>>  I've been obsessed with the idea of a peeptoe boot ever since Prada did it for last spring, so seeing this picture The Sartorialist took of one of my favorite stylists ever, Vogue Paris' fashion director Emmanuelle Alt, with her in Fendi peeptoe booties, made me love her just that much more. 
Also, I would really like to obtain her shoes.  There's just something so unexpected about having a peeptoe in a shoe that is for all utility supposed to keep your foot warm.  I think that's what attracts me so much -- that element of surprise. 

>>  A variation on Little Edie's trademark headscarf/ headsweater/ headtowel was already seen at Prada, but will fashion be having another Grey Gardens moment again soon?   The movie has inspired countless editorials since it debuted in 1975, most famously Steven Meisel's for Vogue Italia in 1999, but with a Grey Gardens musical showing on Broadway starting next month, and a remake of the film with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange coming out next year, you could be seeing big brooches on heads and skirts worn upside down before you know it.  Those Beale women, they were staunch (S-T-A-U-N-C-H) characters, after all.

>>  I know, I am such a purist.  When I saw that Franca Sozzani had decided to put Nicole Richie on the cover of Vogue Italia's October 2006 issue, I thought I would just close my eyes, ignore it, and it would eventually go away.  I know Steven Meisel shot Nicole and people like Lance Bass, Paris Hilton, and Kathy Griffin in the accompanying editorial inside as a mockery of tabloid magazines, but really.  We have enough tabloids.  I've been holding onto the creativity that goes into the editorials we usually see in Vogue Italia (and also Vogue Paris) for dear life.   They are my monthly picture bibles.
To make it worse, now I'm hearing rumors that Paris Hilton is on an upcoming cover of Vogue Paris.  All I can hope for is that I will be very pleasantly surprised.