Media mogul Barry Diller and wifey Diane von Furstenberg made an appearance at Madonna’s celeb-filled fuck fest last night. While we’re sure the glamorous couple had some chuckles, made some memories and may have possibly helped Malawian children (or Kabbalah?), none of those niceties concern us - or Nick Denton.
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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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In tribute to all the celebrities still in the closet, Queerty has declared November 2, 2005 National Stay In The Closet Day. For everybody out there who hasn’t noticed, the forces of closetedness have been gathering steam in the United States. You can barely blink your eyes without seeing a lesbian Methodist minister getting defrocked in full public view.

Why not encourage the trend? Every time a closeted celebrity redoubles her determination to stay in, untold hundreds of millions of closed minds get their hermetic seals sealed tighter. Queerty doesn’t mind that so awfully, mainly because whether a homosexual is in the closet or not, he or … Continued…