Each time I move apartments (and I tend to do this often) I fight the same battle; no one understands why I insist upon moving my magazines.

“Throw them out!” they tell me. “They’re too heavy!” they insist. (Though surely they’d balk at the thought of trashing a single book.) Absolutely not. I love my magazines. And while I can be talked into tossing an issue of GQ with Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover, others, like Andre J’s French Vogue or Coco Rocha’s Numero, will stay with me forever - even if I have to pay the movers extra - because nothing beats a really exceptional magazine.

One of the best that I’ve managed to hang onto dates from 2003 (which means its lived in seven apartments). W dedicated an entire issue to Kate Moss. Inside, various artists including Richard Prince, Lucien Freud, Chuck Close and all the best photographers paid tribute to the supermodel and now, the Chuck Close photographs are going to auction.

The black and white nude is expected to sell for as much as $16,300 at Christie’s on Wednesday which means I’ll have to stay content with flipping through the yellowing pages of my original issue.

Waiting with bated breath for the Christie’s YSL auction?

Sorry, it’s still not here.

But Vanity Fair’s acquired some very cool pictures of Yves’ apartment in which you can see a selection of the items that’ll be for sale come January.

His partner, Pierre Berge, isn’t just parting with the extensive art collection but Yves’ general trove of treasures including furniture, mirrors, lamps, a variety of found objects and even their bed from the 1930s which is expected to fetch between $60,000 and $90,000 - there will be 800 lots in total.

The Goya will go to the Louvre, the Warhol will stay with Berge and we’re not sure about Moujik’s fate, but the rest is up for grabs.

See anything you like?

Someone walked into Housing Works - the New York-based thrift store whose profits house AIDS patients across the city - with a bag full of clothes.

And by “bag” we mean almost 500 pieces of vintage Yves Saint Laurent.

So while Christie’s is going to try and sell Monsieur Laurent’s art to the very rich and unaffected, Housing Works is going to sell some vintage YSL to you.

They’re hosting a cocktail party next Thursday December 11th at their 23rd Street store. It’s free and open to the public and while you sip your drink you can do some damage. But not too much damage because the prices are like Marc by Marc - on sale. Evening dresses for $250, suits for $150, a leather skirt for $90.

We won’t guarantee le smoking or safari, but we’ll bet it’s worth stopping by.

The art world’s refusing to let go of their auctions, regardless of how tough times might be.

We get it - as if the fashion industry would ever relinquish Fashion Week.

But wouldn’t it make sense to postpone things a bit, especially after Christie’s disastrous auction at the beginning of this month?

Yet, they’re forging ahead with an impressive auction of Jeanne Lanvin’s mostly Impressionist paintings, including works by Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Vuillard and a lone Picasso as the cherry on top. They’ll go up for sale on December 1st and are expected to bring in at least $25 million despite today’s economic state. Christie’s will follow that, of course with the highly anticipated auction of Yves Saint Laurent’s art and valuables.

Is it the nature of these auctions - both collections developed by famous people and both connected to the fashion industry which could bring in an entirely different kind of buyer - that makes Christie’s think they’ll be more successful? Or do the auction houses believe that things will just get worse and therefore aren’t willing to hang on to the art for ten or so years while the economy rebuilds itself?

While some companies are trying their hardest to come across as inexpensive as possible through advertised (and constant) sales and “everyday” low prices (Olay, Target, Bloomingdale’s), other companies, we’ll call them “luxury,” simply aren’t, because the general consensus has been that the luxury market is doing just fine.

But a big impressionist and modern art auction at Christie’s last week wasn’t just uneventful - it tanked.

44% of the works, including 19th century landscapes by Monet, failed to sell, with the auction’s sales totaling to less than one third of the pre-sale lowball estimates.

So what could this mean? Either people at the tip top of the financial echelons are hanging on to their money a little tighter these days due to their own financial woes - or, it’s simply become distasteful to drop jillions when news like this comes out.

Either way, it’ll be interesting to see how all the high-end jewelry companies respond to this holiday/bonus season. Harry Winston on sale? Let us pray.

Start saving your pennies.

Christie’s just announced that they’ll be auctioning off Yves Saint Laurent’s weighty art collection come February of 2009.

Without identifying exactly which pieces will be up for grabs, they’ve estimated the total value at around $600 million. We do know that his and Berge’s collection includes works by Picasso, Mondrian, Matisse, Goya and, of course, since he was a fashion person, Warhol.

We expect the people who walk away with the paintings to be the same as those who’ve walked away with his couture.

And, well, lucky them.

Exactly one month and one day after Yves Saint Laurent’s death (July 2), Christie’s will auction off seven pieces of his designs, mostly jewelry, along with some pieces from Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Gianni Versace.

You can already place bids for the YSL items on the Christie’s site, with the glass mosaic clip-on earrings at left expected to start between $800 and $1,200. Each piece is meant to represent a decade of YSL’s work, including a dress he designed in 1958 for Dior and a Rive Gauche sweater jacket from the 70’s that looks a lot like one that Jacqueline Onassis wore a lot.

We expect this to be the first of many auctions of YSL designs in the coming year - Pierre Berge’s already announced that most of Yves’ things will be auctioned off before the end of the year.

Does anybody have an extra $40,000 dollars laying around?

Because we’re going to need it to get a piece of Kate at next month’s Christie’s auction.

On April 10th in the middle of the afternoon, 135 prints from the private collection of German photographer Gert Elfering will go up for auction at Rockefeller Center.

Nude prints of Kate and Gisele shot by Irving Penn are among the most sought after, as are Avedon portraits of Brigitte Bardot, a semi-topless Lauren Hutton, and even The Beatles, along with prints shot by Man Ray, Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Diane Arbus and Horst P. Horst.

We’re kind of wondering where some of these pieces will be hung once the lucky betters take them home. Would it be in bad taste to have a naked Kate in the entry way? How about nude Gisele in the kitchen?