A gift from Cartier ~ Assouline published “les must de Cartier” and describe it: “1968—the year all certainties were shattered, it was in good taste to burn what one loved and to trample underfoot the values of yesterday. If, in this new world of dissent, luxury was no longer appropriate, the taste for beauty didn’t completely disappear. No, luxury was not dead! It simply needed to be reinvented. In the midst of this new counterculture, which burned all belongings and luxury markets by creating a lighter that landed with the impact of a bomb - “Les Must” de Cartier saw the light of day. Hovering somewhere between tradition and modernity, Cartier’s lighters, pens, watches, glasses, jewelry, leather goods and perfume engulfed the world. Cartier justified luxury by offering a more perfect modernity. Protected by a panther-skin slipcase, this limited-edition volume invites you to visit the delirious parties that followed every new “must”.”

Flipping through the 400 pages images in this Cartier logo embossed leather bound, gilded paged, panther print covered slipcase of a book… i just relived the decadence of the late 60s, 70s, and 80s… and it looked like a hell of a lot of fun. Take a peek of some of my favorite pages on the next page… from a young christopher walken in bond flicks, to elephant polo, to warhol and studio 54… good times.
-direct from NOTCOT

Here’s Scarlett Johansson in the Italian edition of GQ. Now as you can see, the focus of the photoshoot is her lips. Personally, if I had the chance to photograph Scarlett, I’d be focusing on something else other than her lips, which I still think are pretty damn sexy mind you, just not as sexy as, let’s say, her monster cleavage. Anyways.

Just a few days ago was the launch of Karl Lagerfeld’s new photography book, “Metamorphosis of an American”, — chronicles photos of just one male model, Brad Kroenig, as he took on various personas in the past several years, under Lagerfeld’s lens: Rudy Valentino, James Dean, Gatsby, Lieutenant Pinkterton from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, and another I’d call gay semi-naked cowboy. To read more go to Susan K’s Blog

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‘Pillow Talk’ by Karen Collins for Vogue UK January 2003

Vogue UK January 2003
Editorial: Pillow Talk
Model: Natalia Vodianova
Photo: Karen Collins

wow! wow! wow! I can not even refrain from wowing here. Claudia Schiffer posing topless and in the sexiest lounge wear, looking at her absolute prime. I’ve been digging up some great old school videos of Schiffer lately, so when I saw this I really had to take do a double take to make sure it was contemporary. The June 2008 Sex issue for German VOGUE! The woman looks flawless, but I guess so do most people when touched by Testino. The only thing that came as a bit of a shocker was that it was for German VOGUE, they really went all out here.

The French ‘Elle’ already has ‘Elle à Paris’, “Elle à Table’, ‘Elle Décoration’ and “Elle People”. Here is the Last one a “hors série” just like a supplement to Elle magazine, except it’s sold separately.