>> ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL —Those who were hoping Kate Bosworth might snag the Spring 2009 Miu Miu campaign will have to hope for another season.  Not since Fall 2007, when Laetitia Casta was cast, has Miuccia Prada used a model for the label — since it's been Vanessa Paradis, Kirsten Dunst, Lindsay Lohan — but for Spring 2009, she "looks set to conscript some models." [TI]

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>> Miuccia Prada presented her newest animated short film, "Fallen Shadows," featuring the Fall 2008 Prada collection, a couple of nights ago in New York — and now you can watch it from the comfort of your own home.  The sequence is not as creepy as the Spring 2008 oeuvre, "Trembled Blossoms," but there's definitely an otherwordly feel to it — and the Prada lace plays a starring role, of course.

>> Katie Grand is a classic case of one person being both a have and a have-not.  The stylist and founder of POP has become known as "Katie-Grand-a-Minute" for her £3,000-4,000 a day fees (which she makes a killing with, considering that she works 30-40 days a year for Louis Vuitton, 30 days for Loewe, and 30 days for "a big Italian name"). 

She has kept every piece of clothing she has ever owned since the age of 15, recently buying a bigger home just to house all the Alaia, Chanel, and Gap she's acquired over the years.  She's got it all — photographers so willing to be published in POP that they "often" "are using their own money," and a memory of Miuccia Prada "spinning round to Kylie [Minogue]" — except something of a more personal matter.

From 15 to 25 I didn't really eat much. I just wanted to be thinner, but I couldn't get under eight stone [112 lbs] no matter what I did . . . I can remember meals I had during those years because they were so rare.

At 37, she's never had a period. She told The Guardian she's okay with it, because she doesn't want children, but when an editor like Katie is so blasé about something like that, it makes you understand why the fashion industry as a whole is so nonchalant about models and their health.

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>> Sure, Resort collections are supposed to be the big money-makers, but it's still shocking to see Miuccia Prada present such a commercial collection after taking Miu Miu in such an anti-commercial direction for Fall.  From the few preview images available so far, Miuccia seems to be stuck in a purple haze; the most standout piece is front and center, a dress covered in Christopher Kane-line paillettes.

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>> Out with the Kirsten Dunst, in with the Vanessa Paradis for Miuccia Prada's scuba-inspired Fall 2008 Miu Miu collection.  Prada chose the former Chanel face because of her "powerful independence" and "overlapping qualities of fragility and feminine strength."  Looks like Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott have been here to work their usual . . .

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»All of the above, plus Christopher Bailey staring down a pig and a martyred John Galliano in the June issue of Esquire UK [The Cut]

»Julia Restoin-Roitfeld just shot her younger brother Vladimir in a campaign for Rock & Republic, for which she was the art director [WWD]

»Joke or no joke?  Lily Donaldson on Picassos and Man Rays [Fashionista]

»Joe Zee shot an '80s-inspired editorial for the September issue of Elle this week [Elle Tell All]

»Gucci Group CEO Francois-Henri Pinault may be getting married to Salma Hayek next August [People En Espanol]

»A bill has been introduced in Congress to make it easier for models to get work visas [NYDN]

»Vogue's design director Charles Churchward resigns after 13 years, is writing a biography on photographer Herb Ritts [FWD]