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In the current issue of W, fashion stylist Nicola Formichetti is quoted relating a rather damning anecdote about his time at Dazed & Confused magazine. Formichetti says he once walked off the set of a shoot with the techno-world music fusion group Zohar. What had the band done to offend Nicola Formichetti? The stylist didn't like that they were "fat." More »
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We got a peek at the July cover of W on Tuesday, but now that we can see the photograph of Christina Aguilera — shot by Daniele Duella & Iango Henzi — more clearly, we must ask: What the fuck? More »
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Both of the covers of the new W have leaked. The snapshot of Christina Aguilera's cover that was leaked leaves a lot to be desired, so perhaps it isn't a fair fight, but Beyoncé is clearly winning this one. Lynn Hirschberg's profile of Aguilera — "The pop diva comes clean about her fall from grace, and how she's singing her way back to the top" — sounds like it will make for interesting reading, however. But who are we kidding? We'll totally flip to "Donatella on a dirt bike, Lagerfeld in the tub" first. [AfterLD, ONTD] More »
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• Brett Favre's unsolicited-penis-picture-sending ways might cost him his endorsement deal with Wrangler. The company wouldn't comment on the athlete's future with the brand, but said it was following the story, "like everyone else." [WWD]

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• Kim Kardashian, who regrets posing nude for Playboy, is nekkid on the cover of W.

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So: These two sexy creatures are promoting their film Blue Valentine. But the folks at W obviously know that you wish Ryan "Hey Girl" Gosling was embracing you instead of Jen from Dawson's Creek. More »
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"Fashion Cliques" is supposedly a fun little listicle thingy on page 202 of the September issue of W. The concept: A guide which categorizes fashionable women as one of five different "types." Including "The Girl Who Eats Her Feelings." More »
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In fall 2007, WWD and The New York Times published pieces about the absence of black models on the fashion runways. We did our own tally of black models in fashion magazines, and came up with some shocking statistics. More »
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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. More »
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The man known as Don Draper — and actress Rebecca Hall — are promoting the Ben Affleck-directed film, The Town, and if it's anything like the moody, gorgeous photographs by Nathaniel Goldberg, we're already in line for tickets. (Images below!) More »
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to W Magazine. She also says: "I've never had a longing to have children… I've been thinking about it lately because it's like, Oh, God, am I going to do this? I don't know is the answer." [TheLifeFiles, W] More »
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• "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]

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• 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]

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Cate Blanchett comes off as smart, silly, and charmingly self-deprecating in this W Magazine profile. And, as Danielle Stein writes: "Blanchett is the rare actress who does not lament the lack of good film roles for women." More »
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Demi Moore is still claiming her W cover wasn't Photoshoppped, and tells Bazaar: "I called the photographers, and they said, 'We did not touch anything on your hip, your thigh, or your waist. It was the position.'" [New York, Earlier] More »
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"I don't like to exploit anybody. That's not my bag. Everyone has fun on my shoots," says fashion photographer Terry Richardson. But those who work with him continue to accuse him of sexual harassment, and they've told us their stories. More »
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• Some of Alexander McQueen's friends say that his suicide was not entirely unexpected. A few days before the death of his mother, he declared in a meeting that he "wasn't interested in making fashion anymore, that he hated it." [ToL]

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And who keeps leaking the "before" shots of Madonna photo shoots? More »
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• "I'm just happy to have someone who wants to talk to me [about fashion]," says Victoria in LOVE. "Normally, David's like, ‘Stop it, I don't want to talk about clothes anymore! I want to talk about motorbikes and tattoos." [WWD]

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Welcome back to Midweek Madness! Today we learn that Angelina Jolie likes orchids and sex toys; Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are friends with benefits and a hot shoot for W magazine; Nadya "Octomom" Suleman thinks surgery is "cheating." More »
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Vivienne Westwood's menswear show on Sunday featured models in frostbitten makeup carrying bed rolls and pushing shopping carts down the runway. It also made us ponder the evolution of the curious (and strangely recurrent) trend known as "homeless chic." More »
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• Britney Spears is returning as the face of Candie's, minus the pink spray-painted haybales. [People]
• Julia Roberts is in Paris for a week, shooting advertising for her previously-announced Lancôme contract. The endorsement deal is worth a reported $20 million. [Radaronline]

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In her interview for the February issue of W Magazine Rihanna talks about her music, her style, and her relationship with Chris Brown. The accompanying spread is similarly themed: sex, violence, and rock & roll. More »
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Anthony Citrano, the photographer who accused W of Photoshopping Demi Moore's hip, claims that W Korea added a hip onto the same image for their January issue. Also: BoingBoing's been threatened with a lawsuit. [Anthony Citrano Photography via Us, BoingBoing] More »
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• Gossip Girl's Jessica Szohr scored the February cover of Teen Vogue. She says dating Ed Westwick is easy because "He's a rad guy… he's awesome and smart and talented and adorable, and we make each other laugh." [Teen Vogue]

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How does a celebrity keep a fading, potentially unflattering story about digital manipulation alive? She gets her legal counsel to intervene with a stern missive to bloggers that, like many women's magazine images, bears little to no resemblance to reality. More »
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Julianne Moore, nude, in the spring Bulgari campaign in a 2004 W story about Moore shot by Michael Thompson. The Bulgari campaign, which is still forthcoming, is the work of Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. [LOVE] More »
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Jennifer Garner gets a profile and edgy black-and-white photoshoot in W because she's a famous Hollywood actress. But reading the interview, you get the idea that that's not who she wants to be. More »
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Not content with existing forensic analysis of Demi Moore's strangely-angled hip on the new W magazine, one conspiracy theorist suggests the magazine superimposed a Balmain runway shot of Anja Rubik. Crazier things have happened, but this theory is rather farfetched. More »
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Although Demi Moore has denied that her W cover was dramatically Photoshopped to accidentally remove part of her hip, a photographer who also noticed it is calling bullshit... to the tune of $5,000. More »
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The other day, a few eagle-eyed commenters pointed out that Demi Moore's left hip on the December cover of W mysteriously receded to the point that appears narrower than her thigh. So...what happened? More »
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Why, in so many fashion photographs, do the models look dead? It's a theme that's persisted in magazines as long as I can remember. These ads for the New Zealand boutique Superette are only the tip of the violence-glamorizing iceberg. More »
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• "No one wants to see curvy women," says Karl Lagerfeld, who has struggled with his weight. "You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly." [News.com.au]

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"I usually like a very trashy pink. Oscar [de la Renta] doesn't do that…. Usually, who has the best of those pinks are the drag queens." — Iman, in 1997, who is featured in this flashback column. [W] More »
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• Colin Firth won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in former Gucci designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, A Single Man. [Vogue UK]
• Did Louis Vuitton make a $590 knock off of this New Balance sneaker? [WWD]

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You're 15 and working at Bazaar. Cool! At least it's not W, where you'd have to see these fetish-y shots of your dad and his new wife… including one where she's topless. [W] More »
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"It's like Cinderella fantasy. It's like the cool kids club… It's so fun to vamp and be sexy and do all these things because I wear sweatpants." [Just Jared] More »
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We knew Madonna met her new guy, Jesus Luz, at a photoshoot in Brazil, but we didn't know that the shoot required Jesus to be mostly naked. Not that we're complaining. He's hot: More »
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For his W shoot, Brad Pitt requested amazing artist and photographer Chuck Close, who is known for his "superdetailed" portraits which reveal every line and wrinkle in the skin. Close says: More »
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