• Actor Robert Downey Jr. is about to be in blackface in a movie, but it's totally OK because it's so meta: Downey will not wear blackface to pretend to be black; he will wear blackface to pretend to be a white actor pretending to be black. Totally different. [Film School Rejects via Digg]

[The Vogue editor at a Paris Fashion Week event yesterday; image via Splash]

[Actress Christina Ricci arriving at the Today show this morning; image via Splash]

Vogue's editor is too jealous of her icy mystery to expose herself much in public. She gives few interviews, and shows up to fashion events shielded by a helmet of hair and dark sunglasses. That makes Wintour's appearance before the Oxford Union, a debate club which is a playground for future British politicians, all the more unusual.

Any aspiring journalists at Oxford University? (Um, apart from all of you.) We're looking for a report on this evening's scheduled appearance by the helmet-haired Vogue editor at the Oxford Union, the ancient English university's debate club. Email. Wintour is the warm-up act for a British TV presenter who believes the world is controlled by a race of semi-reptilian humanoids. Coincidence, of course.

"They're toads," Tony Kornheiser recently said about bloggers on a radio show for which he is paid good money. "They're little toads. Actually, they're pimples on the behind of the greater body politic in this country and in this city. And because, because they have access to airwaves and three or four people read them, they think, 'Oh, I'm very important.'" Kind of like radio hosts! But enough of that goofball, there are nine bigger blogger-haters who deserve derision — not because bloggers don't deserve constant mockery, but because insulting an entire class of people always guarantees failure.

Evidence that bobbed, steely Vogue editor Anna Wintour is out of her gourd: She believes that John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are all "superheroes." For being a P.O.W., or a woman, or a black, or whatever. Hey, okay. But one man in fashion is not standing for the whole environment of fear surrounding Wintour, which makes it impossible for anyone remotely connected with the industry to insult her. Giorgio Armani says: Who cares about that crazy lady?

Carine Roitfeld, French Vogue's editor for the last seven years, is the cooler, slightly younger, doesn't-give-a-fuck version of uptight American Vogue editor Anna Wintour. And hey: nobody made a moviebook about how bitchy she is. Not only is Carine totes different, but her whole magazine is pretty much better. Everybody in the fashion industry knows this already, but she very Frenchily explains what's wrong with American fashion editors to New York mag. (Oh, and: contrary to popular belief, she does not weigh her female staffers, but it is true that she doesn't know how to use a computer).

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 icy Vogue editor was photographed at the Badgley Mischka show for New York's Fashion Week today; image via INF]

Anna Wintour's famous bob has been compromised by imitators: Posh Spice, mother-of-the-messiah Katie Holmes and even, lately, the actress' husband, Scientologist preacher Tom Cruise. But we still prefer the original hairstyle, as defined by the legendary Vogue editor, seen here from behind, in a presumptuous shot by Julia Allison. The Star Magazine talking bosom was sitting behind Vogue's Wintour (omg!) at the Oscar de la Renta runway show, yesterday. "It took every ounce of self-control I had not to pet her hair," says Allison. Commenter FLIPPER BABY responds: "Just a little less self-control and we would have gotten footage of Wintour snapping JA's neck with her mind."

[Vogue editrix Anna Wintour seen at the Jil Sander show at New York Fashion Week last night; image via Splash]

The Prada-wearing Devil herself, and the most powerful name in the world of fashion, Wintour has been the editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988.

Radar magazine puts Lauren Conrad, the Teen Vogue intern in reality show The Hills, atop the magazine's fashion industry power list. She beats out Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor. Well, not really. Wintour still has the power to make and break designers like nobody else. But one can pretend, for the sake of controversy.

[Vogue editrix Anna Wintour in Paris for Fashion Week today; image via Splash]

Before Hillary Clinton showed us that she really does wear her heart on her sleeve (and it's a ladylike sleeve!) she backed out of a Vogue photo shoot because she was afraid of looking too feminine. Editor Anna Wintour was irked. But the Democratic candidate is featured in a February issue of Harper's Bazaar, along with six of the other running candidates. She is not, despite earlier reports, wearing a miniskirt and heels. After the jump, see the pictures of Clinton in all her high couture glory.

Anna Wintour's editor's letter in the February Vogue is all about how America's Margaret Thatcher refused to be involved in their upcoming power issue. Per Radar: "Imagine my amazement ... when I learned that Hillary Clinton, our only female presidential hopeful, had decided to steer clear of our pages at this point in her campaign for fear of looking too feminine." Yes, associating with Anna Wintour is a time-honored method of appearing feminine. In retaliation, Anna has dedicated the entire issue to Hillary. "We would love to see her wear a demure coat in delicious plum by Carolina Herrera to memorial services on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day." You sure would, Anna. You and Matt Drudge. [Radar]

The Devil Wears Prada, a movie redeemed only by Meryl Streep's portrayal of a brittle editrix much like Vogue's Anna Wintour, has had a pernicious effect on a generation of young women. Venus Williams, the tennis star, is preparing for her next career, as a fashion designer. Her modest ambition? "I'll be able to get an entry position getting coffee for hopefully Anna Wintour." [Financial Times]

New York magazine's food dude Adam Platt recently visited Danny Abram's Central Village resto Smith's. The food was good, try the squid but really who cares. We want to know who was there! Or do we!

Ex-Conde Nast president and recently deceased Steve Florio didn't always really get on with one-time GQ publisher and model for Mr. Big model Ron Galotti, a fact which would have come to light in Florio's tell-all memoir had it not been squashed by more prudent minds. But at his funeral over the phone with Observer's John Koblin on Monday, Mr. Galotti said, "A lot is always written about myself and the Steve Florios. But I would hope you understand that when you get older, you forget the bad. You just do. You really try to focus on the good. And my memories of Steve Florio are all good. And I'm lucky to have had him as a friend." The Steve Florios, may they rest in peace.