In a violation of the strictures of most fashion glossies, she routinely raids the fashion closet, a mini-Versailles tidily packed floor to ceiling with Valentino, Narciso Rodriguez, and of course, Jimmy Choo.

We've seen her golden smile on the cover of Tatler and her figure in dozens of fashion glossies.

The fashion glossies, too, have dipped into the morbid, showcasing mutton-sleeve black gowns and tea dresses and, in one case, a feathered white evening gown hatched by Dolce & Gabbana that might as well have emerged from a taxidermist's studio.

Earlier this year, fashion glossies from InStyle to Harper's Bazaar declared that the jumpsuit was a surefire style for the summer.

Paradoxically, a denatured, stylized version of the look prevails on the runways and in fashion glossies.

But the magazine has helped inspire the tone for the big fashion glossies and has become a place to test ideas.

Following several well-received collections, Celine's press coverage has dwindled from glowing reviews to skimpy mentions, and from magazine covers and multipage spreads to single pages inside the fashion glossies.

Taking turns at the lens when shooting campaigns for Costume National, Gilles Rosier and Loewe, they cull ideas from the vintage fashion glossies that they collect (far left).

A spring Versace campaign currently splashed across the pages of fashion glossies features Ms. Bose and the models Erin Wasson and Anoukh Lepère with spiky hair and somber makeup striking aggressive attitudes.

Along with the style of Hollywood stars, that of models is sedulously documented on fashion Web sites and in fashion glossies, making their clothes cool by association.