Ho hum. It's just Lady Gaga in a lace fencing mask and vintage lingerie. Yawn.


Can't you see Christian Siriano whipping a coat rack, a parrot and a magic yardstick out of this massive bag?


Mickey "Mr. Mickey" Boardman is a famous New York style eccentric with a great love of sequins.


Eric Daman is the costume designer for Gossip Girl, which explains the louche insouciance, not the jewelry.


Betsey Johnson, in usual Monday night attire.


She would like you to see her ass, so here it is.


Model Hilary Rhoda gives new meaning to the phrase "fits like a glove."


Erin Wasson: Morticia Adams 4.0


Agyness Deyn mixes equal parts Carnaby Street and Kelly Osbourne, for a hundred per cent bizarre effect.


Love the juxt of Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey's neckline and necklace. She's also never afraid of a smile.


What say you about Molly Sims? Home run or foul?


Diane von Furstenberg is wearing the same shoes! Plus a sparkly Kandinsky!

[Images via Getty]

(Although unrelated to the Estee Lauder promotion, Bazaar has been shilling expensive shit next to the mastheads for its editorial and publishing staff for many months now.)

Advertising 1, Journalism 0 [Portfolio]
A Cover, 40 Pages, 4 Faces And One Perfume [NY Times]

• "It's out of control. There's always a different boy and everyone is worried he's going to pull a Halston." That's an anonymous friend of Marc Jacobs on the increasingly-erratic fashion designer. [Page Six]
  
• Ouch: David Lauren was not invited to his girlfriend (of three years) Lauren Bush's cousin Jenna's wedding. You know, Jenna Bush: Daughter of the POTUS. Apparently the Bush clan think David is too old for Lauren. Oh, and also too Jewish? Awkward. [Rush & Molloy]
  
• Kristin Davis is pissed about the injustices she faced making the Sex and the City movie: "It's in the contract that we get to keep our outfits, which is a fantastic thing, except that, for me, all of my outfits were samples. I kept my running pants, which I love and wear them a lot, but I was like, Where are my clothes?" [E!]

• Blondes need not apply to model for the lookbook for Lindsay Lohan's new leggings line. [Perez Hilton]
• God is dead: Perez Hilton is getting his own clothing line. For Hot Topic. [Celebitchy]
• The New York Giants' Super Bowl Championship ring was designed by their defensive end Michael Strahan, who told jewelers at Tiffany's he wanted a "Ten-table ring": "When I walk into a restaurant, I want you to be able to see it from 10 tables away." Um, thanks but no. [WWD, 1st item]
• And what does Giorgio Armani think about paying the most in taxes in all of Italy? "I was on a beach when I heard that. I'm not concerned with it." [NYDaily News]
• Cindy Crawford: Regrets, she has some: ""I regret that I wasn't wilder," she says. "I was working and I was nervous. I was the one in the corner with the book, being responsible. I can be wild now. I'll sometimes dance on a table for my husband and his friends. But not naked - those days are gone." [Vogue UK]
• China's latest offense: The exportation of fake Nikes. [LATimes]
• Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey says that her permanent plus one Steven Sumner says she was only awarded with an Officer of the British Empire award because, "I shop for Britain. He thinks OBE stands for 'Owns Bloody Everything.'" [WWD, 4th item]
• It's so hard to be Diane Kruger. Of the goings-on after the Met Costume Institute Gala, she says, "I went to that party at Phillipe, which was way too overcrowded, so I headed down to Bungalow, where I danced with Christian Louboutin. That was fun!" [Fashion Week Daily]
• Eva Mendes: Pics of her topless in Italian Vogue here. [Egotastic]
• Donatella Versace is still trying to tell anyone who will listen that her girl Hillary Clinton should wear a dress. [Page Six]
• Karl Lagerfeld's handbag and luggage line is inspired by...Karl Lagerfeld. [Vogue UK]
• Fergie's daughter Princess Beatrice is working at Selfridge's department store during her gap year between high school and uni. How pleb of her. [Telegraph]
• Hermes: Sales up 13.4%. Good for them? [WWD, sub req'd]

The Good:
Helena Christensen: Picture perfect. (Note to self: Buy hot pink lipstick. )


Selita Ebanks' dress is black and white and beautiful all over.


I love how model Valentina's dress insists on it being spring.


Sure the whole leather skirt and sweater is slightly 1988, but I can't help but love Ashley Olsen's entire vibe. Also go ahead and crucify me: Love the gladiator sandals.




The Bad:
Oh, come on Isabella. Really?


Socialite Jamee Gregory is wearing windowpanes as a skirt.


Peter Lindbergh just woke up.




The Ugly:
Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey: A couture Cruella de Vil?

[Images via Getty and Bauer-Griffin.]

Anna Wintour We are so tired of Anna WIntour's damn bob and think she needsto learn a few lessons from Carine Roiteld about the perks of smudgey, grungey French chic. And voila! Tousled long red locks and bright red lips do just that. Anna Before: Anna After:

Robbie Myers Robbie, like Anna, also sports a trademark 'do: Long wispy bangs, hair pulled into a loose chignon. But unlike Anna's style, we think Robbie's really suits her. So we thought our only option was to take her from tousled and natural to the look sported by recent covergirl Victoria Beckham: Short, blonde, and alien-esque. Robbie Before: Robbie After:

Glenda Bailey In dire need of a new look is Glenda Bailey, a woman who seems to have never met a comb or a tube of lipstick. (In her defense, she's stubborn) So we tried vampy old-school glamour, the opposite of Glenda's new look, with long Angelina-esque locks. Hmm, on second thought, we think her Simpsons makeover was a helluva lot better. Glenda Before: Glenda After:

[Source photos from Getty and Bauer-Griffin.]

Earlier: Vogue Editor Anna Wintour: Not Exactly Playing Against, Uh, 'Type'
Elle Magazine's Roberta Myers: Creative, Cautious, Constant
Harper's Bazaar Editor Glenda Bailey: Smart But Stubborn

The Good:
With little daughter Tallulah on his arm, Bruce Willis' actual date Emma Hemming is totally forgettable.
Irina Pantaeva has still got it.
Good for Russell Simmons: The hat is nice and Porschia Coleman seems a lot less heinous than Kimora.

The Bad:
Why is Anika Noni Rose not dressed for the red carpet?
Now surely Andre Leon Talley can do better than this. Did he have American Apparel make their gross pleather leggings into a coat for him?
Send in some queer eyes to get Carson Kressley a better fitting suit and some blotting papers, stat.
Is Donna Karan preparing for an apocalypse that renders her an evil Lawrence of Arabia?
As a major Debbie Harry fan, this hurts me to say, but these yellow plaid pants (are they flannel?!) make my heart cry a thousand times.
Glenda Bailey has clearly forgotten that a high-neck velvet dress is just one step above wearing an ugly Christmas sweater without irony.
Christian Siriano in yet another vest-and-skinny-black-pants look? He needs a new outfit.
Socialite Olivia Palermo's dress is just trying too hard.

The Ugly:
Arden Wohl's outfit is so bad it is clearly exhausted her with its ugliness.

[Images via Getty.]

• "Of course I am a Spice Girls fan. I love everything that teenage girls love. I am the oldest teenage girl." That's Michael Kors, who went to see the Spice Girls when they performed in the New York area this week. Other fashion world luminaries who showed up the concert to hear such sonic gems as "Two become One": ELLE editor-in-chief Roberta Myers and fashion director Nina Garcia, Harper's Bazaar EIC Glenda Bailey, and Vogue European editor-at-large Hamish Bowles. [WWD, 2nd item]
  
• "They're the most exciting thing since Warhol," says Vogue's Andre Leon Talley of English rockers/designers Rodnik. So enamored is he that he was willing to give up his front-row seat at Proenza Schouler last week so that he could join the Rodnik designers in the standing room area. [Vogue UK]
  
• Marc Jacobs: Fond of male escorts! [NY Daily News]
  
• The Times of India asks: Is fashion industry caste and gender biased? We're gonna go out on a limb and say "yeah." [TOI]

• Lilly Pulitzer is launching its very first fragrance. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Beauty product name or adult film title? [BellaSugar]
• Cynthia Rowley is now entering the wild world of mother-daughter fragrances, the very thought of which makes us throw up a little in our mouths. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Oh God: Hannah Montana shampoo??? [WWD, sub req'd]
• Luella Bartley: Now designing tees to fund kids going to the dentist in Colombia. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Who needs YouTube when there's ShoeTube? [UPI]

• Jennifer Connelly looks a little scary in the spring Balenciaga ads. Something about floral print armor, an over-exaggerated model slouch, and toothpick legs gives us the uh-oh feeling. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• If you're in New Hampshire and reading this, here's who Karl Lagerfeld thinks you should vote for tonight: "My favorite is Ms. Clinton because you have no real idea what she is wearing. She is so clever and so brilliant that you see only her face — but also what she wears is right, you never really look at it because one is fascinated by her intelligence. But there is never a gimmick or bad detail either." If an endorsement from Krazy Karl isn't the kiss of death, we don't know what is. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Mazel tov to Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey, who was just awarded with an Order of the British Empire. We're sure the Queen's decision was based on Bailey's genius move to feature The Simpsons in her magazine's pages last year. [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Britney Spears's new fragrance "Curious Heart" launched yesterday. You didn't hear about it because everyone would rather talk about Britney's bipolar heart. [BellaSugar]

• Tommy Hilfiger is the latest to join the IPO game, beating Prada to be the first fashion public offering of the year. [WWD, sub req'd]
• More shake-ups at Liz Claiborne Co.: Laundry By Design and C&C California get sold to Perry Ellis Inc. while poor ol' Sigrid Olsen just get shut down. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Viktor & Rolf: Now designing doll clothes, just as God intended. [WWD, 2nd item]
• Rocker Bryan Adams is the new photographer for this season's Guess ads. Wait, Bryan Adams is still around? Wait, Guess is still around? [WWD, 2nd item]
• The peeps who own Lacoste just might buy Swedish clothing line Gant. [FT]
• RIP Shu Uemura. The Japanese makeup mogul passed away at the age of 79. His oil-based cleansers, however, will live forever. [Reuters]
• Fashion designer Ben di Lisi: He's just like us! In his "weak moments" he "[b]ecomes overly emotional and send[s] needy texts." Aw! [Independent]

• Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein and Marchesa co-designer Georgina Chapman got hitched on Saturday night at Weinstein's home in Westport, CT. The bride wore Marchesa, the groom Tom Ford, the Gypsy Kings gave a private concert and even Vogue's Anna Wintour attended. Also there: Model Natalia Vodianova, celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, Renée Zellweger, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz (all of whom, sadly, need no further introduction). [WWD, 1st item]
  
• Chapman designed not one but two gowns for her wedding: One for the ceremony and one for the reception. Modest! [GlamChic]
  
• This year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fun big winner Rogan Gregory is rumored to be the next designer to do a collection for Target, thus confirming Moe's theory that designers go straight from Vogue to the red bullseye, lovingly guided by Anna Wintour herself. [WWD, 2nd item]

• God bless Valentino. The man denied his retirement for an eternity, then announced he was retiring, then threw himself a giant party for the anniversary of his label, and now — just for good measure — he is being honored by the mayor of Paris with an honorary citizenship to the city. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Victoria Beckham's "V-Sculpt' make-up line scares us even more than Victoria Beckham's sculpted boobs. [BellaSugar]
• Oh Lord: Who would want Tara Reid to be the face of anything? Yet alone "sleepwear." [Sassybella]
• High Grant ex/English socialite Jemima Khan has designed a charm bracelet to benefit some charitable cause. The charms on the bracelet represent the five major world religions. Says Khan of her design, "I have been personally connected to the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism through my paternal grandfather, Christianity through my mother, and Islam through my marriage and my children." Well doesn't that make her special! [Fashion Week Daily]
• All that talk about Vivienne Westwood moving her show back to London from Paris? Sorta bullshit. Westwood will only be showing her secondary line, Red Label, in Mother England. The eponymous shit will still show en Paris. [Vogue UK]
• YSL designer Stefano Pilati has decided that runway shows and scary and impersonal so he will be showing the YSL menswear collection in a presentation and a private dinner this season instead. Touching is permitted. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Oh no! Another cryptic e-mail from ELLE's Gilles Bensimon! Really, someone please stage an intervention and soon. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Another reason to love/loathe Topshop: Launching collections ''collaborated" on by English designers Jonathan Saunders, Louise Goldin, Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab, Todd Lynn and Richard Nicoll starting in mid-January. [WWD, 5th item]
• Herve Leger is back! And now designed under the Max Azria label. Um, ok? [WWD, 4th item]

• New couple alert! Ashley Olsen showed up at a swanky New York bar with cyclist Lance Armstrong! She sat on his lap and "they were making out all night." In case you're wondering, she is 21 and he is 36. And — considering his past — obviously has a thing for blondes. [Page Six]
  
• Britney Spears' label has given up on trying to involve her in promoting her new CD. Also: Someone saw Britney wandering around the locker room of the Four Seasons hotel in L.A. — wearing just a bikini bottom. A woman asked where the pool was and Britney replied, "Oh, is there a pool here?" [Rush & Molloy]
  
• Oh, and Britney did not regain custody of her kids. Commissioner Scott Gordon says the environment at her house is "chaotic" and is allowing her three monitored visits a week. Also, Britney must childproof her pool area. [TMZ]

• Plus, the Catholic League is pissed that Britney posed sitting on a priest's lap for her BlackoutCD booklet. Yawn! [MTV]
• Jennifer Lopez's new CD tanked, her movie El Cantante was not a box office blockbuster, and her next film, Bordertown, is going straight to video. Poor thing! [Page Six]
• Karrine "Superhead" Steffans says ex-boyfriend Bill Maher "wants someone he can put down in an argument, tell you how ghetto you are, how big your butt is, and that you're an idiot. That's why you never see him with a white girl or an intellectual." Ugh, enough already. [Page Six]
• After model Petra Nemcova was onstage at an event holding her heels in her hand, Harper's Bazaar editor Glenda Bailey came onstage and said, "I'm not taking off my shoes. They're Prada." To which Ivana Trump snorted, "Hah, the devil wears Prada!" [Page Six]
• Michael Jackson will be on the cover of Ebony magazine, which is just weird. [Page Six]
• Mischa Barton's younger sister Hania showed up so "wasted" at a Hollywood fashion show last weekend, the designer wouldn't let her walk the runway. Hania turned 19 on February 18 and went to rehab February 19. Someone give that kid a reality show! [Page Six]
• Jessica Simpson and Owen Wilson's date went well — "he couldn't keep his hands off her," a source says. [Gatecrasher]
• Kate Moss has told ex Pete Doherty he can keep all the royalties from songs she co-wrote on the Babyshambles album. Hey, she's got TopShop cash coming in! [The Sun]
• Did you see Mario Lopez's skimpy Halloween costume? Look closely, it's there somewhere. [TMZ]

Mediabistro: You actually read Popular Mechanics?
Glenda Bailey: Yes — which is particularly interesting because I don't drive. I love the art of editing. You don't have to know about the subject to know whether something is well done.

(on her fashion week uniform)
GB: I really don't like to wear one designer head-to-toe. That says everything about the designer and very little about me. I try to buy clothes that complement my existing wardrobe.

(on sitting in the front row at fashion shows)
GB: I take that job very seriously; I don't take myself very seriously.

(on what makes 'Bazaar' successful)
GB: We put fashion in context of popular culture. It's really quite unique positioning in our market. In the September issue Chloe Sevigny in the rehab story totally reflects what people are talking about. [The actress is depicted in a fashion spread as a starlet in rehab].

M: Have you had a disappointing celebrity cover?
GB: No. We were fortunate enough to win the ASME award for best [celebrity] cover [in 2006 for the January issue] and that was Julianne Moore and she's not known for being a newsstand success. What I loved about that cover is we even covered her face — which is something you're not supposed to do and it was all green, which is also not successful with a cover. Obviously that sold very well. Often you see a list of people who don't sell very well. I would just say to every editor it's whether the person is right for that particular magazine and the timing is right.

M: Ever think fashion has become too egalitarian?
GB: Our job as editors is to find the very best fashion at the best price. The more variety there is, the better it is for the reader.

M: Has the diva factor played up on shows like Project Runway given fashionistas a bad rap as super bitchy, overly competitive strivers?
GB: Fashion is the entertainment industry and attracts lots of characters. Long may that continue.

M: Anna Wintour, the editor of your rival publication, is very much a "celebrity editor." You seem to keep a much lower profile. How do you see yourself in that context?
GB: [Laughs] I just get on with my job.

M: How would you say you've gotten to where you are?
GB: Hard work and good shoes.

M: Do you have a motto?
GB: Good is the greatest enemy of great.

So What Do You Do, Glenda Bailey, Editor-In-Chief, Harper's Bazaar? [mediabistro.com]
Earlier: 'Harper's Bazaar' Editor Glenda Bailey: Smart But Stubborn
Shameless September Ladymags: 'Harper's Bazaar' Vs. 'W'

Wonder what the numbers will be like at the end of the year, when the scandalous Lindsay Lohan cover is taken into account?

Poor editor-in-chief Robbie Myers: if we've learned anything from their signatures, she can be expecting some poison flowers from Vogue's Anna Wintour by day's end, though Bazaar's daffy Glenda Bailey is probably too busy playing with her Simpsons figurines to realize that any of this has occurred.

Winners and Losers [WWD]

This writer shows a presence. The signature is big, clear, and in your face, in a nice way.

The 'e' is very open. She listens carefully to new ideas, lets them percolate in her mind in an analytical (and methodical) way.

There is a long, straight down-stroke of the G, a sign of determination to follow through.
There are tent-like forms in the 'a' in Glenda, and between the 'e' and the 'n'. These are signs that the writer will hold to a position long after she knows she was mistaken, but the signature is too small a sample to say so for sure.

Related: Graphology Consulting Group

• Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey is appearing as a Simpsons character in the magazine's August issue. No, see, it makes sense because of the eight-page Simpsons fashion spread! [WWD, 1st item]
  
• Actor Ewan McGregor is the new face of Davidoff's newest, still unnamed men's fragrance. You know, this fragrance could smell like a heroin addict's toilet and we'd still buy it. Sigh. [Antara News]
  
• Yves Saint Laurent: Still a hypochondriac, but now also a Grand Officer of the French Legion! [WWD, 1st item]
  
• H&M sales up 17% in the month of June alone, for which the retailer credited good weather, a popular merchandise mix, and an uptick in visits from us and all our friends. 'Cause Zara has really sucked lately. [Vogue UK]

• Also joining Stella McCartney for a return to Mother England for London Fashion Week after showing elsewhere? Luella Bartley and Matthew Williamson. [WWD, 3rd item]
• Rhetorical question: Does Vogue never tire of patting itself on the back? [Vogue UK]
• Oh, to be 15 again! You can be cast as the official face of Australian Fashion Week and then fired for being too young. [Australian Broadcasting Corp]
• If you're reading this in Port au Prince, Haiti and your luggage has been lost, fret not: The New York Times has provided a handy guide to where to buy clothes quickly. [NYT]
• What? Some website ran an un-retouched Redbook cover? What? Who could it be? [WWD, 2nd item]

• Today we learned something new about Heidi Klum: She's fallen German royalty. Apparently even with royalty one day you may be in and the next you may be out. [Rush & Molloy]
  
• The next designer pimping himself out for H&M will be Roberto Cavalli, whose cheapster designs will be hitting stores in November. [Guardian]
  
• WalMart execs' earnest naivete never ceases to tug at our heart strings: They still think they can turn around their troubled apparel division. [WWD]
  
• Putting "Karl Lagerfeld" and "hardback" in same sentence? Someone at WWD is sooooo juvenile. [WWD, 1st item]

• Calvin Klein did not allow an inner-office fire to interrupt its Resort 2008 showing yesterday. [WWD]
• Alber Elbaz, designer for Lanvin, will be honored with the 2007 Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion in September at an event hosted by Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey and actress Chloe Sevigny. [Vogue UK]
• Barneys' creative director Simon Doonan earnestly asks someone in an interview whether they would describe their personal style as "swanky, spiffy, or nifty." [Barney's Babble]

Victoria Beckham's Fashion Judgment [FWD]
Related: Brand Killers: Who Has The Power [Portfolio]