The Mayor Wears Prada

With all the scintillating prose you'll find in print this week, let Chronic direct you to After a Fashion as not to miss this:

"A MODEL MAYOR It seems like just yesterday that our mayor, Will Wynn, strutted down the runway at Antone's wearing a silk smoking jacket and pajama pants from our own Made in Heaven collection. Our hunky leader slyly pushed the jacket back to reveal his shoulders, and by the time he made it to the end of the runway, he was completely shirtless, and the audience was a happy, howling mess. And now look what we hath wrought: Wynn will be soon be appearing on the pages of Esquire magazine modeling a hip pin-striped suit from Prada. The Esquire folks were all over Austin during South by Southwest back in March and, by a fluke, wound up hanging out with Wynn, who showed them a great time. When they found out that Wynn would be attending the big U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in L.A. a couple of weeks ago, they contacted Wynn out of the blue and asked him to model for them (contrary to another story making the rounds). Wynn agreed if they would help him promote energy efficiency – so apparently Austin will be getting additional coverage from Esquire soon. That's the story, straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. Wynn was quick to remind After a Fashion that "I remember where I got my modeling start." Awww."

Leffingwell, McCracken and the other pretenders to the throne have their work cut out for them in the PR department.