• Oh, look, it's Madonna. On the cover of a glossy magazine's "green" issue. How novel! And even more exciting: Elle is doing some fashion designer water bottle promotion. [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Robin Givhan on Madge: "Her latest incarnation — blond waves, lace-up boots and a corset — speaks to the most old-fashioned, condescending sentiment of all: She looks good for her age." [Washington Post]
  
• Christiane Amanpour slipped Diane Von Furstenburg a note Monday night saying, "Congratulations, from one dominatrix to another." Click the jump while there is still time to get a Jamie Rubin Barry Diller BDSM image out of your mind! [NYDN]

• Food riots, rising Asian inflation and Malthusian apocalypse scares be damned, Armani will conquer the developing world. [Hindustan Times]
• The run-down of this apparel industry salute to the Good Life featuring Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren, Martha Stewart and Tony Bennett will surely warm your cockles. [WWD]
• If, like me, you have not left a three block radius in the past month, you may not have seen the spring window treatments at The Gap. Well some blonde lady at The Street did that for you, and guess what? She found them boring! But J. Crew is alive with color. [TheStreet]
• "Do You Wear Heels To The Beach?" [Fabsugar]
• "How do you avoid a crisis and keep your prom makeup from fading?" [Teen Vogue]
• For those who have long pined for a Hermes Grannysmith apple-shaped tote with matching peeler but never dreamed it was possible. [Missbehave]

"I feel so much more at peace waking up in a home when I know that my sheets and my mattress don't contribute to the destruction of forests, the air is healthy because I didn't use toxic paint, and my clothes didn't destroy the lives of children in Central America."

We presume Kerry would rather destroy the lives of the elderly Koreans who own the dry-cleaners she refuses to patronize because it's so much better for the fucking environment. But we don't know, because dry-cleaning is curiously absent from the story, which instead focuses on stuff Kerry has bought thanks to Danny's messianic salesmanship, like her "energy efficient" plasma TV, which consumes slightly less than four times as much power as the old energy-inefficient cathode-ray box we never have time to watch since we started obliterating the rain forest with our magazine habits. Funny, that.

Greenhouse Effect [Elle]
Kerry and Danny Go Eco-Shopping; The Video! [Elle]