Lady Dior

And apparently Vogue wasn't the only glossy trying to snag Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for its cover.

Natalie Portman looks a little too fierce on the cover of Marie Claire's November issue--that's quite a stare! {Marie Claire} Lauren Conrad gives credit where credit is due. LC admits that she wouldn't have achieved her current fashion success if it weren't for her reality TV stint on The Hills. {US Weekly} Looks like Nicola Formichetti is moving on from Lady Gaga. The new Diesel artistic director shares his dream of styling Miley Cyrus. {Grazia}

New blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week. This week? A lesson in modeling on the Tour Eiffel from Lisa Fonssagrives and Marion Cotillard.

We know the point of these ads is to sell handbags, and whoever art directed them clearly tried to highlight the bags by juxtaposing brightly colored ones against a stark background, but we can't help but be a little distracted by how gorgeous Marion Cotillard--and her clothes--are.