New York's designers, models, editors and drug dealers are eagerly awaiting Fashion Week.

Starting next Wednesday our fair city will become an estimate 4345% more attractive. We'll get a look at what we'll be wearing next spring. We'll glimpse people far more wealthy and connected. For one week, New York will become a glittering mess of forward thinking fashion. Rest assured Mao magazine will be in the thick of it.

The glossy's kicking the festivities off right with the release of their fall issue. As always, the pages are a cornucopia of cultural movers and shakers, including interviews with Diane Von Furstenberg, Joan Rivers, Elsa Peretti and Vogue's living large Editor-at-Large, Andre Leon Tally.

Though its nice to get insight from so many current insiders, the magazine also turns its back to the past with pieces on The Palladium, Halston and the NY Times' famed, late style editor Carrie Donovan.

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