Andre J +Carolyn Murphy /IMG: Vogue Paris: Nov 07: Bruce Weber

Fashion shall not live by fashion alone. It needs to eat art and music and the new bands and the new kids in the clubs if it is to stay current. Now that downtown denizen Andre J is riding the cover of November's Vogue Paris, will that clinch his long pending record deal? Its bound to go No 1 on the English charts, no? I hope Inez and Vinoodh will really do the video...But how did this whole subversion of what fashion is or isn't come about? Its all Joe McKenna's idea said Andre to style.com about a week ago. McKenna put Andre in touch with Bruce Weber, (its an All Bruce All The Time editorial well this month ) Carine Roitfeld went... hmmmm and the rest is history...In any case the spontaniety and humor of this cover is well welcome in the trade because on the SS08 ad front, it is business as usual. From Prada to Gucci to Burberry and Dior ( the latter being Jessica Stam, Coco, Kasia) there are a lot of repeat offenders on the bookings this season. That is when its not a Starworks kind of celebrity moment (check out the frillr.com shots of Jennifer Connolly ALREADY decked out in SS08 Balenciaga gear at her recent film premiere). There is one massive campaign breakthrough looming however. I've been warned under penalty of painfull death to keep my arch mouth shut but next week at MDC three new girls will break onto the Top 50 with unusually high positioning. From the murky clouds of new girls rising it is Meghan Collison, Adina Forisz, and Toni Garnn who have the truly super-star editorial and campaign velocity, right this minute. Model spotters can decode those tea leaves I suppose, for what they're worth. As for the current crop of stars...very special things are happening for Coco Rocha, Raquel Zimmerman and Agyness Deyn, as these are the girls on every blue chip call sheet, every day for the month of October. And that Coco,with the YSL fragrance spot and the US Vogue heavy rotation....she's very cover level, but of a higher grade.You'll see. Again...arch mouth shut...Meanwhile my spies tell me that Natalia Vodianova is shooting December's lead fashion story for US Vogue...right this minute...Going back to the club kid triumph, paging all the mad and stylish kids from London to New York and to LA . Why don't you all stage a fashion intervention of your own and flood the V/Supreme Model Search with butch girls and pretty boys, stunning trans-G's and gorgeous scenesters of all genders. Tell a friend to tell a friend to enter before Nov 1 at : http://www.vmagazine.com/model_topten.php. There's Andre J as your beacon!