Local girl is a “Stylista”
By: Jeff Dufour
Editor at Large/Columnist, "Yeas & Nays"
08/21/08 11:53 PM EDT
CW in DC
Looks like Washingtonians are sprouting up all over reality television nowadays…
Yeas & Nays told you that Lifetime was bringing a reality show – now titled, “Blonde Charity Mafia” -- to Washington, a “The Hills” type show featuring local hotties Katherine Kennedy, Sophie Pyle and Krista Johnson.
And, now, another Washingtonian is headed to reality TV: Johanna Cox.
The CW will debut “Stylista” this October, a reality series produced by Tyra Banks that will fill in the Wednesday 9pm slot after the network's popular “America’s Next Top Model” show. “Stylista” follows 11 stylist wannabees as they compete for a job at Elle magazine. If “Blonde Charity Mafia” is like MTV’s “The Hills,” “Stylista” is like “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Both Cox and CW are keeping their lips sealed for now, but here’s what we can tell you about Cox. Local bloggers will recognize Cox from her fashion blog, “A Serious Job Is No Excuse” (http://aseriousjobisnoexcuse.blogspot.com/ ), where she offered her “brand of style counsel to the professional DC women who believe a serious job is a valid excuse for an ill-fitted, office-inappropriate, comfort-first work wardrobe.” Cox walked away from the blog in February of this year, with this cryptic farewell note: “[T]here are some big changes a comin' in your Editrix's life, and these are changes that will require a good deal more of her time than her current blogging schedule allows.”
Away from the blog, the 28-year-old Cox has been a China analyst/linguist at Defense Group, Inc. since 2005. A graduate of Brown University, she obtained her Master’s from Georgetown.
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