Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Kell on Earth

Meet your new guilty pleasure. Her name is Kelly Cutrone.
You may recognize her as the mega-bitch boss to The Hills' LC. Or the mentor to The City's Whitney Port. Personally she is my new favorite bitch to love on TV.
Cutrone is the star of the new Bravo reality series Kell on Earth, and the owner of People's Revolution, a branding and public relations firm that produces fashion shows all over the world. Her firm is responsible for getting press for their clients, taking the clothes out of the showroom and onto the pages of the magazine and putting them on their clients. People's Revolution has over 40 clients including Vivienne Westwood. And Cutrone owns it all. She is a ruthless, no-nonsense fashion and PR mogul. She tells it like it is. She does not F*** around. I'm thinking she makes Anna Wintour look like a vacation.
Watching this show makes you appreciate all the hard work, all the detail that goes into making a fashion show go off without a hitch. And the firm consists of about 10 people working their asses off to make this happen. Invites, seating charts, RSVP's, credentials, clients, celebs, paparazzi, showrooms, models, clothes...details, details, details. Who cares, right? Normally this would seem pretty boring. But I assure you, it's not. Kelly explains how a simple seating chart can be everything to a fashion show: You can't sit Harper's Bazaar next to Vogue because they are competition. You can't sit the paparazzi behind the celebrities so they can hear what they are saying. They have to sit across form the celebs so they can take their pictures. You only have 100 seats in the first 3 rows (the only rows that matter), but there are 200 people that want those seats. And it's so wonderfully dramatic.
Within the first ten minutes of the premiere, Cutrone explains to her staff that she is "playing for blood mother-f*cking keeps". She is constantly threatening to fire people and explains that there is no room for crying. "If you need to cry, leave. I do not give a f*ck. This is not group therapy." Her staff is relentless. Every one of them looks tired. They look like they haven't slept in days and don't wear an ounce of make-up. You want to nap FOR them. Each person is thrown into the fire, no one has time to train a newbie. And that's the drama of it. Some of them literally eat, sleep, and breathe work.
There are 4 people on Cutrone's staff you'll get to know: Robyn, a partner in the firm, known as "snow white with razorblades". Robyn works so hard she has her own bedroom at the office. Emily, a partner in the firm, who Kelly refers to as a "small town girl but a slayer". She refers to herself as a major bitch. Stefanie Skinner, Kelly's former assistant turned Jr. Account Executive. Stephanie works harder than anyone and pays for it more than anyone. It's only the first episode and this girl needs a vacay. Andrew, Kelly's new assistant, who is completely green to the business and should provide a lot of entertainment this season. I'm betting he gets chewed out in episode 3. As powerful and down-right mean Kelly is, you get to a see a softer side of her as well. You see her as a single mom to a 7 year-old Ava and everything she does is for her daughter. They live on the third floor of her office, so she can be a mother and a mogul all in the same place. It's incredibly inspiring. The downside? As high profile as Cutrone's clients are, they didn't make an appearance in the premiere. Unless you count Ashley Dupre', the call girl made famous in the Eliot Spitzer scandal. I mean...really? Cutrone is friends with her and completely supports her, and then 5 minutes later she tells her not to come near her fashion shows. Now that's pretty freaking funny. Join in on the fun so we can bitch about it! Kell on Earth... Mondays at 10pm ET on Bravo!

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