Backstage at Prada.Photo: Imaxtree

Backstage at fashion shows, models don't get privacy when they change. Tell you something you don't know, right? No, sorry — we might not, since we just read a really long story about models getting naked backstage in today's New York Times 'Styles' section. Reporters, photographers, makeup artists, hairstylists, security guards, and general hanger-onners are all backstage when the models prep for the runway. Guy Trebay, who has seen hundreds of models changing backstage at the shows, writes:

What is strangest, perhaps, about this particular form of employment — for which there is no comprehensive job description — is that being around rooms filled with unclad women and men is anything but stimulating.

Maybe that's because — according to men we're not sure we believe — runway models aren't hot. They just... look like runway models

“When you see some doll walking down the catwalk in some sheer thing or nearly naked, it’s fashion,” Mr. Blanks remarked in Paris last week. “If you saw that same girl pole dancing in a club, it would be hot.”

Marc Jacobs as camel toe last year.Photo: Getty Images

Marc Jacobs's holiday parties are legendary. The theme is executed to the nines and attendees dress up with the same enthusiasm. They don't just put on a headband with furry triangles and call themselves cats. Oh no. They go to the Halloween spa in Iceland and get treatments that enable their bodies to grow actual fur and claws for a day. Well, not really but the preparation required is just about as intense. So what do the posh fabulous people invited have to prepare for this year? Marc just revealed the theme: "Rock and Roll Circus." According to WWD the invite references the documentary The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus about the Stones' 1968 concerts. That part's all fine and well, but can someone tell us what is up with all the fashion-meets-circus stuff lately? On Saturday, Diesel's 30th-Anniversary party in Brooklyn has the same "Rock and Roll Circus" theme. And what's more, Heatherette designer Richie Rich's ad campaign for his forthcoming Hot Topic line has a "dark circus" theme. So... are clowns going to pop up on the runways in February? Alongside models in stilts? Oh wait — they already do that.

Fashion Scoops: Rock the Boat [WWD]

This is the November cover of W, shot by Brad Pitt. As you can see, Angelina is breast feeding her baby. There's more where that came from inside the issue — which hits stands October 21 — also shot by Brad. Indeed, we appreciate that she appears stripped of the veneer that plagues magazine covers more often than it helps them. Don't get us wrong — we're sure this was Photoshopped considerably (just because all images in magazines are) but it's nice to look at a cover and not wonder how much thinner they made its subject.

Angelina Jolie Breastfeeding — W Magazine Preview [Just Jared via Jezebel]

Horsewomen of the gossip apocalypse.Photo: Getty Images

We know that this is one stressed-out country right now: Between the contentious presidential election and our collapsing economy, all we want to do is cry into a pint of Ben and Jerry's — but we can't, because going to buy it burns too much expensive gas. That's why now, more than ever, we need to maintain a steady diet of shallow and salacious celebrity gossip stories to take our mind off our own troubles. But as the banks have failed, so too has our beloved rumor mill. Instead of scandal, we're getting D-list drama; Hollywood is serving us lukewarm leftovers when what we REALLY need is a nice, palate-cleansing gossip sorbet. What gives, Tinseltown? Where's the love?

Dreamy Gerard ButlerPhoto: Getty Images

Maybe Roger Federer shouldn't have left Anna Wintour hanging on the front rows at Fashion Week. According to the New York Post she has a new crush. His name is Gerard Butler and he's a Scottish actor who stars in Guy Ritchie's new movie, RocknRolla, and previously starred in 300 and P.S. I Love You. Sounds innocent enough. But who is this man, really, who Anna reportedly "talks about all the time"? We did a spot of research and, well, there's no easy way to say this, A-Dubs, but he's kind of a bad boy.

Britney!Photo: Getty Images

• Paris Hilton's advice for Sarah Palin: "You've got a hot bod; don't keep it to yourself. Why wear a pantsuit when you can wear a swimsuit? Welcome to the Lower 49, girlfriend." [NYP]

• Rumor: Britney Spears will perform at the Diesel 30th-Anniversary party in Brooklyn on Saturday. Doesn't she have trials and things to go to? [Fashionista]

• Miu Miu face Vanessa Paradis says she and her man, Johnny Depp, are antisocial and don't go to premieres or parties. Vanessa: It's your duty to share Johnny with the world, so please get out more. [British Vogue]

• The wedding showcase starting in London tomorrow includes gowns by Christian Lacroix and Karl Lagerfeld, so start drooling now. [British Vogue]

• Chicago Fashion Week ended yesterday, drawing its largest crowd to date. Organizers say people have started taking it seriously. [WWD]

Tim gets athletic.Photo: Courtesy of Bravo

The four remaining designers on Project Runway were so melodramatic last night. They all got to show in Bryant Park anyhow (so as not to spoil the show when the finale was taped weeks ago), so those tears and life-or-death attitudes were just taxing. Before Tim sets off on his one-man road trip, Heidi corrals the designers on the runway. She explains they must make a wedding dress for the first elimination round, then sends them off with $8,000 to make collections in their own homes.

We LOVE when Tim gets in his Saturn and visits everyone’s house. It’s the best part of each season because it’s so awkward, and yet no one on the show realizes it. First Tim hits Arkansas where Korto’s making her collection in a cottage in the woods. She says her green-and-yellow things with a dash of snakeskin were inspired by the nature around her and Tim is very impressed. Korto also plays her drum for Tim, who dorkily loves every second of it.