At last night's Soho House party for the launch of the movie tie-in edition of the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Kirsten Dunst cannily demonstrated the title of the film adaptation in which she co-stars. It started out amiably enough when we asked the obvious question: What's the best way to lose friends and alienate people? "Be yourself and if people don't like you, they lose, right?" she said, sounding every bit like the spunky cheerleader of Bring It On. Feeling emboldened, we brought it on and asked how she felt about her teeth being Photoshopped on this month's cover of Harper's Bazaar. "I haven't heard about it," she said. Holding up her blonde locks and preening for us close-mouthed, she asked, "What do you think? Photoshopped?" We admitted that we would have to see the cover again to jar our memory. "Well, you can't speak before you have knowledge, darling. You're a journalist. Are you just reading enough blogs to get you by?" She called us darling!

And now it's time to get excited for tonight's vice-presidential debate! By talking about clothes, obviously. Sarah Palin has improved upon her wardrobe as of late. She no longer wears shoes by the brand Naughty Monkey, which Paris Hilton has also been photographed in. She has reportedly traded Mary K lipstick for M.A.C lipstick and, according to insiders, has employed a secret team of stylists. What does the fashion industry think of all this? WWD tried to find out. They called Michael Fink, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, where Palin allegedly purchased the $2,500 silk Valentino jacket she wore to the Republican National Convention. “We just can’t comment,” he said. Moving on! Someone at Nordstrom in Anchorage, where Palin likes to shop? “Oh, jeez, I’m not supposed to say anything [about her],” a saleswoman said. “I think you’re supposed to call corporate.” Corporate? No answer! Several fashion designers also declined to comment. But there is one important man in the fashion industry who did comment: Barneys creative director Simon Doonan.

“It’s either love or hate,” said Doonan, who has made no secret of his Democratic partisanship. As for the impact of her wardrobe on voters’ minds, he added, “Nothing she wears will cause anyone to budge, so she might as well enjoy her clothes and go for a little flamboyance. I’m seeing a little Jackie Rogers, a little vintage Mackie.”

Damn. We were kind of hoping he'd imagine her in a high-fashion look, as he did with Hillary, Michelle, Barack, Bill, John, and Cindy back in May. But just because he didn't doesn't mean we can't! We'd like to see Palin in, oh, new Gareth Pugh.

We just got back from the Viktor & Rolf show. Have you been? Everyone's invited, don't you know. And no, you don't have to teleport to Paris and back on your lunch hour (that is, if you still have one these days). This season Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren unveiled their new collection in an online-only fashion show, which you can watch here from the front row that is your place of work. The online-only format is a product of the "transition to new ownership by Renzo Rosso’s Only the Brave Srl," WWD reported a couple of weeks ago. But here's the important question: Does it prove Cathy Horyn was right about real, live fashion shows being obsolete in the age of the Internet? Well, this enabled the designers to do a number of things live shows don't, like use only one model — Shalom Harlow — who magically appears on the runway three times at once. And we can see detail shots of the shoes and clothes in a way one couldn't even from the front row of a live show.

Kenley started off this episode by being her charming self. She accuses Leanne of sabotaging her when she modeled her "hip-hop" outfit in the last challenge. Sorry, dear, but you sabotaged yourself. Jerrell, now living alone as the last male standing, plays with syrup bottles in his apartment à la Tom Hanks in Castaway. So reality TV has made him crazy! (On a side note, Bravo, just how do you spell his name? You keep adding and subtracting R's!)

Tim takes the designers to the Botanical Gardens, where they find the head makeup artist hiding in the bushes. The challenge today is — surprise! — flowers. The designers have to create an evening gown inspired by the gardens. Off they go with cameras in hand, Leanne ducking bees. Was the episode so slow that we had to cut the bee montage in?

Sacha Baron Cohen is back at Fashion Week, where he invaded this morning's Stella McCartney show. YES. Posing as Bruno, the gay Austrian fashion-obsessed journalist, the comedian caused a kerfuffle when he stormed Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's runway in Milan last week. The image of him catwalking there with an Ugg-esque boot tied to his leg still makes us chortle. But this morning it got so much better. British Vogue reports:

With his red thong clearly visible above his jeans, the comedian — who was virtually unrecognisable in a flamboyant leather gilet, with his slicked-down hair dyed blonde and brown — sucked Tampax, clapped along to the music and generally disgruntled the front row by continually pushing aside those sitting in front of him for a better look at the models.

Can you imagine if Anna Wintour — or better yet, André Leon Talley — was sitting in front of him? To draw even more attention to himself, "Bruno" gave a lone standing ovation when the show ended. The stunts (if that's what one calls Tampax sucking) are for the film Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male, which is supposed to come out next year. We will monitor this story as it develops throughout the day, and we hope to bring you video of the incidents later.

Bruno Invades Paris [British Vogue]
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