• Pioneering knitwear designer Joan Vass, who outfitted Ali MacGraw, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Candice Bergen, has died in Manhattan. Vass majored in philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was notorious as a fashion industry provocateur. Recalls her son Jason:

Initially, The Who's Pete Townshend didn't want Ann-Margaret or Jack Nicholson in the film, a fact about which, he says, "I hang my head in shame." [LA Times]

• Teri Hatcher is launching a website for women called Get Hatched, a "chick's guide to life."

• Victoria Beckham says the dresses in her fashion line are, "For women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer [Lopez] wore..."

• Gerard Butler had to shoot a wedding photograph with Jennifer Aniston as a prop for their characters in The Bounty. Gerard says:

The Met's much-hyped "Model as Muse" exhibit opens with a life-sized mannequin in Dior holding Dovima's place in front of two posterboard elephants. It's fashion as ticky-tacky natural history diorama. And it only gets worse.

• Miley Cyrus is seen "slanting her eyes" in a picture that's been circulating on the web.

• Holy Xenu! Katie Holmes looks freakin awesome on the cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She claims she is not the pawn of Tom Cruise: "There's a misperception about me that I just became this wallflower, this woman who doesn't have any control of her life. "And that's pretty wrong. From the very beginning,…