The Sex and the City 2 movie trailer manages to whet our appetites while revealing absolutely nothing.

Beautiful clothes. Long shots of New York City. The desert?

Oooh turbans!

No matter what the trailer looks like or what the movie is about, I know we’re all going to go see it anyway.

Designer: Alber Elbaz for Lanvin

Photographer: Steven Meisel

Model: Jamie Bochert

Lady Gaga + David LaChapelle photo shoot

When two artistic minds like Lady Gaga and David LaChapelle get together, only one thing can happen: nudity.

Pop star Lady Gaga and fashion photographer David LaChapelle teamed up for a nearly nude photo shoot. Like most Lady Gaga photo shoots, this one is full of sick wigs and interesting imagery like tricked out wheelchairs and crutches. Lady Gaga also pulled friend and sometime collaborator Kanye West into the mix for a damsel-in-distressed themed photo.

These photos will appear in the album artwork for the limited edition release of The Fame Monster, titled The Fame Deluxe.

Hotnessssss.

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H&M Women’s Spring 2010 Lookbook

I just got used to it being winter in San Francisco (which isn’t really like winter at all) and I’m already dreaming about my spring wardrobe. The H&M Spring 2010 lookbook is out and it is full. of. WIN.

The white blazer: to be mix and matched and paired with everything from jeans to a floral dress. The gray, draped dress: perfect with a pair of spendy stilettos (go for the H&M Jimmy Choos). With great accessories like ethnic jewelry and très cool sunglasses, these H&M pieces are going to be the only affordable thing giving my wallet a break come spring.

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Naomi Sims died from breast cancer at the age of 61 on Saturday, August 1, 2009. The Mississippi-born model was dubbed the “first black supermodel” and paved the way for other black models like Pat Cleveland and Naomi Campbell.

In 1968, Sims became the first black model to appear on the cover of Ladies Home Journal and also appeared on the covers on Life Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Essence. She modeled for designers like Halston and Bill Blass and appeared in a national AT&T television commercial.

Sims was beloved by designers and as Halston told The New York Times in 1974: “Naomi was the first. She was the great ambassador for all black people. She broke down all the social barriers.”

After retiring from the runway, Sims started a successful wig-making business specializing in wigs for black women. She also began a cosmetics line and wrote several books and a teen advice column for Right On! magazine.

Naomi Campbell shot by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia

Iman, Naomi Campbell, Alek Wek, Liya Kebede, Pat Cleveland, Jourdan Dunn, Sessilee Lopez, Chanel Iman, Veronica Webb, and Karen Alexander all in one magazine? Cathy Horyn gives you the scoop on Steven Meisel’s all-black Vogue Italia issue. [NY Times]

Is Essence mag making Michelle Obama a covergirl? [WWD]

Janet Jackson to design lingerie line [WWD]

Greece is for lovers throws gladiator sandals on a leather skateboard. Quirky Mediterranean chic. [Kanye West Blog]

Red carpet star style at the ‘08 BET Awards [Lolo's Cube]

Balmain goes exotic with influences from Native America and India [Haute Mimi]

The Frisky shows you how to work the airport like a runway and cop Reese Witherspoon’s jet-setter steez [The Frisky]

Photo credit: Pretty on the Outside

The supermodel Naomi Campbell escaped jail today when she was sentenced to 200 hours of community service for kicking and spitting at police officers during a foul-mouthed tirade aboard an aircraft waiting to take off from Heathrow.

A court heard that the 38-year-old screamed abuse at the captain of a British Airways flight after being told one of her bags had gone missing during the luggage chaos at the newly-opened Terminal 5 in April.

Campbell ordered the captain to get off the plane and look for her suitcase, holding up the flight bound for Los Angeles for almost an hour. When cabin crew eventually called police to remove her she refused to get off the plane and accused them of targeting her because she was black.

Campbell, who had pleaded guilty to assault, disorderly conduct and threatening behaviour, was also ordered to pay fines totalling £2300 and £550 in compensation to two police officers and the aircraft captain, Miles Sutherland. She had faced a jail term of up to six months for each count of assault.

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Videos like this make me wish I was alive during the ’60’s…and living in Paris…and friends with Yves Saint Laurent.

This clip from YSL: His Life and Times shows behind-the-scenes footage of Saint Laurent’s pivotal second collection under his own fashion house. After his first collection was met with mixed reviews, the success of his label depended on this presentation to fashion media and society swans of the day — Edmonde Charles-Roux Marie editor-in chief of French Vogue, Louise Bousquet Paris editor of Harper’s Bazaar, and stylish Princess Lee Radziwill née Bouvier (sister of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy).

This 1962 archival footage is super-super rare and shows you how different the (pre-catwalk) presentation of the collections were before fashion shows became so huge and theatrical.

Yves Saint Laurent and sometime-muse Catherine Deneuve

Legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died at his home in Paris last night. The 71 year old designer had long suffered from poor health and succumbed to complications of brain cancer.

Yves Saint Laurent started his career in the fashion limelight when he took over Christian Dior at the age of twenty-one. He introduced the trapeze dress and put out a couple of headline-grabbing collections before he was drafted into the French army and suffered a nervous breakdown.

Saint Laurent returned to design in 1962, starting his own label financed by companion and business partner Pierre Berger.

Under his own label, Saint Laurent changed the way that women dressed, introducing le smoking tuxedo and safari suits in the 1960’s and revolutionizing ready-to-wear. He was also one of the first to use black models on the catwalk, among them, friend and muse Katoucha Niane who died earlier this year.

Au revoir Yves. You will be missed.

Tune your televisions to BET tonight at 8:30pm, posh peeps!

BET News will be airing Fashion Blackout — a fashion come to Jesus meeting when they “take an inside look at one of fashion’s biggest faux pas: the lack of Black models”.

The 30 minute special is bound to include some words from Bethann Hardison, Tyra Banks, and Iman. But hopefully *fingers crossed*, they get Vogue Editor-at-Large Andre Leon Talley to wax philosophical about why black girls go M.I.A. inside the pages of major fashion glossies.