Kelly Cutrone Gives Solid Life Advice
How many times during Kell On Earth do you wish you could call up Kelly Cutrone to get some advice — on you career, your love life, your general day-to-day issues?
Kelly Cutrone, owner of fashion PR powerhouse People’s Revolution and star of Bravo’s reality show Kell On Earth, can now add Best Selling Author to her list of conquests. Her book, If You Have To Cry Go Outside; And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You, is now a New York Times Bestseller, and we think for good reason.
In If You Have To Cry Go Outside, Cutrone offers her words of wisdom on everything from what it takes to make it in Manhattan to parenting to the importance of following one’s instincts, all the while inserting personal anecdotes about her incredible and, at many times tumultuous, life.
So if you wish that you were more than just a fly on the wall of Cutrone’s People’s Revolution live/work space on Grand Street — or if you’re interested in whether Kelly combs her hair, why she wears all black, and if she’s into witchcraft, pick up this book. And if you’re a fast-paced fashionista with little time to read (in which case, we suggest you promptly take a breath and run to your local bookstore regardless), we pulled together some of our favorite quotes from her book — though it wasn’t easy to narrow them down.
An explanation of the book’s purpose:
“…[T]his isn’t a book about how to be a smart businesswoman, because I’m not a smart businesswoman. Frankly, I’m not even that smart. What I am is fearless and intuitive. I’m attuned to the sound of my inner voice, and I’ve been following it blindly for most of my life, without any clear goals.”
On the name of her company:
“I named my company People’s Revolution not because I’m a Communist – a popular misconception – but because I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves. And that starts with listening to ourselves…”
On her first designer gown (a Bill Blass gown won at auction):
“Standing in the front of the three-way mirror at Bill Blass’s headquarters…I’d known I was doing the same thing I’d done since age three…I was trying on a new identity. The power of clothing as a communicative medium – a way of drawing us toward or pushing them away – wasn’t lost on me even [in my early years].”
On the importance of hard work:
“It was becoming obvious that I needed more than witty small talk and the right look to survive in this town. [Y]ou can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat. Clothes do not make the woman (even if they do make her look good).”
On her work ethic:
“These days, I continue to call members of the media myself rather than outsourcing the work to my staffers, because you can never be too good for the things that first made you successful. I will always remember that at twenty-three years old, as an untrained and unknown publicity newbie from Syracuse, I tried my best to get the whole country talking about my message with no staff, no office, no assistant, no Blackberry, and no know-how, just with conviction, truth, and balls. And it worked.”
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