Remember when you were a kid, and you’d dream of running away from home to join another family because, say, there was a hot older brother who’d garner you lots of attention from his friends, or there were parents who stocked the pantry with sugar cereals and in later years let you drink their booze and steal their pot? And then you grew up and realized either that your family is awesome or that you really did need to run away and create something new? Well, French Vogue’s tender photo album of seven fashionable families will make you cherish whatever it is that you’ve got — or inspire you to get there. Tied for most adorable is Alber Elbaz & Alex Koo and Ian Schrager & Tania Wahlstedt with their four daughters. Most gorgeous, of course, is Ines de la Fressange and her girls. Oh, the gush!

Oh, mother. The arrival of a geriatric Thursday Styles in The New York Times can mean only one thing: The recession is truly upon us. With stories on chic pieces for the 40-plus customer, vision problems associated with aging and — horrors! — female hair loss, it’s evident that everyone from retailers to manufacturers to reporters at beleaguered papers realize that the youngsters who long dominated fashion trends and coverage have no money, while the oldies just may have a little extra in the bank for clothes and cosmetic procedures and, therefore, advertising. As one who falls right in between the two groups, my feelings are mixed — although if the shift means less Miley Cyrus and more women who look like The Times’s cute model, then it’s a welcome change in my visual landscape. Just no more wrinkly, bald ladies, please.

I had the best time in bed with Jonathan van Meter last night! Mr. MILF was there too! But before you contact the scandal sheets, maybe I should back up for a sec and clarify: Last night I devoured the master profiler’s absorbing pieces on Steven Meisel (in Vogue) and on the marriage of Nan and Gay Talese (in New York Magazine). And I happened to be under the covers while doing it. But that’s just location (and distraction). The point is, as a journalist, each story is envy-inducing. All three subjects are major influentials who rarely speak with the press, especially Meisel who has basically become a recluse (apparently because of weight issues — so fashion!). And the really cool thing is that they’re all fascinating and, unlike just about all celebrities profiled today, they all totally opened up to the reporter about their inner lives and what makes them tick. Nothing canned, nothing that you’ve read anywhere else. Now, I admit, these profiles may not be as physically, well, you know, as other things you can do in bed. But they are guaranteed to stimulate your mind. And for some of us, that gets the other stuff going too. Try it! And let me know how it goes.

Why do I have a sea-sickly feeling that this Inez and Vinoodh fashion shoot for W is going to set off a hideous cat-eye-and-Oreo-lips makeup trend?

See the complete shoot, starring Lara Stone, who looks like a girl from high school who you never, ever mess with, on W.

The MILFspring is a busy little badass, and so it follows that her sartorial taste — authoritatively dictated by me — runs toward sporty and is rendered girlie via the hyper-presence of magenta. It makes sense, then, that her animal affections — arrived at on her own — similarly reflect yin-yang/boy-girl proclivities. The climber in the kid adores monkeys — they are the only thing living on her version of Old McDonald’s Farm — but ever since a trip to Butterfly World in Boca, she is likewise obsessed with the fluttery beauties, rechristening “The Hungry Little Caterpillar” as “The Butterfly Book” and flopping the book’s final spread to evoke flapping wings. Then again, perhaps the climbing/flying thing merely connotes a need to be higher than everybody else. In any case, isn’t artist Louise Richardson’s butterfly dress the MILFspring’s perfect Amagansett frock? Never mind that she’ll tear off every last applique.

via StyleBubble