With only a few months to go before Carine Roitfeld launches her new magazine, CR Fashion Book, the industry is abuzz with excitment but if recent reports from Page Six are anything to go by, you can cross the powers that be from Condé Nast off that list.

According to the column, Condé’s chairman Jonathan Newhouse 'sent word to photographers including Mario Testino, Craig McDean, David Sims and the Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott team 'remininding' them of their exclusivity with Condé Nast to shoot for its titles including Vogue, W, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Allure.' Even those without exclusivity contracts have reportedly been discouraged from working with Roitfeld on the new venture.

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Lady Gaga's March 2011 cover of US Vogue was the magazine's second best-selling issue last year and now they are hoping to do it again by putting the singer on cover of their all-important September issue.

WWD reports that the cover has already been shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and is part of the promotion of her debut fragrance, Monster, which is set to hit stores at the end of the year.

Are you excited?

In celebration of the Olympic Games taking place in London, ELLE UK announced that David Beckham would appear on their July issue as their first male solo cover. Not to be left in the shade, British Vogue have also booked a national treasure in the form of Kate Moss.

The model appears on their June issue wearing a studded Versace dress shot by Mert & Marcus in what is her 32nd cover for the publication. Moss has proved a good choice for Vogue and definitely shifts issues the issue is the latest in a series of great covers from the magazine.

What do you think?

I like Angelina Jolie as much as the next person. Unfortunately, though, her recent covers have left much to be desired. Don't get me wrong, it's never been about her necessarily but rather as a result of way too much retouching (remember her January cover of Marie Claire?) or simply because they all tend to look the same.

Her latest cover comes from Vogue Turkey for their March 2012 issue shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot and is by far her strongest cover in a while. What's even better is that there isn't a leg in sight.

What do you think?

Last week Fashin released a blurry preview of Rooney Mara's cover of US Vogue's November issue and today, Vogue.com released the official cover alongside the full interview and the accompanying editorial. Shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, the editorial is hauntingly beautiful marking yet another strong cover story for the magazine this year and the interview is just as good.

Mara on the explicit version of the movie's poster showing off her pierced nipple:

“There’s a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that’s in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera,” Mara says. “And in this poster, I’m looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face.” She smiles and flicks a cigarette into the street. “I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

Jonathan Van Meter on Mara's relationship with director David Fincher:

She hangs on his every word, her eyes lit with admiration. Their relationship, it quickly becomes clear, is charged with the electric current of the mentor-protégée crush, which is both touching and occasionally uncomfortable to watch. Or, as Daniel Craig, who costars as a crusading journalist named Mikael Blomkvist, says about their working relationship, “It’s fucking weird!”

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