What jappy mommy who reads Cookie actually prepares any kind of meal in which potato in the main ingredient? I mean, hello fatso calories. So it was a real bummer this month that the usually awesome feature, “So You Have … ,” which uses one in-season produce type to create three very different and delicious recipes, was centered around a vegetable that has been banished from the diets of all the vain, body-conscious women at whom Cookie is targeted (me most vigorously included). Except in the case of french fries of course. ‘Cause if you’re gonna be bad, you might as well be positively destructive!

Madonna’s Louis Vuitton ads are out, and I swear, at first I thought the Steven Meisel pics were outtakes from a 2003 shoot in W. But it turns out that that shoot was done by that other fashion photographer named Steven (Klein). So I guess the big takeaway is that Madonna still likes fishnets and she is still very flexible. A-Rod must be psyched.

Everyone is dying to know Anna Wintour’s future. I’m thinking she’s gonna survive this thing and we can count on Vogue being stale and disappointing for another three to five years. [Jezebel]

Thierry Mugler is designing costumes for Beyonce’s tour and directing some of the action, further fueling speculation that Sasha Fierce really is a drag queen. [WWD]

Not fair! I missed staying at the same amazing Austin hotel as Cathy Horyn by just two weeks! She also makes good points about retail during These Economic Times. [On the Runway]

While everyone else was opinionating on the inaugural-ball sketches that WWD solicited from the world’s top designers, Julia Turner of Slate makes the genius/obvious point that most of the designers drew Michelle Obama as a skinny white girl. So weird.

Speaking of Michelle Obama and Slate, don’t ask me why, but Josh Patner’s fashion advice to our future first lady made me teary.

Booby call! $200,000 worth of inflatable breasts have been lost in the seas of Oz! American fraternities have presumably adjusted their booze-cruise bookings accordingly. [Broadsheet]

Can you imagine being the flack given the assignment of Stephen Sprouse-ing Marc Jacobs? You just know he was sooo particular about the paint showing off the definitions.

Scary news of the week for moms everywhere: Ironing is making a comeback. [The juggle]

And just to prove that married men with a prostitute problem really do get a free pass in the work world, Eliot Spitzer got a financial column in Slate. [Jossip]