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"I am really upset," said André Leon Talley. The most recent Republican presidential debate had aired the night before, and the spectacle of moderator Juan Williams being booed did not sit well with the Vogue editor. (Williams proved unpopular with the crowd for challenging, among other things, Newt Gingrich's assertion that poor black children should be put to work as school janitors.) "It was horrible. It's a circus now. They'll say anything," continued Talley. "It's scary that that kind of dialogue can go on in the world...I only wish that the South Carolina primary would hurry up and be over. Even at the worst moment of the Democratic primaries, between President Obama and Mrs. Clinton, there were serious discussions about issues. This is not that." More »
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Taylor Swift's February Vogue cover profile is online. Interesting tidbits include the fact that she knows the entire "Honey Badger" viral video off by heart. But there is sadly no record of this, because Swift asked writer Jonathan Van Meter if "her cursing could be off the record," and he obliged. Unlike honey badger, Taylor Swift do give a shit. Elsewhere in the piece, Swift says that the people she "really trusts" all have one thing in common: they were not cool when they were growing up. "If you know how to be cool in middle school, maybe you have skills you shouldn't," she says. "Maybe you know how to be conniving, like, naturally." And she shares her four rules for dating — one is that dudes can't be "too obsessed" with privacy (she invokes paparazzi specifically, but presumably dudes Swift dates also need to be un-privacy-obsessed enough to be resigned to the fact that she will eventually write a song and/or songs about them), and another is that they can't make her feel "like a princessy diva" for having security or other trappings of fame. "I don't have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there's a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement." [Vogue] More »
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Daphne Guinness is just the latest fashion icon to impersonate David Bowie in a fashion magazine this January — in her case, German Vogue. The photographer? None other than musician Bryan Adams. More »
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Rachel McAdams is on the new cover of Glamour, whose writer got to be the one to give McAdams the news that her ex, Ryan Gosling, now casts a long shadow on Tumblr: More »
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Why do Amber Valletta and Shalom Harlow look so sad in this shot from Vogue's January issue? They got all dressed up in these jaunty trench coats, but they don't know what they should be investigating! Fortunately, Photoshop Disasters has spotted a case for these two: It seems Amber is missing her left leg. That was sweet of the editors to throw them a bone (or rather, take a few). More »
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According to reports, Anna Wintour's team has been calling in some samples in U.S. sizes 14 and 16 — an event so unusual in our age of miniature celebrities that it merits a mention in today's Women's Wear Daily. Certain (unnamed) designers have been asked to create special outfits so Vogue will have plenty of cover options — and the word is that all the effort is for a cover that will feature Adele. This would be for Vogue's March issue, the spring fashion issue. This is newsworthy for a couple of reasons: one, it's been four years since Vogue featured a plus-size woman on its cover (Jennifer Hudson in 2007) and two, Vogue isn't even putting Adele on the Shape issue cover, it's apparently giving her a "real" cover. (Conventional ladymag wisdom is that March is the second most important issue of the year after September — which is a huge vote of confidence on the part of Vogue in Adele's salability.) It's been a good year for Adele, vocal cord issues aside: 21 is the top-selling album of the year, and she's nabbed six Grammy nominations, in addition to covers of U.S. Cosmopolitan, British Vogue, and The Gentlewoman. [WWD] More »
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Were you aware that we live in a world in which Blake Lively has been on the cover of Vogue twice while Meryl Streep hasn't made a single appearance? Well, no more. Vogue has released the cover of its January issue, which features Streep (along with some groundbreaking jacket-wearing methods). Inside the 62-year-old says that when she was offered three different witch roles after turning 40, she felt it meant older women were "grotesque on some level" and told her husband, "It's over." The Associated Press notes that she "jokes in the magazine she's the 'oldest person'" to appear on the cover, but it's true. Priscilla Presley was 59 when she posed for the magazine in 2004, but she shared the cover with her daughter and granddaughter. Streep has appeared in international editions of Vogue, but in 2010 the average age of cover models in the American magazine was only 33. More »
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Fashionista has spotted a magazine mystery that will put those skills you developed while reading Highlights to good use. On the right we have Carey Mulligan's October 2010 Vogue cover, and on the left is the November 2011 issue of Elle France. The two covers obviously used the same photo, though it seems like the images may have been tweaked slightly in Photoshop. Mulligan's left arm, eye makeup, and smile look a bit different, but it's possible it's a scanner issue. More »
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You can't help but be a little underwhelmed with Vogue's forty-item gift guide, which, with a total price of more than $900,000 (that's probably a little higher than Somalia's non-pirate-booty GDP), doesn't even include the limited-edition polar bear skin bedspread that the World Wildlife Fund is selling this Christmas to raise awareness about the bears' eroding Arctic habitat. Still, even without the endangered animal pelts or vouchers for the terminally-postponed mission to Mars, the guide is impressively pricey, offering everything from wave runners to eight-dollar Bulgari-branded bottled water, presumably distilled from the bittersweet tears of Olympic silver-medalists. "Order it by the case!" commands Vogue, to taste the subtle undertones of dissipated dreams. More »
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Fashion's glitterati came out last night for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards in New York. The style at the event really ran the gamut—there were some fun looks, some severe looks, some risks that paid off, and some that did not. More »
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Oh, is it time for another Charlize Theron profile? In which we will learn that she consumes alcohol and uses swears and ? It's been like three months since the last one, and easily scandalized editors seem to still be surprised that a woman could drink and say "fuck," so why not? In fact, looking back over the long list of past Charlize Theron profiles, in men's magazines and in women's, it's pretty clear: there's only one way to profile Charlize Theron. The elements of the ur-text, as best as we can determine, are as follows: More »
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Rooney Mara's November cover of American Vogue has hit the Internet. The Dragon Tattoo adaptation star was photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Mara wears a Ralph Lauren dress, the back of which features a dragon embroidered on illusion. Subtle. [Fashin] More »
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British Vogue says its current Adele cover is "one of the magazine's most popular (and best-selling)," but didn't make any circulation numbers available, perhaps because it is still on sale. [Vogue UK] More »
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Here is what Franca Sozzani, editor of Italian Vogue, has to say about her magazine featuring "slave earrings," with a bizarre caption about "women of colour": "It is a matter of really bad translation from Italian into English," according to a statement. More »
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The Vogue brand is no stranger to offensive missteps. In the past we've seen French Vogue do blackface, American Vogue portray LeBron James as King Kong, and Indian Vogue put a Fendi bib on an impoverished child. However, Vogue Italia always seemed a bit more enlightened than its sister publications. Just three years ago, the magazine put out its first "all black" issue, which (while not without its questionable moments) did more than any other edition to push for more diversity in fashion. More »
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Vogue's photos of Kate Moss's wedding are the centerpiece of the magazine's all-important September issue — but someone got a little over-zealous with the post-production manipulations. In Mario Testino's studio portrait of Moss and her daughter Lila Grace, several of the 8-year-old's fingers have been erased. More »
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1. That week in 1975 she "disappeared" with Bob Marley. More »
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This will shock you: The women portrayed in ladymags don't reflect their readership. In this case, when it comes to age. More »
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Last night, the Council of Fashion Designers of America held its annual awards show, a night where celebrities applaud designers and models are treated like celebrities and Lady Gaga wears even more uncomfortable shoes than usual. Gaga arrived late to the red carpet, where her sister Natali Germanotta walked alongside her. Gaga wore a blue wig and a Mugler dress with an enormous train, which she later removed to accept her award. Anderson Cooper hosted the show — and treated the crowd to photos of his child modeling days — before running off, as Diane von Furstenberg put it, "to deal with a Weiner." Gaga was dubbed a Fashion Icon, Kanye West reminded us how much he loves Phoebe Philo, and Grace Coddington presented legendary photographer Arthur Elgort with a special tribute award. More »
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The new Vogue Paris includes a lovely editorial by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Sasha Pivovarova wanders around the East Village, looking pleasantly familiar (without verging on annoyingly derivative). More »
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The Stefano Gabbana half of Dolce & Gabbana was sent an advance copy of American Vogue's June issue — because Penelope Cruz wears a Dolce & Gabbana dress on the cover and in several pages of the accompanying inside spread. More »
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Kate Moss is manhandled by three swarthy (and very objectified) dudes on the just-released May cover of Vogue Paris, the second produced on new editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt's watch. So far, Alt seems to be sticking to the supermodels: her first cover featured Gisele Bündchen. Carine Roitfeld, Alt's predecessor, ran some great Gisele and Kate covers during her tenure, too, but also liked to throw a few unknown models into the mix. More »
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March, 2011: Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, as photographed by James Nachtwey for American Vogue. More »
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American Vogue's fawning, and roundly criticized, profile of Asma al-Assad, the First Lady of Syria, got me thinking about the almost-funny and totally abject stupidity of so much of that luxury rag's "coverage" of "serious" world events. From puff-pieces about dictatorships to homeless chic, models posed as oil-slicked birds to an urban guerilla fashion story, Vogue really has done it all! Never mind the fact that nobody in their right mind would ever pick it up for its up-to-the-minute reports from Benghazi: willful obliviousness on this scale has to be seen to be believed. More »
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Reese Witherspoon is on the cover of Vogue, again. "AMERICA'S SWEETHEART TOUGHENS UP," alleges the hard-hitting ladymag, which previously investigated Witherspoon's NEW STYLE in November of '08. But our favorite cover line is "WINNING BAGS AND SHOES." Charlie, is that you? [TFS] More »
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Ex-editor of Vogue Paris Carine Roitfeld is decompressing from her former job by not wearing tight skirts anymore — instead, she wears "no-name t-shirts," hand-made purple shoes, and jeans, something she once told an interviewer were "for my assistants." These days, she also admits, "The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer. But when I see how good the photos have turned out or even how well the coat was made or how many people worked on it, it's not quite so obscene anymore. Of course, it's not like we're working in a hospital; we don't save lives every month. We just make decisions about skirt lengths, about an inch more or an inch less. That's all." Der Spiegel asked the obvious follow-up: Didn't that ever seem pointless? And Roitfeld replied: "For 10 years, it was a hell of a lot of fun. But, toward the end, it unfortunately got less and less fun. You used to be able to be more playful, but now it's all about money, results and big business. The prêt-à-porter shows have become terribly serious. The atmosphere isn't as electric as it once was, and they now have about as much charm as a medical conference. But it takes just one good fashion show to get things exciting again." [Spiegel] More »
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Lester Brathwaite does. So he's replicated 10 Vogue-approved poses. Because everyone knows leaping off curbs on sunny days and striding down cobblestone streets are like catnip to them! More »
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Vogue Mexico is the first edition of Vogue to feature Crystal Renn on its cover. I dig the Gia-Carangi-1970s vibe of that hair and that BLUE EYESHADOW. More »
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Buried in the standard fare of WSJ.'s profile of Anna Wintour — "She's been editor of the American edition of Vogue since 1988, and by now it has become commonplace to call her the most powerful woman in fashion" is the line that tells you everything you already didn't need to know — come a few little reflective gems, some from Wintour herself and some from her powerful friends and associates. More »
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Tyra Banks told New York that Lady Gaga having worn a meat dress to last year's Video Music Awards "doesn't make me upset." Banks continued, "Lady Gaga is such an artist that I doubt that she was looking at Top Model or her stylist was looking at Top Model and saying we should do it. I think they just did it and we just happened to do it first." Actually, America's Next Top Model was not the first to showcase meat as fashion. Not even close. More »
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Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani says she initially blamed Facebook for furthering the pro-anorexia movement, but then she did some "research" and found pro-anorexia websites and blogs (many of which, I would wager, use Vogue images as motivation). More »
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In concert with her MAC Viva Glam campaign, Lady Gaga is encouraging Little Monsters to contribute profile photos to be incorporated into "the most beautiful thing she's ever worn." The cause is great, but this sounds potentially ominous. [Viva Glam]

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It's here — Vogue's annual "Shape" issue, and the cover Rihanna Tweeted about back in January. First reaction? Annie Leibovitz clearly mixed up her mood boards, because this looks like an outtake from her Disney campaign — Riri is looking very Ariel the Little Mermaid. Only in skintight Chanel, natch. More »
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Among the insights contained in More Intelligent Life's sensitively written profile of Vogue's Grace Coddington is that she was once briefly married to Michael Chow, who founded the restaurant Mr. Chow. (It only lasted six months, because, Coddington says, "I was useless at being a restaurateur's wife — much too shy to table-hop.") And when Anna Wintour took over British Vogue, in March of 1986, Coddington — who'd been working as a stylist at the magazine for six years — quit within a few months. In the words of one fashion writer, Coddington had been doing "sprawling, National Geographic-style photo essays — more than 20 pages long — in which the clothes were so smoothly integrated they barely registered as fashion photographs at all," but, says Coddington, "Anna was much more into ‘sexy' than I was." [More Intelligent Life] More »
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Best part of the interview? "'I like to create what I call ‘tablescapes,' " she explains. 'It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?'" O, RLY? (And, yes, then she creates an ominous-sounding "Founding Fathers" tablescape.) More »
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[If you have a keen eye, and you look very closely, you will see, in microscopically tiny red letters, the words "FUCK YOU PETA" embroidered somewhere between the spots of this coat. Seriously, it's there! New York, February 15. Image via Flynet.] More »
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With models like Crystal "Vogue Paris" Renn becoming true crossover stars, and agents like Gary Dakin of Ford+ reporting so much demand that he turns work down, it seems like the fashion industry is finally starting to recognize the beauty of bodies that aren't runway-sample-sized. Here are five plus-size models we think are ripe for mainstream success. We'd love to see any one of them on the runway this fashion week. More »
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• 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.

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