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Rumours are swirling that Lady Gaga is getting ready to break into fashion.  As in, actual fashion.  Not those Halloween costumes we find strangely compelling to look at.

Gaga looking surprisingly tame next to Mugler menswear (Paris Fall 2011)

Gaga directed the music for Nicola Formichetti's Mugler debut for menswear in Paris this week, and now some say it's "likely" she'll...

Louis Vuitton has cast its first-ever Asian male spokesmodel: the scrumptious Godfrey Gao.  Here, have a drool:


Gao is a Tiawanese-Canadian actor (holla!), making some commentators wonder if this is Louis Vuitton's strategy to engage the rapidly growing Chinese male demographic in luxury goods.

Sure, maybe.  It certainly engages the female demographic, no?  But on a less shallow...

Should cell phones be allowed on planes?

Oh no, you say.  For safety reasons, you can't...right? Turns out, you'd be wrong.

Many airlines have equipped their airplanes for cell phone use, and the only thing holding passengers back from taking advantage of this technology is the law.  However, as laws often go, they can vary from country to country.  Several Middle Eastern...

Images courtesy of Badgley Mischka (via Styleist)

It was announced back in December that Rumer Willis would be the new face of Badgley Mischka.  Yesterday, we got our first peek at the spreads expected to appear in the March 2011 issues of Vogue, InStyle, and other magazines.  Besides posing in gowns, we can expect to see her in shoes, bags, jewelry and swimwear as well.

She was an...

The evolution of Starbucks (the logo, that is)

The times, they are a'changing at Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe. 

Starbucks unveiled its new logo for 2011 yesterday... and understandably there's been a big reaction from the masses.  (I guess no one told them about that little problem GAP had a few months back?)

While simplicity in design is usually a good thing, it seems counterintuitive to...

Here we are coming up on New Year 2011, and it's time to take stock of the year gone by.  Somewhere deep in my pile of "To-Dos" is last year's list of resolutions, and without looking at it (hey, I didn't keep track all year so why start now?) I know there is the odd item or two left undone.

I generally scoff at New Year's Resolutions because they are either so vague or such...

What would you if you won an $11.2 Million jackpot? 

image credit: Atlantic Lottery

Violet and Allen Large of Lower Truro, Nova Scotia gave almost all of the lottery prize away to charity.  Their numbers came up during a particularly tough time in their lives: Violet, 78, is battling cancer and had recently undergone surgery and chemotherapy.

But instead of using the money to pay their own...

And here you thought the last thing they cared about was designer fashion.

Flaming Skull Jacquard Box Dress, Hell's Four-Finger Ring, Hells Angels logo (image via NYMag.com)

The New York Post reports that the Hells Angels are suing Alexander McQueen.  Specifically, the motorcycle gang famous for their ear-splitting Hogs, acute sense of personal style, and more than a few brushes with the...