Anna Wintour's Shiny, Sparkly Fashion "Rosebud": The Candidates

By TatianaTheAnonymousModel, 3:00 PM on Fri Jun 5 2009, 12,911 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

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Three weeks ago, we announced we'd scour heaven, earth, and Style.com, for the little $25,000 sequined dress that Anna Wintour won't quit moaning about not getting to put into her magazine because Vogue now represents thrift.

Anna Wintour has this dress which she just loves to talk about. At every public appearance, she relays the story of how Steven Meisel wanted to photograph it, but when she found out the masterpiece retailed for a lot of money -- sometimes she says $50,000, sometimes she says $25,000 -- she, the fashion magazine editor with a conscience, and a firm grasp of what regular people are prepared to pay for their few, hard-won items of luxury during These Economic Times, took her protégé kingmaker fashion photographer in hand, and told him (sternly, we imagine, and also very arch and British-ly) No!

And also the dress was very little. She publicly compared it to the size of Graydon Carter's shirt. And a Wall Street Journal reporter who also was treated to the Saga Of The Sequined Dress came away with the impression that it might have been just "a bedazzled shrug," so attenuated was Wintour's gestural representation of its size.

So knowing what we do about this dress, we A) Really want to figure out what it might be, and which designer experienced the snub and B) Wish Wintour would just let Steven Meisel shoot it, so everyone at Vogue could quit mourning the lost opportunity and find something new to talk about. (Like weight loss by the "bulk-heating" method, which we hear is totally now.)

Only one of those things being within our particular bailiwick, we set our minds (and our mice) to tracking down The Dress. Let's peruse the possibilities!