Anna Wintour’s Fashion Week Diary: Update II
10:34 a.m.: Anna got off the phone to talk to some redhead sitting next to her—but is now back on. Redhead clearly not a great conversationalist.… READ ON
10:34 a.m.: Anna got off the phone to talk to some redhead sitting next to her—but is now back on. Redhead clearly not a great conversationalist.… READ ON
10:35 a.m.: The show is about to start! Anna hadn’t been wearing her glasses, but they’re on now.… READ ON
10:38 a.m.: Unfortunately, Anna’s bodyguard didn’t get a seat. He’s crouched in the aisle next to Andre.… READ ON
10:42 a.m.: Anna just checked her phone. OMG she’s totally bored with Vera Wang.
10:46 a.m.: Glasses still on. The show started 11 minutes ago and she’s already checked her… READ ON
WAXING POETIC Obama’s secret? Frequent brain massages (Photo: Getty Images)
It seemed a bit poorly timed when Oprah‘s new, post-Super Tuesday show yesterday returned to that scary, well-trod favorite subject… READ ON
10:49 a.m.: The show has ended. Wintour’s holding her phone and applauding half-heartedly by clapping the back of one hand into the palm of the other. She stops after a… READ ON
With Rolling Stone swooping in on its Britney Spears cover story heat, Blender goes to the video. Writer Michael Gross reveals how Sam Lutfi became the catalyst in the paparazzi… READ ON
Time‘s “The Page” page is reporting that former Massachusetts governor/French missionary/solid block of hair Mitt Romney will withdraw from the Republican presidential race, possibly right now. [Time]… READ ON
AND EVERY DAY Sign (Photo: Choire Sicha)
Most neighborhood liquor stores merely need to deal with shaky alcoholics when they open in the morning. East Village Wines is coping with… READ ON
An American woman’s business meeting at a Saudi Arabian Starbucks went horribly awry when she was nabbed by the religious police for being in public with a man to whom… READ ON
Katharine Weymouth, the late Katharine Graham’s grand daughter who has long been identified as the heir apparent to her uncle, Don Graham, chairman of the Washington Post company, has been… READ ON
12:33 p.m.: Inquiries into Anna’s whereabouts are being met with cold stares in the press lounge.
12:52 p.m.: Anna remains elusive. A few Sex and the City Movie promo people… READ ON
ART CRIME SCENE Eat your heart out Damien Hirst
Is there any greater muse for an artist than a woman’s beauty? How could you look at this duct-taped trash bag… READ ON
1:45 p.m.: No sight of Anna, but we did talk to self-proclaimed “runway coach” Dexter Ivy, who saw her earlier today. His assessment of her strut: “She gets nervous. She… READ ON