Hey Beanies, during Fashion Week I had the pleasure of interviewing acclaimed Getty Images photgrapher Frazer Harrison. Frazer was fabulous, talkative, and gave us an inside look at the Max Azria show. Check out the video above, in which we chat with Harrison as he explains the ins and outs of being a fashion week photographer. You’ll spot Lucy Liu, Estelle, Mickey Rourke, Tinsley Mortimer, Kelly Rowland, and the designer himself in our video, which includes footage of models stomping down the runway in Azria’s gorgeous minimalist pieces. Watch to get an insider’s look at a fashion show from beginning to end!

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This week, The Daily Beast leaked how much the stars of The Hills are making per episode. The show’s new star, Kristin Cavallari, earns $90,000, much less than her predecessor, Lauren Conrad who made a whopping $125,000. Its also less than her costars Audrina Patridge, Lo and Heidi Montag who make $100,000 each per show. And, unlike what happens in the rest of the world, the men are actually making way less than the ladies. Spencer Pratt only makes $65,000 per episode (not that he’s worth even that much) while Brody Jenner makes a meager $45,000. Given their salaries, it seems the cast could afford to dress up their digs with a ecoSystems Glass Desk which comes in reclaimed teak and low VOC finishes. The desk starts at $1,740.

Christine

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Silver screen star Jessica Alba was spotted out in Beverly Hills sporting a few changes to her gorgeous self. Jessica, who was previously pulling off the blond bombshell look, debuted a reddish ‘do as she stepped out to get her nails done. Also noticeably different was the tattoo on the back of the actress’ neck, which appeared faded, most likely due to laser removal. J-Alb, who was once known for questionable quotes such as “I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out” is also undergoing an image makeover, as she recently attended a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, where she spoke with leaders about education disparities, malnutrition, and climate change. Check out Jessica’s blog to read all about her thoughts on the 2009 summit. No dumb blonde quotes included.

Mia

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There comes a time in every beanie’s life when s/he needs to let the inner Broadway diva out. For some, that means belting Ashlee Simpson at the top of their lungs. For others, it means learning the “Single Ladies” dance and performing it on a football field. In full uniform. Wait, did that really happen?

On last week’s episode of Glee, it did. Glee, which can only be described as television crack for shower songstresses and dapper dudes, is a nonstop hour of hilarity that airs on Fox every week at 9PM. It’s like High School Musical for adults, but better. The runaway hit, which has just been picked up for a full season, features everyone from cheerleaders to gay boys to nerdy teachers and secretly romantic football players. It tells the story of a high school glee club fighting to rise to the top of the high school hierarchy and win regionals, and let us tell you, it’s the best show to hit TV in quite some time.

If this doesn’t tickle your fancy, maybe the fact that star Jane Lynch (who plays Sue) not only appeared in an eco-friendly PSA for Fox, but is also in the midst of a green overhaul of her California home, will.

Sarah

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Next month people are going to receive the swine flu vaccine, and they are going to die. They are going to have strokes, seizures, and miscarry. However, government officials say the vaccine will not be responsible. Without the potentially life-saving vaccine, these people still would have been struck by lightening anyway. Good to know.

Oopsie, she did a poopsie! While performing a skit full of harmless "friggin’s", the new girl on Saturday Night Live accidentally let fly a real f-bomb. Mia has more below.

The Italian government doesn’t believed the Mafia "accidentally" dumped radioactive waste. They’re currently using a robo-sub to investigate a sunken ship off the coast of Italy. A mafia turncoat, however, says the mafia used to make millions illegally by dangerously disposing of radioactive waste. Safe to say, don’t try the fish the next time you go to Italy.

While those wedding bells are ringing, it’s too early to say mazel tov to Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian. Getting married on Sunday didn’t leave enough time for a proper pre-nup, so the ceremony will be non-binding, and the couple won’t officially become husband and wife until after a "post-nup" is agreed upon, and they sign the papers legalizing their marriage.

The Beautiful Life is not so beautiful anymore. Totally cancelled, but had all the ingredients for success: Models, the CW, Mischa Barton playing a moody, troubled girl. I mean, the OC barely lasted a season without her! Admittedly we’ve never seen the show, but while the OC went downhill by the second season, TBL crashed on the second episode, most likely due to too many initials. Just don’t blame it on the swine flu vaccine!

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MTV loves to fabricate friendships on their reality TV shows. They also love some good drama, which is why they’ve rehired Kristin Cavallari for The Hills and also found Whitney Port a new BFFAE. That’s right, apparently Erin Lucas’ slutty ways weren’t enough to keep the ratings of The City up. So, MTV went out and found Whit a new partner in crime. This time, they’ve recruited her “BFF from high school” (read: they found her in a bar and she’s pretty), “actress” Roxy Olin. Interestingly, Roxy is also best friends with She-Pratt, or at least, she used to be before MTV hired her to move to NYC and live with Port in the West Village.

The City returns on Tuesday (as does The Hills), and Roxy tells People magazine that despite what you might see, she’s not a bitch in person (right, that’s what Palermo said). Furthermore, she’s not exactly prepared for reality star fame. Might we recommend that she make sure and wear undies at all times? We’ve discovered some really cute eco-friendly ones from A Lot to Say. They’re cashmere soft and oh-so-adorable. Best of all, they’ll prevent the paps from getting more than they reckoned for on a Saturday night.

Sarah

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Megan Fox hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live this weekend. She may not have been very funny, but at least she wasn’t the one that f*cked up. That honor goes to brand new SNL cast member, the venerable Brooklynite, Jenny Slate. Slate made her debut episode a memorable one by accidentally dropping an f-bomb – only the third in Saturday Night Live history! Lucky for Megan Fox, this verbal malfunction (which is more than likely to be fined by the FCC) overshadowed her lackluster performance and real-life boyfriend Brian Austin Green’s undercover cameo as a transformer in Andy Samberg’s Digital Short. A grown and sexy David Silver was a nice surprise, but falls short of our real favorite Green moment in SNL history: last year’s eco-friendly edible Pampers faux-mmercial.

Mia

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Fashion Week may be over here in NYC, but the fun has just begun overseas. Everyone who is anyone in the international industry (yours truly not included, sadly) is now sitting front row in London. If you need your fashion fix, The Daily has all the deets. You can also take a look at London thanks to NY Magazine’s The Cut.

Speaking of London, people are freaking out over Mark Fast’s use of plus size models in his Spring 2010 show. Let’s remember that plus size in the modeling industry means size 8, not size 14. Rumor has it two of Fast’s people quit because they refused to work with the three larger girls. Does this girl look fat to you?

Ruffian will be designing a line for Anthropologie. The collection, which will launch in November in Anthro stores, will be called Mise en Scene, and will feature both clothes and houseware.

Need to hold in that paunch? DKNY is launching Smoothies, a spanx-like garment that will come in a variety of bright colors.

Looks like Vogue is going to have to cut back, big time. Will the devil still wear Prada now that she’s heard that Conde Nast needs to trim the fat to the tune of 25%? A quarter’s quite a lot to cut!

Elle, meanwhile, is doing well. Which is probably why they could afford to “hire” City star Olivia Palmero. Rumor has it now that this season of The City has finished filming, she’s focusing on her next endeavor, a jewelry collaboration with Roberta Freymann.

We may have had the Now Showcase of eco-designers here in New York, but over in Italy they had an entire conference dedicated to sustainable fashion design. Despite enthusiasm at the event, no one was deluded enough to claim that all fashion should be sustainable. That’s “absurd and unthinkable.” Is it?

King of sex Tom Ford is looking to expand – he’s currently seeking financial backers for a Womenswear line. The designer is asking for around $30 million. No big deal, right? It’s only a troubled economy.

Lara Stone thinks she’s fat. She told Elle UK that she’s taken up Pilates, among other things, in hopes of losing weight. Stone, for the record, is a size four. And yet, she’s “tired of being the fat one.”

One of my favorite Carrie Bradshaw lines ever is, “Wait! Wait! I lost my Choo!” (Spoken when Carrie is trying to catch the ferry back from Staten Island after her rendezvous with politician Bill Kelly). Ever lost one of your favorite Choos? Tamara Mellon just revealed Choo 24/7, a capsule collection of 28 classic styles – so you can update the ones you’ve lost, of course. Or you can just hit up the soon to be released H&M diffusion line.

On Tuesday night, Bacon Bits, Informr Bean and I headed over to all sustainable all the time restaurant Rouge Tomate (who partnered with Go Green) for this year’s Eco-Luxe showcase. They doled out delicious Long Island Duck en Sous Vide with Farro, Pomegranate and Pumpkin Seed Vinaigrette, and we sipped their signature Purple Reign cocktails. Heavenly! And while most of the tables weren’t fashion related, we did check out some very cool purses and dresses made out of cork. That’s right, Nature’s Cork provides clutches, handbags, luggage, and gowns made of the material. You’d never believe it, but you can take a tree and turn it into a purse that looks and feels just like suede. It’s incredible! We also checked out A Lot to Say’s line of shirts and undies made from recycled soda bottles – the shirts were as soft as an Alexander Wang tee, and totally eco-friendly.

There was once a time, long, long ago, when Anna Wintour wore gold lame and shirts with mesh cutouts. You can’t miss these pictures.

Ok, so these might not fit us, but how adorable are these eco-friendly baby clothes from Adooka? The line is made from certified organic cotton fabric and low-impact, fiber reactive dyes that are free of heavy metals and toxins. Even the snaps are nickel-free. Can somebody find me a baby to dress?

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What’s more ghastly than Phillip Garrido hiding Jaycee Dugard in his shed for 18 years and giving her two babies in the process? Mackenzie Phillips having drug-fueled incestuous sex with her father. Hold on while I vomit in Sarah’s Nalgene. Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips of the 60’s folk group The Mamas & the Papas. She went on Oprah this week to talk about her new tell-all book that reveals an affair she had with her father. Basically, after a long bender when she was 19, she woke up from a blackout while her father was raping her. This would occur repeatedly over ten years and ultimately become consensual. She eventually became pregnant and chose to terminate the pregnancy. Now 49, Phillips says the pregnancy and abortion were what ended it with her father, and though he’s been dead since 2001, she says she still loves him. All I can say is: how are we going to stop global warming if we can’t even stop nuclear familial incest?

Getting garishly decorated gas guzzlers off the road is a start. After last weekend, wedding season is finally over for me. My adventures in carpooling are on hiatus until Thanksgiving and I couldn’t be happier. After enduring a flat tire and unrelenting traffic to and from my friend’s Upstate wedding, nothing put a cherry on this road trip like what I saw on my way home: a ginormous pick-up truck accessorized with ram rods, flood lights and shiny rims. It gets better. The pièce de résistance was a pair of oversized, but anatomically correct, rubber testicles hanging just in front of the tailpipe. Using deductive reasoning, that would mean the truck’s muffler is the vehicle’s choad.

Finally, I was an unflinching supporter of Gossip Girl until this week when the writers decided it would be funny to make the ultimate anti-hipster, Blair Waldorf, some kind of NYU outcast. At a rooftop party hosted by Michelle Trachtenberg’s Georgina Sparks, Blair tries to assert her power—and undermine Georgina—by inviting everyone to the swanky lounge Monkey Bar. Blair’s lovely visage and sophisticated tastes are hastily deemed uncool, however, when Humphrey convinces them all to stay and “drink cheap beer.” Feeling buttressed by this insignificant victory, Georgina tells Blair she’s a “loser who won’t fit in.” Yikes. I don’t care how many artistes or alt-rockers go to NYU; the entire notion of Blair being unpopular in college is a high school dork’s wet dream. I haven’t seen anything that unrealistic since the Trip McNeely scene in Can’t Hardly Wait.

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Lauren Conrad is such a do-gooder. First, she quit The Hills to let MTV’s resident bitch Kristin Cavallari reign, and now she’s been spotted picking up trash on the beach in Santa Monica. LC participated in the Kohl’s Coastal Cleanup as part of a promotional effort for her new clothing line with the retailer, and boy, did she manage to look happy picking up banana peels. We know she’s a television star, but how is it possible to look that pretty and that gleeful while picking up trash? We’re guessing Chris Brown didn’t look this happy while doing his community service. But maybe that’s because he doesn’t look good in orange. Conrad, on the other hand, looks good in just about any color, green included. Doing an eco-deed makes the girl glow, don’t you think? LC is more like us than we thought!

Sarah

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