>> Vogue Runs Editorial in September 2009 Issue Strikingly Similar to August 2007 W Editorial —Vogue's September 2009 issue boasts an editorial called "Into the Woods," photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott; curiously enough, an editorial that ran in the August 2007 issue of W — by the same photographers — has a similar concept and the same name.  Both editorials feature autumnal leafy backgrounds and the models — Natalia Vodianova for Vogue (right), Doutzen Kroes for W (left) — strike similar poses. [Fashionista, Comme Artiste]

>> Haider Ackermann has had a fan in Tilda Swinton for years — she has chosen him numerous times for the red carpet — but his Fall 2009 collection earned him a wider fan base. Style.com raved: "Has Haider Ackermann finally arrived? The beautiful collection he showed today certainly suggests he deserves every bit of the newfound attention."  Over the weekend, T echoed the sentiment that Fall 2009 helped the designer make the jump "from newcomer to trendsetter."

His business grew by 43 percent last year, and rumors "have been swirling for months," according to T, that Ackermann would be taking over Maison Martin Margiela:

When queried about the speculation, he sidesteps: 'When you meet the person you have admired for so many years, how can you possibly replace him? Sometimes it's better never to meet your heroes.'

He is open to designing for another house »

>> Andre Leon Talley to Judge Miss Universe, Has a Personal Photographer —Last night, Donald Trump revealed on David Letterman that Andre Leon Talley, who he called "a tremendous character and a really talented man," is one of the judges for this year's Miss Universe pageant.  The show airs live from the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort in the Bahamas this Sunday, Aug. 23, 9/8 pm Central on NBC, and one can only hope that he'll have a one-liner to live up to his "famine of beauty" line from The September Issue.  Wonder if his personal photographer will be there on the scene? [Grazia, Gawker]

>> Anna Wintour to "Ad-Lib" Letterman Interview; Two New September Issue Clips —Anna Wintour's appearance on Letterman next Monday to promote The September Issue — which a spokesperson says she's not preparing for, but is rather "going to ad-lib" — nears, but tonight, she's hosting the film's New York premiere.  In honor, two more clips from the film have been released; the first, a scene from the cover shoot with Sienna Miller, who starts out wearing a wig after both Anna and fashion director Tonne Goodman criticize the state of her hair, and the second, in which creative director Grace Coddington talks about how she's old-fashioned because she still touches her models to style them rather than having her assistant do it. [The Cut]

The clips! »

>> Matt Tyrnauer may have gotten ahold of Valentino for The Last Emperor, and RJ Cutler of Anna Wintour for The September Issue, but it's Loic Prigent who has really taken the whole fly-on-the-wall fashion documentary concept by the horns these past few years.  He did Signe Chanel, a five-part series on the creation of Chanel's Fall 2004 couture collection, and the 2007 film Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, which captures Marc waddling in pigeon costume and finding inspiration for a bag from a collection of pastel macaroons; both Signe Chanel and Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton have been uploaded to YouTube.

His latest project, announced back in June, is The Day Before, set to air for four consecutive nights starting Sept. 10 on the Sundance Channel.  Prigent tracks four design houses — Proenza Schouler, Sonia Rykiel, Fendi, and Jean Paul Gaultier — in the 36 hours before their Fall 2009 ready-to-wear shows, with the exception of Gaultier, who is captured before his Fall 2009 couture show.

Grumpy seamstresses, yappy dogs, collapsing roofs . . . »