Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's much-hyped video for "Telephone" is finally out. After a delayed release and weeks of teasing by slowly rolling out stills, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé have given the world diva power at its very best — and acting and clothes that quite simply boggle the mind. This is Gaga's video, but Beyoncé is the best part: she actually shows the angry, crazy side that we just knew lurked beneath her too-perfect facade. And not in the sexy, "Ring the Alarm" way — but in a twitchy, spazzy way. After the video, our favorite fashion moments from this epic collaboration.

1. The prison guards rip Gaga's big-shouldered dress off her as they throw her in her cell. She only wears pantyhose and x-shaped nipple pasties. "Told you she didn't have a dick," the white trash lady prison guard says. "Too bad," her fellow guard replies. But look closely and you'll notice Gaga is wearing no underwear under those pantyhose and her crotch is blurred out, allowing those who legitimately wonder if she does have a dick to continue contemplating this rumor.
2. In the prison yard scene, Gaga wears sunglasses made from lit cigarettes. She already made sunglasses from razor blades so she has to be resourceful.
3. Every one of Gaga's fellow prisoners has an extremely slutty element to their outfit. Anyone in a minidress has the hemline cut so short their crotch sticks out the bottom, while a woman in pants has her thong arching high above each buttock. And none of them are close to sexy in the traditional sense.
4. Leotards for the dance sequences have been traded for glitter bra and thong sets. Let's be honest — this is what every diva whose dabbled in pantslessness really wants to wear while she shakes it.
5. When Gaga gets in Beyoncé's car after she bails her out of prison, Beyoncé says, "You’ve been a very bad girl. A very, VERY bad, BAD girl, Gaga." Then she feeds her a honey bun from a plastic bag. Hey, curves are back so carbs must be too?
6. Beyoncé looks stunning in her "good girl" banana yellow dress and matching cowboy hat and eye shadow. She got to recycle her Destiny's Child clothes after all!
7. All the food Gaga makes looks absolutely disgusting. Does this mean carbs aren't back? Nor are curves really? Important questions of our shifting times and culture in a new decade!
8. Beyoncé has little American flags painted on each nail.
9. The fashion in the finale dance sequence performed by Gaga, Beyoncé and the white trash in the diner is an important statement on spring fashion. The divas have embraced white trash attire — American flag dresses and panties, shredded denim — and made it look good. And yet! They have just killed every trashy patron of the diner. So all this unfortunate often trashy looking denim-on-denim we're seeing for fall? SHALL NOT STAND.
10. Gaga writhes at the end in a leopard catsuit. The costume coupled with her movements remind us of her cat scratching dance in the "Bad Romance" video, only this sequence is spazzier. And that "Bad Romance" cat dance, quite frankly, is among the top best bad dances in music video history.

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: disco heaven, beyonce, just pants, lady gaga, music, music videos, telephone, video

Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's much-hyped video for "Telephone" is finally out. After a delayed release and weeks of teasing by slowly rolling out stills, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé have given the world diva power at its very best — and acting and clothes that quite simply boggle the mind. This is Gaga's video, but Beyoncé is the best part: she actually shows the angry, crazy side that we just knew lurked beneath her too-perfect facade. And not in the sexy, "Ring the Alarm" way — but in a twitchy, spazzy way. After the video, our favorite fashion moments from this epic collaboration.

1. The prison guards rip Gaga's big-shouldered dress off her as they throw her in her cell. She only wears pantyhose and x-shaped nipple pasties. "Told you she didn't have a dick," the white trash lady prison guard says. "Too bad," her fellow guard replies. But look closely and you'll notice Gaga is wearing no underwear under those pantyhose and her crotch is blurred out, allowing those who legitimately wonder if she does have a dick to continue contemplating this rumor.
2. In the prison yard scene, Gaga wears sunglasses made from lit cigarettes. She already made sunglasses from razor blades so she has to be resourceful.
3. Every one of Gaga's fellow prisoners has an extremely slutty element to their outfit. Anyone in a minidress has the hemline cut so short their crotch sticks out the bottom, while a woman in pants has her thong arching high above each buttock. And none of them are close to sexy in the traditional sense.
4. Leotards for the dance sequences have been traded for glitter bra and thong sets. Let's be honest — this is what every diva whose dabbled in pantslessness really wants to wear while she shakes it.
5. When Gaga gets in Beyoncé's car after she bails her out of prison, Beyoncé says, "You’ve been a very bad girl. A very, VERY bad, BAD girl, Gaga." Then she feeds her a honey bun from a plastic bag. Hey, curves are back so carbs must be too?
6. Beyoncé looks stunning in her "good girl" banana yellow dress and matching cowboy hat and eye shadow. She got to recycle her Destiny's Child clothes after all!
7. All the food Gaga makes looks absolutely disgusting. Does this mean carbs aren't back? Nor are curves really? Important questions of our shifting times and culture in a new decade!
8. Beyoncé has little American flags painted on each nail.
9. The fashion in the finale dance sequence performed by Gaga, Beyoncé and the white trash in the diner is an important statement on spring fashion. The divas have embraced white trash attire — American flag dresses and panties, shredded denim — and made it look good. And yet! They have just killed every trashy patron of the diner. So all this unfortunate often trashy looking denim-on-denim we're seeing for fall? SHALL NOT STAND.
10. Gaga writhes at the end in a leopard catsuit. The costume coupled with her movements remind us of her cat scratching dance in the "Bad Romance" video, only this sequence is spazzier. And that "Bad Romance" cat dance, quite frankly, is among the top best bad dances in music video history.

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: disco heaven, beyonce, just pants, lady gaga, music, music videos, telephone, video

Are curvy models really back? Like, REALLY? When we ran into Isaac Mizrahi at last night's Bravo Upfronts party, where he was celebrating the renewal of The Fashion Show, we had to ask. "I think beautiful models are back," he said. "I'm serious. I hate this thought about saying that only curvy models are chic or something. It's like that thing, 'Isn't it time that a woman won an Academy Award'? No! It's time that a really good artist won an Academy Award. So if I was, like, a curvy model, I'd be like, 'No, I don't want to be a curvy model. I want to be a MODEL.'"

But if "beautiful" models are back, does that mean that Mizrahi thinks super-skinny models of late were not beautiful? "You know what? There was a moment when girls were really skinny. Skinny, skinny, skinny. And people loved it. But I didn't like it. It didn't look natural. There were always skinny girls. Shalom was naturally skinny. She could eat like a truck driver and still be skinny, so it looked natural on her. Kate was always a really skinny girl. She never tried. And then everybody was all of a sudden losing all this weight and it was really ugly." So does he prefer curvy, then? "I don't know. Do you love a guy because his dick is bigger or something like that? You know, YES! Yes. So work it out."

Speaking of curvy, Mizrahi himself is trying to be less so, and announced to us that he's on a diet. A Pinkberry diet, to be specific. "Pinkberry for dinner," he said. He goes swimming every morning and then gets a frittata from Good and Plenty to Go on West 43rd Street. Then it's usually a salad for lunch and a large Pinkberry (ten Weight Watcher points) for dinner — "With toppings! Are you kidding me?" He's been on the plan for a month and has lost five pounds, and seems pretty happy. He even cheated and ate some cheesy rice balls at the party. "I was on, like, no carbs for a month and then I was like, 'Forget that. I can't do no carbs.' You get flabby. Your breath smells bad. You smell bad when you don't eat carbs! So now I'm on, like, the only-carbs diet: Pinkberry and rice."

Read more posts by Jada Yuan

Filed Under: party lines, designers, isaac mizrahi, models

Jessica Biel covered up her bright, fun dress from 2010 Thakoon's spring 2010 collection with a black blazer when she attended the premiere of Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro in New York last night. (The same dress is currently available on shopbop.com for $1,250.)

Would you have worn a blazer with this look?

Read more posts by Sharon Clott

Filed Under: look of the day, jessica biel, thakoon

Karl Lagerfeld: "I buy computers because they are beautiful objects. Personally, I don’t use them that much, but I don’t use cell phones and Blackberries and all that. It’s not because I want to be cut off from the world, but because I have different priorities. I like to do everything myself. I know pretty well about dressmaking — a technique that is difficult to get, as you know. My eyes are open, but they are not limited to a screen. For me, the world is a huge screen. That’s how I see it." [WWD]

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: quotables, designers, karl lagerfeld, karl makes everything right

Over a dress in the exact same material. She sure is on-trend for next fall with the matchy-matchiness. See the full look in the Michelle Obama Look Book.

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: mobama watch, michelle obama

Olivier Zahm is the latest subject in Style.com's ongoing series "The Future of Fashion," interviews with fashion people who do things like tweet or blog on the Internet. Olivier, the editor of Purple magazine, runs Purple Diary (link NSFW), which includes photos from his point of view of life's most fabulous things, such as sitting front-row at Miu Miu or having a naked woman roll around your office (link NSFW) for the cameras. Yeah, those naked women in Purple — where does that come from, anyway? And just WHY? Olivier gets into it a bit.

I had this idea of having a personal diary, an intimate diary, mixing intimacy or privacy with my public life and creating a sort of contrast between what’s really intimate, like sex and love, and what’s really public, a party, a fashion show, an exhibition. What’s meant to be public and what’s meant to be private and make them, like, coexist. It was suddenly exciting because it was, in a way, breaking the barriers of something, which is actually what the medium itself, the Internet itself, does. For celebrities it’s a nightmare, but for me it’s a pleasure. It’s a decision. I would love to go further into intimacy, but my girlfriend and my lovers are sometimes a bit reluctant.

Oh, so he is a man with one girlfriend and multiple lovers. (Maybe that's where Hugh Hefner got it wrong.) And this is the subtext of his somewhat abstract Internet presence? Style.com probes further.

You say you’d like to go further into intimacy?
It’s always delicate because I respect the girls around me. They’re real people and I respect their privacy, so I can’t really go too far, but sometimes it’s really playful and they’re OK. But when they’re more emotionally involved, it can be a bit difficult, and I totally understand. To me love and sex is the most beautiful thing on earth, you know. It’s more beautiful than a landscape, so I love to keep pictures of the girls in these private moments because they are giving you the most beautiful side of themselves. It’s like a gift from God. It’s beautiful. I’m not New Age, I’m not mystical, I just really love it, and it’s so beautiful to capture with a camera that I really want to share that, you know…And also, Purple is a lifestyle. With my magazine, what I want to do is personally to be more free, and I want people to be more free, to open their possibility of contact, of sex, of love. I want that. This is important to me. I consider that Purple is a free lifestyle. Not in a stupid way, not in a childish or immature way, in a mature way now because I’m 45, 46. So the blog is also this vocation to see what constructs a lifestyle, to see what could be. If my life would be perfect, it would look like the Purple Diary. You see what I mean? It’s an illusion, too. I’m constructing a character.

See what he means? He likes to take pictures of naked girls and keep pictures of naked girls and show them to the world. He is a man that loves naked girls, which ... makes him perfect for the Internets.

Every man should be a playboy, no? It’s the nature of man, right? ...Of course, I love art and have been doing art critiques and have been curating shows, but if you ask me what I prefer, woman or art, I would say woman. Art is art. I need art in my life as much as I need food, but the most beautiful thing on earth is to meet a woman. That’s what you will remember at the end of your life, right? Plus, it’s a game. It’s really funny. You can’t seriously consider yourself a playboy, or you’re already a bad playboy.

Oh, it's hilarious, toying with the female psyche. Kind of like that "economic crisis," right?

To me this economic crisis is just a massive intoxication. We are rich and we are smart and we are, let’s say, beautiful, so what’s the problem? It’s just a way to scare people and to make them work more. There is no crisis. I don’t see the crisis. To me there is no crisis. It has always been difficult to find money, and it will always be difficult to find money when you want to be free and to do what you want, where you want to, whatever the bank system is. And when the bank system will have collapsed, I will continue to do a magazine.

And, it goes without saying, lots of chicks.

The Future Of Fashion, Part Four: Olivier Zahm [StyleFile/Style.com]
Purple Diary [Official site]

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: cult of personality, olivier zahm, purple

Bravo, the greatest network ever, has revealed its fall lineup. Design-competition reality series The Fashion Show has been renewed for a second season, even though many accused it of knocking off Project Runway. Expanding on its winning concept of turning one successful show's format into hundreds of different shows, the network will also premiere Fashion Masters, modeled after Top Chef Masters. Established designers will compete against each other in that two-hour special, though who exactly will participate remains unknown.

However, we're most intrigued by the announcement of a new series called Pregnant in Heels, about a New Yorker who advises wealthy people on their pregnancies, which might borrow a structure from the winning Millionaire Matchmaker. There can never be enough shows about bitchy, wealthy women. And just think how bitchy the pregnant ones could get!

Bravo Adds Extra Night of Food, Fashion Shows [Media Post]

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: woe is the catfight that goes untelevised, pregnant in heels, the fashion show, tv

• Shop locally made clothing, accessories, art, home décor, and more at Homemade: Brooklyn's three-day pop-up at Kill Devil Hill. Designers include Old Hollywood, Loyalty and Blood, Caja jewelry, Gold Teeth stationery, and more. Plus, stay for free DIY classes, lectures, and giveaways. 170 Franklin St., nr. Java St., Greenpoint, Brooklyn (347-534-3088); F–Su (11–8).

SALES
STARTING TOMORROW
• Shop below-wholesale prices at the Fenton/Fallon jewelry sample sale. Through 3/13. Freeman Alley, 187 Chrystie St., nr. Rivington St. (212-477-1315); F (noon–7), S (noon–6).

• Save up to 70 percent on fall/winter menswear at the Patrik Ervell sample sale. Shirts are $75 to $100 (originally $250 to $300), outerwear is $175 to $500 (originally $700 to $1,500), and sweaters are $100 to $150 (originally $350 to $500). Through 3/13. 35 Howard St., nr. Crosby, No. 4B, buzzer 4 (646-912-9083); F–S (noon–6).

Read more posts by Lauren Murrow

Filed Under: fashion calendar, sales, shopping

Richie Rich, who just held a fashion show for his A*Muse line during Fashion Week, says he is launching another line called Tabloid Hero. "I am going to do the first infomercial with Kim Kardashian, who even though she has her own line, she says she will support me," Rich says. An infomercial for tabloid-inspired clothes? We thought infomercials were for fruit dehydrators, but okay. [Page Six/NYP]

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: wtf, designers, kim kardashian, richie rich