Jezebel: Mandie Erickson

Oh, Mandie...

Tracie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:45:00 EST

Something very interesting in the Page Six Magazine profile of Mandie Erickson was pointed out to us. In discussing her glamorous childhood — for most of which it seems her mother was unable to get a sitter — Mandie said, "My mom took me everywhere. I'd fall asleep backstage at Galliano fashion shows back in the day. She'd take me with her to Studio 54—I was sleeping in Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager's office. I was 2." Observant commenter Pinkplatinum notes that Galliano hasn't been around that long. In fact, he's only 14 years older than Mandie! After graduating from design school in 1984, he was a modest success in his native UK, and didn't really have an international reputation until the early '90s in Paris, when Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell walked in a show for him as a friendly favor, instead of for cash. That would mean Mandie would have been falling asleep backstage at his shows in her early teens, which, if true, is actually just plain rude.

Mandie Erickson In 'Page Six Magazine': The Female Dog Gets Her Day

Tracie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EST

Imagine our absolute delight when we saw that this week's Page Six Magazine had a big, juicy profile on our favorite evil "mentor" Mandie Erickson from The Fashionista Diaries. Oh, and it's a good one, too! The headline asks, "Is This the Most Hated Woman in New York?" Well, judging by the piece, writer Maureen Callahan sure as shit doesn't like her. She calls out Mandie for lying about her age (she says she's 29, but really she's 32), how bullshit it is that she criticizes her employees' personal style until they cry ("[Mandie] wears no makeup and an array of unremarkable black dresses"), and brings up Mandie's mysteriously-shriveled left hand "which seems to have suffered some kind of permanent injury, but when asked about it she replies, 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"

But her gimpy hand isn't her only handicap. Mandie — once a victim of grade school bullying, who even had a pair of her Guess? jeans flushed down the toilet — "draws no through line between being bullied as a child and the almost reflexive tendency she has to belittle others—what she calls 'constructive criticism.'" Which, actually, we love because it makes it so much more fun and guiltless to hate her. Ooh, and Jezebel got a shout out in the piece, too!

Her tendency to grimace, sneer and eye-roll led to many unappealing facial expressions freee-ramed on Web sites like Jezebel, whose editors dubbed her "C—t Face."

Seriously, it was our pleasure to take those screen grabs. And Christ, if Mandie Erickson isn't a cartoonishly evil. So you know what we had to do. Below are quotes straight from the horse's mouth.

But our favorite quote of the whole damn thing came from Mandie's Kabbalah teacher Ruth Rosenberg, who didn't watch the show. "I don't think Mandie is that [way]. And if she is, she shouldn't be."

Mandie Erickson Designs Clothes But Doesn't Want Us To Know About It

Tracie — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:00:00 EST

Remember Mandie Erickson, the PR mentor/reality show villain/cunt face from The Fashionista Diaries? Well, apparently her talents are not limited to being horrible at interpersonal communication while working in public relations and making others feel bad about themselves as a way to mask her own insecurity. She also designs clothes! We're probably like the only people in the world obsessed with her, so we were so pissed at ourselves for not knowing about this earlier. Howevs, keeping her clothing line a secret was all part of her master plan. In an interview with Grandlife, she said:

Only a few people know about it. I'm really embarrassed when I'm with someone wearing a dress, and everyone knows where it's from. All of a sudden with fashion, you can go to H&M, and fashion savvy people hone in on the same pieces.

Wow, people must be beating down her door to hire her as a publicist with that unique "don't get the word out there" strategy she has. After the jump, photos of her line.

Honestly, while these pieces aren't genius or particularly inspiring, they aren't bad at all. The line, called Sweet Robin, ranges from $200 - $400 an item and is available at Scoop, Barney's and shopbop, where they also sell, gasp!, Juicy Couture. We guess she's friends with Chloë Sevigny, because there are some pieces named after her, and according to Mandie's designer bio on shopbob, she designed the clothes with her friends in mind:

As owner of Seventh House PR, Mandie Erickson requires a wardrobe that's both versatile and chic. She began Sweet Robin with the desire to dress herself and her friends in clothing that stands up to the latest high-end trends but doesn't break the bank.

The best though is this comment she made in her Grandlife interview, that really encapsulates everything we love to hate about her, backhanded compliment and all:

Everyone thinks my friends are perfect. But every girl has something she doesn't like about her body.

Hmm...we wonder if she's going to sell right-hand gloves only next.

A LITTLE BIRD CALLED "ROBIN" [Grandlife]

'The Fashionista Diaries': Mandie Erickson, We Miss You Already

Tracie — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:00:00 EDT

Last night was the finale of The Fashionista Diaries. Of the six kids, only two — Rachel and Janjay — were offered permanent positions at their jobs. But we were happiest for Laurie, the Seventh House assistant who was told to stop eating by Social Life magazine editor Devora Rose, and to stop wearing Gucci mules by Mandie "Cunt Face" Erickson. Why? Because she learned to just laugh off Mandie's cuntiness. It appeared that CF was prepared to offer both Bridget and Laurie jobs at Seventh House, but both girls didn't want to work with her. LOL! Anyway, to be completely honest, we are going to miss watching CF each week. Now we're going to have to stalk her in real life. JK!

'The Fashionista Diaries': Bridget Wets Her Pants

Tracie — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:30:00 EDT

Even though Mandie Erickson hasn't had too much camera time over the past two episodes of The Fashionista Diaries (CF, come back to us!), she's still managed to keep up a spirit of cuntiness through the inane tasks she assigns to Seventh House assistants Bridget and Laurie. It's a perfectly acceptable chore to have to stuff and seal envelopes, but they wouldn't let the girls use wet sponges or paper towels, and instead made them lick each one. After a while, the girls got goofy on the glue and Laurie made some funny faces that made Bridget literally pee her pants (and the floor). And right by the samples, no less! Granted, if Laurie made that terrifying face at us, we'd probs excrete a lot more than just pee.

'The Fashionista Diaries': Whites Learn That Blacks Get Darker When Exposed To Sunlight

Tracie — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:30:00 EDT

On last night's episode of The Fashionista Diaries, the kids spent the weekend in the Hamptons, and we got to see more of Connecticut-native Tina's cultural experience with African Americans. She didn't know that black people could get darker in the sun, and apparently didn't know that they'd be interested in non-black people, sexually. We can't wait for next week, when we get to see Mandie in action again. It was a little dull without her around. Oh, and if you'd like to see a picture of her clutching a baby, click here (scroll down).

'The Fashionista Diaries': Mandie Erickson Is Still Acting All Cunty

Tracie — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Sometimes we feel bad that we continually call Seventh House PR "mentor" Mandie Erickson a "Cunt Face" — until we watch the show another week and she continues to behave like one. Seriously, the bitch does not let up! Unfortch, there was no blow up from Laurie over the Gucci shoe incident from last week. We don't know what happened with that. But CF moved on from criticizing the girls' shoes to the criticizing the girls' dresses. Apparently, she doesn't like prints! We've never seen her in anything but black dresses. Unflattering black dresses. Tim Gunn would not approve of her hemlines.

Mandie "Cunt Face" Erickson: To Know Her Is To Loathe Her

Tracie — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:00:00 EDT

Ever since we began our coverage of The Fashionista Diaries and our obsession with Seventh House's Mandie "Cunt Face" Erickson, we've gotten quite a few emails and tips from readers who know her personally and really fucking hate her guts. Like a lot. One reader, who referred to CF as "evil and disgusting," told us that the term "Mandie Erickson" is part of the vernacular of PR types in NYC, as in: "Oh my God, she was like, Mandie Erickson bad." Someone else mentioned that CF "stares through" people if she doesn't need them for something. Another reader gave us some of the juiciest goss on her yet!

We have no idea how true the following info is, but the person who tipped us off on this insisted upon its accuracy. Apparently there's may be something wrong with one of CF's hands? Our tipster said, "She's really, really great at hiding it. So good, in fact, that a lot of people have never even noticed it. She always has the hand covered with her coat or has it in her lap, or is always holding something." Huh, like Bob Dole.

But here's what we love the most: You know how CF was all uppity about people being from outer boroughs? Bitch ain't even from Manhattan originally! She's from Michigan!

The Fashionista Diaries' Mandie 'Cunt Face' Erickson: Before She Was Famous

Tracie — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:00:00 EDT

A very awesome reader pointed us in the direction of this photo of The Fashionista Diaries' Mandie "Cunt Face" Erickson from back in the day (way back—before Natasha's junkie, scabby face looked like a connect-the-dots puzzle), and suggests that perhaps CF's raspy voice was brought on by smoking crack with Natasha Lyonne. Well, we don't know about that, but we do know about CF's Amazon Wish List. Maybe we can all chip in for Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, And Lose At Both.

'The Fashionista Diaries': More To Hate!

Tracie — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EDT

You guys wanted it, so here it is—a Stephanie Trong clip-reel from Wednesday night's episode of The Fashionista Diaries. Whereas Seven House PR mentor Mandie "Cunt Face" Erickson deals with the assistants by alternating between verbal mockery and ostracism, Stephanie Trong, the former executive editor of Jane, utilizes the far more subtle tactics of bitchy verbal intonation, body language, and facial expressions. Enjoy/cringe!

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