From the Rich Getting Richer department: "The 10 top-earning female models on the planet made a combined $112 million in the 12 months to May — up 30% from a total of $86.5 million over the previous year. Most of this gain was enjoyed by the top three: Gisele Bündchen, Heidi Klum and Kate Moss." Why do supermodels…

Kate Moss is manhandled by three swarthy (and very objectified) dudes on the just-released May cover of Vogue Paris, the second produced on new editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt's watch. So far, Alt seems to be sticking to the supermodels: her first cover featured Gisele Bündchen. Carine Roitfeld, Alt's predecessor, ran…

The guy who makes the wings for the Victoria's Secret fashion show is working on a project with NASA, naturally. Designer Ted Southern has won a contract to make a better kind of astronaut glove. But more importantly, he says Gisele Bündchen is hell to work with. She is "really tough. She's always screaming, 'What the…

Emmanuelle Alt's first cover of Vogue Paris is out! It features Gisele Bündchen, as previously reported, wearing a white lace Dolce & Gabbana dress. The photographers are Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Overall this is kind of pretty but boring — but we are interested to see whatever Vogue Paris means by that…

[The Vila Isabel Samba School float, Rio de Janeiro, March 7. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

• Star claims that Victoria Beckham is having a fourth child on the proviso that American Vogue will photograph her while she's up the duff. Beckham has been featured on and in virtually every other ladymag, but Vogue has eluded her.

• Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom's perfume, Unbreakable, launches in a week. Unbreakable. Like their love. Get it? Let's speculate about what Khloe is thinking in that photo in the top corner. ("People are really going to buy this?") [Official Site]

• GQ promises its story will explain what the hell, exactly, Campbell was thinking on the stand at Charles Taylor's trial, but we're not expecting much given the mag didn't press Campbell on the subject during their last interview. [GQ UK]

• The first cover of LOVE's "androgyny" issue has dropped, and it features Kate Moss and Lea T., K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Hot. Brazilian Lea T., who was born male, was Riccardo Tisci's friend and assistant before he convinced her to begin modeling. [@THELOVEMAGAZINE]

One of the most uncomfortable truths about the fashion industry is that most models begin working when they are in their early teens or even tweens; they are children. In this editorial, Vogue Paris cuts right to the chase.

• Stylist Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld's longtime right-hand-lady, is said to be leading the field of candidates to take over as editor-in-chief, while editor/novelist Virginie Mouzat may still be under consideration. (We previously looked at both candidates in more depth.) [WWD]

The fashion industry in 2010 was rocked by everything from untimely deaths to unlikely unionization efforts. Money, sexual harassment, suicide, and shocking resignations: here's what changed fashion this year. [NSFW]

• After Target, which styles itself an LGBT-friendly employer, was caught giving thousands to rabidly anti-gay political candidates, it said it would stop. Well: Target has since given over $30,000 to anti-gay-rights candidates and causes. [The Awl]

• Carine Roitfeld finally addressed her infamous blackface editorial: "We take risks. Painting Lara Stone in black, for example. We were accused of being racist, which was totally untrue, since I once did an entire issue on a black model." [WWD]

• Blake Lively is rumored to be the face of an upcoming Chanel handbag campaign. [E!]
• Having Linda Evangelista in its ads has apparently driven up Talbot's quarterly profits by 17%. [WWD]

• Katy Perry, shot by Alexi Lubomirski for the subscriber cover of the new Harper's Bazaar, looks gorgeous, if a bit crusty-lipped. She also looks a lot like Jean Patchett on the iconic Erwin Blumenfeld Vogue cover from January, 1950. [JustJared]

• After taking down Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, and Elle magazine, the dreaded bedbugs are now ensconced at the Fifth Avenue Juicy Couture store. We're picturing bedbugs in tiny velour tracksuits, talking on tiny pink bedazzled cell phones. [Gothamist]

• Stella McCartney, who gave birth last week, just announced the baby's a girl. She and her husband, Alasdhair Willis, named their youngest daughter Reiley. [Evening Standard]
• And Nina Garcia just gave birth to a son named Alexander David Conrod. [@ninagarcia]

• Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes are trading jibes with Lauren Goldstein Crowe over their dueling Isabella Blow biographies, both of which hit U.S. bookstore stores this week. Everyone is sniping at everyone over the email, sometimes in ALLCAPS!!!