Fashion Publicist Kelly Cutrone, In Five Easy Quotes
LatestCan it be said again that Kelly Cutrone is awesome? Perspicacious, hard-headed, and demonstrative of the hard work that goes into an often frothy-seeming job? I’ve often wondered what someone as smart as she is doing on reality television.
But if The City keeps Cutrone in the public eye so that she can occasionally go and say things like, “Who would have thought we’d pay five dollars for a coffee and get our news for free?” then I can make peace with that. (Perhaps she just enjoys giving girls like Whitney Port complexes.) Somehow, Cutrone has virtually always escaped the editing process of the various shows she’s been involved with — The Hills and The City — unscathed. While she could have been cast by the producers and written off by the audience as a bitch, instead she mostly just looks like a hard-working woman interested in efficiency. “You’re going to need to move a lot quicker than this if you’re going to work in the fashion business,” was the first thing she told Lauren Conrad, whom she’d stumped with an obvious query, back in Season One.
The Awl’s Choire Sicha did the Internet a favor and posted a “slightly rough” transcript of a conference call Cutrone participated in to promote her new book, and the premiere season of her reality show, Kell On Earth. Cutrone gamely fielded queries from Us Weekly (“Kelly: You Twittered about me this morning! Us: Did you see that yourself? Kelly: Yeah, no, I have other people to do that for me”), Life & Style, and from whatever unidentified dolt asked her, “What’s your recurring trend, in the fashion scene?” Before the lot gets processed into tabloid sausage, let’s examine the quotable raw materials:
On Her Looks