Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Kelly Cutrone’s fashion battle plan

… Just know if you’re crying or you’re having a bad day, and you’ve been knocked around, the best thing to do is come back,” she says, empathetically, in a meeting at the outset of New York Fashion Week. “If I stopped this business every time somebody said something mean to me, or I felt bad, or I felt like I was losing everything, I wouldn’t have been in business more than a month.”
Translated into English, this essentially amounts to a blanket license for further abuse.
But to be berated by Cutrone is a thrill — otherwise, why would so many people submit to it? This episode features another of Cutrone’s sacrificial lambs, Ashley Dupré, a former prostitute who had sexual relations with then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (as a result of the sex scandal, he resigned from his office in March 2008). Last spring, Cutrone sat her in the front row of a show for one of her clients, designer Yigal Azrouël. The next day, Azrouël fired Cutrone, though it’s difficult to say whether Cutrone got the short end of the stick.

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