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CFDA Results

Apparently the CFDA awards are "fashion's Oscars." Aren't the Oscars fashion's Oscars? Sort of? Eh, maybe not.

For reasons we will get into in a second, we will say our favorite picture from the event was this one, of Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham. We liked that dress about three thousands time more once we realized that it's made from lots of hearts.

Er, anyway: Our best-dressed—well, our best dress, anyway, was this Rodarte:

We were going to put this photo in the top spot, but the model is just too scrawny and we have thereby deducted points. And that is like doubly weird because the Mulleavy sisters aren't, and we expect better from them.

The actual winners were:

- Francisco Costa \ Calvin Klein for womenswear
- that crazy bat Tom Ford for menswear
- Tory Burch for accessories
- And the Mulleavys \ Rodarte for emerging talent

This comment just came in:

victoria beckham is just as scrawny looking as the model, no?

We were thinking about that a lot before we posted this whole thing. We actually think the answer is o, or at least not quite. But we're well aware it's cutting a fine slice. Maybe it's the fake tan—we're probably not supposed to be judgmental either way, but Posh just looks in the realm of reasonable to us, and that Rodarte model looks like she's about to fail over. But we see the opposing position here.

Newsgathering At H&M

We were at H&M this weekend, returning the Viktor and Rolf items we realized we actually could not, in fact, afford, and, doing our duty, asked if the next guest designer was going to be Miuccia Prada, as the rumor goes.

"Well, actually the next designer is Madonna," she said, pointing at the tracksuit thing.

We were like, "Right, right, but that doesn't count." Actually we were more like, "Do we look like total idiots?" but she was friendly, so let's leave that at that. We asked again about Miuccia, and all she would say is, in the bullet points, or at least dashes, you so rarely get to enjoy in art school:

- It will be someone "famous." "Viktor and Rolf are kind of niche," she said, "but everybody will have heard of this one."

- And the decision will be announced in January.

Okay. We expected to make use of more than two dashes. Three, actually, is what we were aiming for. But: Obviously she neither confirmed nor denied the Miuccia rumor, and neither did she give us the Small Nod of Acknowledgement. All we know is that we witnessed, first hand, the mayhem caused by two rather conceptual Dutch designers who sent their models out last year wearing giant pillows. We cannot, we just cannot, imagine the potential Prada mayhem.

The Next H&M Designer

We have it on moderately good authority: Miuccia Prada. Can you imagine? Seriously. Can you imagine? Forget 3 a.m.: There's going to be a line outside the door for three weeks. Honestly. We ask twice becuase we really can't imagine.

Miu Miu dress, $1295

Fashion News: Pete Doherty, Tom Ford, and Sophia Kokosalaki Misunderstands Nine West's Location in the Cultural Firmament

- Pete Doherty will "design" a menswear for "trendy Manchester label Gio-Goi," debuting the collection "at a planned gig in a secret London location before Christmas." We put "design" in quotes because we are reading this to mean that he is going to get high, pass out, and be coaxed by a team of groupies into some underpaid-yet-actual designer's $500 jeans. Love that hat, btw.

- Every time we think of Tom Ford, we think of Fonzie on the water skis jumping over the shark. Maybe applying some of his new fragrance on to Keira Knightley's neck.

- We find the Sophia Kokosalaki and Nine West collaboration very confusing, and very small.

Oprah - Hermes Update

Page Six reports this morning that Hermes has offered our Oprah a rather unenthusiastic apology, blaming the staff's boutique-barring on "a PR event being set up inside." Quandary: Does this mean we should buy more, or less, counterfeit Hermes?

Oprah says "Merde" and We Say, Two Fingers Up to Hermes

Those French cows: Hermes blocks Oprah's entrance to their Parisian boutique, says Page Six, because the store had been "having a problem with North Africans lately." People, she could have bought your entire country with her pocket change.

Semi-Breaking News: Stella McCartney Joins the H&M All-Stars

Stella takes over for Karl again — first at Chloe, now at H&M. Hot pants, gladiator shoes, unresolved hatred of same-age stepmother ... should be a fascinating November at H&M.

Weekly Wrap Up

- Just wondering, but have you entered our Mary-Kate and Ashley haiku contest? No pressure.

- Is everyone aware that this is Russian Fashion Week? We thought it was just Revelations week. Fashion Wire Daily reports that models for local line Vassa staged a runway catfight and were pulled off each other by security guards. Now that's comedy.

- We always thought Chip and Pepper were the Proenza Schouler of denim, and that their partnership would one day be ripped asunder by some foxy Vogue staffer. But apparently they're brothers. Did everyone else know this?

- Sale of the weekend: Theory's lemonade cashmere sweater. Theory's kind of the epitome of the wardrobe we'd had if we were smart enough to major in economics and get an investment banking job. Somewhere, in an alternate universe, we're enjoying cashmere Theory sweaters, doorman buildings, and a comprehensive health care plan and we probably want to shoot ourselves in the head. $210 marked down to $147

- Today we were walking to the grocery store and saw this puddle that was not a puddle. Of water, anyway. And this guy walking toward us seriously aims for it, and splashed so much dog pee into the air that we could see how it was a tiny bit yellow. That was the second most disgusting sidewalk incident we've ever had, after stepping in dog poo in our pink Tsubo shoes and then cleaning the fucked one with (a) hose and (b) sacrificial toothbrush while making gagging noises the whole time.

This city is going to hell in a handbasket.

Breaking News: Tom Ford Joins Estee Lauder

- Thank God. Who cares. All it means is that we'll never have to read another "What Will Tom Ford Do Next?" story. Now we can focus on the really important things in life, like Karl Lagerfeld's tuna blackberry mousse-centric diet book.

By the way, the first sentence of the linked piece describes Ford as being "controversial." Dudes. Gandhi was controversial. Desegregation legislation was controversial. Tom Ford = controversy like Paris Hilton = actress.

- Page Six reports that Demi Moore will be the new face of Versace. Now seriously: When will they admit that the Muppets' Janice was modeled on Donatella?

- Have you entered our Mary-Kate and Ashley haiku contest yet? There are PRIZES.

Headlines: More SJP \ JS news

- From the British tabloids, Sarah Jessica is pissed. They also call her a "Yummy Mummy." We find this annoying. Better than a MILF, however. Yummy Mummy > MILF. Feminism = totally not dead!

- In the new British Vogue, Joss lists Tom Cruise among her idols? That short, plastic, church-shill? Rock it, Joss!

- Apparently the Jenni Kayne show (above) was so excellent that Anthony Kiedis thought it'd be worth getting into a fight over. We don't entirely see the charm, but maybe Anthony was just having a menstrual day.

News Extra! Jesus Wins

France bans Girbaud's spring 2005 Last Supper-inspired billboard. "Tomorrow, Christ on the cross will be selling socks," says lawyer Thierry Massis, as reported by the BBC. Cashmere, we pray.

Today's Top Fashion Headlines

- Bijou Philips goes pop and Alex Wek goes splat! Models! Ha! The irony is that all this happened at the LA fashion week's runway-show pimping of the new PlayStation Portable, which we've heard from those in the know (read: v close gamer) that this is the most amazing thing since the iPod. We have no idea if that's true, but ... Alex Wek goes splat! Ha!

- Truth be told, we we never SATC girls, except for the clothes. The clothes we'd sleep with. The men were annoying. The ladies were ... sigh. But we have always loved the idea of SJP as a fashion icon: It's like, are you serious? The Square Pegs girl? With that nose? Have you seen the pilot SATC, with the pre-glam SJP, and the awful hair, and all that? It's proof that miracles happen, as long as there is a steady supply of Jimmy Choos and personal trainers. Bunnyshop loves nothing more than self-invention, and SJP is it. This is all why we are a little sad to hear Page Six report that the Gap has ditched SJP for 17-year-old British singer Joss Stone. We feel like we're a 55-year-old mom and our husband — whom, to be frank, represented a bit of a compromise — is leaving us for his marketing intern.

In apparently related news, Joss Stone's Janis Joplin medley with Melissa Etheridge is the #1 single on iTunes this afternoon.

- The debut of Bono's wife's fashion line, "Edun" — exclusively at Saks. Each pair of jeans is inscribed with the line: "We carry the story of the people who make our clothes around with us." Like our new knit hat that some coked-up Williamsburg hipster made so crappily it started unravelling two days after we bought it. We'd like to think her story involves puking all over her Prada handbag.

Today's Top Fashion Headlines

- Reports from the Prada and Armani shows in Milan, plus an FWD story where Ms. Prada is referred to as "Miuccia" throughout

- Last-minute Project Runway previews here, here, here, and — shockingly — a Wendy defense here

- Ha! Fonzworth Bentley's "Gentleman's Movement" continues unabated with a new show on BET, co-hosted with America's next Next Top Model, Eva Pigford: RIP THE RUNWAY. We're assuming that's "rip," not, like, "rest in peace"

- Bunnyshop would like to admit that she just had to fix the spelling of F.B.'s name, which she had somehow convinced herself was "Farnsworth." BS had missed the Happy Days shout-out of it all

Today's Top Fashion Headlines

- Snarky Jennifer Lopez runway report. It feels very 2002, just writing her name, but we appreciate the snark nonetheless. Mercury News registration required.

- The tragic end of As Four. You know how sometimes you don't bring the wedding gift, so sure you are that the marriage isn't going to last the year?

- The latest diffusion line, with Nicole Miller pimping — er, designing for JCPenney. We were going to make a joke about Michael Kors doing Sears, but he's almost there already, isn't he?