Anna Wintour

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• Elle's September cover features a purple-haired Katy Perry clad in a pink Bottega Veneta dress. [Fashion Foie Gras]
  

• Anna Wintour will style Sarah Jessica Parker for an upcoming episode of Glee. And considering Parker will be guest starring on the show as editor of Vogue.com, Wintour is probably the best person for the job. [Vogue UK]
  

• Proenza Schouler cast Meghan Collison in its Fall 2012 ad campaign, photographed by Alasdair McLellan and styled by Marie Chaix. [Fashion Gone Rogue]
  

• The Coco Chanel Suite at the Ritz Paris has been booked — and so have nearly all of the hotel's other rooms — for a final night before the storied lodging closes for a two-year renovation project. [WWD]
  

• Tyra Banks says not long ago she thought about walking away from her duties as host and executive producer of America's Next Top Model. Quoth the supermodel, "A few years ago, I was willing to give my baby up for adoption!" [The New York Post]
  

• Tom Ford will show his men's collection in London for the first time during the second London Collections: Men shows in January. [Styleite]

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• Miranda Kerr's manager has denied a rumor that she and Orlando Bloom are headed for divorce. [The Sun]
  

• Karlie Kloss wears a chain-mail dress from Yves Saint Laurent's Stefano Pilati era on the cover of Vogue Japan's September 2012 issue. [Design Scene]
  

• Pierre Bergé, formerly Yves Saint Laurent's business partner, has just signed on to lead the steering committee of the newly formed Maison du Prêt à Porter Féminin et des Accessoires. The body will "foster dialogue between all fashion and accessories professionals." [WWD]
  

• Anna Wintour is said to be hosting another fundraising dinner for President Obama's reelection campaign. Wintour will reportedly host the party with Harvey Weinstein in Greenwich, CT, on Aug. 6, and guests will have to donate $35,800 apiece to the campaign. [Page Six]
  

• Rachel Roy could never find long-enough jeans to wear when she was younger, so she covered her ankles with "white scrunchy socks. I really hope there's no pictures of those anywhere," she says. [Racked]
  

• Nicole Richie's upcoming collaboration with Macy's INC doesn't shy away from prints or from mixing masculine and feminine elements. [Catwalk Queen]
  

• Crimes of fashion do not pay. A judge fined Linda and Courtney Allen — a mother and daughter who live in Syosset, NY — $44 million for advertising and selling fake Coach products online. [Refinery29]

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Anna Wintour's political influence may be vast, but she's not seeking appointment as a high-ranking diplomat.

"She has absolutely no interest in an ambassadorship," a friend of Wintour's said this week, squashing a rumor that Wintour would be named America's envoy to London, or perhaps Paris.

Her ability to bundle large sums of money for the politicians she supports may be reward in and of itself. Long before Wintour was billed as one of the top fundraisers for the Obama campaign, she donated money to senatorial runs for Hillary Clinton and Kirsten Gillibrand and to Senator John Kerry's run for president in 2004. Wintour has also lent her influence to efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in New York and to the fashion industry's fight against HIV and AIDS in the early '90s.

"I don't think this is about her interest in politics," said J.Crew's Mickey Drexler, who attended the $40,000-per-plate fundraising dinner Wintour threw for Obama at Sarah Jessica Parker's New York home last week. "I think this is about her interested in taking on something she believes in. And when she takes something on, she does it with a great amount of ferocity."

Some political experts are concerned that being linked to Wintour — and the glamorous people she knows — may tinge Obama's campaign with the same kind of criticism other politicians have garnered.

"It is always a worry: how is this going to play in Peoria?" said Anita McBride, chief of staff to former First Lady Laura Bush and an adviser to three Republican White Houses. "Look at Nancy Reagan. She got vilified for having Betsy Bloomingdale as a friend and for wearing Adolfo."

Wintour's dinner with Sarah Jessica Parker included guests Meryl Streep, Michael Kors, Chanel Iman, and Solange Knowles and raised $2 million for the Obama campaign.

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• Cat Marnell has quit her job as beauty and health director of XO Jane, reportedly over her refusal to stop using drugs. "I couldn’t spend another summer meeting deadlines behind a computer at night when I could be on the rooftop of Le Bain looking for shooting stars and smoking angel dust with my friends and writing a book, which is what I'm doing next," Marnell said. [Page Six]
  

• Leandra Medine, also known as The Man Repeller, married in a private ceremony in New York on Thursday. While Medine had floated the possibility of wearing custom Prabal Gurung, she instead walked down the aisle in off-the-rack Marchesa. "Prabal and I were going to try and work together but it just didn't work out," she said. [Racked]
  

• Lady Gaga's upcoming fragrance Fame is billed as the first black-colored eau de parfum. It becomes clear when the wearer sprays it on, and it contains notes of honey, apricots nectar, and tiger orchids. The scent will debut around the same time as Gaga's September issue cover of Vogue. [The Cut]
  

• President Obama caused a stir in New York City's West Village Thursday night when he attended the fundraising dinner hosted by Anna Wintour at Sarah Jessica Parker's home. While guests — including Michael Kors — broke bread inside Parker's brownstone, some neighbors were prevented from going into their apartments or relaxing on their rooftops. [Daily Intel]
  

• Christian Louboutin would like to make one thing clear: even though a French judge has allowed Zara to sell a red-soled shoe that infringes on Louboutin's trademark on red soles, the company definitely "continues to own valid and enforceable trademark rights in its Red Sole Trademark, including in France itself as well as throughout the world." The company is still battling a red-sole trademark case against Yves Saint Laurent in the United States. [The Daily Telegraph]
  

• Zac Posen — who has quickly amassed upward of 90,000 followers on Twitter — says that while he doesn't type his own tweets, he does directly oversee the woman on his staff who does. "I tell her exactly what to say — every word," Posen said. [WWD]
  

• With a week left to go in the campaign to fund his documentary Advanced Style — which, like the blog, depicts stylish women aged 60 to 100 — Ari Seth Cohen has already surpassed his goal of raising $35,000. [On the Runway]
  

• Singer Iggy Azalea has signed with Wilhelmina International, the same model and celebrity management agency that has counted Iman, Coco Rocha, Carol Alt, and Theodora Richards among its talent over the years. [Rap Up]
  

• Daisy Lowe says her most memorable modeling moment so far was "mud-wrestling for the Pirelli calendar in the middle of the street in Porto Seguro, Brazil." The most embarrassing? "Getting rushed to the hospital after my hair was dyed blue for a job!" [Vogue]

Photo: Tom Munro, Elle January 2010