Stylista Debuts Tonight

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In case you missed putting it on your fashion reality series calendar, Stylista debuts tonight on the CW at 9pm. This is the one where contestants compete in a Project Runway-type fashion with challenges to be an editor at Elle mag. Fashion New Director Anne Slowey is the number one person for them to please (pictured right), and word is from the LAT and other pubs that she's putting on a show: "At times Slowey comes off like a Mean Girl writ large, but some of this at least appears to be put on—a put-on...At other times, with Creative Director Joe Zee by her side, judging the contestants' self-makeovers or their mock magazine pages, she can seem like a reasonable person." [LAT]