To coincide with fashion week, Wikileaks has released a series of encrypted cables and classified internal memos from the fashion industry. This is an exclusive advance excerpt of their forthcoming massive data dump—sure to shake the community to its core.

SUMMARY: Our asset [codename: WESKIT] in XXXXXX’s atelier reports that the regime continues to crumble. The rumor we planted on Twitter that the next collection will be a “Jersey Chic” tribute to Snooki [...]

Here, in a single image, the genius of fashion designer Thom Browne . IT'S A MUSHMOUTH HAT WITH MIRRORED AVIATOR SUNGLASS DECALS KABLOOOOW. I'm dead.

The Internet really is getting stupider. The gals over at Racked had to explain to their outraged commenters that their 5-year-old fashion week correspondent was kind of a parody of the very real weird teen blogger fashion world mania. Their commenters actually went a little nuts: "Can we please have bloggers and editorials by grown ups, real editors, with actual jobs, and, gasp, life experience. Maybe women and men? Over 20 years old? PLEASE?" AND! "I guess your blog cant pay enough to hire an adult writer to blog abt fashion week. I wont be visiting your site again." At least the 5-year-old was using apostrophes?

Over the weekend, I went to the QVC show at the Bryant Park tents; it starred a new fashion line from Rachel Zoe. It was sort of amazing? (I wrote about this elsewhere.) One thing I love about TV sets-because this three-hour runway show was of course most importantly a QVC selling show-in general is how much staging there is of things that we wouldn't notice, unless they were wrong. And on Saturday, the producers were having serious trouble with the stylish kids they'd put in the front row behind their main camera.