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The quest to land atop the awards season’s best-dressed list is often as heated as the race for Oscar. There is the edginess of the Grammys followed by the glamour of Cannes and then the rush of the fall festivals. Finally comes the frenzy and flashbulbs of the awards season proper in winter. There are award-winning…

As the top brass of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment kept its plan for switching the Esquire rebrand from G4 to Style very close to the vest, Monday’s announcement of the switcheroo caught most of the employees of the the fashion/pop culture cable network by surprise with no contingency plans. I hear about 100 people…

EXCLUSIVE: Style Media has signed a development deal with the guys behind the Twitter-to-Web series Sh*t Girls Say to take their wide-eyed, brunette star and have her explore the worlds of fashion, beauty and lifestyle. In case you've been living under a flat rock: Sh*t Girls Say started out as a Twitter account…

Style Media has announced its 2013-2014 development slate, which features nine projects in the network’s signature areas of beauty and fashion, home design and entertaining. The concepts range from crazy beauty procedures, cosmetic surgery gone bad, kid fashion designers, “progressive dinners,” as well as shows about…

Style has greenlighted three more original series to bring the number of new shows set to debut on the network this year to 10 — more than double the new offerings in 2012 as Style is aiming at a 22% increase of original programming. The new series include Style’s first-ever live show, weekly topical fashion series Pop…

Music superstar Rihanna will executive produce and star in Styled To Rock, a fashion design reality competition series for Style from Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment and Shed Media U.S. The series, which has been picked up for 10 hourlong episodes to premiere in 2013, will feature 12…

The Style Network has picked up Chicagolicious, a spinoff from the network’s flagship docu-series Jerseylicious, which will premiere on June 3 after Jerseylicious. Produced by Jerseylicious producer Endemol USA, the 10-episode Chicagolicious is set  in the Windy City and follows AJ Johnson, owner of AJ's of Chicago…

EXCLUSIVE: Style Network has renewed breakout reality hit Tia & Tamera for a second season. The docu-series starring twin sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry premiered Aug. 8, posting the network's most-watched series launch in history with 750,000 viewers. The following week, the series shot up to 920,000 viewers to log…

In a restructuring move in the cable division of the post-merger NBCUniversal which is run by Lauren Zalaznick, her top lieutenant, Bravo’s president and general manager Frances Berwick, is also getting oversight of Style, which came from the Comcast side of the company. Berwick, a 15-year Bravo veteran, is being…