Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, here we have our first look at Courtney Love’s clothing line!

Early photos of the line, Never The Bride, arrived via Love’s Twitter, where she posted pics of a photo shoot she’s doing for Contributor Magazine featuring the clothes. Pink-haired Chloe Norgaard models the pieces, which are all made from repurposed vintage clothing. So Courtney.

Never The Bride is a long time in the coming: Courtney told us all about it back in December when we took a personal tour of her closet. Pulling from Love’s own archives, Never The Bride has an antique feel with plenty of Edwardian and Victorian touches. Each piece also contains a Courtney Love signature: “In the hem of all the dresses there’s a ruby and it says c***,” she told us. The aesthetic is pure Courtney, or as she put it: “This is the stuff that I would wear if I was young enough to not look like Bette Davis in ‘Whatever Happened After Baby Jane?’.”

Although Love posted on her Pinterest that Never The Bride will be “available in net a porter soon,” Huffington Post is reporting they received word from Net-A-Porter that they willnot be carrying Love’s line.

Take a look at more of Courtney’s designs below!

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Lady Gaga met up with fashion designer Donatella Versace in Milan, Italy, yesterday. The 26-year-old singer wore a skin-tight Versace dress, with multiple cut-outs. After announcing she had “gained like, 25 pounds”, Gaga certainly didn’t mind showing off her new curves. If you ask me, she looks amazing! She admitted she “doesn’t feel bad about putting on the weight”, but that she is dieting to get back into shape.

Indeed, her trainer, Harley Pasternak, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (out now), “She will slim down. But whatever weight she’s at, she looks phenomenal!”

Though her weight gain made headlines, Gaga used it as an opportunity to speak about positive body image via her website, Little Monsters.

“I have been startled and overwhelmed with pride and emotion the past few days. Gratitude mostly. Seeing you post photos of things on your bodies and in your minds that you feel society tells you you should be ashamed of. You are showing them you have no shame,” the Grammy Award winner wrote. “Watching you all create a safe space online for people to be compassionate is the greatest gift you could ever give me.”

Gaga added that her boyfriend, Taylor Kinney, 31, “prefers me curvier. When I eat and am healthy and not so worried about my looks, I’m happy. Happier than I’ve ever been. I am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny.”
“This is who I am,” she added. “And I am proud at any size.”

Gaga shared the picture above on her Facebook page, and said, “Some legends, truly are. Pic of me walking into Gianni’s apt, which she covered in 40,000 roses. I love u Donatella.”

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Victoria’s Secret is in hot water today after their new “Sexy Little Geisha” outfit causes a stir. The outfit is part of VS’s “Go East” collection, an “Eastern-inspired” floral print fabric plus a removable obi belt. The model poses with a matching fan and chopsticks, which Candice Swanepoel models. Victoria’s Secret claims the outfit is “your ticket to an exotic adventure”.

The negative reactions began several weeks ago. On Racialicious, Nina Jacinto took Victoria’s Secret to task for essentializing Asian identity and reducing “Eastern” culture to a stereotype of exotic sexuality. “It’s a narrative that says the culture can be completely stripped of its realness in order to fulfill our fantasies of a safe and non-threatening, mysterious East,” she argues. Done at the corporate level, “it’s a troubling attempt to sidestep authentic representation and humanization of a culture and opt instead for racialized fetishizing against Asian women.”

The Frisky concurred: “Considering the complicated history of geishas, repurposing the [geisha] ‘look’ for a major corporation to sell as role-playing lingerie seems a bit tasteless.”

Victoria’s Secret has responded to the protests, if only tacitly: type in the URL for the Sexy Little Geisha product page and it redirects you to VictoriasSecret.com. In fact all the product pages for the “Go East” collection, including the Printed Chiffon Robe we highlighted last month, now simply redirect to the Victoria’s Secret homepage.

What do you think? Does the outfit seem inappropriate to you?

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Are you a summer hat kinda girl? Every now and then I spend some time at the pool and I’m always amazed by the cute summer hats that are out there! I would love to find a summer hat that would work for me (I might have a large head)! I did some digging today and found some great deals for those of you with more normal-sized heads. I’ll live vicariously through you!

Whether you’re looking to shade your face from the sun, or just want to wear something fabulous – here are our tops picks!

Endless Summer Hat

Endless Summer Hat from American Apparel: $28.00

Betmar Zoe Bretton Sun Hat

Betmar Zoe Brettman Sun Hat: On sale! $41.96

San Diego Hat Company – PBH

San Diego Hat Co.: $34.99

Nine West Hat, Packable Straw Super Floppy

Nine West Hat Packable Straw Super Floppy: $40

Veranda Sun Hat

Veranda Sun Hat, Ann Taylor: $48

26-year-old Lana del Rey has had quite a year! Since dropping her debut album in January, the singer has shot into stardom.

The singer was picked by H&M to appear in their fall ads. The campaign, which launches in September, shows their new collection – which they hope will “inspire” their customers.

Chloe Bowers, H&M PR Manager, said: ‘We were looking for a style icon and singer to model our fall collection and Lana Del Rey was the perfect choice.

‘We think she shows our fall fashion in a very inspiring way.’

Lana will star in Press ads and a commercial for the brand, which reported a 20 per cent rise in quarterly profits following ‘very strong sales’ of its spring collection.

Director Johan Renck came up with the idea that Lana should record the song ‘Blue Velvet’ for the commercial.

The theme of the campaign is a modern and feminine woman with a soft attitude.

Curves and waist are important in autumn’s silhouette, with a focus on knitwear and tweed, the store says.

Colours include powder tones and accessories in wine red.

‘The mood is very LA noir,’ Donald Schneider, H&M’s creative director, told WWD.

I’m torn on these ads. I love the clothes, and even the pictures, but I’m not sure how I feel about Lana as the model. Ok, maybe it’s just her hair I’m not so sure about.

What do you guys think?

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Birmingham Estate and Jewelry Buyers have created a bra worth over an estimated $1 million.

The bra is dripping in 500 carats of diamonds, and molded out of 18 carat gold. The bra took 40 workers almost a year to create.

The bra consists of all natural diamonds, with 750 grams of ‘solid gold’ according to the store’s owner, Anthony Aubry.

Victoria’s Secret debuted a $2.5 million bra last year, modeled by Miranda Kerr, but Aubry insists his bra can’t be compared to the VS one.

‘The difference between this bra and the Victoria’s Secret bras is the Victoria’s Secret bras have fabric in them and the diamonds are kind of imbedded into the fabric. This, there’s no fabric in it what so ever, it’s just solid gold,’ he told CBS.

However the extravagant bra, weighing nearly 1kg, has left many women confused.

Would anyone actually the item, or is it more of a showpiece?

Mr Aubry, who named the bra after his wife, Rita said: ‘If you just have that much money, someone would want it to say “Oh, I have a $1million bra,” or some people would put it on display at their house or something.

And some people, believe it or not, would actually want to wear it.’

Either way, whoever owns the lavish lingerie is sure to gain some attention.

Mr Aubry said: ‘We’ve had three different models wear this so far out in public at shows and it never fails to turn some heads.’

What do you think of this stunner?

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Lea Michele is Candie’s latest spokeswoman. The ‘Glee’ actress posed with a teen hunk on a street clutching pink balloons in one of their new ads.

Candie’s are sold exclusively at Kohl’s. Do Lea’s ads make you want to run out and buy a new pair?