There is something vaguely inspiring about Anna Wintour‘s utter refusal to trim her lifestyle in the face of a industry-wide recession that is promising to spell the end to magazines as we know them. Let others eat cake in the Condé Nast cafeteria and agonize to their heart’s content about the McKinsey evaluators, if you need Anna, she will be at the Ritz, thank-you very much.

The Great McKinsey-Condé Nast consultation continues. This week finds the intrepid consultants making a visit to Anna Wintour‘s office. And what they’ve apparently gleaned thus far is that Vogue is a great representation of everything that is wrong at Condé. Also, Anna Wintour may or may not have known about “the Web” before now.

The September Issue: it’s not just the title of the highly anticipated R.J Cutler documentary about Anna Wintour, its also what every magazine loving fashionista anxiously awaits, its hefty size a welcome antidote to the malnourished August issue. But judging from Elle’s September cover, which features Jennifer Aniston clad in black leather (last month anyone?), it’s beginning to look a lot like August.

Elle has recently been cited in the trades as a singular bright spot in an otherwise blighted sector – most recently getting attention for selling more ad pages than Conde Nast rival Vogue. So if rumors are true, why would Hachette want to sell off a profitable magazine that is on its way up?

I’d like to apologize to Erin Andrews. Apparently, my lifelong obsession with professional sports — the tears I shed when the Giants won the Super Bowl and when the Mets lost the Subway Series, the John Starks “Dunk” poster I had on my bedroom wall, the tiny radio I kept in bed with me, tuned [...]

Everyone wants to know what McKinsey will do with Conde Nast? And how will they do it? And what will it feel like? We’re here to answer all your McKinsey questions.

Looks like the reality has finally caught up to Conde Nast. A tipster passed on this email, which was just sent out to all Conde Employees informing them that the company has been forced to rethink “the way we do business in many instances and incorporate efficiencies in every step of our process.” Short version: tighten your Gucci belts kids and put on your walking shoes, no more Town Cars in your future!

Scott Schuman‘s street fashion blog The Sartorialist has gone from cult obsession to mainstream force. At first glance it appears that Shuman randomly wanders the streets of the world snapping the fashionistas, homespun or otherwise, who cross his path. Wanna know what it takes to get in the shot?

Have you heard the big news? Elle has now sold more ad pages than rival Vogue in the first half of fiscal year 2009! And sure — Elle deserves a ton of credit for an unprecedented turnaround (particularly in a ridiculous ad recession). But why did the reporter neglect to include total revenue?

This month Sienna Miller returns to the cover of Vogue, despite her ‘toothy’-ness and ‘unruly hair’ (Anna Wintour’s words, not ours).

Harper’s Bazaar goes tabloid on Angelina Jolie, V-word makes Sandra Bullock giggle, Vogue slims down for Sienna Miller…