Vogue Editor Tells Oprah: Lose 20 Lbs!

Oprah has to coax singer out of dressing room

(NEWSER) - Lady Gaga is nothing if not consistent when it comes to providing bizarre behavior for the rest of the world to gossip about. The latest installation: On Monday night, she refused to walk the red carpet at the Met’s Costume Institute Gala, then locked herself in her dressing room because she was...stricken with stage fright? “She literally wouldn't come out,” a source tells the New York Post . More»

For celeb designers like Timberlake, recession means hard times for fashion lines

(NEWSER) - The latest casualty of the economic crisis: celebrity clothing lines. “Every D-level celebrity who thought they could make a quick buck by designing a handbag or whatever is going to disappear,” Vogue editor Anna Wintour tells the Wall Street Journal. “And I think that's a good thing.” Wannabe-designers including Jennifer Lopez, Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, and Nicky Hilton have had to call it quits on their collections due to disappointing sales. More»

She finds success by scrapping the diet

(NEWSER) - Crystal Renn’s success as a model didn’t come when she reached her ideal weight after a grueling regimen. It arrived when she came to her senses after that regimen and decided to be a plus-size model at age 18. She was never going to “meet the weight standards of a traditional fashion model,” she tells ABC News. At the time, she thought she would “lose my dream” of gracing the cover of Vogue; now, as a size 12 weighing about 170 pounds, the 23-year-old has hit the cover of its international editions four times. More»

Offers new look at notorious Vogue boss

(NEWSER) - The September Issue is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Vogue’s September 2007 issue—and at the woman in charge of it all. RJ Cutler's film may change minds about editor in chief Anna Wintour and her brutal reputation:

• Stephanie Zacharek of Salon calls the film “documentary gold.” It “exists, ostensibly, to shed some light on the notoriously frosty Wintour as a human being, and Cutler pulls it off.”

(NEWSER) - Sources at today’s taping of The Late Show With David Letterman tell Gawker that Anna Wintour—the Vogue editor portrayed by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada—“was like Hannibal Lecter.” In her first-ever appearance on the show, Wintour ditched her trademark shades, the source adds, but “barely moved, she sat at the edge of her chair. She’s reptilian.” More»