• 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.

• Someone at Selfridges has a terrible eye. After suspending an Alexander McQueen dress from what looked like a hangman's noose, the U.K. department store chain Tweeted a non-apology-apology saying any offense caused was unintentional. The display has been removed. [CocoPerez]

• When Lindsay Lohan decided to expand her leggings line to a 280-piece collection, there was bound to be some chaff. But lace hoodies? Croc-embossed minidresses? A...thing made of sequins that looks like something Pamela Anderson wore? Dangerous precedents, all. [LATimes]

Oh my God. Did American Vogue just publish something good?

Irving Penn died yesterday, the last of the great men fashion photographers of the mid-20th Century. Newton and Avedon each died in 2004. Lillian Bassman is still around; but she doesn't shoot. Here's why Penn's aesthetic will be missed: