• Vogue Italia has another all-black editorial, titled “Tribute to Black Beauties,” shot by Ellen von Unwerth. [Fashion Bomb Daily]
• Scott Sternberg will present three Band of Outsiders lines at Pitti Uomo this summer, where he’s the guest designer. And the menswear runway show will be the only showing, it won’t walk in New York come fall. [Stylefile]
• Suzy Menkes describes Sarah Jessica Parker’s take on the McQueen exhibit as “breathless and witless.” [NYT]
• “Page Six” ran a blind item about a drunk fashion designer ranting about Kate Middleton at the Boom Boom Room, calling the new Duchess of Cambridge a “vanilla whore.” [Page Six/NYP]
• Eric Wilson’s Times article on the Met Ball ran a photo of Giorgio Armani and said it was Oscar de la Renta. But Oscar didn’t think it was a bad mistake: “It’s just fabulous for my ego. Whoever did it must have been on some kind of LSD I don’t know about.” [On The Runway/NYT]
• This week’s Times “Critical Shopper” column is a review of the new Henrik Vibskov store. [NYT]
