Here are 29 covers from the hallowed, heavy September fashion issues (click to soak it all in). So how do Vogue, Elle, and the smaller titles stack up? Let's put September to a full statistical analysis.

• Judging from this ad, Avril Lavigne's perfume, Forbidden Rose, smells like eyeliner, cast iron, a decaying forest in winter, and an incongruous hair-bow like the ones your mother used to make you wear for family pictures. [TLF]

• When he gets done taping The View today, Barack Obama's gonna head over to his close, personal friend Anna Wintour's house for an intimate, $30,000-a-plate, fundraiser with fashion friends like Calvin Klein and Donna Karan. [WWD]

• Courtney Love regrets destroying vintage Marc Jacobs: "Marc sent me and Kurt his Perry Ellis grunge collection. Do you know what we did with it? We burned it. We were punkers — we didn't like that kind of thing."

• Julianne Moore is returning as the face of Bulgari for fall. With baby lions. Baby lions that make it very difficult to even think about the handbags. Baby lions! Lion babies! [Frockwriter]

• The September issue cover choices are in: Harper's Bazaar chose Jennifer Aniston, Elle nabbed Julia Roberts, and, as predicted, Vogue went with Halle Berry. (Anyone wanna take odds on a "What Gabriel did was very uncool" cover line?)

• Gwyneth Paltrow made the August cover of Vogue. At least this time, they got her head screwed on right. The cover disproves the rumor that Paltrow would be the September covergirl, leaving that slot potentially open for Halle Berry. [JustJared]

• Is Lady Gaga getting her butch on modeling for Vogue Hommes Japan under the pseudonym "Jo Calderone"? Nicola Formichetti styled — he works with Gaga regularly — and Nick Knight — ditto — published the pictures online. So. [ONTD]

• To promote her new accessories line for 6126 — the handbags cost $200-$600 — Lindsay Lohan plans to pose nude except for her SCRAM ankle bracelet. It might be airbrushed out, unless Lohan goes for that sexy-court-monitored-alcoholic look. [People]

• AdAge reports that Ellen DeGeneres and Rihanna are the female celebrities most likely to make consumers stop and pay attention to their ads. The product in top-scorer Ellen's CoverGirl ad was apparently recommended by 30% of readers. [AdAge]

• Rachel Bilson, the new Sunglass Hut "style director," posed for pictures in, you guessed it, sunglasses. "It's fun to wear [aviators] with something a little more dressy because it adds a little edge to your outfit," opines the actress. [People]

What have the end of the luxury boom and the rise of free Internet media meant for fashion magazines? Mostly, they're looking for new ways to sell you shit, this time with less pretense.

• Naomi Campbell allegedly insisted that model/Sean Penn date-r Jessica White not be admitted to her 40th birthday party. [P6]
• Cash-strapped Annie Leibovitz is shooting for Jones New York with Jessica Stam, Hillary Rhoda, and 20-odd other models today. Allegedly. [WWD]

• "I was asked recently by a significant magazine for women over 40 to pose with a cougar, and I refused to do it because I felt it was insulting. They took away the cover." Cattrall finds the term sexist. [Extra]

• Carrie wears a $50,000 karaoke outfit, and there are lots of Maybachs. "Like in the Great Depression, I thought Hollywood should take people on a big vacation that maybe they couldn't afford themselves," says writer Michael Patrick King. [WWD]

• Beth Ditto is designing another Evans collection. Last time the singer held fast to the 80s, with sometimes mixed results, but the range that will hit stores in September counts everything from Victoriana to "Noughties body-con" as an influence. [Telegraph]

If you've opened a women's magazine recently, then you probably know what's in this season. "Investment" fashion!

• Will Kell On Earth be renewed? "I don't really know what's going on," says Kelly Cutrone, and Bravo would not reveal the show's future. But Cutrone says she's already signed "a major deal" for a scripted network TV venture. [PRNewser]

We're not in the biz of dreaming up Jen-Brad drama, but it is a little weird that Steven Klein - the same guy who shot the infamous Brangelina-playing-house W spread - has now done Jen-and-Gerard, "provocatively", for the same mag:

"[T]hat's the worst mistake a woman can make, to think, Oh, I'm 32 and I've had two kids [...] and now it's going to get easier. Because as soon as you think that, you're doomed!" — Uma Thurman [W]