Running in Heels - E3&4

Darlings, we got sick a couple weeks back and totally dropped the ball on our Running in Heels blogging. Since there's a new episode on tonight at 8 on the Style Network, let's get up to speed on what happened during the previous two episodes.

There's a photo shoot scheduled -- but the model is late. Everyone is very tense. But wait!

The model shows up! Yay! Pretty pictures are taken.

Despite our flippancy, this is what we like about the show. We're big enough fashion nerds that we'll happily watch a half-hour show about the behind-the-scenes goings-on of a fashion mag.

But they just have to have the intern drama, which gets increasingly obviously manufactured each week. Samantha and her jacked-up hair keep getting primo assignments,

While poor Ashley gets assigned to be the personal wedding-planning slave for Bitch Editrix Paula.

They tried to make Ashley the bitch of the threesome, but they're clearly fucking with her by giving her the worst assignments in order to ramp up the interpersonal drama and potential for backstabbery. We don't blame her for being pissed.

We do, on the other hand, blame her for everything she wears on this show.

So Ashley has to leave the Cynthia Rowley show to run around town picking up and dropping off Editrix's fucking WEDDING RING and, get this, BITCH GIVES HER SHIT FOR MAKING HER STAND AROUND AND WAIT IN THE BRIDAL STORE. We could never work for these people. Our imaginary internships would prematurely end with blood on the floor and flashing red sirens.

Meanwhile, Talita gets to tag along with Joyce here as she interviews Roberto Cavalli for the Designer Dossier page. Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the American Patsy Stone.

She was appropriately grateful for the assignment but she had to go there and start whining that she didn't get to shake his hand. Honey, you're lucky he didn't make you pick up his drycleaning.

And then, just as we're at the height of our, "We could never work with these people" sentiments, a vision comes into view:

In our dreams, we're sitting in our lowly cubicle when Nina Garcia comes up to us, drops a couple tickets on our desk and says "We've been invited to Brazil Fashion Week. We leave tomorrow night."

Seriously, there are a lot of bitches on this show, but with job perks like that, can you blame them for their little power struggles?

So Bitch Editrix gets to leave her brand new husband and head on down to Sao Paulo to scope out the designer showrooms ahead of time and see if she can snag anything that will make Nina love her or something. There's some implied drama that she needs this opportunity to impress Nina but after last week's bridezilla meltdown, we're not feeling the impulse to root for her.

Nina shows up eventually and takes her rightful place in the front row.

Unfortunately, the front row was a soccer stadium away. Damn, is that a wide runway or what? Can't imagine you can see the clothes all that well even if you are in the front row.

Bitch Editrix takes her around to see the fashion sights and ...we don't know, manages to impress her or something. All we know is, this show can only benefit from more Nina. We love to see her really talking about fashion and responding to it.

Meanwhile, back at home base, the slave girls have been rounded up to run the beauty products sample sale in the conference room. At first, we rolled our eyes at all the "Oh, you're going to have NIGHTMARES afterward!" talk, but this time, they weren't just trying to ramp up the drama.

They really did look like they were working their asses off.

Samantha and her ridiculous hair left the event early so she could go meet up with her boyfriend, which, hello? This is the real world calling: YOU'RE FIRED.

Of course, this isn't the real world. It's television.

In non-intern world, Zanna is styling a last-minute shoot of Mandy Moore for the cover. And Lorenzo is seething with jealousy.

He wants nothing more than a job where he gets to play with pretty clothes and help women play dressup for the camera.

And that's definitely where the show is the most fun. For all of the mundane aspects and all of the manufactured drama, there really is something glamorous and fun about the day-to-day activities of a fashion mag.

Although we wouldn't have chosen that look for the cover.


[Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]


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Running in Heels E2

Darlings, we've got some catching up to do on this show. We sat out the first episode to see where they were heading with it and it makes for an entertaining half-hour, even if they're spending too much time on what has quickly become a pop-culture cliche: the whiny self-involved girl interning at a fashion magazine.


"Fashion Week was the most amazing experience of my entire life but it was also, like, the hardest work I've ever done. I just hope it gets a little easier."


Still, the show gave us a slight glimpse behind the scenes at Paris fashion week, so it can't be all bad. Eat your heart out, Stylista.


The insane level of packing and planning that goes on behind the scenes is mind-boggling.


And we want nothing so much as a life where what we wear is so important and requires such constant attention, that we have to hire someone to plan and organize our wardrobe for us. That's not asking much, is it?


Still, the show couldn't be all glam, and they had to inject a little reality TV style competition, even though there's no prize involved.


Fine. Whatever. We're not reality TV virgins after all, and we get that putting the participants in situations that guarantee drama and encourage back-stabbing is simply how you move things along in this world.


But we wanted to spend more time with the fabulous Abby as she packed for Paris and sent exhausted, late night updates from her hotel room.


And we wanted to spend more time with Nina, because, y'know...Nina.


We even want to spend more time with Joanna, who's sharp and funny and self-deprecating and a master at playing to the cameras.


In fact, anything having to do with the day to day running of the magazine and the cast of characters who pull it off, is a huge plus for the show. More, please.

Less of this:

"This internship is turning out to be harder than I thought it would be."

Oh my god. Shut up.


Fine, they gave the girls something to do, but it's right out of the Stylista playbook and it couldn't have been any less interesting.


Plus, we just wanted to slap these girls for having such a ridiculously hard time doing the most basic editorial tasks. All that whining and sitting around wondering what the other girls are doing! Jesus.


Not that they're totally at fault. Their instructions were no more than "Go run off and do a page." and the consultations amounted to "Are you doing that page? Okay, keep working on that page."

Now, we're not fashion editors or anything, but it seems to us that in the real world, the instructions would tend to be slightly more specific, call us crazy.

So what happens when you give a really vague assignment to 3 lazy, clueless girls?


You get a pissy editor, which, let's face it, is what it's all about. A chance to give Joanna a time to try on her Miranda Priestley impersonation.


And to show these girls doing that which they were born to do: walk out of an office tearful and dejected.


Seriously, what the fuck is that? Are these girls in 8th grade or something? This isn't scrapbooking, it's magazine publishing, you jackasses.


Thankfully, the show realizes that and makes the "intern drama" only part of the whole show. Any chance to watch Joanna be bitchy and commanding is okay by us.


[Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

Running in Heels

Darlings, there IS life after Project Runway! Really! And the show that proves it is Running in Heels, which premieres tonight at 8/7c on Style. Honeys, this is the show Stylista should have been.


It's a real world look at life behind the scenes at Marie Claire as seen through the eyes of three interns, Ashley, Talita, and Samantha.


We managed to get a sneak peek of the first episode and it's FABULOUS. Unless the quality plummets after episode one, we doubt we'll ever use the word "trainwreck" to describe this show. And fret not, kittens. This is not a competition. There are no crazy "challenges," save for the kind that naturally pop up from day to day in the fashion magazine biz. In the first episode, the magazine throws a party to welcome new editor Nina Garcia and who shows up for the shindig but Heidi herself, not to mention Lindsay Lohan, who managed to bring a little diva drama to the situation.

Put aside some time tonight and watch it, because you just KNOW we're going to have more to say about it.



[Photos and videos: Mystyle.com]