- Madonna is on the cover of the latest issue of W magazine http://www.wmagazine.com/
- The Fem Bot, Vicky B, can talk ! She says that seeing her designs on a rack next to YSL is “more exciting than having a huge album,” we totally understand. She can’t sing so anything is better than that. She also introduces the “Sucky, Sucky” dress and claims to do the dishes in a gold minidress. See? Posh is fun! Reports http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/02/video_our_exclusive_interview.html
- News flash: LOVE magazine now has a full blown site…there are snippets on model Raquel Zimmerman, Kate Moss, Lara Stone http://www.thelovemagazine.co.uk/
- Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams are fighting over a perfume! “Greed, a faux ad campaign for an imagined perfume directed by Roman Polanski is the spurious campaign attempts to isolate and imitate the hype created by the promotion of a new luxury product in the mass market”. See it here http://dazeddigital.com/ArtsAndCulture/article/1769/1/Francesco_Vezzolis_Greed_Online_Premiere
- NAKED models? Designer tantrums? Shoes as far as the eye can see? What really goes on backstage at Fashion Week is a source of much debate and wonder. VOGUE.COM http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/090219-backstage-pics.aspx has been behind the scenes all week in New York snapping masters, muses and models-a-plenty” . Also check out Fashion Director Kate Phelan interviewed from the FrontRow http://www.vogue.co.uk/video/voguetv/player.aspx/expert-interviews/
- Check out the video of photographer Terry Richardson shooting model Natasa Vojnovic for the new Purple Fashion magazine. She can dance! Boogie Nights. http://www.purple-diary.com/post/79486285/natasa-v-shot-by-terry-richardson-for-purple
- Although she rarely gives interviews — except for, you know, the lengthy one in The September Issue and that profile she’s supposedly doing for 60 Minutes, so maybe she’s changed her mind — Anna Wintour sat down with Rachel Dodes of The Wall Street Journal right before New York Fashion Week for a quick fashion state-of-the-union-interview. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123457778831886993.html
- “This week’s guest blogger is none other than the éminence grise of Italian design, Giorgio Armani. As the president, chief executive and sole shareholder of the multi-billion-dollar company he founded in 1975, Armani is the wealthiest fashion designer on the planet. He has defined the working wardrobe of the late-20th century and will go down in history as the man who taught Hollywood how to dress.http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/for-the-moment-giorgio-armani-down-to-details/
- “At the Metropolitan museum in New York Vogue’s Anna Wintour, the Costume Institute’s Harold Koda, and the museum’s new director, Thomas P. Campbell, gathered for a press conference about the upcoming exhibition The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion. Mannequins from Dovima and Suzy Parker to Twiggy and Veruschka to Naomi, Christy, Linda, and Cindy will be represented in the show.” Reports WWD
- It’s good news: the older model is back ! ‘For the Fall 2009 shows now on in New York there ahs been comebacks for models around 30-year-old mark. Gasp! Frankie Rayder (34), walked Michael Kors and we have seen Caroline Ribeiro (29), Christina Kruse (34), Carmen Kass (30), Tasha Tilberg (29), Kirsten Owen (38), and Trish Goff (32): The mature woman is back in New York’ reports fashionologie.
- On Vogue Paris’s March 2009 cover they’ve reinterpreted Iris Strubegger from Steven Meisel’s 1992 Vogue Italia cover with Kirsten McMenamy..reports Fashionologie
- During New York fashion week Bergdorf Goodman has its own version of Prêt-à-Portea, an afternoon tea originally launched by the Berkeley Hotel in London. http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/now-serving-fashion-week-tea-party/
- ‘Kate Moss is on the cover of New York magazine…..and just to get it out of the way, she’s not pregnant. She does, rather suddenly, have curves, which she enjoys. But here—let her tell you…..read it her at http://nymag.com/fashion/09/spring/54319/
- The cover of May 2009 of US Vogue will be featuring “today’s best models” —




