Fall Fashion 2008 - How Reality TV Turned Nina Garcia and Anne Slowey Into Rivals

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Nina Garcia's Hippie Rival [Feuds]
Published 8/18/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... New York is stoking a rivalry between Nina Garcia of Project Runway and Marie Claire and Anne Slowey, Garcia's TV stand-in at Elle and star of the forthcoming reality show Stylista. It's hard to imagine either of the two fashion editors terribly minded New York's in-depth article on their differences — which, disclosure here, was written by our own ...

Project Runway Judge's Hippie Rival [Feuds]
Published 8/18/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... New York is stoking a rivalry between Nina Garcia of Project Runway and Marie Claire and Anne Slowey, Garcia's TV stand-in at Elle and star of the forthcoming reality show Stylista. It's hard to imagine either of the two fashion editors terribly minded New York's in-depth article on their differences — which, disclosure here, was written by our own ...

You Wanna Be On Top [Trash TV]
Published 8/18/2008 by Dodai at Jezebel
[image] Do yourself a favor and read "America’s Next Top Fashion Editor," Moe Tkacik's story in this week's New York magazine. It's the epic tale of Nina Garcia, Anne Slowey, Elle , Project Runway and the new CW show Stylista (starring Elle fashion editor Slowey). Plus! The appeal of fashion-related reality TV, "the crack rock of programming." You'll learn the differences between Garcia and Slowey (closets: "Slowey’s is small, East Village, overflowing with vintage finds; Garcia’s is cavernous, color-coded, and situated in an apartment overlooking Central Park.") as ...

Extra, Extra
Published 8/18/2008 by Jen Chung at Gothamist
... New York looks at the shifting power dynamic at Elle through the lens of Nina Garcia and Anne Slowey. One former staffer said of Garcia, who was given the boot, "They all hate her. And no one really knows why." ...

The More You Know: 90210 solves Middle East crisis
Published 8/19/2008 by John at TiFaux
... the 90210 remake Anheuser-Busch is helping to reduce the number of commercials in The Shield’s final season NY Post: Near-miss casting calamities (Rosie O’Donnell was going to be Elaine in Seinfeld!) Ellen and Portia got married last weekend The creepy Burger King king will be part of Seth MacFarlane’s new show Watch the season premiere of The Cho Show right here The full backstory on the whole Nina Garcia/Elle/Marie Claire/Stylista fued Darryl from The Office busted for drug ...

Idle Chatter: All the Coke in China
Published 8/19/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... -Elle editor in chief Roberta Myers is royally pissed at not being given a proper chance to respond in New York's story on the power struggle at her magazine. [ ...

Nina Garcia: "I never wanted to be famous"
Published 8/22/2008 by Andy Dehnart at reality blurred
... The story of how Slowley, Garcia, and others got to this point is told in New York Magazine, and it's fascinating, if extremely dense and insidery. Nina was apparently loathed at Elle, especially as she got more famous; one former staff member said, "They all hate her. And no one really knows why. They just call her, like, 'the evil one' or 'the monster.'" ...

Has Elle Gotten Too Gay Under Its Gay Leader? [Magazines]
Published 9/3/2008 by Moe at Gawker
... Here, boiled down, are the arguments pro and con, which I gleaned in the process of chronicling the Anne Slowey-Nina Garcia Project Runway Stylista saga a couple weeks ago. As a non-consumer of fashion, I don't have a very strong personal opinion on the matter, but I bet I know someone who does! ...

How Joe Zee Gets Celebrities Naked [Protocelebrities]
Published 9/8/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... in an embarrassing trailer for Stylista; looked like the loopy hippie to Garcia's polished fashion plate in a New York magazine profile and ...

Nina Garcia Thinks Sarah Palin Should (Gasp!) Drop the Glasses!
Published 9/11/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
You might have heard that former Project Runway judge and Elle fashion director Nina Garcia recently left the magazine to go work at Marie Claire . ( It wasn't exactly a voluntarily decision, of course .) Last night, Marie Claire 's editor-in-chief Joanna Coles threw Garcia a welcoming party of sorts at Milk Studios in New York's West Village, even though she ...