The other night on the phone talking sports, I mentioned a college basketball coach to my Dad, who told me he didn’t like the guy. Why? No rational reason, he said, just didn’t like him. And he laughed. Same for me and Gwyneth. She still bugs me after all these years. And for no great reason. My latest irritation? That she has to name drop Beyonce or Jay-Z or both(!) in every interview she gives. As if that’s gonna help her p.r. issues!

That’s the subsriber’s cover for Paltrow’s Bazaar cover above–I guess everything in fashion is going minimalist. See the newstand one and a few more images on the next page. Via Bazaar where you can read all about how her kids are fluent in Spanish cuz their first nanny was Spanish. Ugh.  

Another cover for Lady Gaga, wearing minimal makeup (all MAC cosmetics)  and a Hussein Chalayan dress in a shoot styled by Nicola Formichetti for Bazaar magazine’s October issue. Gaga is in an interesting spot it seems these days. The fashion world has grown bored with her (albeit temporarily entertained by her feud with Cathy Horyn) and all but her most dedicated Monsters seem less than impressed with her latest musical offerings. Will she find her way out of the current backlash she’s experiencing? Tough call to make, she’s quite the force, though sometimes that’s not enough.Via Bazaar.

More images on the next page.

Lady Gaga is photographed by Terry Richardson on the cover Bazaar magazine’s May issue, which includes a editorial feature as well. In this particular interview Gaga goes more out there then she normally does, claiming her facial horns are real and that Alexander McQueen began working through her after his suicide.  And then, too, as of late she seems to be irritated by other pop stars, slagging off those who use don’t sing live in a recent interview, and in her Bazaar interview, she dismisses pop singers who her opinion promote insecurities by having plastic surgery (which she claims to have never had). Here is the paragraph on McQueen:

“I think [McQueen] planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote ‘Born This Way.’ I think he’s up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing.” Supporting Gaga’s claim was the decision by the label–not Gaga herself–to move up the release date for “Born This Way,” ultimately to the exact day of the one-year anniversary of McQueen’s death. “When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing. I didn’t even write the fucking song. He did!”

Kim Kardashian is on the cover of March Bazaar magazine, a place where her outsized personality and look really seems to flourish. In a fun match up of vavoomy brunettes, Kardashian interviews Elizabeth Taylor as part of her feature. See Kim as “Kleopatra” on the next page.