Sure, pundits have compared bikini-bans (in India) to burkha bans (discussed in France) -- as they're both incidences of censoring what women can and can't wear. But have you ever heard of a Bikini Protest to call attention to a Burkha Ban? Neither had we. Which is why we're sharing this photo with

Last week, a pretty girl out of Russia named Helena was just messing around her room with some makeup. But after posting a video of her awesome presto change-o Jared Leto skills, she'll soon have celebs beating down her door for makeovers. Hell, I want to look like Rosario Dawson. Can we make this

Meet Vigo, Pinto, Dolores, Joske, and Miss Moss - the fleecy residents of Plushood created by Israeli duo Shlomi Schillinger (industrial design) and Tamar Moshkovitz (illustration/design). Each foot-tall (30cm) plush character (along with a kitty called James Richardson the 3rd) comes with their

So yesterday, Sept. 7, was the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Very much like the carnaval in Brazil, it's an explosion of feathers, glitter, syncopation, gyrations, smoked meats and out-and-out good times. It also goes right by my house, so here's a report from the front lines of fun!

Holy smokes, there are designers and there are DESIGNERS, those visionaries who see the future in a more brilliant palette than we could ever imagine. Such is the case with the 23-year-old French designer Charlie Mindu, whose avant-garde wigs have graced the heads of Peaches and Lady Gaga (three

The video for avant hip hop savant Tunde Olaniran's "Cobra" single was shot on a shoestring in the historic Capitol Theater in Flint, Michigan and it has a decidedly low-res quality. And yet it still manages to totally inundate your senses and leaves you asking yourself what just happened. The

Ugh... So I start blogging an hour-and-a-half before the Grammys -- America's pop Oscars -- and I'm already disappointed with the event that officially hasn't even begun... (If you're outside the US, you can watch them streaming on CBS starting NOW! And read our coverage of the full show here! But

Why anyone would put the name Ivana in front of anything is beyond me. The jokes are just too stupid. But a Finnish clothing company decided to go for it, and now it's feeling the wrath of the only true Ivana...Ivana Trump. Donald Trump's Czech ex filed a lawsuit against Finland's IVANAhelsinki

There are many ways to judge a culture: How it treats its elderly, the quality of its art, the happiness of its children. But is there a better way to judge than by examining the merits of its hot dogs? Every culture does it differently -- from Brazil's quail-egg dogs to Germany's classic wursts...

We know the economies of Bangkok and Las Vegas and Amsterdam don't exactly strain under the influx of sex tourists. But is that the sort of tourist you'd want to come to your city? Or is that the type of reputation for your country that you'd be comfortable living with? (Not that I personally think

From the weird border-land between fetish porn, food porn, and fashion porn comes your latest viral video. Shot by Fly16Ã 9 for the fashion house AF Vandervorst, it shows a beautiful girl in AFV sitting down to finish an entire chocolate cake. Reminds me of the comparatively un-sexy scene from

I’m not sure how you’re going to feel about this post but it's just something I have to say -- mostly because every time I see a girl wearing a backless dress with a gaudy looking bra showing I feel like I SHOULD say something.) This time I happened to be at the Diesel...

A handsome homeless guy is generating buzz in China. (And here's another article.) We can read about him in Japan too, where someone is loading updates almost everyday. Today, blog readers learned that he was in the military and that public services tried to help him, but he refused them and hoped

Figure skater Kim Yu Na who made her way into the Kpop world by collaborating with Big Bang on songs for the World Cup and creating a skating routine based off the Girl's Generation song "Run Devil Run" has officially made it. You know you've made it when news outlets are reporting on the...

Tell the average American that football has nothing to do with outrageously beautiful women, and he'll scoff. With their cheerleaders, supermodel wives, and "lingerie leagues," football teams have always managed to somehow tie tossing a pigskin to ogling gorgeous curves. So at the "Super Saturday"

Bono and his wife Ali Hewson launched their clothing line Edun with a mission "to encourage trade with Africa and to celebrate the possibilities and the people of the continent." Originally, the idea was to do that by actually having the clothes made in Africa. But that isn't working out. So

Who cares about the Swimsuit Competition at this weekend's Miss America competition, the alarming sight of Pink dripping down from the Grammy's ceiling in a nudie suit, or the lingerie models strutting down the runways in Paris (BTW: We brought you full "coverage" of that last event on Friday's