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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.

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People’s Revolution’s Kelly Cutrone doesn’t give a f*** what you think. She’s the woman who put Ashley Dupré front row at Yigal Azrouel’s New York show last fall, the diva who has bad-mouthed everyone from Calvin Klein to Donald Trump. Starting tonight, Cutrone's reality series Kell on Earth will begin airing on Bravo. The show will follow the PR maven as she blazingly whips “village girls and gay guys” into shape, races to prepare for Fashion Week ’10, and shamelessly fires unpaid interns in public settings. The New York Times calls it ““a fine-grained focus [on] the servant class.” We call it terrifying. We can’t wait. To get you ready for tonight, our top ten Cutrone quotes after the jump.

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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.

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Granted, Haiti doesn't really need anything but money, doctors and first-world support right now, but if they had space for three extra people, we've come up with trio who should be on the first flight out to Port-au-Prince.

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● "If you have a problem. And no one else can help. And if you can find them. Maybe you can hire The A-Team." Guess it's pretty hard to hire The A-Team, huh? But not, judging from the just leaked trailer, harder than sitting through The A-Team movie will be! [Buzzfeed] ● The upcoming fourth season of Hanna Montana will be the show's last. Finally set free from Disney's kid friendly clutches, Miley Cryus expected to pose for topless photo any minute now. [NY Post] ● Extremely unflattering mug shot alert! The beautiful ABC reporter who recently got engaged to Obama's budget master looks pretty rough in hers. [NY Daily News]

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From Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel to David Lynch for Dior, there is no shortage of fashion brands making films these days. Now Donna Karan is following suit. Women's Wear Daily says, Karan's enlisted "the help of Kelly Cutrone and creative agency, All Day Everyday—[and] is launching a short film to promote the designer's Eldridge bag." The film is shot by Jake Sumner (scion of Sting and Trudie Styler) and stars Christina Ricci. And it won't be the only film from Karan and Cutrone this year.

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Kelly Cutrone is the brains behind Peoples Revolution (as well as a frequent face on The City) and a fashion figure widely regarded within the industry as someone on whose good side you'd best keep. Diane Pernet caught up with the PR maven and soon-to-be reality star mid-London Fashion Week to talk her new book, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You, which hits shelves March 2010 thanks to Harper One (specifically the "spiritual and empowerment division"). According to Cutrone, "I have a rule you can't cry in the office. This whole feminist thing ... girls are crazy. Everybody wants equality; so, in my office you have to do the same thing that the guy would do." And that includes proper use of anal probes.

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Kelly Cutrone, the founder of People's Revolution, embarked on her first public relations venture when she realized that fashion was the new rock 'n' roll. With the help of now-partners Robyn Berkley and Emily Bungert, People's Revolution is a leading bi-coastal marketing and branding firm and a frontrunner in the fashion industry. The one-time affiliates of The Hills have their hands full for the fall ’09 collections -- handing names such as: Yigal Azrouel, David Delfin, Buckler, Mara Hoffman, Nicholas K, Sergio Da Vila, Alexandre Herchcovitch, and Chado Ralph Rucci. The lightning-speed lifestyle required for the job has earned the firm a tough-as-nails reputation, but it occasionally takes a toll on the team. Upon arriving at the People's SoHo office to sit down with BlackBook, Emily Bungert announced that her bi-annual Fashion Week ailment was already creeping in. "I’m losing my voice," she said, "I lose my voice every Fashion Week. It’s just usually not two weeks before ... it’s usually right in the middle or towards the end." Read on for more from the power trio on the days leading up to the mayhem, nostalgia for Fashion Weeks past, and, without doubt, The Hills.

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If you thought the reality TV market was already oversaturated with fashion-driven shows (Project Runway, Stylista, ANTM, The City, The Zoe Project, and Make Me A Super Model ...), think again. Kelly Cutrone -- the fashion-PR maven behind Peoples Revolution -- has just inked “an eight-episode deal with Bravo for a reality show based on her fashion p.r. company,” says Page Six. Cutrone has already made quite a few appearances on both The Hills and The City (Whitney Port interned at the LA branch of Peoples Revolution prior to jumping ship to “work” at Diane Von Furstenberg). Cutrone is known within the industry as a serious heavyweight and a bit of a hardass ... in other words, she's not someone you want to cross.

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