Mary Kate is Elle’s September Cover girl, click the photograph above to view behind the scenes of Mary Kate’s cover shoot.

Mary Kate’s favourite outfit was the Mui Mui Jacket she modelled… we love it too MJ!

Above is the released cover of Mary Kate Super Star. Her wedges are Stella McCartney (love them, so fantastically high) from the Fall/Winter 2008 Collection. What are your thoughts? Do you think she looks prettier than other photographs published or less so?

Mary Kate Fashionable News: Elle Cover Girl, Case Closed, MK will not be interviewed, MK loves Chanel, MK Elle Update and the controversial Starbucks cup!, MJ will not talk to Federal Agents unless given immunity!

Mischa is someone that sometimes gets it right and sometimes not!

I'm a Gucci Girl in a Gucci World!

And she absolutely got it right for the new edition of Instyle UK as she sticks to what suits her and looks style superior in this Gucci ensample which is teamed with an on trend fringed purse and her favourite brown ankle boots.

Are men the new women?

Depressed, repressed, objectified: are men the new women? That is precisely the question that the Observer asks. As men become more depressed about their weight wanting children and not being able to Ms Right etc. etc. problems problems previously associated with women… are men indeed becoming the new women…?

Vintage Bella!

Nicole Richie looking her boho best out with baby Harlow donning cut off shorts and a vintage print top with scarf. Later she was spotted at the air port with oversized Chanel tote and Rick Owens sweater wrap.

Chanel Chic!

Fantastic Feathered Burberry Coat

Chloe dress, boots and tights combo!

French Vogue creative stylist Marie – Amelie Sauve styled this editorial for Vogue. We heart the chiffon purple Chloe dress, boots and tights combo. And my heart skips a beat for this deliciously chic and simply beautiful Burberry feathered coat.

Rodarte outfit with Hermes Birkin bag

While Vogue Nippon dished out this decadent display of eye candy. CoCo Rocha models a fantastically girlie Rodarte outfit with Hermes Birkin bag – essential accessory for any fashionista of note!!

The pink balloons and school children all in a row are youth full and cute and their stillness contrasts with the movement of the model and her exaggerated steps, she looks like she could be walking on air. The Birkin bag looks so chic and such a classic.

Anna Dello Russo the creative director of Vogue Nippon has been doing great things for Vogue Japan and I love her personal style. But what else would we expect from a Vogue gal, she looks simply fantastic in her summer attire. She knows how to dress to impress – Bellissima! Her style choices are fantastic; I love her Lavin Dress in canary yellow, Dolce and Gabbana dress – frill me! She teams her fab frocks with designer stiletto sandals to show off her pins, she choose Yves Saint Laurent heels for her Lanvin dress and wears Louboutin in the middle photographs …

cutting edge Martin Margiela ankle booties

Rachel Bilson wears her deliciously chic Maison Martin Margiela boots. These cutting edge booties are priced at $595.00, be like Rachel and wear it with Ray Ban Wafers and cuffed at the ankle faded skinny jeans and classic button down top, finishing it off with a boho satchel.

Plaid Princess

Mary- Kate Olsen was spotted in her favorite dressing down staples – Alaia sandals, Givenchy purse, Marni sunglasses and Wolford bandage skirt with yet another Plaid shirt tired around her waist this girl loves plaid …

Mary Kate Olsen plaid princess

While earlier this week Mary Kate Olsen had been hot legging it around LA in plaid. “The full house star was spotted in a casual t -shirt and later changed into a plaid shirt to shimmy around LA in. The Plaid Princess is currently in a battle with a former landlord for altering the kitchen of a home she was renting and reportedly never returned it to its original state. It’s been reported that the full house star rented the house for $15,000 a month situated above the Sunset Strip. The owner is apparently devastated as they claim that Olsen customized the kitchen turning it into a “disaster.”I suppose it’s like her fashion sense you either love it or hate it, right?” Source: FMD

Carla Bruni – Supermodel turned First Lady of France

Politics and Fashion let’s have a look at who’s wearing what and who’s got the media (and with that by default the public’s) vote… we’ll have a quick look through the Fashionista Contenders, the Fashionista Underdogs and examine each Fashionista’s Style Credentials …

The Fashionista Contenders:

Team Europe – French first Lady Carla Bruni- Sarkozy Vs. Sarah Brown British first Lady

Team USA First Ladies in waiting – Michelle O Bama Vs. Cindy McCain

Fashionista Underdog:

Cindy McCain for being a republican (it’s kind of untrendy because of the whole Bush thing!) & not as young and hip as her rival – Michelle Obama.

Sarah Brown she may be England’s first lady but she’s no English rose in the eyes of the press, she just does not have the French Chic Je ne sai quoi that comes so effortlessly to the First Lady of France who is incidentally not French but Italian…

Fashionista’s by Style credentials:

1. Michelle Obama’s Style – in a word – chic and affordable!

Style credentials:

She is very much the modern woman, successful career, darling children and charismatic husband. She is the American Dream as she fought her way into the Ivy League all the way to Harvard from a deprived childhood in Chicago …

Included in the Vanity Fair International Best dressed list 2008

Vanity Fair called her “our commander in sheath” giving her style the official stamp of commercial approval

American women follow her fashion lead – Ricco had been designing dresses for more than 20 years, but it wasn’t until Michelle Obama sported Ricco’s black-and-white leaf-print shift — sold at the White House Black Market Store, for $148 — on “The View,” and women across America went wild for it. She is credited with making the dress sell out within hours. Ricco, who wasn’t watching “The View” when her design made its TV debut, had no idea, Obama would be wearing it. “Apparently she just bought it off the rack,” says Ricco. “I didn’t realize until people started calling me, and then I watched the show on Youtube.” Source: NYDailyNews.com

Seal of approval from the press as Michelle has had more positive press coverage than Cindy

2. Cindy McCain’s Style – in a word – prim and proper!

Style credentials:

Cindy is a cross between Second Wives Club meets Gossip Girl, look wise she does look rather Barbie-esque but that’s selling Cindy short she has overcome 7 miscarriages and an addition to painkillers after a stroke, she is a strong woman that stands by her man no matter what.

Excluded from Vanity Fair list – Cindy McCain was left off the coveted roster as she must’ve felt like, well, sheath, from the snub.

Negative press – Cindy McCain made news for all the wrong reasons while getting a private peek at Oscar de la Renta’s fall line (her bodyguards were left to stand outside the designer’s studio in the heat which gave the story away). Cindy came across as too pampered and it became a down-to-earth versus high maintenance story played out in the headlines!

Sacrificing her look to imitate the popular choice – As of late Cindy has been changing her look that’s been deemed ‘rigid’ in tabloids. Earlier this month she traded her updo for a wavier head of hair and without saying a word, she let it be known she can cut loose. Compromising on personal style for votes … not a good move, I think Cindy McCain should stick with what works for her. The message she sends out by imitating Obama is that her look is better. Unfortunately Cindy has been caught up in the Obama-Mania and no matter what she does she won’t win.

Cindy – be yourself if you like prim and proper roll with it!

3. Carla Bruni – Supermodel turned First Lady of France

Style credentials:

She courts the media like a pro, she can do no wrong – The French first Lady Carla Bruni- Sarkozy is undeniably the media darling, her nude photographs, her many lovers and their wronged wives cannot keep this bombshell under wraps she’s exploded onto the political scene and she is loved for it..

She’s got the look, – Carla is an Ex- Supermodel and reined during the times of Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington etc. 1990’s

Inclusion of the Vanity Fair Best Dressed list

Seal of approval from designers and press in general

Karl Lagerfeld recently gave the supermodel his stamp of approval

Compared to Jackie O and Hailed as the ‘Most fashionable First Lady’ Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair dubbed her the new Jackie O and featured her on the cover of their September issue (the same issues that included the international best dressed list) and she was of course included in the best dressed list.

She takes the September cover of Vanity Fair and is interviewed – The piece is written by Maureen Orth, for Vanity Fair with the article portraying Ms. Bruni as a modern sort of woman who values her independence, remains friends with her many lovers (and their wives!), and prefers a president who wears blue jeans.

Find extracts from the article below as Ms. Bruni’s explains herself and Karl Lagerfeld declares her the most enviable first lady!

On her independence:
“I think it is a major duty for a woman to be independent. Independence was my obsession when I was 20. It was not making money; it was making my own money. Modeling meant I did not have to rely on my parents or a man.”

On Her past lovers:
“It’s not that I had a lot of lovers. It’s that I never hide them. It’s a different thing. I have not one day of regret. I have a very good relationship with exes. I have a good relationship with all the boyfriends I had. Sometimes I’m the godmother of their children. I’m always good friends with their wives.

On her nude photos:
“I never realized how many nude pictures I did before I met Nicolas. I took him and said, ‘O.K., now I need to show you, because I posed in the nude. But I never did sexy pictures. They’re great artists. Plus, I have a body that would allow me to pose nude without being very provocative.”

On how the French press covered their relationship:
[Nicolas] from our generation. He doesn’t want to lie. He doesn’t want to have a second family somewhere. He never thought that our going to Egypt would make such a fuss. We took three days, and it lasted weeks and weeks [in the press]. It looks like we spent five weeks lying on the beach, and we spent two hours. And for one hour he talked with Bernard Kouchner, because they were working hard. I said, ‘Nicolas, it’s not fair that people think you don’t work just because you’ve been wearing jeans with me.

’Plus: Karl Lagerfeld on Ms. Bruni’s new status:
“She’s imaginative, clever, educated. She knows how to behave. She speaks many languages. It must be an embarrassment for the wives of other heads of state to see this beautiful creature who can wear anything and speak like that. They are hunters who met—predators. It’s a good thing. He had seduced many women, and she was a kind of seductress. When two like this meet, it can be good.”

Karl Lagerfeld neglects to state that Bruni’s English is hilarious and not really coherent… We’ll give her an E for Effort.

4. Sarah Brown – wife of Gordon Brown British PM – she keeps a low profile and wears British designers

She works in PR, but she seems at a lost on how to improve her public image and in the rivalry between Carla and Sarah it seems that Carla is the real PR guru

She supports British Designs and has been dubbed Boring compared to her chic French counterpart.

A Boho summer Styled by Rachel Zoe

I love this photograph of Nicole Richie she looks stylish, loaded and chic. This was taken when she was still being styled by Rachel Zoe (Then). I must confess, I don’t particularly care for Nicole Richie as I feel that she is undeserving of her fame and style credentials because it seems that she’s always riding on someone else’s coat tails. Also her biggest claim to fame is losing weight which is super sad.

Nicole Richie Boho Summer Cut off Jeans

This is Richie photographed on Malibu beach during the 4^th of July celebrations (Now).