Vogue Editor-at-Large André Leon Talley has a book out, darling. And not just any book. A book about A.L.T. Oh, yes. Titled A.L.T. in homage to Diana Vreeland's D.V. "Concealed and mysterious...so am I," says A.L.T. "Ralph Lauren once said to me, 'I thought you had nothing inside.' But that was because I presented a veneer."
Over the top, as he wants to be [NYT]

Diana Vreeland is So Over, declares the NYT's Cathy Horyn. If today's fashion designers want to escape cliché, she argues, they must be willing to respond to the current political and cultural environment. (Models catwalking down the runway with squeegees?)
Designers, forget Vreeland. Look at your own world. [NYT]