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By Brian Moylan Miami International Fashion Week isn't just about world-famous designers like Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Munib Nawaz, and Amato Couture but it's really all about the fashion shows. Today it was time for the biggest bash of them all: The Mara Hoffman collection was presented at Soho Studios....

By Brian Moylan Sexual Intrigue: Lets Rufus keep his Welcome Back, Kotter mugs, because she secretly thinks they're cooler than that stupid Prada sign she has hanging in her living room: +3

By Brian Moylan Also lonely this week was Emma, who didn't spend as much time lusting after Will as she did trying to be the voice of reason. She lets Will know that mining the past for the future is a bad idea. "I started an online flirtation with my high school crush, Andy. It got weird and I ended it. Two months lat...

By Richard Rushfield Coco Before Chanel The Story: Headstrong young Coco dreams of shaking up fashion. The Pitch:: La Vie en Rose meets Devil Wears Prada Who It's For: Those who like to swoon to period design. Cause for Hope: Looks harmlessly charmante.

By Chris Wilson This was kind of amazing because I had been thinking about Scorsese's Taxi Driver, particularly that Travis Bickle line about wishing for a rain to come and wash the scum off the streets, when Fifth Avenue was jammed with even more slow-moving tourists than usual courtesy of the consumer...

By Brian Moylan We took the V (for Vogue) train all the way out to Queen's Center in Rego Park, Queens to find the queen of the fashion world. The Mall itself looks like any other mall in any city in America, and the Macy's is like any other Macy's. One shooter asks his friend, "What's happening?" "Anna Wintour i...

By Brian Moylan So, just why is Anna doing this? Of course if all the brands go out of business, so will Vogue. But times of crisis are also the best times to consolidate power. Who knows if this one-night shopping event will save New York's fashion industry (it won't) but it already has people talking about An...

By Brian Moylan The character created by one-time Wintour assistant Lauren Weisberger and portrayed (brilliantly!) in the movie by Meryl Streep is a caricatured version of the magazine tyrant meant to sell books and movie tickets. She throws her coat and bag at her assistants, she has exacting standar...

By Ryan Tate She was like Hannibal Lecter. She barely moved, she sat at the edge of her chair. She's reptilian. Host David Letterman asked the Vogue editor about her Devil Wears Prada image, saying something along the lines of, "You've got a reputation of someone who chews people and spits them out."

By Ryan Tate Twitter's @RealAnnaWintour gets some things right, sorta: long work hours, plugs for the magazine, and avid advocacy on behalf of the fashion industry. But there are way too many exclamation points (nine in a row?!); Anna Wintour does not follow Perez Hilton; nor does she tout "swine flu...

By Ryan Tate At fashion-heavy magazines like those run by Condé Nast, free schwag helps make up for lackluster pay, a practice that became more widely known with the Vogue roman-à-clef Devil Wears Prada, in which an assistant's raid on the magazine clothes closet is a key plot point.

By Foster Kamer So now she's calling out designers, and there's a decent list of them: "Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and fellow designers at Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and other top fashion houses," notes the The Times. Supermodel Erin O'Connor:

By T.A.N. It's December 09. The recession is over kids. What are we gonna do today? Go to Disney World? Nope! Same thing we do everyday T.A.N., try to take over the world. Let's say a prayer of solace for retailers who won't have to con us into buying cheap crap by saying it will make us "recessionistas" or con u...