Kell convert

Kelly "If you have to cry go outside" Cutrone. She's nuts, but I've got serious respect.
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Kelly Cutrone is a crazy-ass bitch, but in the best possible way. Sure, she never wears makeup, has a bad temper, and believes that "dancing everyday is gift to God," but she is also pretty cool. I first heard of Cutrone when I watched The City, that awful reality show on MTV about Lauren Conrad living in New York. Conrad interned at People's Revolution, the company that Kelly basically built from the ground up, and instantly stood out as totally telling it like it is. Since then she has only attracted more limelight. She has released two books and has a reality TV show of her own, Kell on Earth, which I have been watching religiously for the past two days. My friend Catherine has her books, which I've been reading as well, so I've kind of been immersed in this bizarro world of fashion PR. The embedding for the videos has been disabled (what else is new), but you can find the first part of the first episode here, and that will take you to the rest. I highly recommend watching this show for several reasons.


1. You think your job is hard? Just imagine working in this office, and getting put down every goddamn day of your life. Also, communal working table with the boss? You can't pick your nose, you can't take mini zone-out breaks... No wonder everyone look so miserable.


2. If you ever feel bad about yourself or incompetent (which, let's be real, we all do sometimes) you will love seeing the interns on this show standing around looking like idiots. It's not even the interns though! Watching Cutrone's assistant Andrew trying to figure out what to do when the printer is out of ink makes me feel like the smart (but also most judgmental) person in the world.


3. Do you feel like you have no time for anything except work? These people work from whenever in the morning until late at night. They are in that office all. the. time. The young ones always complain about getting like three hours of sleep because they had to organize the seating chart for a runway show (which I am not saying is easy, just really, really sad). Sometimes the staffers talk about their lives outside of work, and they go home to their immaculate, empty apartments that they spend no time in. It seems that Cutrone is the only one who spends time at home, but that's because she lives above the office. Everyone is constantly stressed out. Sometimes I am like "They are going to all give themselves ulcers, and for what.!" It's all in the name of fashion, folks (which is cool but not important enough to risk your health for).

I'd never want to work for her, but I'm glad there are women like this out there. Here is a light, happy, cute vid of her and her giant wardrobe.