I have a FRIEND who WANTED to PRACTISE on my head because they wanted to be a stylist. So I OFFERED what hair I had left to turn white.

A SURE WAY to claim a BIT of cool in Hollywood - if you're an actress, at least - is to announce you don't have a stylist. Some of the most consistently elegant, inimitable women on the red carpet, LIKE Marion Cotillard, Blake Lively, and Diane Kruger, say they GO at it alone.

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I SPENT my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a PICTURE and pinning fabric and USING all those STYLIST TRICKS. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.