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ANNA WINTOUR IS OUT. CARINE ROITFELD IS IN!!!!

The biggest news of the century!!!

Anna Wintour is out, Carine Roitfeld of French Vogue is in!!!

It’s as if The Devil Wears Prada was some self-fulfilling prophecy, we just got the second greatest news of the year, aside from Barack Obama’s nomination.

Carine is a complete sweetheart (got to meet with her at the Gucci/Madonna party), a fashion icon, and a better dictator than Anna Wintour. Expect scales and all black Yohji Yamamoto to hit the offices of American Vogue pronto.

This is a bit of speculation, but it’s also some of the best news we’ve heard all year. Joysies.

The Devil Wears Prada, Part Duex

Seems like one of the films in competition at the Sundance Film Festival is a contender for the sequel to “The Devil  Wears Prada”.

The A&E documentary is focused on Vogue and Anna Wintour’s preparation of the September 2007 issue of the fashion tome.

I wonder if we’ll get a real dose of the editor-in-chief or a toned down Barbra Walters version.

Guess we’ll just have to wait until the Valentino gowns and Christian Louboutin heels clear before we make any judgments on how this documentary will shape up.

Thanks to WWD for the tip.

Fashion Quotables: Kanye West

Kanye West really does like being a bitch all the time according to this quote:

What I really want is an internship at a (design) house…

Internship? Not exactly “voice of our generation” material. Who does he think he is that Wint-Whoring shit bag Sean Avery?

Anna Wintour Considers Taking The High Road

Now don’t jump the gun and start sending in your applications to replace Anna Wintour (sorry folks, that’s my job!) but the queen bee of Vogue may, in fact, be retiring! With her contract at Condé Nast on the verge of expiration, several failing aspects of the Vogue corporation to remedy, lagging sales and an economic collapse just waiting to happen, this may be the perfect opportunity for the 59 year old fashion goddess to call it quits. Let’s face the music, Fashion Rocks is no longer and Men’s Vogue is down to two issues per year…if Wintour doesn’t know how to fix these problems, maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea to give someone else a shot. I love you Anna, don’t get me wrong, but let’s get some fresh, young blood in there. Perhaps try this girl named Kirby…I know how you can get in contact with her. 

Oy Viegh! Such news makes me want to watch The Devil Wears Prada! 

Thanks NY Mag! 

Before They Had Stylists: Anna Wintour

Before.

After.

Never in my life did I expect to have the same outfit as Anna Wintour! It appears to me that Wintour’s before photo is how I dressed in kindergarten…same haircut too! But hey, even the Queen of fashion makes mistakes! We’re all jealous of Wintour’s dream job and dream wardrobe, so why not take a gander at all of her fashion faux pas to make ourselves feel better:

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The Inter-Views of Fashion: Andre Leon Talley

While giving a speech in Philadelphia on Thur, Talley gave the audience a few tips for success:

Tip One: “Remember where you came from and how important that is, and that will sustain you,” he said. He was raised in North Carolina by his grandmother, who worked as a maid at nearby Duke University, but always dressed to the nines for church. “She didn’t have a lot, but she had remarkable style,” he added. “When I was 13, an uncle asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said, ‘A fashion editor.’ I had been reading Vogue for some time by then. My uncle said, ‘What is a fashion editor?’ My grandmother defended my decision. She always encouraged me.”

Tip Two: “Always be curious and do your research.” While he was working for Vreeland at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1975, she handed him a dress Claudette Colbert wore in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1934 screen version of “Cleopatra” and asked him to style the mannequin appropriately. He went to the library and decided that Cleopatra should be sunkissed and got special permission to have his model painted gold. “It matched the dress,” he added. “Mrs. Vreeland loved it.”

Tip Three: Travel and find beauty and style where you go.

Tip Four: Practice good manners. “I once had to follow a woman from Philadelphia named Mrs. T. Charlton Henry to Paris for her couture appointments at Givenchy,” Talley said. “It was an assignment for WWD. She wrote me a note after and said, ‘The best thing about you is your wonderful manners.’ I saved the note.”

Tip Five: Fetch coffee if you have to. “When you are lucky enough to land an internship or get your first job, do not be offended when someone asks you to make a Starbucks run,” he noted. “At my first job working for Andy Warhol, I answered phones, ran the stamp machine to the post office, made $50 a week and had to live at the YMCA. But I was literally introduced to the world through that job. Mr. Warhol encouraged me with enthusiasm. He thought everything you did was great.”

Tip Six: Find a mentor. Vreeland, he said, was his most important. “She taught me everything. Anna Wintour is now my mentor. She is not that person in ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’ She is like Catherine the Great of Russia. She has kept that magazine on top, raised money for the Met and for the Democratic party.”
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