Condé Nast will close Gourmet magazine, Gourmet has been published since January 1941. Also being shut down are the Condé Nast magazines Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride.

Gourmet has a richer history than Bon Appétit, and its editor, Ruth Reichl, is powerful in the food world. Cookie started in 2005.

Also closed - Condé Nast Portfolio, Domino and Men’s Vogue (I subscribed to two of them....blame it on real estate or the banks).

We also heard a rumor that 60-year-old French hatter MARZI is no longer in business, supposedly they are trying to find a buyer (this is not confirmed yet). We also heard that hatter Jacques LeCore has hats made out of cello/plastic.

One US hatter said he was having “THE BIGGEST show I have had in many years- my repeat clients bought more for the most part, the new ones were enchanted.”

STAR SEARCH:
We saw Kevin Eubanks on the Jay Leno Show wearing a brown fur felt fedora instead of his usual ball cap or Ivy.

Kelly Osborne wore a big bow headband on Dancing with Stars.

Fighter-actor (Mickey Rourke) wore a black shiny straw fedora while in the audience at Dancing with The Stars.

Yohji Yamamoto Seeks Bankruptcy Protection:
Designer Yohji Yamamoto filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors in Tokyo, though an investor has already offered to finance this fashion designer.

The fashion house, founded in 1972, ran up debts of 6 billion yen, $67 million, as the recession saw its bottom line plunge into the red.

Under Japanese Law, Yamamoto will be able to keep his business afloat while restructuring takes place. A local investment firm, Integral Corporation, announced in a release that it had signed a deal to be the designer’s “financial sponsor” and promised a cash injection in the brand.

Yamamoto has been considered one of the world’s top twenty designers since 1981, when he first showed in Paris and his artistic fashion ideas caused a sensation.

Spring 2010

"Call the fashion police!" Fabien Baron exclaimed to The New York Times' Eric Wilson upon watching the runway presentation of Ungaro's Spring 2010 collection at Paris Fashion Week yesterday.

High-profile editors were speechless, left so "aghast" at the sight of models in too-tight dresses and wearing heart-shaped sequined pasties over their breasts, that many gave only minimal applause before running for the exits.

Hemlines were sky-high and there were draped harem pants paired with skimpy bandeau tops, tuxedo jackets paired with pasties, and second-skin leggings.

"It's incredible. Estrella and I are doing amazing things," a confident Lohan told The Sunday Telegraph pre-show. "Working with Estrella and the team at Ungaro is a dream come true. Fashion is one of my favorite things in the world and this is the best week of my life."

But Ungaro CEO Mounir Moufarrige, who appointed Lohan to the post, doesn't seem to care about the bad press, telling The Times that he was surprised that the press wasn't even more negative.

He also readily admits that he hired Lohan to drum up publicity and to give the fading brand a sort of "electric shock treatment" of relevance.

"It's part of the deal," Moufarrige told WWD after confirming that Lohan had scooped up $150,000 worth of clothing from Ungaro's Parisian flagship store. "What do you want, for her to be naked? I'm just so glad she likes Ungaro."

Imperial Headwear signs agreement with PGA Golf Exhibitions:

"These shows present an opportunity for us to reach out to our clients and gauge what's going on in the marketplace," said President and CEO of Imperial Headwear, Rick White. "We value the relationships that we are able to foster through participation in the shows, and the time we are able to spend with clients we don't see on a regular basis. A long-term commitment to the shows makes sense for us.”

PGA Golf Exhibitions Group VP and General Manager Ed Several is also pretty psyched. "Imperial Headwear's consistent support of PGA Golf Shows is meaningful to the thousands of PGA Professionals and golf retailers who attend our events and we find great satisfaction in our small part of Imperial's remarkable success within our industry."