You know a show’s bad when you can’t wait for it to be over, especially when it’s only seven minutes long.

Unfortunately, that’s the way Matthew Williamson went yesterday. It wasn’t all his fault though. The ridiculous heat - sweat poured off front row faces including Olivia Palermo, Cecilia Dean, Twiggy, Yasmin LeBon, Leigh Lezark, Aliona Doletskaya, Michael Roberts and Jodie Harsh - was hard to stomach. Kind of like Williamson’s attempts at tailoring.

So far, he’s built a pretty solid business over the past few years with his haute gypsy, running off to Ibiza look. It includes lots of long flowy dresses, mirrors, colour and hippie dippy frocks often without shape and still eye-poppingly expensive.

His marketing’s genius, Sienna Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Plum Sykes, Jade Jagger et al, are his best friends, campaign stars and constant photo companions so he was, essentially selling a dream lifestyle, rather than clothes, which is quite easy to buy into.

But this year, Mr. Williamson decided to tailor which was, we agree, long overdue. And yet it didn’t work. You can’t just add a structured waist and a cupola sleeve without changing everything else that needed changing, i.e. Ibiza happy prints and weird houndstooth which is what came down the runway.

In fact, the final piece, a silk maxi dress, had beauty pageant written all over it, which is probably the worse thing you could say about a collection.

—A LONDON FASHIONISTA

Ingrid Sischy and Sandra Brandt just got named International Editors of German and Russian Vogues.

The duo’s already been contributing to both Spanish and Italian Vanity Fair since they launched last September, and Ingrid’s been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair US since 1997. The Conde Nast press release says, “Ingrid and Sandy are a unique journalistic team, full of ideas and with strong ties to the worlds of Hollywood, fashion and the arts.”

That dose of Hollywood might be perfect for Vanity Fair but it’s fashion they’ll need to keep up with Aliona Doleteskaya at Russian Vogue. Which we guess explains their much discussed presence and frantic note-taking in almost every front row in Paris.

As for sharing their handful of international jobs, we wonder what would happen if one was sent to German Vogue and one sent to Russian - does splitting them up dilute their genius?

Maybe it’s because she’s just finished two decades on the job, or maybe it’s just because people like to talk (especially when the rumors fit a certain movie’s plot line so eerily), but rumors of Anna Wintour’s departure from Vogue have hit a fever pitch, officially last night.

First, it was that the Editor-in-Chief of Russian Vogue, Aliona Doletskaya, would replace her, though those rumors were so random they were largely ignored.

But now? Gawker’s saying that Si Newhouse has left early for his annual year-end vacation, this time heading to Vienna to meet with Carine Roitfeld to discuss her takeover of American Vogue effective January 2nd.

But this is a pretty heavy rumor with a lot of nagging details that kind of drag it down into the depths of improbability: