Cindy McCain Approves This Dress

• On a lunch date with Kate White of Cosmo, Joanna Coles of Marie Claire, Rosemary Ellis of Good Housekeeping, and Hearst queenpin Cathie Black, Cindy McCain got a email from her 16-year-old daughter Bridget asking her opinion of a new dress. Cindy gave a thumbs up. Something about this feels staged. [Page Six]

• Bruce Hulse, a one-time Calvin Klein model who dated Elle Macpherson, Paulina Porizkova, and Andie MacDowell, has penned a dishy tell-all called Sex, Love and Fashion: A Memoir of a Male Model. Jamie Burke is working on a sequel, natch. [Vogue UK]

• In an interview for the Telegraph, Christian Louboutin says, “Everything inspires me but fashion. It's probably one of the things that least inspires me. Only when I work with designers… Otherwise I never really think about clothes.” Also, he’s a perfectionist. How original. [Telegraph]

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• Victoria Beckham won’t be showing her new, high-end collection at New York’s Fashion Week in September. Could is be that she's putting more thought into it than she did her flop of a jean line? [Fashion Week Daily]

• The Financial Times is reporting that more men are now embracing girly colors like pink, purple, and orange. Wait, orange? Isn’t that the color of, like, basketballs? (Let’s not even address the absurdity of the colors-as-gender specific premise.) [FT]

• Interview unveils its full makeover with its September issue. The cover girl is Kate Moss. Hint: If a model was on the cover of Vogue the month before, she probably doesn't represent all that is fresh and new. [Fashion Copious]

• Both Sheryl Crow and Criss Angel are launching clothing lines. Hers, called Bootheel Trading Co., is rooted in American style (read: denim, T-shirts) and will be sold at Dillard’s. His, MF13 (yah, who knows), is all about nonsense and metal and will be available at his store at the Luxor Hotel in Vegas. [The Cut]

• Stylist extraordinaire Rachel Zoe denies having an eating disorder and tells Harper’s Bazaar, “I take care of myself. But when it's me working on my own, it's 7 p.m. and I've had coffee and a grapefruit." See, not eating because you’re busy is totally different. [Page Six]

• The Rose Club at the Plaza Hotel—not to be confused with the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel—is destined to become a fashion crowd hangout. Sigh. [NYT]

• Erin Wasson (supermodel, stylist, friend of Alexander Wang) is launching a clothing line. Think cut-offs and tank tops that only look good on Erin Wasson. [BlackBook]