>> As if those beautiful covers weren't enough, Fashion Week Daily, has spilled even more beans on that December issue of Vogue Paris we've all been panting after.  And they got the lovely Mme Carine Roitfeld, editor of Vogue Paris, to do the spilling: 

Roitfeld, in an interview from Los Angeles, said that her Dec. issue, which hits newsstands in the next week and was shot entirely in New York, was originally planned as four covers. The catch? “David Sims, Craig McDean, Mario Sorrenti, and Mario Testino were each supposed to shoot one cover and do a story with Kate inside,” she said. “But Kate basically disappeared for a month after only Craig had shot her, so we had to go with four of his shots.” In fact, had the project gone forward as planned, the McDean shot that would have actually achieved cover status would’ve been the one that featured Moss in the Dior Homme jacket and Superfine jeans.

As a result of having to check into rehab, the issue... was altered slightly. Roitfeld also noted several changes that occurred as a result. One story, for example, had Moss in all spring 2006 clothing that she herself chose and would wear out and about, whether to a black-tie or to the park. The Vogue team wanted to play off of the fact that women everywhere emulate Moss’s style, and through this story, these women would be able to get an advanced look at Moss’ spring style. “Kate is not a model for me; she’s an icon,” Roitfeld admitted. “She’s like the new Marilyn Monroe.” A planned story incorporating two of Moss’ favorite artists, Dinos and Jake Chapman, did make it into the issue.

Secondly, the decision was made not to give Moss top billing this time—unlike past editors like Sofia Coppola and Catherine Deneuve. Instead, she will be listed as a “special guest editor.”

And thirdly, in lieu of Moss’ photo on the editor’s letter page, Roitfeld dutifully stepped in after the supermodel was unavailable, posing in a custom-made shirt by Ricardo Tisci with the word “Kate” emblazoned across the chest. “It was the best I could do,” Roitfeld offered. As for the post-rehab photo that Moss gave the magazine to use, Roitfeld describes it as a “Thelma & Louise photo…in a convertible with the wind in her hair.”

Scrumptious.  To read the rest, venture over this way. 

>> Continuing the trend of celebrity ad campaigns, Selma Blair has been tapped as the new face of Chanel -- Chanel Vision, that is.  Kaiser Karl photographed her himself, and judging by the photo at left, I have to say he did not too shabby.  When asked about the campaign, Blair said: "I have a lovely relationship with Karl.  It's different to be shot by him. I'm so comfortable in front of him. Sometimes when I work with other photographers, they say ‘Give me more Selma, more, more.' But they don't really know who I am. With Karl, he's capturing something that's more — my personal flaws, the way I am as a girl, not a model."

**source: wwd

>>  Pop quiz --  This woman:

a) is the beautiful sister of The Fly

b) is an unknown just trying to make her way into the world

c) comes from the town of the hamburger -- you know, Hamburg, Germany

d) is using glamourous reverse psychology to scare kids away from the cancer sticks -- those public service announcements are starting to get cheeky

>>  From an interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, bigshot heads of the beautifulness (yes, I know that's not a word) that is Rodarte:

Laura: I went through a period where I dressed like a National Geographic photographer, probably to be eccentric.
Kate: I never understood that. She’d wear these weird sandals that people wear who hike in the woods. I was horrified. I went through a phase where I’d only wear really bad band tee shirts.
Laura: And really bad baggy sweaters.
Kate: You would joke that I’d go into any thrift store anywhere and pick out the ugliest sweater.