Saturday, January 15, 2011

Erin Kaplan Is Leaving Elle [Updated]

After five and a half years as Elle's publicist, including a starring role on MTV's The City, Erin is leaving the magazine for Teen Vogue, she announced in an e-mail to her contacts today. She starts Tuesday and has not said what her title over there will be. Kaplan's television experience — you know, the real behind-the-scenes work in addition to making Olivia Palermo look dopey on camera — must make her an attractive candidate to the many fashion magazines desperate for a hit TV show. And that is something Teen Vogue is working on. Update: Erin tells us her new title at Teen Vogue is senior director of PR. 

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God bless dear Whitney, but here was the real reason to watch The City, if indeed any at all. The youngest director of public relations at Elle, she gave Olivia hell--and I loved her for every  minute of it. Whether she could have ever achieved what she wanted (Olivia's failure at the magazine)--or whether she was even really aiming for that, given that the "job" was pure fantasy--her contempt was real. And so was mine.

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