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Fashion diary: September issues

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Gossip, first impressions, trends in the making, celebrities and style setters. A regular feature by fashion critic Booth Moore.

You can say a lot of things about Anna Wintour, but you can’t say she isn’t a good sport.

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New York Magazine’s blog the Cut reports that on Aug. 19 the Vogue editor-in-chief will host a screening and opening fete for R.J. Cutler’s ‘The September Issue.’ The film is a not-altogether flattering portrait of fashion’s high priestess as she puts together the September ’08 issue of the magazine at the height of the luxury boom. (Though it certainly could have been worse; for one thing, Cutler relied mostly on people inside Wintour’s inner circle to tell the story.)

Could we be seeing yet another crack in Wintour’s icy shell? I hope so. When I blogged about the film several weeks ago, I suggested -- now that the luxury bubble has burst -- it might be a good time to start showing some humility. She teared up in the film, so who knows what might happen at the screening? Maybe she’ll even laugh at herself.

In other glossy mag news, Women’s Wear Daily has a sneak peek at the page counts of several September issues, which are expected to decline as much as 30% from last year because of slow ad sales. Elle will carry 21% fewer pages this year, or an average of 327 pages in 2009 compared with 414 in 2008, WWD reports. Harper’s Bazaar is estimated to carry between 275 and 285 pages, representing about 25% fewer ad pages than last year. Conde Nast releases its page counts later this week.

People StyleWatch is one of the few bright spots, slated to be up 10% over last year, which suggests that women are getting a lot of their fashion and style cues from weekly tabloids rather than monthly glossies, and that the celeb feeding frenzy isn’t about to end any time soon.

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