Role Call: Yolanda Sacristan, Spain (seated), Kirstie Clements, Australia (middle), Anaita Adajania, India (back), Christiane Arp, Germany (seated), Angelica Cheung, China (standing), Franca Sozzani, Italy (seated), Mitsuko Watanabe, Japan (standing), Anna Wintour, America (seated), Emmanuelle Alt, France (reclining), Alexandra Shulman, Britain (seated), Victoria Davydova, Russia (standing), Anna Harvey, representing Brazil and Greece (seated), Seda Domanic, Turkey (seated), Myung Hee Lee, Korea (seated), Rosalie Huang, Taiwan (standing), Eva Hughes, Mexico and Latin America (standing), Paula Mateus, Portugal (seated)

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Editors, we salute you.

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They will be joined by Condé Nast International chairman, Jonathan Newhouse, to form Voguetron show support for the country’s ravaged economy and fashion industry. This show of support includes a gala dinner for fashion executives, celebrities and VIPS on November 4th and Anna will once again miss my birthday when the next day she and the other Vogue ladies attend the Tokyo FNO. [WWD]

Speaking with the Huffington Post, Enninful notes that while there are “still very few black people,” the American fashion industry has reassessed its approach to fashion. And who else do we have to thank but that certified brick house of a Fierce Lady, Michelle Obama:

“You know, for one of the most influential women in the country to be black. I know that meant a great deal to a lot of black people in the fashion industry. And also now we have Twitter, we have the internet, and I’ve seen so many young black people who are involved in fashion. They’re making their own clothes, they’re styling, they’re taking photographs, and I guess the future generation to come, they’re all racing to become one global fashion industry. That’s what I hope, anyway.”

Enninful goes on to describe working with Franca Sozzani on the now legendary “Black Issue” of Vogue Italia, claiming the editix “put her money where her mouth is”:

“She continued to feature black models, she continued to feature different body types or body shapes. She continued to challenge the norm, which is the question that we’ve been talking about, and I feel that’s what we want to take from W as well. We want to make everybody a part of the after-party.”

It’s kind of ridiculous that it’s 2011 and we’re still discussing racism at all, let alone racism in an industry as forward-thinking and revolutionary as fashion. Andrej Pejic just did double duty in mens and womenswear during São Paulo Fashion Week, after all.

Luckily there are people like Ed Enninful leading the way towards a new ethnically rich and diverse fashion frontier. [HuffPo]

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Eva Herzigova becomes a wild child for Vogue Italy. Shot by Steven Meisel, the model proves that the woods is where we can all go to play.

Great use of color and incredibly (possibly unachievable) looks, but still, inspiring. Although I must warn that this could quickly head in the zone of Halloween if you don’t dress it right, and possibly tone it down.

Editorial: Vogue Italy May 2010, Love is in the Hair

Photographer: Emma Summerton

Model: Sasha Pivovarova

A look that requires little effort, but a love of orange, this might not work this summer if you’ve been tanning like a Jersey Shore reject. But, if you’ve maintained a porcelain glow, then by all means accentuate, accentuate, accentuate.

Amica May 2010

Model: Bruna Tenorio

Photographer: Ishi

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A bit of nudity in this spread for Vogue Italy, starring fave model Abbey Lee Kershaw.

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Love the updated soccer mom approach to this spread.

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Steven Meisel shot Sasha Pivovarova and Ash Stymest for the homeless-chic September cover of Italian Vogue.

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Photographed by Odette Sugerman, Kate looks dashing in this spread for Vogue Italia.

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Models Meghan Collison, Dorothea Barth Jorgensen, Julia Hafstrom, Nimue Smit, Lucas R, Sara Blomqvist, Marcel Castenmiller, and Anna de Rijk star in the latest 80s inspired spread shot by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italy.

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This vintage editorial spread by Steven Meisel appeared in Vogue Italy in August of 08.

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Love this spread, it’s so whimsical and colorful. Also, this model has been everywhere lately, most recently seen in the McQueen campaign.

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Vogue Italy asked acclaimed photographer Steven Meisel to “do something crazy” for their next issue.  The result: Total sensory overload. The shoot, called “Vogue Patterns,” is just that: Layers and layers of patterns. Explosions of colors and shapes.

Thanks Jezebel.