You may know him as the smile-cracking judge on Bravo's Work of Art, but Bill Powers doesn’t merely do the show for shits and gigs. “My mission has always been to bring more people into the art world. I want to make everyone an elitist,” he explained, while touring the NADA show, one of Art Basel’s satellite fairs. Powers has set up shop at this visual carnival, which boasts an alternative assembly of galleries dealing with emerging contemporary art to showcase Exhibition A, his members-only website that sells exclusive editions of artwork by top contemporary artists.

By day, Andy Cohen holds the coveted title of Bravo’s Senior VP of Original Programming and Development. By night, he's in front of the camera, cocktail in hand, hosting his own late night talk show, Watch What Happens: Live. Once a week, Andy sits down with featured guests from across the world of pop culture—as well as your favorite Bravolebrities—to discuss everything from what’s making headlines that week to the latest Housewives drama. Recently named one of TV Guide's "25 Most Influential People in Television,” Andy is elevating Bravo, and himself, to a whole new level of acclaim. On the morning after Top Chef won its first Emmy, which was, coincidentally, also the night of the big Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion throw-down, we caught up with the pop culture icon to discuss the divas of Bravo, Watch What Happens’ rapid success, and whether Bravo is in fact a gay network.

Just a few months ago I went out on a limb and anointed Lady Gaga as a more powerful a fashion figure than Anna Wintour, in some respects at least. Gaga has endorsed avant-garde designers in a manner never before seen with regard to pop culture. Take her video for Bad Romance, where Gaga schooled an audience far wider than that of Vogue's monthly readership on one of the late Alexander McQueen's most talked-about collections (for SS10). While she may be doing so on a significantly smaller scale, PR maven-turned-reality TV star Kelly Cutrone is following suit.

Kelly Cutrone is one of the most feared women working in fashion. She has notoriously banned people from shows for not following directions; I can't imagine what words would come out of her mouth should you cross her. And, like all things high-drama, she makes great television, as has been proved on The Hills, The City and, soon, Bravo's new series Kell on Earth. The publicist and founder of People's Revolution, who also has a book called If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You out next month, recently sat down for a conference call and The Awl, listened in.

Bravo is launching a brand new fashion-based reality series with a not so new premise this Wednesday. Called Launch My Line, the show will follow a dozen aspiring designers trying to launch fashion lines. Their fate will be decided by a team of seasoned judges, including Dean and Dan Caten from DSQUARED2, SCOOP's founder Stephanie Greenfield and Lisa Kline, the woman behind the boutiques of the same name. As for contestants, there are quite a few familiar faces: there's Patrick McDonald, the former buyer and couture director best known for his idiosyncratic style; Roberto, a fashion designer and fine artist; David Applebaum, a SoCal architect; and Merle Ginsberg, a well-known journalist. It's a bizarre mix of characters that should translate to something distinctive from Project Runway.

Without a doubt, Tommy Hilfiger is on a roll. First he announces plans to open a 22,000-square-foot "global flagship" on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in November, then he gets a 14% boost in quarterly sales thanks to a push in Europe and Asia, and now he's getting his television special. Hilfiger and Radical Media inked the deal this week with Bravo for a one-hour showcase based on Hilfiger and George Lois' book Iconic America.

When "Miss" pageants just aren't enough, we sate ourselves with "Miss Teen America." When women's magazines aren't cutting it, we rifle through back issues of Teen Vogue (and, er, Teen Beat). When "Top Chef" isn't enough, well, we get hit over the head with "Top Chef Junior." Over the last year, Bravo quickly became our favorite cable channel with new seasons, and premieres, of must-watch shows like "Project Runway," "Shear Genius" and "Top Chef." But adding "Top Chef Junior" to that list might be hard.