It happens every year.

Just when we're all ready to go to the beach and sit in the sand with some magazines...

Our magazine supply dries up.

It's the blight known as the June/July issue.

Teen Vogue does it, French Vogue does it. Even the magazines that do put out separate June and July issues often churn out a July magazine that's thinner than Vlada Roslyakova, which makes for disappointing poolside reading.

Now that resort/ cruise has become a significant mini season (at least for sales), there's one more reason for the editors at the glossies to bite the bullet and give us more shoots!

What are they waiting for?

Q: Was this post just another excuse to run a racy photo of Daria?

A: A little bit, yes. We'll never get over her...

--ANNA FIELDING GRIGGS

Somebody give ELLE Magazine a curfew.

Their fashion staff must be out at all hours, drinking Crystal Light shooters, posing for photo blogs, and flirting with Jackson Pollis.

How else can we explain their gleeful, glittery embrace of even more hipster hautness?

A quick review:

First, ELLE embraced Kool Aid hair colors, just like Greg K from MisShapes.

Next, they write about their love of huge logo tees, just like Henry Holland.

Then came the ELLE rhapsody on all things neon, as seen on Agyness, Ikeleine, and all seven issues of Super Super Magazine.

And now?

Their feature story is called Rave New World. It's stuffed with photos of Boom Box, Studio B, and MisShapes. It's crammed with day-glo nail polish and hot pink lipstick. And it's further proof that the Crayola streaked style surge we've seen for the past two years might be an indelible, glow-in-the-dark mark on our decade.

Or:

ELLE just wants some free Red Bull for their fashion closets.

ESSAY QUESTION: Included in this packet is the most recent "Point of Passion" campaign by Conde Nast.

Its image relates to Teen Vogue, and stars Zoe Kravitz, the daughter of Lenny, and Lorraine Nicholson, the daughter of Jack.

Please explain the choice of protagonists in relation to both the magazine's subtext and the stereotypes it invokes in various media critics. Describe how the juxtaposition of the ad subjects in relation to their setting adds to these themes.

Extra Credit: Why is Lorraine reading the Kate Bosworth issue of Teen Vogue, in particular? And who starred in the first Point of Passion campaign for the magazine?

Please, no shopping during the quiz.

The next issue of W has Gisele looking amazing on the cover - and a little bit odd inside.

Styled by Camilla Nickerson, the supermodel celebrates her emancipation from lingerie and wings in flaming pink ensembles with a Barbie eyeshadow palette that might be called "Priscilla, Queen of the Makeup." She's also got maraschino lips and nails to match.

We concede our style expertise pales in comparison to Ms. Nickerson - sometimes we even wonder what Amanda Harlech is wearing, and she's the Chanel muse - but this look is a clear '80s resurrection, lacquered in kitsch and... well, it's weird.

Is this jacquard jacket from Miu Miu really what's on for Fall - and if so, where is it pushing fashion, besides back to Troop Beverly Hills?

First, ELLE's trend roundup was Manic Panic hair dye. Then it was giant logo tees worn as dresses. This week, they've moved onto the wonders of neon, citing Stella McCartney and Donna Karan as fashion forward examples of the trend.

We adore ELLE - especially its market editor, Carol Han - but we can't help wonder if way deep down, the editors want to be at Boom Box or MisShapes or The Annex, wearing rehab jeans and acid yellow nail polish and snorting glitter with tequila shots.

Or, something much more interesting:

ELLE is acknowledging the continuing influence of club culture on the runway, but in a subtler way so their readers - some conservative, some (gasp) adult - won't be apprehensive of buying into the trends.

Either way, we can't fault the magazine for falling in love with the screaming symbols of downtown - sometimes, all you wanna do is dance.

Tracy's red lipstick and loopy voice may be priceless, but apparently, they get lost in translation.

Perhaps that's why Nylon pulled a new girl named Bridget to show them around London for their latest TV episodes.

She meets the Klaxons and jokes with Patrick Wolf, but of course our favorite moment is when she gives a tour of TopShop.

We don't know what's better -

That she let's us in on her dressing room secrets, or that she has hair the same color as her face.

Either way, it's compelling and addicting, and general madness as usual.

The current issue of British Vogue looks awfully familiar, because it's something of a time warp.

The cover features a handful of major models from various decades, positioned in white oxford shirts on white wooden ladders.

But this isn't the first time Vogue has snapped this scene:

Their American counterpart shot the famous 100th anniversary issue in the same vein, with old-school supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington posed on the ladders now occupied by Lily Cole and Jacquetta Wheeler.

The irony:

This cover is called "the age issue," and indeed, readers can date its main image back to 1992, when Lily Cole was a toddler and Vogue did it the first time!

We've never loved Vanessa Minnillo - dating Nick Lachey? Ew. - but we do understand that like it or not, she's something of a style icon for millions of younger girls parked in front of TRL.

Perhaps that's why Lucky chose to put the VJ on their latest cover - it's an easy way to lure some of Seventeen's audience over to Conde Nast, and besides, Vanessa probably does love to shop, and she probably loves to talk about it even more. That's one of her photos from the upcoming issue, at left.

The cover comes at an interesting time, as Vanessa's been catching some heat for her latest candid photos, where she's snapped playing with Lindsay Lohan and a very sharp knife.

The thing is, these are exactly the sort of antics that many in the fashion industry seem to love. After Kate's cocain scandal, she booked more campaigns than ever. Lindsay Lohan's first rehab stint brings a Jill Stuart series. May Anderson gets arrested, then booked for the Dior Cruise runway (nevermind that she couldn't walk down it...)

And Vanessa? We're betting she lands a mid-market designer campaign by summer. Sure, Candie's and Lipsmackers won't touch her, but wouldn't she look cute in Luca Luca?

Following on the heels of the Dakota Fanning Marc Jacobs ad campaign in the US, there was a larger campaign shoot of the starlet with Juergen Teller in Paris' Purple magazine.

Looking at the thirteen year old, our minds went first to Tanya D., who started modeling in Russia at eleven, and first met with American scouts at thirteen.

But then our British fashion crush Lula has a jewelry story that features a scantily-clad blonde toddler decked out in diamond tiaras, brooches, and necklaces from Garrard, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari and De Beers.

We’re used to teenage models and all, and even Dakota, but is this going too far?

--ALISON