On the eve of New York Fashion Week, Kelly Cutrone, the PR maverick and reality star known for her quick wit and no bullshit attitude, gave our senior editor Taylore Scarabelli a lesson on front row politics and fashion industry faux pas. This is your number what fashion week? I want to ask you, how do you prep physically, emotionally, and spiritually for fashion week? But there are some rules, like not going out too late, not getting regularly wasted, stepping outside, getting air.
That makes total sense. But influencers, for me, are an end game. And I think you have an interest in holding onto the influence that the media held in the past, but it is a bit of a mess now.
We take our brands one by one. I have Private Policy, which is a huge show on Sunday with a killer front row. We have Julia Fox opening the show. Lourdes Leon is walking, who I love, and Jemima Kirke. I have a bunch of his old stuff. I represented Paco Rabanne for a long, long, long time and he just passed away a week ago. The clothes are great. I wonder what you think is the biggest difference between New York Fashion Week before Instagram, when people were still going to Bryant Park, and now.
We have no obligation to include anybody. The way it used to be was that the fashion shows actually served a real purpose. Buyers used to come and buy collections, and the press would come and review the collection. For the most part, people knew what they were talking about. There was one season when ALT would only sit in the third row. He was pretty funny.
He always did something crazy and inconvenient. If you were a publicist, you had to be on the lookout. Hamish was for sure. Michael Roberts was for sure. Isabella Blow, Dianne Brill. But I think Suzy Menkesβwant a funny story about her? He was really late, and all the cameras were going crazy on her when he arrived. I wanted to hire dominatrixes to do the check-in. You could be a good dominatrix.
