September In Vogue

I'm dying to see The September Issue, a documentary that follows American Vogue's Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and the making of the September 2007 issue. We all know that it was Sienna Miller who was on the cover of that issue, but who's on the cover this time around? Here are a few September 2009 Vogue covers from around the world..

1. Charlize Theron appears on the cover of American Vogue shot by world-renowned photographer Mario Testino.

2. Iris Strubegger is on the cover of Nippon Vogue dressed in a classic high-sheen backless dress. The cover was shot by Inez and Vinoodh.

3. Kate Moss is on the cover of Vogue UK wearing a Burberry trench coat and a crystal necklace designed by Bea Valdes.

4. Kate Moss is also on Russian Vogue and she's sparkly and vamped out on the cover.

5. Anja Rubik is a sultry seductress on the cover of German Vogue shot by Alexi Lubomirski.

6. Sasha Pivovarova and Ash Stymest (the male model I'm crushing on right now) are on the cover of Italian Vogue shot by Steven Meisel as homeless-chic youths.

7. Gisele Bündchen is on the cover of Indian Vogue wearing a Balmain crystal-embellished tweed jacket and Tarun Tahiliani bikini. Just so you know this girl is pregnant.

8. Lara Stone is on the cover of French Vogue shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. This is her second cover this year for the magazine.

Of these eight, what's your favorite Vogue cover? I heart Ash Stymest, so I'm going for the Italian version.

Fashion You Can Eat

I love to eat and my full-figured body can attest to that. I'm particularly drawn to sweets, but I've decided to hold off on them after I lose ten or more pounds. That was before I found out Christian Louboutin's collaboration with French patisserie Ladurée to create three beautifully adorned boxes for macaroons. Seems like a match made in heaven since both parties produce the most scrumptious creations on this planet.

Louboutin is well-known for his fabulous shoes with shiny, red-lacquered soles that is his trademark and also for bringing stilettos back into fashion in the 1990s and 2000s. Catherine Deneuve and Angelina Jolie are fans of his and so are Princess Caroline of Monaco and Princess Marie Chantal of Greece. First Lady of France Carla Bruni also swears by his shoes as she chose to wear a pair of kitten heels when she met with Princess Letizia of Spain last April.

On the other hand, Ladurée is famous for those small, round cakes that are crisp on the outside and smooth and soft in the middle. Many have sworn that these macaroons are to die for and a new flavor is created every season. In fact, the Parisian patisserie is credited for having created all those tasty treats in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.

Louboutin's sketches of red-soled high heels will appear on the boxes and they come in three sizes to fit six, eight and 18 macaroons. The drawings sure do look as tasty as the treats inside since they're drawn in pastel shades. To tie-in with the collaboration, Ladurée has taken inspiration from Louboutin's designs and created a selection of limited-edition macaroon flavors that includes fig and date. Truly this is fashion you can eat.

Now I can't wait for September 11 when the limited edition gift boxes will be made available, but then again these will only be available at the Ladurée Harrods and Burlington Arcade Gallery branches in London. On the plus side, I can sleep well knowing I can stick to my macaroon-free diet since I don't have the cash to fly for a box of sweet treats.

Free Clothes Do Wonders

If there's anywhere in the world I'd rather be last Friday, it would have to be Wall Street. Gap dressed 1,200 New York Stock Exchange traders in its new 1969 Premium Jeans that day and even though I don't own anything from them, free clothes are free clothes and I welcome them with open arms. Now why would Gap give thousands of jeans away?

Gap has been losing money for a few months before they played Santa to Wall Street brokers, so they decided to promote the new 1969 denim line by giving them away to a bunch of fashion bloggers (except me). Hey, if I were given free clothes then I sure would praise Gap in my blog. This is a smart move too because having fashion bloggers grateful for their new jeans write about how good the 1969 line is is cheaper than having a billboard advertising the line in the middle of Times Square. People around the world can access these blogs anytime, but only the people in Times Square can see the billboards in Times Square.

Dressing Wall Street traders in these jeans is step two. I don't know what their motives are exactly for doing this, but some say it is to convince the financial community that investing in Gap shares is a brilliant idea. Whoever thought so last Friday was correct because Gap stocks reached $19.48 per share when the bell rang. Free clothes do wonders because those figures were the highest Gap stocks has ever been since September last year.

Still waiting for my free jeans. Holla back Glenn Murphy!