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Halle Berry Heroically Addresses Shortage Of Celebrity Perfumes

  • Addressing the alarming shortage of celebrity fragrances, Halle Berry, who is releasing her own, proclaims: "It’s a real, true expression of who I am — I was involved in all aspects of making it." [WWD]
  • Oh, those wags at PETA! In another devastating jab at their fur-sporting nemeses, the animal rights wits have produced "Trollsen Twins" masks for us to wear on Halloween! "To complete the "Hairy Kate" and "Trashley" look, PETA recommends Starbucks, cigarettes and boho chic gear." [MollyGood]
  • Hey! Wanna go to the Viktor & Rolf show? It's online! (No, you still can't afford anything.) [NY Mag]
  • Kaiser Karl is coming to America! Specifically, Vermont. Quoth Lagerfeld, “I love it. It’s very much Emily Dickinson." [WWD]
  • Leighton Meester "does her part to end domestic violence" by walking in a celebrity fashion show. [People]

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The Devil Used Index Cards During Fashion Week, there was an event called "Runway To Change." Fashionistas fundraising for Barack Obama, blah blah blah. But OMG! Someone snuck in a video camera and you can watch Anna Wintour speak! Though her face is mostly hidden behind her signature bob, she appears to (gasp!) charm the crowd, and her accent is rawther lovely. (Click picture for embedded video.) [New York Mag] MORE »

On Becoming tactless

HuffPo Defends Its Anti-Wintour Girl-On-Girl Crime

So remember on Friday when the Huffington Post put up those deliberately unflattering pictures of Anna Wintour and then stonewalled the Observer when reporter Matt Haber tried to ask them about it? Well the editors at the HuffPo finally responded to Haber, and editor Roy Sekoff says about the incriminating post, "In On Becoming Fearless, Arianna does indeed talk about aging and body image, and about beauty emanating from within. I don't think this post is inconsistent with any of that. I guess it's all in how you look at it. For me, I look at the Wintour pictures and think she looks great and exudes the kind of self-confidence and self-assurance that Arianna called 'the ultimate turn-on.'" More »

Loose Lips The Huffington Post, which was a news site last time we checked, has posted closeup photos of Anna Wintour in order to mock the Vogue editrix for her wrinkles. What's more, the story ran without a byline and those cowards at the HuffPo wouldn't tell the Observer who posted the offending snaps. Arianna Huffington, no spring chicken herself, should know better than to perpetrate girl on girl crime against another alpha female. • Jessica Simpson said she changed her cell phone number so exes can't get in touch with her. Gurl, if we dated John Mayer, we'd be changing out numbers too! • [Observer, Us]

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Gossip Girl's Nate Archibald For Versace?

  • Is Gossip Girl pretty boy Chace Crawford set to replace McDreamy as the face of Versace? [Perez Hilton]
  • Fashion slang seems to have no regard for a word's actual meaning: "Designer Ashleigh Verrier said her favorite fashion word was "diaphanous" — an adjective characterizing fineness of texture. 'As in, 'That dress is so diaphanous!'' she said. 'I like 'Glamit'," said fashion designer Marc Bouwer, who uses the term for a fashion line. 'It is so gorgeous and glamorous. You don't want to use cliched words.'Designer Thuy Diep said 'prune"'was popular within her fashion crew to express disapproval." [Reuters]
  • Vogue-interning hockey playing fashionisto Sean Avery on who should play him in the rumored movie about him: "'Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit, man. I dunno I dunno I dunno I dunno I dunno. Fuck. I dunno!...I don't know anything. That's what casting guys are for! Shit. No questions!'" Sounds like that'll be some sparkling dialogue! [Radar]
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The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

Fashion Week Style: It's All Good At The Chanel Party

It's not hard to believe that the guests at a party honoring Chanel (also, oddly, an after-party for The Duchess) would look decent — for one thing, they were probably wearing a lot of Chanel. But to have not even a single "Bad?" That's noteworthy. Sure, maybe not everyone hit Keira Knightley's heights or achieved Coco Rocha's level of chic, but from Anna Wintour to Melania Trump, there was nothing worse than a "meh" at New York's Cooper Square Hotel. The Goods and the Even Betters, after the jump.

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age old questions

Is Calling A Woman A "Cougar" Grounds For A Court Case?

G4 is a cable channel geared toward male viewers, and last year, on a program called Attack Of The Show, a segment called "The Great Cougar Hunt" featured three women allegedly trying to pick up younger men in a "world famous cougar hot spot." The ladies, who claim they were filmed without their consent, are pissed that they were branded as "cougars" on national television. TMZ reports that they're suing G4 and the hosts of the show for more than $1 million. The big question here is: Is calling a woman a "cougar" offensive? More »

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Naomi Campbell Is Late To Feed The Needy

  • Naomi Campbell's started her latest round of amends, this time a stint in a soup kitchen for assaulting a cop. Apparently she was ten minutes late. [The Mirror]
  • No one will either confirm or deny that Ellen is a new Cover Girl. [AdAge]
  • Nastia Liukin thrown in with the sharks. "Ms. Liukin was excited—giddy, almost—but perhaps also a tad intimidated. Dressed in a marbled, off-white bubble dress, Ms. Liukin had attended her first Fashion Week show, Peter Som’s spring 2009 collection, just that morning." [Observer]
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What It Feels Like For A (Glamour) Girl

September Vogue: Last Ladymag Standing (And Jumping)

September Vogue jumps out on the news stand for all the wrong reasons. On her fourth cover in three years, Keira Knightley's hair looks reminiscent of a baby primate (though not in a cute way), her pose is all wrong for the Balenciaga she's wearing, and her expression has a whiff of self-consciousness and striverdom about it — like some vogueing drag queen's idea of a Vogue cover. Which means the stuff inside must be doubleplusungood! Although my esteemed colleague, Dodai, has already brought you two of the issue’s more bizarre contributions to the fall fashion discourse, fear not! There’s still plenty left to see from the summit of the fall ladymag pileup. Keira Knightley in Berlin, Sasha Pivovarova in scarlet and alabaster Alexander McQueen, Caroline Trentini in the only Caroline-jumps-for-Condé editorial that has ever made any sense, and what the cover shot would be if this were a real fashion magazine, as we take deep breaths, don sensible footwear, and scale, together, Mount Vogue, after the jump.

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