New York Ranger and Vogue intern Sean Avery proves what we've always suspected: fashion is way sexier than blogging…

[Men's Vogue via Gawker]

Many of you may have heard about the LeBron James Vogue's "Shape Issue" controversy. Those of you who haven't need look no further than the above image.

Did the Vogue staffers really intend to present the NBA superstar as King Kong? That wasn't our impression. While we did think it queer they didn't doll him up in a suit, we just figured they wanted to make sure readers knew he's a basketball player. Are we just naive? Maybe.

Our colleague, Cord Jefferson, who has 26-years of blackness under his belt, offered this take:

The Vogue cover is inexcusable for this reason: Even if the photo was not intentionally alluding to the ape imagery of yesteryear, Annie Leibovitz and Anna Wintour, "experts" on imagery that they are, should have been able to look at that photograph and realize what sorts of feelings it would evoke in the public. At worst, the picture's racist, at best, it's evidence of glaring ineptitude.

That straight boy sure does have him some sass.

So, readers, if you're not too mad at us right now, what's your take on this James outrage?

Hillary Clinton's campaign may come to an end this week. And, on the eve of a decisive primary, we can't help but wonder if she made a fatal mistake: downplaying her femininity.

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Madonna's got balls. The material girl reportedly rebuffed Anna Wintour's Fashion Rocks advances. Says Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici:

The chameleonic singer, I'm told, was the Vogue editor in chief's first choice to appear on the cover of Fashion Rocks, Conde Nast's annual supplement about music and style. Only after she declined did Wintour turn to Jennifer Lopez.

In other words, the former Fly Girl is still a backup dancer.

Straight Bercovici's certainly got some bitch in him, huh?

A Conde Nastie, meanwhile, denies the rumors, saying Madonna never agreed to perform at the Fashion Rocks concert and, thus, proved ineligible for the cover.

You’d be hard pressed not to have seen at least one shot snapped by German photographer, Horst.

If nothing else, you’ve probably seen the video for Madonna’s “Vogue” in which the iconic pop star imitates Horst’s iconic 1939 image, "Mainbocher Corset". Not incidentally, Horst shot that image for French Vogue, just one of the magazine chain's international spin-offs for which he’d shoot over the course of his 69-year long career.

With his signature lighting style – he used four spotlights aimed from above - helped Horst turn subjects into pillars of personality. Even his still life pop as if they’re posing. No wonder his inimitable style influenced the works of Herb Ritts, Robert Mapplethorpe and countless imitators.

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