Katie Grand has always championed that beauty comes in all sizes, great and small. And for her latest issue of bi-annual magazine LOVE, she upholds this belief with eight separate covers of naked fashion icons.

Kate Moss, Lara Stone, Daria Werbowy, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, Kristen McMenamy and Jeniel Williams stripped down to pose for the publication, all striking the same stance.

Grand explained, “We did this to show how much they differed physically from one another, which is why we also printed their measurements. The point is that ‘perfection’ is not fixed, timeless or transcendent. It varies, as the measurements of our cover girls show.”

But do they really vary that much? This is something we’ve been questioning since the release of all the covers. And to the naked eye, no, they don’t appear to.

Who’s joining Mert & Marcus’s naked lady parade for LOVE’s third edition, their Fashion Icon Issue? Click through!

Publishing trade rag Media Industry Newsletter reports that several glossies saw a major uptick in first quarter advertisements, including Marie Claire (up 23% from last year to 255 pages), InStyle (17% to 512 pages) and Lucky (17% to 237 pages).

While that’s all good news, we of course have to remember that more ads do not equal more money. There’s a huge chance that Marie Claire, despite the fact it’s doing better than last year in terms of ad pages, didn’t make much bank. (We won’t know until the Publisher’s Information Bureau releases 1st quarter sales figures in a couple of months.) Vogue’s ad pages may be flat, but they claim not to negotiate rates, so are their results actually better?

Regardless of whether this news means magazines will be able to bounce back from the recession’s crushing ad market, titles are attempting to reach beyond the traditional avenues of growth. GQ, for instance, sold 12,000 January issues via iPhone for $2.99.

Gotta start somewhere, right?

GQ’s devoting their February issue to the most stylish men.

They’ve put Johnny Depp on the cover, and are asking you to vote for the man you think has the most style on GQ.com.

Your options include Ryan Gosling, Ed Westwick, and Daniel Day Lewis who are all hot, or handsome or dreamy or whatever, but are so in jeans and t-shirts.

Lapo Elkann makes the cut, and he does make the most effort with his grandfather’s impeccable suits. Lauren would like to add Wes Anderson to the list, and Kanye. Kate votes for Tom Ford, which I’ll have to second, though I’d let Johnny Depp take the number one spot for his floppy hats and sunglasses alone.

If we focused on those in fashion, we’d have to add the Rag & Bone boys, Thom Browne, Jefferson Hack, and everyone Scott’s shooting in Italy right now.

Who’s your pick?

Vogue Italia has become synonymous with Steven Meisel. After all, he has shot every cover of the magazine since 1988.

His most recent editorial for the Italian glossy—titled Runway—goes way beyond the scope of photo essay and straight into photo novel. The spread is a remarkable 80 pages in length and features a colorful collage of his favorite backstage and runway candids. And they aren’t the typical runway photos you see on Style.com; these are more along the lines of models falling down and throwing fits.

I can look at fashion images for days, but I’m curious to know what the average Vogue Italia reader thinks about such a hefty editorial. The average reader, I’m guessing, is a 30-something Italian woman. Can an 80-page spread hold attention to the end, even when it’s filled with fun images?

And Lauren brought up another interesting point: how do the ad pages in this issue compare with last year’s of the same month?

Sasha Knezevic is one of the world’s top male models, who just so happens to be dating another top model — Anja Rubik.

We’ve seen the pretty power couple join forces before — posing for those adorable Gap ads and then again in those Camilla Akrans ads that were too hot for words. But we’ve never seen them take on a project as large as this one.

Last November, the two began work on the already established Viennese magazine, 25. We aren’t very familiar with the publication, but apparently the magazine needed a major revamp, and after being approached by a friend, Sasha agreed to help out. Before he knew it, he was adding a new job title to his resume — joint Editor-in-Chief. He explains, “I convinced Anja to do the fashion part and before we realized, we had our own magazine.”

By now, everyone knows where Karl stands on the issue of plus-size models, which is why we were so surprised when we first heard he was included on the list of photographers for V magazine’s size issue.

Who would he shoot? What would she wear? With bated breath, we have waited to see the results.

And that wait is finally over — Models.com has posted an exclusive preview of the editorial titled, “Coco a Go-Go.”

Burlesque dancer Miss Dirty Martini poses alongside Jane Schmitt (a very cute old lady who plays Coco) in Chanel’s apartment in Paris. Martini is bedecked in Karl’s favorite color couple — black and white — with camellias over her nipples and pearls around her neck.

If this is just a taste, we’re looking forward to seeing the full monty.

In stark contrast to the other teen star’s magazine cover we wrote about today, we’re huge fans of Dakota Fanning’s V cover (one of two for the issue — the second belongs to Precious’ Gabourey Sidibe.)

Inside, Dakota chats about her role in The Runaways and how she’s finally able to wear a size zero without having to take it in: “Now that I’m getting older, I’m finally getting to the point where I can fit into those things.”

She also mentions how much she loved shooting the film, co-starring Kristen Stewart: “I really enjoyed doing that subject matter for the first time in a biopic, because it really happened, it’s not just a made-up story about a 15-year-old running wild. It’s a true story of her evolution from good Valley Girl to bad rock ‘n roll princess.”

Of all the things that 4 Times Square is known for, being a warm and welcoming environment is not one of them. That’s not to say it’s a horrible place by any means, it’s just a tad frosty.

Apparently, they’re trying to change that—at least internally—in 2010. The Observer’s John Koblin (who’s become the go-to guy on all things Condé over the past year) reports that CEO Chuck Townsend is meeting with each and every magazine in the company for a little chit-chat.

Sounds standard, right? Actually, not so much at the publishing house where corporate camaraderie has never been the standard. This has become especially in January when big boss, Uncle Si, has been known to return to work from vacation with the “Si Surprise”, read: the folding of a popular magazine like Domino.

It’s no secret that I often take issue with some of the editorial and design choices made at Harper’s Bazaar, but I’ll state again for the record that it only upsets me because this is a title I used to love very dearly.

This morning I received an email with the newsstand and subscriber cover shots of Miley Cyrus for the February issue of the magazine. While there is nothing about Miley that, in my opinion, has even an inkling to do with fashion, I do recognize her value from a selling perspective. (Laugh if you will, but I also sneaky like “Party in the USA”, though I prefer to watch this version of the video.) And Glenda Bailey obviously tried steering the styling away from the kiddie porn shitstorm that the Annie Leibowitz VF pictures stirred up.

But why on earth does this look like Tiffani Amber Thiessen on a bad cover of something circa 1992? Holy bad hair! Though Zack Morris would definitely dig it, and the dress.

The interview itself makes attempts to steer things in a vague style direction, seeing as this is supposed to be a fashion magazine. We learned that Miley likes Barneys and Loree Rodkin jewels paired with a white tee. “I thought it was so cool when girls would ask me, What’s your shirt? And I’m like, Hanes, but I have $60,000 worth of jewelry on top of it!”

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