Whitney’s exciting journey as a fashion designer reaches a pivotal juncture this week on The City when her very first samples arrive. It’s like she’s a real person with a real job! Like. Kelly Cutrone — who has obnoxiously but also probably necessarily decided to micromanage Whitney’s design career — says it’s time to get a look book together. “This is your one moment to have a visual identity,” she reminds Whit, adding that the book could “make or break her.” (Technically not always the case — a slutty fashion show might carry considerably more impact.) And so she enlists Roxy, who needs things to do, to help her. Kelly prevents Roxy from screwing everything up. If only Olivia had had a handler at Elle to help her do the same.

Lesson 1: Casting a look book.
Do: Hire a casting assistant who is capable of listening. Whitney says she wants Roxy to work on the casting. Bad idea, because Roxy is not capable of catering to someone else’s vision. All she cares about is getting herself in a Quentin Tarantino movie and being “edgier” and therefore cooler and more important than Whitney. She will always think her ideas are best, and getting her to take direction from Whitney will require beating her over the head with the long-lost tutu from her youth. So the first round of girls she calls in for the “fairy-tale tea party” shoot are all pale brunette Goth types.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! This special holiday episode of The Hills is brought to you by the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas and Charlie’s increasingly creepy mustache. Seriously, what is up with that dude? Who is he? His advice is unsound to the point of insane (his pregnancy test: “Put some wine in front of her and take her out for some sushi”; his prediction about Speidi’s spawn: “He’ll have an Oedipus complex” — actually, that one’s probably true), and his anti-Heidi screeds are starting to worry us. “It sounds like the black widow, weaving a web, sucking you in for the big kill,” he says to Spencer of Heidi’s pregnancy plot. As (pretend) crazy as Heidi is, she’s not trying to murder Spencer, she’s just pressuring him to have a baby, which isn’t really akin to death. Hear that, twentysomething men? HEAR THAT?! Anyway, Charlie freaks us out. Sadly, we were hoping for a Very Special Thanksgiving episode this week (or least a few quality minutes with Lo), and all we got was a lousy Vegas trip and some strippers. On to it!

Yesterday, Barack and Michelle Obama received the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur at the White House. Later in the day, Michelle wore a skirt by Indian-American designer Rachel Roy to speak about that evening's State Dinner. For the event, she wore a dress by another Indian-American designer, Naeem Khan. The gown was no last-minute decision. Created in what sounds like a highly secure top secret State operation, Khan orchestrated the design with Ikram Goldman, the First Lady's unofficial stylist in Chicago. He had been asked to create something "Indian, chic, simple, but very glamorous." Khan submitted three or four gowns for the event, and Michelle made quite the extravagant choice. Mrs. O reports:

The strapless gown features hand cut sterling silver sequins sewn on nude silk chiffon, which create an abstract floral pattern. The dress is entirely handmade, requiring three weeks of work by 40 people, completed in Naeem Kahn's family workshop in India.

What she lacked in diamonds (though she wore some in the bracelet stack on her arm), she made up for in subtle handiwork. Evidently this was no time to wear a J.Crew cardigan and waist belt she'd been seen gardening in seventeen times since moving to the White House. This gown was planned way in advance, like prom or something.

Last week, reps from W told Jezebel they "did not do anything unusual or out of the ordinary on Demi Moore for the photo on the cover of W." Many had wondered what exactly the magazine did to allow Demi's left hip to cut in farther than her left thigh. Noting, secondly, the lack of any sort of wrinkle on Demi's face or body, particularly the armpit area (so normal for a 47-year-old), a professional retoucher and friend of the Cut suspected a lot of retouching had been done. Now, cover conspiracy theorists on blogs Oh No They Didn't and Pop Culture Madness suggest W Photoshopped Demi's face onto the body of Anja Rubik, as shot on the runway in the spring 2010 Balmain show.

Jezebel notes there is no need for the magazine to do that when they did their own shoot with Demi Moore and have the world's best retouchers at their disposal. Our retouching expert notes celebrity heads are often only Photoshopped onto models's bodies for advertisements.

Was Demi Moore Photoshopped Onto Model's Body For W? Not Likely. [Jezebel]
Demi Moore's Photoshopped W Cover: Was Her Body Replaced With A Model's? [HuffPo]
Related: Demi Moore Wears Spring 2010 Balmain on the Cover of W