When we saw November’s disastrous Vogue cover, we just assumed the women were too busy to get together in one place to shoot the image.

We figured Nicole Kidman was on a beach in Australia, Marion in the South of France, Kate in Malibu etc., or maybe in a studio and then superimposed onto the waves. But then we watched this video of them dragging their couture through the ocean and walking on sand in Christian Louboutins and realized that no, they were in fact all in one place.

Which means, just to clarify, that despite the hundreds of gorgeous pictures Annie took of the group, someone still felt the need to butcher it on a computer. (Also, for the record, our favorite part is when Annie says they took a “huge risk” shooting at the beach.)
On the upside, it looks like they had a blast.

Louis Vuitton houses master craftsmen at a facility in Asnieres where they have been making all the special order custom luggage and leather goods for 150 years, which is pretty incredible. Aside from the history, I’m still dreaming up what exactly I’d order for myself if I could? (They can even do solar-powered DVD trunks!)

According to WWD, to celebrate this major anniversary they commissioned six luminaries to create their own custom creations to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s on November 17th and benefiting the Red Cross, which also happens to be turning 150 years old.

Not Faris: Anna Friel is the West End’s new Eliza Doolittle, so Vanity Fair photographed her in loads and loads of pearls with touches of Alberta Ferretti & Julian Macdonald for a supplement to their UK edition. {VanityFair}

Venezia Bound: Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man, will screen at the Venice Film Festival on September 11 which means it’ll have a teeny, tiny, if any, fashion quotient in the audience. {LATimes}

The Mulberry Bush: Mulberry’s look book gets re-invented for the cool kids. It must be an English thing - we’ve never seen the Bayswater look so impossibly hip. {Nylon}

Ooh-La-La: Bonpoint’s founders opened Merci in Paris this March. Here’s a peek inside the charity shop with its specially designed Stella & YSL. It also houses food, vintage, perfume and furniture and looks positively heavenly. {Dazed}

Last night we got a sneak peek at the fall collection of nail polishes from MAC and let us just say that we’re certain we’ve never been this excited about painting our nails.

The collection is a collaboration with editorial nail guru, Jin Soon Choi. This is a woman who refers to Steven Meisel as “my man” and has also shot with Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean, and Michael Thompson.

Now, we’ve been sworn to secrecy for the moment (that’s not one of the colors in the photo), but promise you will not be disappointed when we can finally reveal the delicious shades. They’re edgy, editorial and incredibly chic.

Tina Fey’s wearing little more than an American flag on the cover of January’s Vanity Fair.

The unusually sexy look for the geek chic comedienne continues in the Annie Liebovitz-shot editorial with an exposed black bra and demonic red pumps. In fact, the stylists and makeup artists manicured every inch of the actress - except for her hands.

Despite the crazy campy look, the dancing-lolling-vamping Fey wears her nails short and bare as if, gasp, they actually belong to Tina Fey. Because messing with someone’s nails is like making them wear a mask.

Some people talk with their hands, but everyone’s hands talk for them. Anxious? Your chewed up nails give you away. High maintenance? We’re terrified of your crimson claws.

[Side story: A friend of mine confessed that her boss’s nails used to make her sick. The attorney “would openly gnaw on them in court” leaving an unprofessional and unattractive set of nails in his nervous wake. Are you surprised that a Manhattan lawyer can get away with that? Don’t be. After all, the self-styled bad-ass defends killers for a living and as my friend said: “I doubt anyone ever gave him shit.”]

The moral of the story is: Your nails tell the truth about who you are. If Tina Fey’s all-American hooker garb included Revlon Raven Red on her fingertips, she would’ve looked like an actual hooker. Whereas bare nails make her Tina Fey dressed up as a hooker. Which in turn make the pictures funny - not embarrassing.

So what do your nails say about you? Are you telling people you’re a little punk rock with that Black Satin, even though you’re in bed by 11 every night? Or maybe you’re coming off as a little tacky with those tips?

—GLENNA GOLDIS (our new weekly beauty columnist!)

Jessica Stam may have the ice-eyes, but we hear Doutzen Kroes is the model who’s getting the literal cold shoulder from Vogue this week:

She’s been shooting at an ice rink with speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and Annie Leibowitz - apparently, they’ve even made the Dutch model her own pair of speed skates!

No word on what else the Victoria’s Secret face will be wearing, though Nike and Adidas are big advertisers in the magazine, so of course those are possibilities.

Then again, Vera Wang is both a former figure skater and a former Vogue editor, and often made ice costumes for Olympic champion Michelle Kwan…

And if they really want to surprise everyone, Richie Rich was also once a professional Ice Capader, and sometimes creates his own spandex creations for skating exhibitions.

We’re not betting on that last possibility, but whatever - a little glitter never killed anyone.

Mert + Marcus may be doing the next string of Louis Vuitton ads, but Annie Leibovitz has reunited with the monogrammed brand for yet another upcoming campaign shoot, according to reader Christopher.

On December 20th, Louis Vuitton rented various areas of the Regency Hotel in New York for their latest commercial, directed by Ms. Leibovitz and produced by Karen Mulligan.

We hope some behind the scenes footage of the shoot can eventually leak online, especially since Louis Vuitton just posted a slew of scenes from their Mert + Marcus shoot online, with Marc Jacobs and Naomi Campbell describing the production, and Zoe Cassavetes creating the footage.

The last round of Leibovitz + Louis ads starred old school actress Catherine Deneuve and Russian icon Mikhail Gorbachev. Maybe this new slew has Gwyneth.