Is Andre Leon Talley selling out his heritage? Or is the big man using his highly visible perch to nudge Prada toward black models? As Vogue reminded everybody last month, Prada went 10 long years without a colored catwalk stalker, until Chanel Iman got the nod last year. And it seems way too coincidental that A.L.T. — a proud black man but also a fashion ho — would devote most of his column space to praising the offending designer’s resort collection while pointing out that Prada’s main source of inspiration is the 1967 African collection by Yves Saint Laurent. That the column’s accompanying image shows Sigrid Agren — a white model born, I swear, in Martinique — wearing leopard print, well, the irony, or whatever it is, is just too fabulous.

Why is a leftover leather scrap slapped on Eva Herzigova’s forehead?

Here’s how a “pal” of Jennifer Aniston describes the former Mrs. Pitt’s feelings about the arrival of Knox and Vivienne to Us Weekly: “She hopes the twins are beautiful. She’d never want anyone to be unhappy with their kids.” Yowsah!

“Internal photoshoppery” may win prizes as the best phrase to come out of Summer 2008. Apparently we all do internal photoshoppery, even when gazing at our own reflection. What does that mean? As revealed in Tuesday’s Science Times, test subjects are likelier to identify an enhanced image of themselves as the genuine article. Whether defense mechanism or delusion, I’d like to see techies transform this self-perception-deception into the reality of others. Like, if you’re really rich, you could order the mass implantation of “I’m Hot Chips” inside everybody’s brains. It could be called Mind-Control Botox! Minus frozen-face syndrome!