Express, posture by years of bad habits

Menace to Society: Please Don’t Feed the Models

I used to think Fashion Week was fun. This was years ago, when “the tents” referred to actual tents. Back in the day (it must have been, oh, 2008) my friends and I would try to talk our way into Tommy and Oscar shows and blog about the experience. It was surprising how often our feigned frustration—“What do you mean I’m not on the list? Please call Eric and let him know that we’re here”—would get us in.

I’m still not sure if there was an Eric, but somehow he always came through.

Now, older and wiser and having recently embarked on a journalistic mission to embed myself among the social elite, I have actual invites (22, to be exact), a fresh Anna bob and a mission, should I choose to accept it, to treat Fashion Week not like a joke, but like a job.

Which is a lot harder than it looks. Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/28/11 10:51am

The Daily Transom

Ms. Cutrone

Kelly Cutrone Speaks to The Observer About Taking Over André Leon Talley’s Spot on America’s Next Top Model

Tyra’s got a new sidekick.

Kelly Cutrone will take over as the newest judge on The CW’s America’s Next Top Model, taking the place of André Leon Talley, the former Vogue editor-at-large.

The Observer received confirmation during a chat with the People’s Revolution head honcho herself.

“I’m really excited,” Ms. Cutrone told The Observer via Read More

By Aaron Gell 7/05/11 7:23pm

TV

Kelly Cutrone (Getty Images)

Kelly Cutrone, Still Not Over ‘The Hills,’ Shops a New Show

Kelly Cutrone, the fashion publicist turned reality-TV personality (The Hills, The City and Kell on Earth), self-help author and Dr. Phil protégé, is still diversifying. She recently announced plans to start her own fashion line, Electric Love Army, backed by Christopher Burch, which will launch with three stores in New York next year. And now Read More

By Felix Gillette 4/15/09 5:39pm

At Bravo Upfront: Gym Makeovers, Celebrity Florists, New York Preppies, High-Strung Photographers, Supermodels, Kelly Cutrone, Miami Narcissists, and Fiction

“We’re in a hyperbolic type space, which is fitting despite the market conditions,” said Lauren Zalaznick.

 

It was Tuesday morning and Ms. Zalaznick, the overseer of various NBC Universal cable lifestyle channels, was standing in an ornate banquet hall at the Russian Tea Room, kicking off Bravo’s annual upfront presentation to Read More

By Joe Pompeo 2/16/09 5:30am

Kelly Cutrone on Ashley Dupre: ‘I Really Like This Girl!’

By the start of Andrew Buckler’s men’s wear presentation at 5 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, the news had already spread that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer‘s costly paramour Ashley Dupre had been venturing out for Fashion Week.

The previous morning, Ms. Dupre had shown up unexpectedly at Yigal Azrouel’s women’s show. Mr. Azrouel’s Read More