The top 4 magazines to read at Fashion Week

Joan Rivers once said, You know youre getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and dont know anyone who can see through it. No matter what your fashion preference, these magazine can help you choose something that you (and your audience) might appreciate.

Let us count the ways we love Cosmopolitans truly fearless and hilarious approach to fashion. We wouldnt describe it as wearable, but its eye-catching fashion spreads are designed for maximum wow along with a good laugh. One such spread is shot from the top of a Times Square tour bus with little inside jokes. A Jackson Pollock-inspired graphic dress shot outside the Met Museum touts Charles James (known for his sophisticated styles.)

A geometric print dress (in leather) with a photo of Lady Liberty amuses. And how can you not pick up this magazine with headlines like: Get The Ass you Deserve, and Men Only Need Two Things Grilled Cheese and Sex, a line uttered by sexpot actress Emmy Rossum, its cover girl. Shes braless in a tuxedo jacket paired with spray-on red pants, and inside models silky bras including one with metal studs and another paired with zebra print gladiator sandals. Too much for ya? Its what youre going to shop for in October, it says.

Considering Marie Claire is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with this September issue, its hard to understand why the mag serves up Vogues warmed-up leftovers aka cover girl Blake Lively. The actress already told Vogue in August about her new Martha Stewart wannabe lifestyle Website and appeared on its cover last month. Are there too few starlets to go around? Since its fall, we expect creative fashion spreads but MCs are way too conceptual for us. How many sleepless nights must creative director Nina Garcia have spent to achieve the kind of hallucinations that appear on its pages?

No one can convince us that Christmas snowflake sweaters are cool. Tweed-encircled Chanel glasses? Blankets as coats?Nope. Not buying it. The magazine grabs an interview and a fashion spread with NBC News Chief Deborah Turness showing up in a white dress and unflattering black booties. We dont think shes quite ready for the victory tour yet though. MC must have gone to press before Meet the Press host David Gregory stepped aside. In its closing 20 Questions for Gwyneth Paltrow, we find her greatest indulgence is not diamond jewelry or expensive footwear but fried food.

Glamour attempts to one-up Marie Claire by offering 1001 fall upgrades in its own September fashion special. Marie Claire has a skimpy 951 in case you are counting. Glamours big scoop this month is a photo of its cover girl actress Olivia Wilde in full breast-feeding glory. She tells the crusading womens mag, It feels like Otis should always be on my breast. Revelation.

What to wear in the city this season? Outfits that look like you just stepped off the tractor upstate. Many womens magazines push feminism but then tend to feature too few female fashion designers. Glamour gets behind Jason Wu at Hugo Boss and Joseph Altuzarra. Walk the Talk please, Glamour.

This months More is less: the thinnest of the four fashion mags we grabbed from the newsstand. Given its older target, More editors spend less attention on clothing and more time on money and health problems.

But rather than give us wearable Oprah magazine fashion spreads, the mag again gives offerings that are a little too fashion forward for our liking. Hate to sound like mom, but would a coat done up with safety pins keep you warm in the snowy canyons of midtown Manhattan? Or the full-length coat with an entire panel cut out of the front be something to wear with your ballgown in the limo? More, where are you? We expect something More real from you.

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The top 4 magazines to read at Fashion Week