Fall fashion 2007

Flipping through the September issue of Vogue, we realized something we always knew but never got pissed about until now: The magazine’s useless. It’s pretty to look at, for sure, influential and impressively heavy—this month’s was their “biggest issue ever,” part of a record fall for fashion mags in general. But New Yorkers looking for actual clothes to wear had to sift through 727 pages of ads, only to find a spread featuring an amazon in an explosion of “dyed fox fur spliced with plaid taffeta” and Sienna Miller wearing what looked like a turkey stitched to her back.

In this fashion issue, you’ll find our response—stories devoted to on-trend, affordable styles, with a little context, too. (We show you the people who make the clothes—not just the designers, but the Garment District workers.) You’ll also see New Yorkers you won’t find in the glossies—some superstyling ordinary folks, as well as models’ unmodely friends. Because although Vogue may be the bible of fashion, some of us devils just can’t wear Prada.