• There really are no words. Fashion designer Alexander McQueen has committed suicide.
• Jason Santa Maria shares his list of recommended design books. I love how he set up the post, actually showing the stack of books versus just making a list.
• Heidi Montag is plastic surgery obsessed and Newsweek’s Eleven things that deeply disturb us about the reality star’s surgical transformation digs down to the root of the problem. Is it just me or does it seem odd that someone would pay big money to voluntarily get poked with needles and sliced open?
• In a similar vein, Newsweek’s Unattainable Beauty gallery is stuffed full of the decade’s most notable Photoshop disasters.
• And, Say ‘Cheese!’ And Now Say ‘Airbrush!’ focuses on the trend of retouching kid’s school photos. “It surprises me so much when a mom comes in and asks for retouching on a second-grader,” says Danielle Stephens, a production manager for Prestige Portraits, which has studios in nearly every state and starts its service at $6.
• I wish my closet looked like one of these. Le sigh.
• The 300&65 Ampersands is a blog celebrating the beauty of the ampersand and a new one is posted each day. Click the ampersand to go to the foundry’s page for the font or simply mouse-over to view the name. (thanks, brittany!)
• Fashionista discusses the state of New York Fashion Week: what’s the same, what’s different and what’s next.
• Yes, people really are snapping up Alexander McQueen’s infamous Armadillo boots. Okay, by ‘people,’ I mean Lady Gaga and Daphne Guinness, but still. At upwards of $10,000.00 a pop and with a heel I even find completely unwalkable, they probably belong in a museum somewhere.
Fashion Design says: 
Nate 
