NEW YORK -- "Where is the publicist for Chris Brown?"

Kelly Cutrone, fashion publicist and self-described warrior, is yelling into her laptop. tiffany bracelets in her Soho apartment two floors above her bustling offices, she ignores her male assistant frantically asking when she'll be free.

She is flabbergasted.

"The theme is boxing," she says, to an online photo of the fallen singer mugging at Paris Fashion Week with designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, whose eye is a mess of fake blood and bruising. Speaking to Brown's photo, her tone incredulous: "You're a woman-beater. You go to Paris Fashion Week to change your image (and) this is how God pays you back. What an idiot."

Cutrone, 44, is infamous to the MTV generation for her untimely eruptions and cutting commentaries. Her hellish take on the fashion world is her ticket to stardom, and she takes her place on Bravo's roster tonight with reality show Kell on Earth (10 ET/PT), which explores the underbelly of her industry. And her recent memoir, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside (HarperOne), reads as a gritty guide for young women entering the fashion world.

"All the seven deadly sins come tiffany cufflinks of this job," says Cutrone, who spends her days keeping such clients as Ben & Jerry's, Agent Provocateur and Donna Karan cool. She is makeup-free and wearing her uniform of all-black, face framed by a mussed ponytail. "I've stood next to Gisele Bundchen in a flesh thong and it's not fun. Her body is like, ridiculous."

Ridiculous could also describe Cutrone's back story. She moved to New York at 23; by 24 she was leading Michael Jackson through and starting her own firm. Two years later she had a breakdown from A-list excesses, drugs and divorce.

"I was done. I was baked," she says. "I was ready to die. I had already had a whole life."

In the next two decades, Cutrone tiffany earrings marry and divorce again, experience a spiritual awakening, have a child and launch the fashion PR firm People's Revolution.

In 2008 she took her caustic manner as a modern-day Cruella to MTV's glossy reality hits The Hills and The City, mentoring stars Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port. "I've spent my whole life making people famous," she says. "Now I want to figure out my own brand."

Friends such as Nicky Hilton warned against backlash for her TV appearances.

"A lot of the haters came out and said, 'Kelly Cutrone is a shameless self-promoter,' " Cutrone says. "I told everyone in my office, 'We're either going to be out of business or we're going to blow up.' "

They blew up. Girls in malls began to recognize her. Hollywood came calling. But some brash choices have come back to haunt her. Last year Cutrone was fired, publicly, for placing former call girl Ashley Dupre in the front row at designer Yigal Azrouel's New York show. "We're all hookers in one way or another," she fired back in the press at the time.

Today her 26-person staff puts in 11-hour days, creating buzzwords out of brands across blogs, retail stores and, of course, TV. Here, it's a wolf pack. The senior staff eats before the junior staff. Assistants don't leave before the boss. Out of dozens of interns each season, one may get hired.

Her career advice? "Be prepared for very low pay and a lot of work, and be willing to do whatever it takes -- that is legal. Follow tiffany key intuition. Tell the truth." And, she says, "If you do not love work, do not come to New York."

MOVING ON: After three successful years helping design Versace's men's wear with Donatella Versace, Alexander Plokhov is amicably parting ways with the fashion firm. The Russian-born Plokhov, who worked at the now-defunct Cloak for six years prior to joining Versace, is off to pursue other interests. Versace is actively looking to fill the position that will report to Donatella Versace. In six seasons, Plokhov helped the company set a new template for the Versace man, removing him from his glitzy rocker past to pursue a cleaner and more modern direction.

SHUTTERBUGS: Mary J. Blige and Catherine Malandrino were two birds of a feather Wednesday night at a private dinner at Avenue. The pair drank, laughed and whooped it up in a banquette with friends and Blige's tiffany silver bangles, Kendu Isaacs. Earlier in the evening, at Bloomingdale's, the duo had to resort to signing blank T-shirts after selling out of 700 T-shirts they designed to benefit Blige's charity, FFAWN.

After blowing out the candle on a celebratory cake at Avenue, Blige said, I don't really get into the fashion world that in depth because I know it's such a Shallow Hal world we live in. But Catherine knows what Mary J. Blige is all about, and she supports me as a friend, as a musician and as a person, and I thank her for that.

Malandrino later basked in more unexpected warm wishes from Bar Refaeli, who turned up with her beau, Leonardo tiffany silver bracelets, for the Shutter Island premiere party. Another blonde-haired paparazzi target, Michelle Williams, was also in the house.

READY, SET, ISAAC: Guests at Isaac Mizrahi's runway show could revel in the scenery a photograph of Manhattan's skyline served as the backdrop, a canopy of hand-painted trees hung from the rafters, the runway resembled a city sidewalk and artificial snow fell before the finale. Consider this a primer of sorts for the designer, who created the set and costumes for A Little Night Music at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, tiffany silver earrings will run from June 6 to 19. It will also mark his directorial debut.

WHISTLER'S ANNA: Anna Sui whipped up a T-shirt with illustrations by Sara Schwartz to celebrate James McNeill Whistler's iconic Peacock Room in Washington's Freer Gallery of Art. The T-shirt will be featured in Sui's fall line and was doled out to 250 guests at her show Wednesday night. Proceeds from the shirt will support the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries to benefit the appreciation and study of Asian art and culture. The public will be able to purchase the shirt through the Freer and Sackler galleries' shops and Web sites, Sui's showrooms and Web site and additional retail stores in September.

COVER TUNES: Karaoke just got cool. Paris promoter Rasmus Michau is preparing to launch what he hopes will be the most beautiful karaoke bar in the world in a former theater in the French capital. Le Renard, a 130-seat restaurant designed by architect Franklin Azzi, will open its doors in March following a one-year renovation costing 1 million euros, or $1.4 million at current exchange. The retro-style venue is a joint venture between Michau, co-founder of creative agency Hmm and Addy Bakhtiar, owner of Le Milliardaire and Rgine's. The concept was inspired by the Sunday-night karaoke sessions at Cipriani Downtown in New York, Michau revealed. We want to turn it into a high-class karaoke joint where people dress up to come and sing, he said.

AT ATTENTION: A former dancer and singer in her native South Korea, Sang A Im-Propp is used to having the spotlight. But on Monday evening, the New York-based luxury accessories designer shared the platform with her artist friends. Im-Propp hosted an event alongside Ann Caruso, Olivia Chantecaille, Karen Duffy, Lauren Goodman, Genevieve Jones, Mary Alice Stephenson and Ferebee Taube at the Mixed Greens Gallery to reveal a collection of one-of-a-kind clutches on which she collaborated with several artists. Rudy Shepherd, Sirichai and Eung Ho Park are just a few artists who Im-Propp has tapped to decorate her signature Flash clutch, which is part of her namesake line, Sang A. Many of the artists that I worked with for this project are friends of mine from either New York or Paris, said Im-Propp. I envisioned them with unique, fun and innovative designs. The one-of-a-kind clutches were sold in a silent auction during the event with all proceeds benefiting Free Arts NYC.

ALL THE RAST: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel held hands at the William Rast after party at Hudson Terrace, where they kicked back with Ryan Phillippe, Julia Stiles and Kellan Lutz of Twilight. At the show, the actress wore the same white leather jacket as Timberlake's mother, Lynn Harless, who said her son had always been mindful of fashion. He has to approve what I'm wearing before I leave the house, she laughed. And now that he's launched a full-scale clothing business and hot-spot eatery? Well I hope he goes on tour soon, she said. He's a musician, and when he's on stage, that's his true home.

Estelle was inspired by Timberlake's crossover ability. I think about doing [fashion] a lot, but I really want to do it properly. I think about doing an internship. My line would probably be completely opposite to what I wear you know how you want to live out something vicariously. Estelle just wrapped up her album All of Me, and the first single, Freak, comes out soon.

A HIGHER AUTHORITY: Todd Oldham is taking his breach of contract case against Old Navy up the judicial ladder, as promised. A judge in U.S. District Court dismissed the designer's lawsuit against his former employer last month. On Wednesday, Oldham's L-7 Designs Inc. appealed the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan. Oldham served as creative director at the largest unit of Gap Inc. from September 2007 until early last year when, court documents showed, the parties couldn't come to terms over an eponymous Todd Oldham line. In his January decision, Judge Denny Chin found that the retailer could not be held liable for breach of contract because it had made good faith efforts to strike a deal. Todd Oldham Studio vice president Tony Longoria said at the time of Chin's ruling that the designer planned to appeal.

HAMMER TIME: The final spring 1987 collection designed by Christian Lacroix for Jean Patou's now-defunct couture business, which was presented a week before Lacroix left the company to start up his own brand with LVMH Mot Hennessy Louis Vuitton and was never commercialized, is to be auctioned off on March 27 and 28 at Paris' Drouot Richlieu auction house. The sale, organized by Chayette & Cheval, will include about 60 dresses as well as accessories and scent bottles. The seller is Patou's great nephew, Jean de Mouy.

MILLY'S ON-AIR TALENT: Backstage Wednesday at Michelle Smith's Milly show at the Promenade tent in Bryant Park, the designer's daughter, Sophia, age three, sat on the floor with her babysitter wearing a black skirt, white blouse and taupe shearling vest, looking as unperturbed as the fashion veteran she is, amid the whirl of last-minute preparation. Sophia, who has been attending her mom's shows for the last four seasons, was practicing eating like a model, picking at carrot and celery sticks in a cup. Meanwhile, in the main part of the tent, Julia Stiles, Amanda Hearst and Elisabeth Hasselbeck made their way to their front-row seats. Hasselbeck, of The View, wasn't the only television news personality at Milly Kimberly Guilfoyle, who hosts Fox News Channel's The Lineup, a crime-based show that covers political and entertainment news, was in the front row tiffany silver keyrings with Hitha Prabhakar, a fashion and retail expert and contributor to CNN and CNBC. Coincidentally, Hasselbeck two years ago was rumored to be leaving the ABC program for an anchor seat at Fox News Channel, but she stayed put.

NOT AMUSING: Designer Richie Rich and former playmate Pamela Anderson finally brought their eco-conscious clothing collection, A*Muse, to New York after unveiling it in New Zealand last year with a raucous party and runway show on Wednesday night at Amnesia. A strange array of celebrities (read: socialite Tinsley Mortimer, Amanda Lepore, ANTM's CariDee English, Constantine Maroulis of American Idol, Nicole Murphy and Buffalo Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens) came out to support the duo, some even taking to the runway. But other than the aerial acrobats, an odd Josephine Baker-like dancer and the fact that Anderson arrived more than an hour late, there was little to talk about. The collection was full of uninventive silhouettes T-shirts, bikini briefs, jumpsuits all spattered with inane prints and embellishments that may satisfy the club-kid scene, but will largely leave the fashion community confused.

NEW SHAPES: Blogger Bryanboy has no plans to leave his native Philippines, he said after the Alexandre Herchcovitch show Wednesday night. Blogging has been his full-time job for three years, and his blog is advertising supported, he said.

WATCH OUT: Actor Andy Garcia is the latest celebrity to work for Swiss watchmaker Baume & Mercier for free. Like other celebrities who have taken part in the Baume & Mercier & Me campaign, now in its fifth year, Garcia will donate all his royalties to charity, as will photographer Greg Gorman, who shot the campaign. Previous participants include Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, Kim Basinger, Teri Hatcher and Ashton Kutcher.

MCCORD'S ACCORD: AnnaLynne McCord, of 90210, just wrapped up filming Gun, a thriller with Val Kilmer and tiffany silver notes Jackson (better known as 50 Cent) in Grand Rapids, Mich. Fifty I mean Curtis, I keep forgetting that he likes to be called Curtis wrote it, too, she said before Badgley Mischka's show. He plays a drug lord and I am his girlfriend and the mediator who smooths out the edges to make sure the deals get done. Of course, all the deals don't go smoothly.

Another pursuit is The Blind Project, the nonprofit she started to help human trafficking victims. Now McCord is recruiting artists to help design clothes that the beneficiaries will help sew. A percentage of the proceeds will benefit the charity.

Meanwhile, considering her enviable wardrobe on three seasons of Mad Men and multitude of red-carpet appearances, it's hard to believe that actress Christina Hendricks made her front-row debut at the show. This is actually my first show ever, said Hendricks. Well, her first one on the catwalk's sidelines. A former model, Hendricks once walked a season of shows in London. But she wasn't feeling any pangs of nostalgia for her runway days.

This is the familiar part to me, said Hendricks, who was backstage avoiding the crowds before taking her seat. [Now] I'm going to go out there and actually get to sit and enjoy it instead of being stressed about being in it.

Four young men who pleaded guilty to robbing Santa Fe homes and businesses as part of a cocaine-fueled burglary tiffany were sentenced Monday to five years of probation.

State District Judge Michael Vigil told the four -- Alberto Treto-Rodriguez, 20, Santos Treto, 18, Trevor Alarid-Heidal, 21, and Travis Marien, 20 -- he wanted them to get jobs and begin paying restitution estimated to be at least $40,000 to their numerous victims.

He warned the young men that he would send them to prison if they didn't successfully complete cheap key rings.

Police have said the ring fielded a day crew of mainly juveniles who concentrated on breaking into homes, while a night crew concentrated on businesses. The ring operated from July 2007 until January of this year. Three of the men involved admitted that cocaine was the main motivation behind the burglaries.

Meanwhile, a 19-year-old woman who police have said may have acted as a fence for the stolen property, or may have sold the burglars cocaine, was indicted last week. Jaqueline Vega -- who allegedly told the burglars how to break into a store where she worked at Santa Fe Place mall -- has been charged with racketeering, conspiracy, criminal solicitation and four counts of receiving stolen property.

Police have said a relative of Vega's may have worked with her. Prosecutor Lara cheap necklaces said Monday that the case remains under investigation. She said Vega had items at her home from three or four of what was estimated at more than 30 burglaries.

Vega allegedly gave the burglars information about the Foot Action shoe store at the mall and how to break into the store and its safe, police have said. She received $1,000 from that burglary plus $2,500 more that she was owed for cocaine, police have said.

Vega is scheduled to be arraigned in January.

Treto-Rodriguez pleaded guilty to conspiracy, two counts of burglary and two counts of larceny. He faced up to 15 years in prison.

Treto pleaded guilty to four counts of burglary and one count of conspiracy and faced up to nine years in prison. Alarid-Heidal pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary, three counts of larceny and one count of conspiracy. He faced up to 15 years in prison.

The leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang accused of running a large-scale methamphetamine tiffany involving two Hockley County sheriff's deputies pleaded guilty to his role on Thursday.

Levelland resident Bobby Duwayne Froman, 54, agreed to 10 years in federal prison after admitting to running methamphetamine from California to the South Plains and distributing it throughout West Texas.

U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings ordered a pre-sentence investigation, and cheap key rings will be sentenced at a later date.

If Cummings decides not to accept the agreement, Froman can withdraw his plea.

According to court documents, Froman admitted to heading the drug operation from January 2003 until July 2009, when he and 27 others, including Hockley County deputies Gordon Clark Bohannon and Jose Jesus Quintanilla, were arrested on multiple drug, gun and conspiracy charges.

Froman often recruited members of the outlaw motorcycle gang he founded, the Aces and Eights -- a support group for the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang -- to help traffic multipound quantities of narcotics, according to court documents.

In a signed admission, Froman confessed to multiple instances of drug trafficking over cheap necklaces years, but pleaded guilty to only one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.

As a result of the plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office will drop the remaining charges against Froman, as well as against his wife -- with the understanding that the charges against Sharon T. Froman will be resolved in state court.