With "Sex and the City" off the air (sob!), two new estrogen-soaked TV shows - NBC's "Lipstick Jungle" and ABC's "Cashmere Mafia" - are attempting to fill its niche. Both are about sexy, high-powered women in New York. Both feature fabulous wardrobes. And, most excitingly, both star Asian Americans. Victory Ford (Lindsay Price) on "Lipstick" is a fashion designer, and Mia Mason (Lucy Liu) on "Cashmere" is a publishing executive.
KoreAm compares the two leading ladies, elementary-school style.

Mia/Victory Venn Diagram

Victory Ford

Unstable career. Victory's latest fashion collection gets panned. "Out with the old, in with the 'Ew,'" one critic scoffs.

Stable love life (for now). She's dating a multi-billionaire named Joe Bennett, played by Andrew McCarthy. Go Victory.

Questionable sense of style. Her clothes are cute, but her apartment looks like an Easter basket explosion.

Similarities

Unexplained last names. Perhaps writers thought Mia Mason, who is Chinese American, seemed more script-friendly than Mia Ping Chao Xi. We still haven't been told Victory Ford's ethnicity.  

Amazing time-management skills. Both magically find time during the workweek for lunchtime gab sessions with their BFFs. 

 Luscious locks. Both have perfectly wavy,
shampoo-commercial-worthy hair. 

Moments of sheer stupidity. Victory tells her
assistant who's quitting to work for the
competition to go ahead and take whatever she wants, forgetting to mention that her designs are off-limits. Mia decides her hot Chinese American boyfriend can be replaced with a - are you
kidding me? - dog.
Mia Mason

Kickin' career. Mia wins a "Survivor"-style race for a promotion against her then-fiance.     

Tumultuous love life. Mia gets engaged and dumped in the first episode, and snags a new interest by the fourth. A parental set-up lands her in the arms of hottie neurosurgeon Jack Yang, played by Jason Chun. The couple breaks up, but not before sharing one of the first Asian American smooches on primetime TV!      

Attention-grabbing wardrobe. "Sex and the City" costume designer Patricia Field is clearly channeling Carrie Bradshaw in Mia, who sported an OMG-inducing gold plaid golf ensemble in the pilot. Overall, she's chic and fun to look at.