The trailer is out for the movie version of Toby Young's Vanity Fair memoir, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, apparently a longer version of the one that surfaced in December. In an item titled "Devil Graydon," Page Six claims Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter "comes off worse than Anna Wintour did in The Devil Wears Prada." Carter should pray for such a glamorous portrayal. Instead, with actor Jeff Bridges in his shoes at the fictional Sharps magazine, Carter comes off looking a lot more like Jeff Lebowski. Clip after the jump.

"Observers say he's involved in all sections of the magazine, including features and accessories, and attends edit meetings... insiders say there's been talk of the hockey hard man attending the couture shows in Europe next month along with Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour." [WWD]

["Vogue" editrix Anna Wintour attending a private Dior event in New York City yesterday; image via Splash]

"Observer owner Jared Kushner bought the original artwork from the illustrator, Victor Juhasz, for Vogue editor at large [André Leon Talley]. At least seven people placed serious bids - two of which were from within Condé Nast." Talley paid several thousand dollars for the artwork. [WWD]

"During the planning for the [Costume Institute Gala], when honoree Giorgio Armani suggested Eric Clapton as the entertainment, [Vogue editor Anna] Wintour immediately said no. 'It made you think maybe he once rejected her,' said a source. Instead, the hirsute cast from the revival of Hair performed tunes which had nothing to do with the evening's 'superhero' theme." [Post]

[The "Vogue" editor at the "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last night; image via Splash]

All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli's Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump.

Ever wonder what the inspiration is behind the fashions on Gossip Girl (other than "money" and "bright enough colors to attract fourteen year olds and macaws")?? Well Vanity Fair recently interviewed the show's costumers, Eric Daman and assistant costume designer Meredith Markworth-Pollack, and they divulged their interests and inspirations. Kate Moss, she of the cocaine-aura, is the inspiration for messy-chic Serena, while Anna Wintour and Audrey Hepburn inform Blair's buttoned-up old New York styling. Put them together and who do Daman and Markworth-Pollack envision? New York's favorite stream of consciousness-talking socialite, Tinsley Mortimer! [VF] A choice quote from the interview after the jump.

["Vogue" editor Anna Wintour at opening night of the Met's "La Fille Du Regiment" last night; image via Splash]

"Star New York Ranger and man-about-town Sean Avery is out to build up his résumé this summer - by interning at Vogue... He wrote a letter to Anna Wintour expressing his desire to work there... Avery likely will work with a variety of editors, including European editor at large Hamish Bowles. There's also talk of him working at Men's Vogue. And the spokesman claimed that, like most interns, the 28-year-old Avery will be expected to do traditional assistantlike tasks." [WWD]

The rich and famous old ladies of the website WowOWow were talking about privacy and stalkers, and the book The Devil Wears Prada came up as a cautionary tale: Beware your office servants! Devil, of course, was written by a former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour and was believed to be a lightly fictionalized portrayal of Wintour. WowOWow's Judith Martin, aka Miss Maners, described the book as "a huge argument for separating your business life from your personal life. Your personal assistant - so-called personal - should not be doing things in your private life and therefore she wouldn't be privy, or he wouldn't be privy to it." Oh, excellent: This is exactly the sort of catty backbiting we had hoped for from WowOWow. A lengthier exchange:

Anybody seen Lauren Weisberger's wedding photographs? The Devil Wears Prada author was married this weekend in the Caribbean. We're assuming Anna Wintour, Weisberger's former boss at Vogue and a model of the icy fashion editor in her book, wasn't invited.

[Vogue editrix Anna Wintour with fashion designer and former hooker-dater Marc Jacobs at an event at the Brooklyn (hey that's where I live!) museum; image via Queerty. Another image after the jump.]

Today's Observer contains a smart, if depressing, package of stories on the fading glories of the magazine industry, but the weekly saved its cruelest cut for the front page, where appeared the parody at left of Vogue's infamous LeBron James cover (click for larger version). The message: if anyone deserves to be compared to a crazed monster it is the notoriously demanding Wintour, with her ostensible boss Si Newhouse along for the ride. The illustration, by Victor Juhasz, capped a rough few months for Wintour, who was publicly dissed by fashion's priesthood during a recent trip to Europe, then faced uproar over her recent weight-loss outreach to two female designers and is now grappling with fallout from the James cover. After the jump, a large version of the parody cover, and the object of said parody.

After yesterday's story about a New York magazine critic apologizing to Harvey Weinstein, and the critic's suspect assertion that his apology was independent of the sharp-elbowed former Miramax chief, we heard from a well-placed media veteran who said Weinstein has long loved to brag about his ability to extract such concessions, and in fact about how he effectively owns New York media. It turns out the bragging is not entirely without reason. Said the tipster: "Name any media outlet and there is a 'best friend/recent connection that I [Weinstein] can call to kill stories/get a retraction' from." It didn't take a lot of digging to figure out what the source meant. A quick rundown of Weinstein's top-of-the-masthead connections:

No cheezburgers fer U, fatteh. [Ryder Ripps]

I had thought this was a fuss about nothing. But when you look at the images side-by-side, it's pretty obvious that Vogue's latest cover featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen is indeed a sly homage by Annie Leibovitz to King Kong. In fact, the references by photographer Annie Leibowitz to one image in particular, identified earlier this week by a tipster to Jezebel, are unmistakeable. This First World War army recruitment poster-urging loyal Americans to destroy a "mad brute"-features a Kong-like gorilla with a right arm holding a weapon and a left gripping a virginal white beauty. It's much like the position basketball star LeBron assumes on the Vogue cover.

When Vogue put LeBron James on the cover it was innovative: a black man on the cover of a magazine aimed at rich, white women? Anna Wintour's still got it. But now, the fallout. Didn't LeBron James sort of look like King-Kong? And why does that pretty white girl looked so scared? Oh no, racial stereotypes being reinforced on the cover of Vogue, a place normally dedicated to reinforcing an unattainable ideal of beauty. And it gets worse: James's mouth was agape, just like Jennifer Hudson's was on the March cover. Controversy!

The Times today found a professor of eating disorders to back up Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, who last fall told the sisters behind fashion house Rodarte they should lose some weight. Wintour put them on a four-month training regimen that saw them drop a combined 50 pounds, the sisters (pictured at left, after/before) wrote up the whole experience for April Vogue and body-image outrage ensued at sister site Jezebel. Everyone needs to calm down, said University of North Carolina professor Cynthia Bulik:

Anna Wintour complains, in her editor's letter in the upcoming issue of Vogue, that the models at the New York runway shows are "pale and thin, entirely lacking in... joyfulness and charm." I thought that was the example the legendarily frosty fashion arbiter was herself setting.