Fashion Group International of Los Angeles' 'Meet The Designers' at the Standard Hotel was, it must be said, a train-wreck. I wish these designers would show up on Project Runway to hear Michael take on these monstrous getups.

• More rumored changes for The Greatest Show On Earth, Project Runway: Season 6 of the show, the first to be broadcast on Lifetime, may feature "More Than A Pretty Face" magazine Marie Claire in lieu of Elle as the affiliated fashion magazine sponsor. [WWD, 1st item]
  
• Whoah: Are New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn…

• Europeans are always more progressive than Americans. Rumor is, Italian Vogue may be producing a cover featuring only black models. [Fashionista]
  
• Oh. My. God. High School Musical and Hannah Montana-inspired Crocs, soon available at a store near you. [Yahoo]
  
• Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola will be the next faces…

The hoopla surrounding this Sunday's Academy Awards has officially begun! Last night's Oscars Pre-Party, held by environmental nonprofit Global Green USA, saw a slew of celebs who obviously had the environment, not style, on their minds (Not that that's a bad thing.) Case in point: Molly Sims. And while very pregnant…

Last night was the red carpet premiere for Ricki Lake's much-discussed documentary on the home-birth movement, The Business of Being Born. And though the film offers an eye-opening journey through Ricki's choice to have a natural birth (hullo, vagina!), the premiere yielded nothing but some eye-shielding fashion.…

• A star is born? Halston has at last named its new creative director (and it's not Harvey Weinstein GF Georgina Chapman), Versace senior women's and men's designer Marco Zanini. Good luck, buddy. May the ghosts of Roy and Jackie O bless your journey. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Hermione Granger herself, actress Emma Watson, has…