Anne Slowey, fashion news editor of Elle magazine and star of the upcoming CW reality show Stylista, has an interview with the L.A. Times about the show’s impending debut. The show is about aspiring fashion mag editors competing for the chance to work as Slowey’s assistant, and the clips of the pilot make it look like she’s really working her inner Wintour. Here are some choice (and ridiculous) quotes:
What do assistants — or “junior editors” — at Elle do?
Well! This will be interesting to figure out when it comes time for the person to begin the job! People keep saying they’re working for me — I haven’t been told they are. . . . So they’ll probably do a rotation — like a first-year med student!
Usually that position makes like $20,000 a year or something, right?
I think it’s more than that! I should know. I think my assistant makes closer to $30,000. I feel like when we started it was $18,000, $20,000.
The CW has released short clips from their upcoming reality show Stylista (the one where aspiring fashion assistants compete for the chance to be an indentured servant to Anne Slowey), and it looks like Slowey is more than OK with abusing assistants to make good TV. She seems to be deliberately channeling the Devil in Prada herself, with the big glasses, all-white office, and generally bitchy demeanor. In this clip, which seems to come from the premiere episode, the wannabe assistants have to put together what I’m guessing is a tray containing Slowey’s breakfast.
First clip is here, to be continued after the jump.
It looks like the feud between Glamour Editor in Chief Anne Slowey and former Glamour editor turned Marie Claire editor Nina Garcia (pictured) is heating up. Hot on the heels of Slowey’s reality show where aspiring fashion editors compete for a job as her editorial assistant, Marie Claire has announced they’re planning a reality show about the daily goings-on at the women’s magazine. Garcia, who already has name recognition from her role as a judge on Project Runway, will be just one of the people appearing in the upcoming show (which will be called “Running in Heels”). Everyone on the masthead–from bigwigs to assistants and interns–will have their chance at reality TV pseudostardom.
It seems like, of all the fashion/women’s interest magazines out there, Marie Claire is the most interested in refuting the myth that all such publications are examples of The Devil Wears Prada: they even had some of their assistants create a video about what it’s like to work there.
Yesterday Tyra Banks announced a new reality show where aspiring fashion magazine editors competed for a job. We speculated that the show would be based around Elle, and we were right. Word on the street for awhile has been that editor Anne Slowey (who you may remember from the first season of Project Runway, where she was skinny and had white-blond hair and was kind of uptight) was jealous of colleague Nina Garcia’s fame as a PR judge and wanted a reality show of her own. Well, now she has one, even though she has to share it with Tyra. (And we all know how much Tyra likes to share.)
[Slowey is the fur-less one on the left.]
Considering how Anne Slowey treats her interns, this ought to be a hell of a show.
Interns at Teen Vogue get their own TV show. Interns at Elle? According to this Gawker post… instead of kisses, they get kicks. Here’s an excerpt from a letter Elle interns got chastizing their behavior (to be fair, some of this is probably warranted, albeit badly delivered):
Hi Guys,
There are a few really important things that I’d like to go over with all of you.
1. DON’T BE LATE
Interning at ELLE is an opportunity that a lot of people would kill for, and while it isn’t paid, it is a chance for you to learn a lot about magazines and your role is actually crucial to the work that we do. When you interview and accept this job, part of that includes coming in 3 days a week and being ON TIME at 9am. This past week many of you have been very late and that has put us in a terrible situation. We are shooting almost every single day until Christmas and we have important things that need to be done right away in the morning.
2. DON’T LEAVE EARLY
I came back from my shoot today in the afternoon and there were no interns to check in anything and we had a TON of things that came in for 2 different run-thru. I know this seems like a tedious task but it is probably the MOST important thing in the accessories dept. If you have a job, or school, Alexis needs to know well in advance your schedule. If you had previously committed to a certain schedule for the semester, please try not to change it in the middle.
Anne Slowey, fashion news editor of Elle magazine and star of the upcoming CW reality show Stylista, has an interview with the L.A. Times about the show’s impending debut. The show is about aspiring fashion mag editors competing for the chance to work as Slowey’s assistant, and the clips of the pilot make it look like she’s really working her inner Wintour. Here are some choice (and ridiculous) quotes:
It looks like the feud between Glamour Editor in Chief Anne Slowey and former Glamour editor turned Marie Claire editor Nina Garcia (pictured) is heating up. Hot on the heels of 