Kelly Cutrone Gives Solid Life Advice

by Ruthie Friedlander | 10:34 am, March 21st, 2010

 

On love affairs and breakups:

“Ronnie [Cutrone's first husband] and I were headed for a divorce that left me clutching a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a Marlboro in the other, sobbing and jumping up and down in my underwear on the bed repeatedly singing “Nothing Compares to you” by Sinead O’Connor. But the death of my first love was just one of many deaths I’ve survived so far in my life…

“[Y]ou can’t truly be happy if you’ve never known pain. You can’t truly feel joy if you’ve never felt heartbreak…”

“[S]ometimes in life seasons don’t come in order; instead of fall; winter, spring summer, we get three winters in a row…But that doesn’t mean spring wont’ come eventually.”

On being in a superficial business:

“It was as if we’d all made a pact to have short conversations about nothing important. I’d air-kiss these “friends” upon arriving at a club after a long day of work and hear about their fantastic trip…The truth is that the more zeros you add to your paycheck, the more zeros you add to your expenses, until you’re running around like a maniac just trying to keep it all going and you have no idea why you’re doing it in the first place…No one had prepared me for the other side of this pretty picture.”

“in an industry like fashion, people always behave badly all around you, but if you resolve to become a spiritual warrior, you learn to laugh and laugh, knowing that other people don’t define you and ultimately their behavior is just helping you work out your own shit.”

On her spirituality:

“Often the Goddess starts challenging…complacency with gentle taps on your shoulder, asking quietly, “Do you want some help?”…Finally she sticks her stiletto in your heart chakra like a pre-op transvestite while putting cigarettes out on your body and demands, “Okay are you ready to change now?”"

On changing the world:

“If anyone really wanted to change the world, they’d bring in the fashion bitches, because nobody gets things done faster. If we went about saving the world like we go about producing fashion shows, well, let’s say New Orleans after Katrina would’ve been fucking sorted. (We’d all have been wearing Paul Smith wellies and barking, “What do you mean your head’s bleeding? Get up, let’s go, move!”)”

On conquering your fears:

“There is also the garden metaphor: your negative thoughts are weeds strangling the progress of your soul; you must find a way to kill them. Killing the weeds won’t keep them from growing back, but it’s like waxing: eventually if you keep waxing, your hair growth just becomes less and less.”

On her success:

“A lot of women ask me, “How do you have it all?” I tell them that it’s not actually that hard to have it all; you just can’t always have it all in the same proportion or at the same time.”

And what all of you are waiting to hear…Kelly, on how to make it in the biz:

“To my employees, I’m Mama Wolf – I lead the pack. As PR girls in the New York fashion world, we’re roaming a brutal wilderness, often fighting for our survival, and I’m here to hunt, teach, and protect, not coddle. Fashion may be beautiful to look at, but the truth is that it’s kill or be killed out there, babes. It’s important that everyone understand their place in the pack and contribute accordingly to its success.”

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