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"   Photo: Benoit Peverelli for The New Yorker  When New Yorker editor David Remnick was spotted chatting up BryanBoy in Prada&amp;#039;s front row last month we expected big things from the weekly&amp;#039;s next style issue. Not BryanBoy big, but a thorough, semi-investigative story by Remnick himself on the state of fashion\u2014or something. But given the world&amp;#039;s current state (aka one disaster after another) they&amp;#039;ve scaled back this issue to discuss Japan at least as much as high heels. Inside, Laura Collins profiles Christian Louboutin. The designer, who sells 400,000 pairs of shoes a year, says &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch...But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won&amp;#039;t do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!&amp;quot; He also says of his more experimental designs, &amp;quot;Really good taste, you have to forget about it.&amp;quot; Malcolm Gladwell tackles the beauty industry with story on Ruth Brandon&amp;#039;s new biography of Helena Rubenstein and Eugene Schueller, the founder of L&amp;#039;Oreal,Ugly Beauty while Alexandra Jacobs talks to Sarah Blakeley, the founder of Spanx, about her expanding empire. She says, &amp;quot;I keep saying this to the team: We&amp;#039;ve got to own something. If we own butts, and then branch out from there, that&amp;#039;s O.K. You don&amp;#039;t want to limit yourself to butts in the customer&amp;#039;s mind, but you don&amp;#039;t want to become everything to all people too quickly.&amp;quot; The issue hits news stands today, and here&amp;#039;s hoping for a Remnick story next time around. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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