Chapter 12: Who Do You Think You Are?

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House of Harlan PR Office: Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Kyle aka Runwayreject thinks that’s fashion drama?

Wait until he sees what happens when we start cutting people from the show list.

It’s going to be torture, and I refuse to be in pain alone. I’m going to email every department head and force them to take their guest lists to the proverbial guillotine.

I also need them to do it themselves, because these deletions need to be conscious decisions. There will be ramifications, and they’ll be the ones who have to deal with them.

I asked Monica to cut our PR list and reminded her that in a few months, when we’re asking why the collection hasn’t been shot by certain magazines, it’s going to be because those editors were axed from the show.

It’s pretty simple. You reap what you sow.

Small venue = small guest list = very pissed-off editors.

But it’s the singled-out freelance journalists who will really take this the worst.

We are making enemies, and it’s all Lorenzo’s fault.