Fashion folks in Paris are all a-Twitter over Sarah Burton's first collection for McQueen. It features models with woven hair, deconstructed tailoring, feathers, Anna Dello Russo in a centurion's helmet, and a bustier that looks like a golden chest plate.

In fall 2007, WWD and The New York Times published pieces about the absence of black models on the fashion runways. We did our own tally of black models in fashion magazines, and came up with some shocking statistics.

• Vogue Paris picked Marion Cotillard for its September cover, and bleached her eyebrows. Strangely enough, the French actress has never been on the cover of Vogue Paris before, though she made American Vogue's cover last November and this July. [@VogueParisLive]

Here are 29 covers from the hallowed, heavy September fashion issues (click to soak it all in). So how do Vogue, Elle, and the smaller titles stack up? Let's put September to a full statistical analysis.

• Mike "The Designer" Sorrentino had his buddy Jonny "The Unit" Manfre model a bedazzled wifebeater from his soon-to-be-released "clothing" line. [Facebook]
• Jackie O's triple-strand of faux pearls is up for auction, and may fetch as much as $55,000. [LATimes]

Who's more likely to say they groom themselves to attract the opposite sex — men or women?

The June issue of Allure is all about you, dear reader. You, and the self-diagnosed OCD sufferer, mommy-figure, nerdy girl, and contradiction-in-every-possible-term sexyface expert Megan Fox. And if that isn't enticing enough, Eli Roth reveals his beauty secrets. The horror!

• Carrie wears a $50,000 karaoke outfit, and there are lots of Maybachs. "Like in the Great Depression, I thought Hollywood should take people on a big vacation that maybe they couldn't afford themselves," says writer Michael Patrick King. [WWD]

"This is a sickness, I have an illness," she tells Allure. On her squick list? Restaurant silverware. "Putting my mouth where a million other mouths have been, just knowing all the bacteria that you carry in your mouth? Ucch!" [People]

This month in Allure, a writer describes how being incarcerated taught her some life lessons — about the importance of makeup! Meanwhile, the editors explain the key to looking good naked is to lose weight and get more beauty treatments.

• Pictures of a 15-year-old Angelina Jolie modeling for photographer Harry Langdon will be auctioned in California on Friday. [Vogue UK]
• Karl Lagerfeld dressed Simone Veil in Chanel for her induction into the Académie Française. [WWD]

In the March issue of Allure, Jessica Simpson reveals filming her docuseries The Price of Beauty has given her more confidence. Allure's editors are confident too... that their readers are idiots.

Question: How can we possibly drag out the John Mayer Playboy controversy? E! Online has the answer: Make something up.

Quoth Beyonce: "The thing that's interesting is I don't need Sasha Fierce anymore, because I've grown, and I'm now able to merge the two. I want people to see me. I want people to see who I am." [JustJared, PopSugar]

"That wasn't me. I had to work at it, but I knew that once I had achieved it, people would respond to me in a certain way." — Jennifer Lopez on her singing, to Allure. [The Life Files]

If you've got a green-skinned friend with limited understanding of earthling manners, a copy of December's Allure may be just the gift for her.

In Fashion Week Daily's imagined interview with Allure, the mag reveals she'd "love to do more stories on religious cults and Sudan," but must keep using the word "sexiest" on the cover lest the tabloids outsell her. [FWD via Fashionista]

The November Allure has hit newsstands, and as usual, it's full of obvious instructions and beauty advice. But as a bonus, it also includes "information" on the season's most ill-conceived and inadvisable diets.

Allure's editors have made a shocking discovery: Whether you're slim or overweight, at some point, your face will start looking older. This month, they tried to recapture their youth by giving a Disney star and self-proclaimed "nice girl" the cover.