Global fabric crisis: World silk-taffeta shortage blamed on Andre Leon Talley's Met Ball outfit. Chinese silk worms exhausted, depleted.

Of course, I wasn't at the Met Ball last night--I was permanently banned from their galas after I penned a decidedly irreverent piece on the Jackie Kennedy exhibit for DUTCH magazine back in 2001.

Andre's capes through the years, courtesy of WWWWD: http://www.wwwwd.org/alt/