Well this is interesting.
So she has items coming out in the spring for GILI, that were designed by a PR person? I don't watch the show and I know very little about it. So the person that "won" the design gets to design the GILI items for her? And so these items will appear for sale at QVC this spring?
Well then, it would be really odd, if she didn't appear on air either as a host or a vendor, to present these items, wouldn't it? Perhaps they are going to have her come on air to present the items in a vendor capacity, just to present the spring line and then that will be "it" for the GILI line.
With her appearing on this PR show and having these spring GILI items coming out, this tells me certainly, that Lisa's departure was not at all planned, for a very long period of time anyway. It seems very impromptu at the very least and almost like she decided to leave, within that week or two during September, with the departure of Claire Watts and the sudden death of Joan Rivers. All that happened in September and then not long after all that she announced she was leaving. A perfect storm.