It Girls is a feature documentary film that aired on the Women's Entertainment channel on April 2 and 7 2002. It is directed by Robin Melanie Leacock and featured Casey Johnson,[1] Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord and Nicky Hilton as well as appearances by Diane Von Furstenberg and Marisa Berenson and other women.[2] It was filmed in Manhattan during Fashion Week. The premise of "It Girls" is that anyone can be an it girl. In the documentary von Furstenberg says "It's really about being a forever girl !"
Roger Friedman, writing for Fox News, said that this was a "numbingly mesmerizing documentary" in which "You have rarely seen such a collection of vacuous and tiresome people". He complains that "the 'It Girls' of 2002... are an inarticulate and alarming lot of long legged blondes without a thought in their heads".[3]
Mary Robbins, in the NY Times, wrote "'It Girls' which will be shown on the Women's Entertainment cable channel tonight, is about those hard-partying post-debs in New York who seem to live to be photographed out and about." and "What I don't understand is the first few minutes of 'It Girls'."[4]
A reviewer for the Baltimore Sun wrote: "As if high school social castes weren't traumatic enough. This "documentary" allegedly attempts to explore the new It Girl, but really reminds us that the hierarchy we like to think we left behind in high school is alive and kicking in the adult world." and "Even with its occasional snarky snippets, the show can be hard to endure for those of us among the proletariat. But after a while, the documentary begins to resemble a drama, and the Hilton girls and their beautiful friends become mere characters in a nouveau Restoration comedy -- School for Scandal meets Page Six."[5]