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After ogling Lady Gaga’s ethereal Vanity Fair September cover, we couldn’t help but scour the cover archives for some of nudity’s most celebrated moments — forever immortal on the front pages of fashion’s major publications.

via Naked Magazine Covers – PHOTOS | Styleite.

They are both black, long and indisputably trousers.

But there the similarity between the two pairs ends, according to headmaster David New.

He has ruled that the tight-fitting Miss Sexy branded trousers are unsuitable for the classroom. He has banned female pupils at Nailsea School near Bristol from wearing them – to the fury of many parents.

via Parents’ outrage over school’s uniform crackdown on ‘Miss Sexy’ trousers | Mail Online.

They are both black, long and indisputably trousers.

But there the similarity between the two pairs ends, according to headmaster David New.

He has ruled that the tight-fitting Miss Sexy branded trousers are unsuitable for the classroom. He has banned female pupils at Nailsea School near Bristol from wearing them – to the fury of many parents.

via Parents’ outrage over school’s uniform crackdown on ‘Miss Sexy’ trousers | Mail Online.

NEW YORK — A racy Calvin Klein billboard is raising even New Yorkers‘ jaded eyebrows, with some passers-by saying the clothing maker crossed the line with its sexy advertisement.

The new billboard shows a young woman lying on top of a man, while kissing another man. All three models are topless. Another male model reclines on the floor with his jeans unbuttoned.

“I think it’s obscene,” said Rachelle Brunn, who was passing by the extremely large billboard in Manhattan‘s Soho neighborhood. “They always have ads that are pushing the envelope, but this one is the worst I’ve seen since I’ve been here. My biggest concern is that it gives teens the wrong idea.”

via Calvin Klein ‘Threesome’ Billboard Raises Eyebrows (VIDEO).

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It’s no secret that Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the Darth Vader of fashion. (Remember that “60 Minutes” segment where she fessed up to telling Oprah to drop twenty pounds for her 1998 Vogue cover and then called chubby Minnesotans “little houses.”) But Anna has reached a whole new level of meaniness. According to Rihanna’s close friend, Wintour had been talking to Rihanna about doing a Vogue cover for weeks. At the Met Costume Gala on May 4th, Wintour supposedly told RiRi that Vogue “absolutely loves her and really wanted to work with her.” But as soon as nude photographs of Rihanna (maybe?) were leaked on the internet, Wintour stopped returning Rihanna’s calls.

Obviously, Rihanna is super disappointed as the cover would have been a huge deal—and not just for her career, but because so few black women (i.e. six) have graced Vogue‘s cover, including Michelle Obama, Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry, and Beyonce. [Celebitchy]

via Anna Wintour Won’t Put Rihanna On A Vogue Cover After Leaked Nudie Photos | The Frisky.

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Memorial Day marks the beginning of swimsuit season. It’s time to put away your sweatshirts and jeans, and bring out your bathing wear. For a little inspiration, we’ve identified the most iconic one-pieces, bikinis and swim trunks.

Which ones did we forget? Tell us below.

See more celebrity swimsuit style.

via MAKE A SPLASH: The World’s Most Famous Swimsuits (SLIDESHOW).

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This week, a panel of judges and lawyers got together to debate a major injustice in today’s legal system: Lady lawyers and their sexy sartorial choices. It seems some male lawyers think their female counterparts have an unfair, fail-safe argument: “Exhibit A: My breasts. Exhibit B: Check out these gams. Aaand, I rest my case.” It’s a wonder male councils ever win!

“I’d really like to pay attention to your argument,” (but your breasts are getting in the way)

During the Seventh Circuit Bar Association meeting on Tuesday, a panel discussion was kicked off very reasonably: A judge raised the issue of professional dress and pointed to the example of a female lawyer who showed up in court wearing a velour tracksuit. (She won the case, by the way.) Then the panel’s conversation shifted “from schlubby to sexy” attire, as the New York Times puts it. Judge Michael P. McCuskey said he’s seen women in court wearing “skirts so short that there’s no way they can sit down, and blouses so short there’s no way the judges wouldn’t look.” Judge Benjamin Goldgar concurred by sharing his wish that he could tell certain female lawyers: “I’d really like to pay attention to your argument” (but your breasts are getting in the way).

Things remained civil during the meeting, but all hell broke loose online. On the Web site for the American Bar Association Journal, a woman sassed: “I’m sorry, Sugar, I’d love to listen to what you’re saying, but I have a penis. As such, I am only able to use one sense at a time.” She added: ”What garbage! Poor men can’t control themselves, so women have to respond.” A male reader shot back, “Yes, please ladies, by all means use your sexuality to get what you want (after all, that’s the only excuse you have for dressing in the manner described in this article).” And in a final escalation, Susan J. Koniak, a law professor at Boston University, told the Times that if revealing skin in the courtroom is such a problem, “we should just have a bag when we walk in, a burqa.”

via Broadsheet – Salon.com.

In case you haven’t heard, magazines are dying right and left. Who knows which one will be next? One day, that may be the sound of Anna Wintour‘s head rolling across the floor. Not unlike the adult movie industry, which thought it was so ahead of the curve, technologically-speaking, that it neglected to jump on the Internet bandwagon until its product had gotten away from them and it was far, far too late, magazines and newspapers have failed to exploit the Web to their advantage. Now, they’re suffering for it.

No one will ever say so of Nick Knight, the British fashion photographer who created SHOWStudio.com, a website dedicated to closing the gap between high fashion and aspirational fashionistas. Most recently, Knight pulled back the curtain on a provocative shoot for Wallpaper** magazine’s sex-themed July issue. On a set art directed by designer Peter Saville, Knight shot model Mariacarla Boscono et al. for a stripped-down, hyper-sexualized layout that, according to the site, “fetishis[ed] furniture, fashion and flesh alike.” But rather than play the engimatic editorial game in which readers have to wait months to see by-then bygone fashions, SHOWStudio live-streamed the whole thing so you could peek behind the scenes at life live on a fashion shoot. And they tweeted it, too.

Now, the full series of clips from the shoot are available online. Be forewarned, the videos, which can be found here, feature more than one female breast and at least one not-turned-on sex machine. In other words, they’re NSFW—unless you work for a bondage gear manufacturer in Karachi, Pakistan, that is.

via SHOWStudio s Nick Knight shoots Peter Saville s “Erotic House” for Wallpaper magazine..

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Goodwin appears to be pulling a Rihanna by attempting to break out of her good girl image to be a bad girl for fashion photographer Steven Klein in the latest issue of W. As polygamist wife Margene on HBO’s “Big Love,” it’s rare to see the 31-year-old “Southern belle” in anything less than the latest plural marriage fashions, but here she oozes sex in black leather and an Amy Winehouse wig while running around with a few greased up dudes showing of their 12-pack abs. In the accompanying interview, Goodwin talks about her newfound veganism, her breakup last year with actor Chris Klein, and her proper Tennessee upbringing that fostered a “prim” relationship to sex (she says she’s got “iron panties”). Plus, she reveals what she thought of the provocative images that accompany the profile: “I’m positive people don’t see me this way. They think I am Margene or Gigi. I was delighted that what I saw was so against what people would call ‘my type.’” Up next? A role in designer Tom Ford’s much-anticipated directorial debut and a turn in the movie adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s Beezus and Ramona. After the jump, some of the racy pics. [W]

via Ginnifer Goodwin in W Magazine | The Frisky.

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Style Buzz Summer’s almost here, ladies! Are you ready? And more importantly, is your vagina ready? If it’s not, you better get your hands on the Cuchini – a brand new pad that “eliminates camel toe.”

via CUCHINI: The Camel Toe Eraser [PIC].