Hey, Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati started a magazine! It's called Manifesto. Hey guy, "Manifesto," really? I mean, didn't Vivienne Westwood take that name already? Anyhow, the story is that PIlati started giving out the magazine in canvas logo tote bags — "as a gesture" — he says, but no one gave a shit about the magazines, all anyone wanted was the fucking logo bags, and now he is "going to have to" start producing the logo bags for stores. Which, when you remember the whole point of Manifesto in the first place was to better display YSL clothes because all anyone cares about these days seems to be the logoed accessories is so poignantly circular…so "Gift of the Magi" you know? But let's be honest Stef: no one ever really looks at the magazines they get in goody bags at parties. This does not mean print is dead.It just means print gets kind of gross after it gets a few complimentary Chambord-sponsored cocktails on it. There are very few magazines I take home from such parties and actually read. Chiefly because I am drunk. But I have, later on, gone back and purchased magazines I got for free at parties. That's just the way it goes. They're on newsstands everywhere. Maybe I would change this policy if you every magazine were $7 on newsstands like Harper's. But I'm with Esquire editor in chief David Granger here, print is not dead, it is just not something tipsy Fashion Week goers who probably already work at magazines and thus get them all for free anyway are going to appreciate when they are busy heaving into the Bryant Park portapotties. [NYT]

Mere mortals who don't work in the industry, but who have an American Express platinum card or a serious shopping addiction to their favorite designer, can attend Fashion Week shows along with the buyers, media, and assorted celebrities and hangers on. By purchasing pricy packages through Amex, you'll get to see the show and be taken backstage to meet, say, Phillip Lim, Diane von Furstenberg, or Tory Burch, who are no doubt thrilled at the prospect of interrupting their frantic activities to make chit chat with starstruck fans from New Jersey.

• Designers must be clawing each others' eyes out to get Gossip Girl cast members at their shows. Well, score one for Rock and Republic, which has confirmed Chace Crawford will be in attendance. Maybe he'll turn up with Amanda Hearst, whom he was allegedly trying to "cozy up" with this past weekend. [Fashionista]

The most important meme of our era, new v. old media, is stressing out the PR people who act as gatekeepers to Fashion Week. All the fashion bloggers want access to the shows, but who knows whether they'll conduct themselves professionally? Or write the kind of appropriately fawning copy that you can depend upon when 16 pages of ads will magically disappear otherwise? Yet no one wants to completely relinquish the exposure bloggers provide either, especially since it's becoming reasonably clear that this thing known as the internet is taking over the world.

• Michael Kors' Gossip Girl appearance? He'll be in the front row of Eleanor Waldorf's (in real life designer Abigail Lorick's) runway show along with Tinsley Mortimer. [NYO]

A company called In the Know Experiences promises they can get you into any event during Fashion Week. They buy you in, of course, a process that probably involves shoving wads of cash in the faces of young, underpaid publicists. At least now you'll know what's going on when you find yourself seated next a middle-aged mogul from Kazakhstan! [Radar]

• Albert Hammond Jr. is coming out with a men's clothing line, news that shouldn't surprise anybody. [NYM]

• Another day, another new project for Diane von Furstenberg: She's going to be writing a column for Departures, accompanied by her own photography. [WWD]

Wonkette videographer Liz Glover made her way up to New York to cover fashion week, and she ran into Fox News! Or the Fox Business Network, that unwatched cousin. They were at fashion week filming a story about how hemlines predict the economy. Apparently. The Liz bugged them about their political affiliation. (The resulting Fox Business Hemline story is after the jump.)

["Actress" Sophia Bush at the Marc Jacobs show on the final night of New York Fashion Week last night; image via Splash]

The Project Runway finale fashion show was at the Bryant Park tents today, and we're getting tons of tips about the goings on, who showed what, and who got the biggest audience reaction. Now as a devoted fan of the show, it pained me to look through photos and read write-ups of each of the collections, but such is my job. Though, one or more of them may have been dummy collections... If you're so inclined, AM New York's blogger Korin Miller has a nice, short assessment of each designer's showing, and, of course, Jezebel has lots of coverage. Also, after the jump you'll find a photo of the surprise celebrity judge, who will weigh in with Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, and Heidi Klum to make the final decision.

Why would Marc Jacobs personally invite K. Fed to his impossible-to-get-into show tomorrow night? Because he's the cleverest fame-whore of them all, that's why! With Britney making more headlines than ever but, um, unavailable for public appearances at the moment, Marc knows something the other designers don't: the sheer presence of Kevin Federline will catapault his name into the headlines during what has been an unusually slow Fashion Week. The kicker? The appearance happens on the same day as, you guessed it, Britney 's bombshell profile in Rolling Stone hits newsstands!

Oh hey, it's Fashion Week! Again! It's like monthly now, right? Anyway—Denton authorized us to hand out a FREE $100 AMAZON GIFT CARD to the first person to send us their best Fashion Week Hilarious Sneaky Paparazzi-Style Shot. Of Anna Wintour or otherwise, it's up to you. (That photo, of course, is from the inimitable Julia Allison)

The male model of today is either an "urchin, a wraith, or an underfed runt," explains the NYT Styles. At recent European shows, even jaded fashion industry people were "flabbergasted by the sheer quantity of guys who looked chicken-chested, hollow-cheeked and undernourished."

[Donald Trump and wife Melania Knauss at New York Fashion Week yesterday; image via Splash]

[Actress Anne Hathaway at a New York Fashion Week event today; image via WENN]

[Actress Natasha Richardson at New York Fashion Week today; image via WENN]

[Crazy Brittany Murphy out and about at Fashion Week in New York yesterday; image via INF] (Context)