The City, Season 3, Episode 8

"Work Horses and Show Ponies"

MIAMI

Roxy (representing People's Revolution) is with Whitney in Miami for a Gen Art Event. She goes over the itinerary with Roxy and Roxy bitches that Whitney is going to start getting really anal. Um, hi? It's her SHOW!!! Of course she's going to be anal. Whitney ignores Roxy and says that the first thing they need to do is casting. Roxy is so not interested.

ELLE MAGAZINE

Erin and Olivia come into Joe's office and he wants to know what they are working on. Olivia is excited about the Zac Posen event that he's doing with Target in NYC. She wants to do something with elle.com. Joe asks if she can get an interview with Zac Posen and she says that she will use her personal relationship with him to get the interview. Joe totally calls her out for not getting the interview with Marc Jacobs, even though they're "friends." Joe basically tells her that she needs to deliver if she wants to keep her job. HA!!

MIAMI - Gen Art Casting

The event coordinators tell all the designers that they will be selecting their models and they will also need to select a model - for the Unite Party - who will be wearing one of their looks. If they pick the same model, they'll have to fight it out amongst themselves.

The casting begins and Whitney selects "Erika" as one of her show models and as her model for the party. Then she sees "Erika" trying on another designer's clothes. The other designer comes over to Whitney and Whitney just tells her that they can't share her and that she also is booking her for the party. The other designer, Romina, is not happy. Good times.

ZAC POSEN TARGET COLLECTION PARTY

Joe finds Olivia and sends the senior producer with her to get the interview. Olivia takes off and stops to talk to everyone she knows. She finally makes it upstairs but Joe isn't confident that she'll do the job. Olivia finally catches up with "her dear friend, Zac Posen" and tells him Joe Zee wants her to ask him a few questions. He obliges and she does the interview. Joe tells Olivia that this is why he hired her and that he wants her to perform like this EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I get that she's connected and a "socialite" but it's gotta suck to know that someone has hired you because you know people and to use you for your connections and not because of your abilities.

KOKO & PALENKI - MIAMI

Whitney and Roxy check out Koko & Palenki which is the store that is sponsoring the party that night. They both say how cool it would be if Whitney could get some of her designs in that store. They meet the owner and tell her to look out for Whitney's stuff at the Gen Art Show.

ELLE

Robbie (Editor in Chief of Elle), Keith Pollock (Editorial Director) and Erin are watching Olivia's interview with Zac Posen. OMG. It is a really obnoxious video. At the end, Keith says that "she's pretty." Robbie says that there are two types of people in this business: Work horses and show ponies. HAHA. Erin stops them before they lavish too much praise on Olivia and shows them the interview that Louise did of Badgley Mischka at the Marc Jacobs show and they are completely in love with her. They think Louise is fantastic. They end up deciding to keep both Olivia and Louise. Robbie says that she trusts Joe's judgment regarding Olivia, but she likes Louise, too. UGH.

MIAMI - Unite Unveiled Party

Roxy and Whitney see Romina talking to the ladies from the store that Whitney liked. Roxy pushes her to go over to them and promote her line. I guess I see Roxy's point, but I felt like the ladies were a little annoyed.

GEN ART SHOW

So the event coordinators are crazy bitches. Every time Roxy tries to talk to one of them, she just tells her that she's busy and can't be bothered. When Whitney and Roxy both go talk to the event coordinators to find out what's going on, the one keeps smiling and blowing them off. It's super chaotic backstage, but the show goes really well and the store owners love the show.

ELLE

Louise comes to the office to see Erin. Erin is praising Louise and Olivia interrupts and introduces herself to Louise. Then she takes her to the accessories closet and welcomes her to Elle. ANNOYING.

GEN ART FASHION SHOW

The store ladies are talking to Romina and Whitney and Roxy decide to break it up and bring them to look at Whitney's designs. The ladies love her stuff and say that they will be in touch. Whitney and Roxy are super stoked to be able to tell Kelly what a success the trip was.

See you next week!