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.

“I had no idea about Louis Vuitton, or what it was… The only reason I did it was because of Marc.” —Richard Prince, in Influence.

Vogue UK stumbled on a very fun(ny) fact recently:

That Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes approached Richard Prince about “a project” they’re working on, and were rejected because Prince said there was “no connection” for him.

So of course, the big question is, what is this project, and could it be a fashion collaboration with the artist a la Louis Vuitton? After all, Katie’s been seen out and about sporting outfits she co-designed with her stylist, Jeanne Yang, (at left) so her designer dreams are already evident, thought it would be curious timing since some people are already calling the time of death for celebrity clothing lines, Heidiwood having died quietly last week. (Though, yes, Katie Holmes and Heidi Montag are two very different types of celebrities, who obviously design two very different types of clothing.)

Or maybe Katie and husband are just trying to commission an artist who happens to be very tied to the fashion world?

Let the guessing game begin.

“Prince tells us that he was born in the Panama Canal Zone and hints that his parents worked as spies. His mother used to hide in closets to watch people, he claims. Asked about his father, he gets awkward and diverts attention by announcing that his parents locked him in a wardrobe for much of his childhood. ‘For my first 15 years,’ he jokes, ‘I thought I was a suit.’ He will also declare, ‘I don’t think it’s really that important to know who I am.’ He warns that he has a short attention span, that he immerses himself in the fantasy worlds of films, books and magazines. ‘I make things up,’ he says frankly. ‘I can’t be trusted.’” - on Richard Prince, from the Daily Telegraph.