Chic Happens is updated, and although all of their news items were previously posted on this humble weblog, I truly can't beat the writing, nor the small bits (I especially liked the item on Peta and Yasir Arafat). This is their two cents on the HB carnaval:

Here's a Fashion Week puzzle to sink your Mombasa handles into: Bonnie Fuller's contract at Us! Weekly is up for renegotiation just as Glenda Bailey is teetering on her stilettos at Harper's Bazaar. Conventional wisdom has Bonnie buzzing and Glenda gurgling. Remember last year's HB re-launch issue, with Gisele's back on the back cover, and the deathless cover-line, "Fashion's Back!" Unfortunately, "fashion's back" is just what the industry showed the mag, with a 12.5 percent drop in advertising. Glenda's decision to revive the occasionally baroque HB cover style did kick newsstand sales up 13 percent in the last half of 2002, which is not hard to believe when you compare them with Vogue's recent outings (Debra Messing on a swing? And they say British Vogue looks like a TV guide.) Bonnie's stellar result at Us! means she has momentum. But she's fighting a two-front war. She can't be trying to make up with Vogue over that unfortunate Zeta-Jones cover incident (see "It's All About Anna!" in last Fashion Week's Us! special) at the same time as angling to be her chief rival. Yet she and Glenda still have that whole "any Marie Claire you can do, I can do better" thing between them.