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New York Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn shares a fascinating look at 43-year-old Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei, whose meteoric rise over the past decade and a half has paralleled her native country’s consumerist revolution.

While most fashionistas (and butchers) would die at the thought of Lady Gaga wearing one of their creations, Pei apparently could have cared less. In the middle of Horyn’s article is this titillating LA tidbit:

Not long after a November China show, Nicola Formichetti, an editor who helps style Lady Gaga, contacted Pei to borrow some clothes… There is nothing dainty about a 40-pound crystal beaded dress, as Lady Gaga discovered when four or five dresses (and the platform shoes) arrived in Los Angeles, ‘‘all beautifully packaged in silver boxes,’’ Formichetti recalled. She tried them on, he said, ‘‘but basically couldn’t move in them, so they couldn’t work onstage.’’

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SAG Award highlights:

Sean Young swoops into town, and initiates Julian Schnabel into her own little club.

Oddly enough, she wasn’t recognized in the new Stunt category.

Josh Brolin thanks the Coen brothers, freaky little dudes that they are.

Cathy Horyn notices that all the stars look alike. The red carpet isn’t the catwalk, honey.

Beth Harris, writing for AP, makes the evening sound like a day at the unemployment office, with better lighting.

LogoOnline calls it The Most Glamorous Assemblage of Homosexuals and Prostitutes Ever.

Glossed Over live blogs the September Vogue, and lives to tell.

Gawker notes that the same issue has gained a little weight, while Jossip points out that last year’s issue was bigger.

Sienna Miller’s on the cover, despite all the Amy Winehouse gossip.

And Cathy Horyn actually found reading matter hidden in the dead-tree ad forest. Her readers tear the issue to shreds.