Rush hour in Milan now includes penis ogling. Larger than life David Beckham sports white briefs in a new ad campaign for Armani underwear, and according to my Madrid morning papers, many are wondering whether his bulge is god-given or the fruit of Photoshop.

It’s as huge as his smirking head, too!

Or, is it?

Forget the soothing effects of breakfast in front of a Tiffany’s window, I know where I would peacefully stare while dunking my croissant into coffee.

Source:
Los calzoncillos de Beckham causan un gran revuelo en Milán 20 Minutos

Men of the Cloth you’ll want to disrobe.

Yet, another gem from the Spanish media:
The Unofficial Vatican Calendar of Hot Priests

Patchouli has never been attractive. Never.

Just because you can’t wear that fur, ladies (and fashionable gents), doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice style for substance at the picket line. Sayeth the Times Online:

Ever since the sans culottes inadvertently launched a fashion movement of sorts (they had some help from Rousseau, whose treatises on nature and the desirability of muslin helped to crystallise the hot looks for autumn 1792), the pressure has been on revolutionaries to look at least a bit hip while they’re smashing the barricades – as student protesters proved this week when brandishing high street chic and banners in the face of the BNP at the Oxford Union.

Honestly, anyone who can refer to culottes and Rosseuau is worthy of my respect. Anyway. The piece is in obvious reference to the Writers Guild of America strike and the glitterati who manage to make both the issues and their clothes fashionably in. The article goes on to make the somewhat brilliant point that aesthetics have always played a part in fighting the Man:

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I’ve always wanted to have 6,000 Swarovski crystals individually glued to my naked body over 14 hours. Spanish actress Paz Vega beat me to the itchy privilege for Elle’s Christmas special.

See, the creative and holiday spirit do belong together. The outfit says festive whore-object, or pretty, pretty mine explosion. I mean I usually just hit up other peoples’ closets for my seasonal frock, but maybe this year I will Zebra stripe myself with a glue stick and roll around in tinsel instead.

Sources:
‘Deslumbra’ Paz Vega con desnudo en Elle El Diario
More ridiculously faked pictures Elle

I recently discovered a budding friend of mine knows the “brains” behind purseblog.com. Apparently, this girl blogger pulls down $80k a year while her sole contribution to the world is not-so-witty comments about threading and buckles. So, in the spirit of getting ad revenue to make this site better, here’s a self-evident observation about fashion:

Girl bling is huge, huuuuge in Asia. I saw girls selling produce in dusty towns on the Thai-Burma border sporting diamond playboy bunny logos on chains at the perfect bust-dangling length. While it’s fascinating to pick out foreign fashion amidst the slipstream of global pop culture, we’ve got to step it up, U.S.A.

In the name of patriotism, put some sparkle in your cleavage. For God and Country.

So what? Sometimes we setup elaborate photo shoots of ourselves and our friends. The most appealing shots end up on the Internet. Some make it to brief Facebook profile fame, others fade into photo set obscurity. Well, this time things went differently. I took some pictures of a friend and look what happened.

BEFORE


Taken in December when pastel polos were safely hidden under tweed coats.

And then a few months later the front page of the Express…

AFTER
A shockingly original capture

This one makes me a little uncomfortable

Tip-off courtesy of Will Nolan, who should blog here by the way.

Note how this subtle outfit is enhanced by small touches of neon

We’ve seen it coming for months. From the wacky kids at Misshapes to, well, the wacky kids at The Cobrasnake, it’s been creeping out of our vivid, party-oriented imaginations and onto our clothing. And finally, the New York Times is jumping on the neon bandwagon with this amusing, but thankfully educational, story:

Neon is a chemical element that produces a bright reddish-orange light when charged in a vacuum tube. But in fashion the term encompasses a family of fluorescent colors — basically anything bright enough to have once encouraged the wearing of sunglasses at night.

Thank you New York Times, for this explanation.

Also, just as a little bonus, you may read our full coverage of the Lamé Suspender Swimsuit that is pictured above here. May American Apparel continue to integrate nipples into more and more of its designs.