Coat-shopping season is officially open. New York Times Styles section features winter coat collections by Nanette Lepore, Theory, Juicy Couture, Marc and DKNY. Coats are gorgeous but a bit matronly, for us. [Sunday Styles]
Tweed empire coat and chinchilla belted car coat. Both by Nanette Lepore.

Amanda Lapore goes dressed as Lil’ Kim. More Event Photos
Club diva Amanda Lepore arrives at the Fendi 80th Anniversary All Hallows Eve Party in New York on October 29, 2005

I just ran into speak of the devil Gemma Ward on the corner Houston and Wooster. I’m happy to report that Gemma indeed has a beautiful face. To our astonishment, however, her ass was on the dumpy side! Not fat, mind you, but definitely wider than mine! I don’t know if you can share the significance of this event but I think my self esteem just grew a hundred points… Ohh I love Gemma!

Kate Moss is out of rehab. “She is in excellent spirits and looking forward to getting back to work,” reports the Daily News. But wait, here comes the wonky part: “Among those pulling for Kate is ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp. The actor is said to have given her the curious gift of a mirror. It’s not meant as a piece of drug paraphernalia, according to the London Sun. Rather, Depp, who’s part Cherokee, is said to have given it as a shamanic device to help Moss “face herself without fear.” Now who said something about keeping it real?

Calvin Klein’s latest “obsession” Gemma Ward edits the December issue of Vogue Australia. In the issue, Ward recounts, in detail, her experiences from the recent New York, Milan, and Paris shows for a fashion runway diary. In addition, Ward selected a portfolio of never-before-seen images of herself from backstage, at parties, and at fittings that will be published in the issue. Meanwhile, the issue also features an exclusive interview with Marc Jacobs, which she conducted immediately following his spring ’06 show. Gemma, she’s not just beautiful, she can also edit.

Page Six not so Blind Item outs pregnant supermodel Natalia Vodianova as a drinker and a pot-smoker. Naturally, Stoner Natalia comes as more of a surprise than Cocaine Kate. How can she possibly stay so model-skinny after all of the doritos, ice cream, and other assorted munchies?! That’s a mystery. [Gawker]

Fashion Week Daily comes out with insider tips to surviving an international fashion week.
A:Ab Zapper No one will ever know you’re working out from your front row seat.
G: Great Gams Fashion shows are the only place in the world where your calves get more airtime than your breasts/ass.
H: Horsey Good Looks Big teeth, rosy glow, Kennedy-esque. A classically American persona that must be earned and not bought. Aided by white wine in the daytime and ownership of livestock.
I: I.D. Have your VIP credentials at the ready, but for the love of god, never wear them around your neck. Ever.
K: Kisses Hugs are reserved for the people you love. Kisses are for everybody else.
M: Menswear Huh? What’s that?
N: Narcolepsy Get a little shuteye while chatting with nearby editors and socialites.
W: Willpower You want to trash-talk your rival magazine’s dumpy staff. Or to tell what’s-his-name that his collection was pompous and derivative. You may even want to scream obscenities and eat the caramelized sugar off all the crème brulées at your table. YOU CANNOT.

Please. Fashion editrix should stop pretending they hate the fashion week. We all know you exist for fashion weeks. Admit it already.

We just fell in love with this Ashley Tyler dress – so beautiful and so effortlessly cool.
“One Tree Hill” star Hilarie Burton usually wears a feminine piece, a masculine piece and something that doesn’t quite fit.” [NYT]

If you like David Bowie and Kate Moss this is your lucky day. We accidently found the scans of Q Magazine photosession with both icons. It could almost look as if there is chemistry involved between these two. But we know for sure Bowie laid off chemistry long time ago.
Fangirl wet dream: Bowie vs Moss.

Vogue.co.uk wonders if Givanchy muse Mariacarla Boscono is the next Kate Moss. “Speculation is rife that H&M is looking for a familiar face to front the forthcoming Stella McCartney collection, originally shot with Kate. Despite H&M failing to comment, fashion insiders believe the company is interested in both Mariacarla Boscono, who recently secured a contract with French fashion house Givenchy, and Erin O’Connor, whose recent campaign with M&S has been a great success for the previously ailing company. Those in the know think that Boscono is the more likely contender, as O’Connor will probably not be allowed to work for both H&M and M&S simultaneously.”

All those trying to stay one step ahead of fashion are already updating their looks for spring. Those in the know have already pulled out their gothic t-shirts, skinny pants, waist belts and sling-back wedges. Only the deaf and the blind continue sporting boho. (Ick!) Medieval knights and their dames are the inspiration for Spring 2006. JC Report suggests we take the que from Nicolas Ghesquiere and embellish ourselves with crests and crowns. The crusade is totally on, ladies.
Crests and crowns. Photos courtesy of JC Report

Donatella and Mariah, so captivating together, they should have a carnival booth.
Photos from Swarovski event in Monaco.

We are digging the Tom Ford photo shoot in W Magazine this month. If you haven’t seen it yet you owe it to yourself to check out the online version. Our favorite part is the Betty Crockers ad. Oh, Betty, help me do my thing Photos by Steven Klein

Maybe not. But these pictures surely put us in the mood for the holidays. “ You make me giddy!” screamed the Queen. Dior Haute Couture by John Galliano hand-painted polka-dot dress. Galliano as the Queen of Hearts, wears a Dior Haute Couture coat and is accompanied by his King, Alexis Roche. [Alice in Wonderland Photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz]

We want to go to Tokyo.

The envious unleashed on “Prada Marfa” $80,000 art installation in West Texas. Stole the shoes. Barbarians! Goons!
The Prada sculpture is the work of the Berlin artists Michael Emlgreen and Ingar Dragset.

The fashion world seems to be over volume. Except for Ms. Philo. Didn’t we wear those big flouncy dresses this summer already?
The new Chloé bag is a sure hit and the chunky platforms are j’adorable.

Finally got around to Sunday Times.
The trendy graphic tees, Andy Warhol edition. (Clickable)

Wintour was hit in the face with a tofu cream pie as she left the Chloe fashion ready-to-wear show at the Tuileries Gardens in central Paris.
Who cares about animals. PETA should pie Wintour every fashion week. Just for the hell of it.

People publishes celebrity fall fashions pics. Lindseys and Nicoles are dressed in things that look like the basics from Zara catalogue – velvet, frilly blouses, military jackets and flat boots – accessoriesed with studded hobo bags and black necklaces. There is something to be said about looking “very now” – it’s awfully close to looking “so five minutes ago”.

New celebrity duds. Stylists keep the good ones for themselves.

Italian brand Tod’s unveils the results of its search for a signature symbol. The solution doesn’t involve a “T” emblem as you might have imagined. “Tod’s handbags will now feature a pattern of little motorboats whizzing over water — motorboats that are stylized images of Tod’s popular driving shoe, with its trademark black-rubber pebbles around the edges. Tod’s says it plans to unveil a different design every season”. [WSJ]

Suburban bonanza: Tod’s new motif, center, and a few of the rejected designs.

All you have to do to succeed in the fashion biz, kids, is create a recognizable logo and plaster it all over your bags and shoes and your revenue will sky rocket! The masses like logos.

Greeks obviously love their past. Everything has this 300 BC feel.

We are j’adoring this.

Balenciaga Spring 2006

Zan Ludlum, casting associate from New York votes for:

Babies
Russian models
Shorts with heels
Messy hair
Cicada-wing earrings
Madeline Berrevoets at IMG
Freja at IMG
Snejana at DNA (shown right)
Steven Klein
Oversized bags
Latvia
Avenue C
Photographers making films
Gowns with pockets.

We totally agree. Except for the baby fad. Babies are so 2003.

American Apparel has had it with teen porn stars and is moving on to an entirely different demographic: geriatrics. Luckily models are fully clothed and do not appear to be photographed in any sexually suggestive positions. Let’s all hope AA keeps this one clean.

New American Apparel ad appearing in L Magazine

Kirsten Dunst shilling for Wal-Mart. How embarrassing.

What’s next, Nicole Kidman selling McDonalds?

UPDATE: This was a photoshop joke ya’ll. False alarm.

The New York Times declares a Russian moment in New York fashion pointing to the prominance of russky influece on Diane von Furstenburg and Marc Jacobs. Weird. We thought that the Russian moment ended two years ago, around time when Carrie Bradshaw ditched Alexander Petrovsky. But we thought wrong. What we were missing all along was the existence of a Russian It Girl: Anna Anisimova, the spawn of a Moscow aluminum lord, who evidently is conquering New York making all sorts of real estate deals. It is too bad NYT did not post a picture of that classless brat. We have a feeling we know her, a Just Cavalli-wearing Paris Hilton wonnabe that she is. [NYT]

It’s the Russian moment in New York! Put on your bling, everyone