• Martha Stewart has a wardrobe mistress paint the soles of her Christian Louboutins black. We would endorse this, as we take most of our fashion cues from the fictional character Cayce Pollard in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and think that conspicuous logos are the scourge of the universe, but blogging about the fact that you not only remove said logos but have a "wardrobe mistress" to do it for you is not exactly inconspicuous. And yet...I love her? [The Martha Blog]
  
• Ooooh, promo shots from Stylista, the new Tyra-produced reality show wherein the winner gets to be the assistant to known-psychopath Anne Slowey! Anne, an Elle editor, is one of those fashion people who is driven batshit by persistent fad dieting, but the resultant batshitism, in an industry whose shallowness is matched only by its aloofness, can be kind of endearing, unless you are her assistant. Ratings gold! [Fashionologie]
  
• Tori Spelling and her son are shilling for Skechers, which I find fitting. I mean, Skechers is sort of the Tori Spelling of shoe brands, and if you don't believe me I'm here to remind you the company was founded by the same guy who brought the world L.A. Gear. [SassyBella]

• Yeah, Bonnie Fuller is retiring from the day-to-day of the magazine industry, but don't worry, like with George W. Bush, her legacy of devastation will long outlive her career. [WWD]
• Nina Garcia is headed to Marie Claire. Marie Claire has been making all sorts of interesting moves lately, hiring "smart"-type editors from the likes of GQ and Forbes, but with Nina Garcia on board, the magazine could snag the Project Runway partnership that could elevate its status in the celebrity-sartorial complex as well, making for a magazine with all the promise and potential and pages and utter schizophrenia of ELLE! [Fashion Week Daily]
• Vanessa Paradis is set to replace Kirsten Dunst as the face of Miu Miu. Think Prada execs finally got sick of a bunch of spoiled, substance-abusing 20-somethings representing their brand? [WWD]
• Nike might buy something to secure a stronger presence in the Asian markets that have grown so wealthy exploiting desperate rural migrants to manufacture cheap tennis shoes for companies like Nike. [Reuters]
• You'll be seeing more of Josh Hartnett in your daily diet of marketing messages, for which you can thank Armani. [WWD]
• Recession? Tell that to the college kids who spent 10% more at your average Urban Outfitters store than they did last year! [FlyOnTheWall
• "Everybody is so beautiful! And everybody obviously looks impeccable, because they're all wearing Dior." Who is this gimlet-eyed observer of the glitterati? Why, it's wide-eyed Leighton Meester, a Dior show newbie, dressed in green and exemplifying everything we love about reading fashion trade publications. [Fashion Week Daily]

"No one shows you a photo of 'Mama' Cass and says, 'See? She's a genius and had an amazing music career'. Or a painting by Frida Kahlo and says, 'You can be a revolutionary with vision and a unibrow, and not only will you be loved, worshipped and acclaimed, but you will be remembered for work, timeless and outstanding'."

Some commenters have blasted Ditto for not being "healthy," but what do you call this attitude? Someone considers her thoughts worthwhile: she has an advice column in the Guardian. Beth's recommendation to someone who's "just broken up with the love of my life" ? Cry, clean house, and "watch the film Funny Girl at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace."

Ditto Hits Out At 'Brutal And Abnormal' Fashionistas [TheIndependent]
Related: What Would Beth Ditto Do? [Guardian]
Earlier: Beth Ditto: "Size Hero For The Size-Zero Age"

Watching is all I can do... Every book we read, every TV show we watch we relish the glance we get into someone else's world. I feel like I've seen everything. I'm the ultimate voyeur, nothing's a mystery, I've built up this tolerance to watching...

Thus spake the protagonist of 'I Am A Ghost', an internet video produced by Noah Fuller, oldest child of Bonnie Fuller. Bonnie, as you'll remember, is the founding father of the modern celebrity-sartorial complex as evidenced by her former stewardship of US Weekly and now the fast-crumbling American Media empire that owns Star and the National Enquirer. And today comes news that not only is Bonnie shopping around a reality-show about herself (a la Atoosa! Oh wait, and Teen Vogue's Amy Astley! And Jane's Brandon Holley! And, oh yeah, Jann Wenner!) but that shaggy-haired NYU film student Noah wants to direct it!

According to his MySpace profile, Noah wears bandannas and thick glasses, and likes to be photographed smoking cigarettes while reclining in the grass. Also, some of his friends have asymmetrical haircuts, and at least one of those friends appears to be jerking off in 'I Am A Ghost' (in case you care for that sort of stuff!). Anyway, if you felt a "Just Like Us" kicker coming on, you are just about where we are in the whole "This is where I hurl my laptop out the window and think about what Third World country one could visit that would not seem too Angelina-derivative right now" trajectory. Happy lunch hour, everyone!

Bonnie Totally Tubular [Gatecrasher]

Mommy, Make Me A Star [Jossip]
Noah Fuller's MySpace [MySpace]
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