Bass Alert! We have yet to personally spy our fair Chuck in the ‘hood shooting this season. But thankfully Nylon offers up a scrumptious fix today in the form of a multi-image foreign ad campaign in their Korean edition, with Miss Waldorf of course. Man, we can’t wait for season 3 to start. {Nylon}

Carrie Bradshaw, The Sequel: SJP is back to shooting SATC, complete with a gold metal Chanel clutch. {Jezebel}

Renaissance Girl: Daisy Lowe talks W-burg, her jewelry line, why she likes to look like a china doll, and making toilets. {W}

Ugh. Just Ugh: You know how we feel about Megan Fox, so you can understand how this news makes us horribly distraught. Really, Mr. Armani? Really? {Fashionologie}

Basshole: We didn’t get to Chuck in person yesterday, but man do we love that pocket square. {Just Jared}

Friend Rate: The girls walked for only 50 euros at Lacroix, as opposed to their normal 1300 or more fee. Well played, ladies. {Imaginary Socialite}

Hackers, Part Deux: This whole Ali Wise situation just gets weirder and weirder. Thank god Chris and Jessica over at Daily Intel are all over it. {Daily Intel}

Lighten Your Load: Those annoyingly large September issues are going to be about 1/3 less large this year. It’s not a good sign, but it is incredibly more convenient for our arms. {WWD}

Guess where we’ll be Friday morning?

Broadway and Prince is right.

We love that the Gossip Girl cast is already back in action. Let’s just hope this is a Chuck/Blair scene.

That intersection is very NYU territory after all.

We’ll be sure to post any good pics we snap!

Given our Gossip Girl obsession, I felt the need to weigh in on the situation that is NYC Prep, fashion news or not.

While I anxiously await Daily Intel’s highly specific (and sure to be hilarious) recap, I’ll just share a few quick thoughts.

I was obviously expecting an abundance of egregious behavior and inflated egos from these privileged youth…they were worse than expected. It was kind of nauseating to watch. Fictional romps on GG = good. Real kids acting like a-holes, not so much. Note: PC, sir, you are no Chuck Bass.

Plus, I was less than impressed by the clothing—which is supposed to be one of their “things”, yes? Personal shoppers do not a stylish girl (or boy) make. And Sebastian, really with the hair? We think Rolando could give you some serious advice.

Blair, Chuck, Serena, and even Little J would be so disappointed.

Fashion quote of the show for sure was from Jessie’s friend, Zoe: “I wear clothes that are less than $20 sometimes.” I don’t even have words…

Are these kids giving their private school counterparts across the country a bad name? Or just our fair city of New York? I, for one, have never been more proud of my public school diploma.

Yet, I know I will still watch every episode of this silly show. What does that say about me? Are you with me? Or are you a more culturally sound person?

Oh Hello: Ed Westwick’s celebrity crush is Scarlett Johansson. He also likes low-top sneakers and laments the fact that Chuck Bass has a billion dollars and he doesn’t. {NylonTV}

Drama Feed: Dolce & Gabanna’s AW09 campaign features lots of models, lots of Marilyn dresses, lots of fur and lots of dresses that we’d really love to have (especially if they come with one of the male models.) {Models}

Strap This: According to Garance, because according to the Italians, everyone needs a little strapless dress this summer, worn with flats during the day. This, we love. {Garance}

So What?: There’s a dude from Kentucky who diets so that he can walk for Cavalli and Co. He only eats twice a day. Mon dieu! {NYTimes}

It was raining yesterday, just in case you haven’t heard, which was super appropriate for Burberry day, just in case you haven’t read.

The party in honor of the lighting of the new Burberry sign was held atop the Palace hotel, otherwise known as home to Chuck Bass. Even we had to walk the white carpet, strolling along behind Julia Roitfeld wearing that white Alexander Wang dress (someone should tell Vogue UK it’s not Burberry). Tallulah Harlech rocked red lipstick while waiting for the elevator with Glenn O’Brien and Bendel’s former fashion staff.

We’d been handed a Burberry card at the entrance and showed it at the foot of the stairs, in the elevator, outside the elevator, to walk up the stairs, and finally to enter the penthouse where Alexa Chung dj’d in the same grey shift Hilary Rhoda wore - but with a vintage belt and chunky boots, of course. The band on stage, One Night Only, looked like they stepped out of a Burberry ad (complete with red guitar) especially with Lily Donaldson and Hugh Dancy standing stageside.

That’s about when we got trampled by Orlando Bloom and a ridiculously handsome hockey player who was not Sean Avery, which was also when they ran out of champagne and we ran home to finish Say Anything.

All For One: Happy Memorial Day. We’re embracing the one piece this weekend. Perhaps you should too. Oh, and it’s a half day here at Fashionista, so we’ll be outta here earlier than usual. Have a good one. {StyleFile}

Girls On Film: The Mulleavys muse about movies. Just when we thought it wasn’t possible to love them any more, they go and namecheck Pinhead. {LA Times}

Treat Yourself: Just click. You won’t be disappointed. Unless you’re the kind of person who doesn’t enjoy a deliciously tan Chuck Bass. And if that’s the case, there’s nothing more we can do for you. {Jezebel}

Great Scots: Who will reign supreme in the Scottish design world? Our vote goes to Jonathan Saunders. {VogueUK}

Philippe Starck’s getting into the sweater business.

He’s partnered with Ballantyne, the beloved Scottish cashmere company, to build a series of cashmere sweaters. The limited edition collection will hit Ballanytne stores in the UK come October but no word on when, or if, they’ll be available stateside. Is it too much to ask for expertly sculpted shoulders and tiny waists of cable knit?

The news comes right after WWD announced that Frank Gehry’s designed a couple of shoes for French shoe company J.M. Weston, including a pair of black and white buttoned booties which were clearly made for one man and one man only (see left).

So when do they announce Christophe Decarnin’s plans to build a skyscraper?

So I didn’t watch Gossip Girl last night. I don’t actually have a TV, slight problem, I know. But when my phone started buzzing with texts from former Fashionistas, I knew I’d missed something major.

Apparently, Blair had been keeping a prom scrapbook under her bed for a very, very long time filled with creepy sketches of her and Nate at the big dance. In one such sketch was a dress and that dress was Marchesa Spring 08, the one Dita Von Teese wore to 7th on Sale almost two years ago.

Which should mean that Blair dreamed up the black and gold embroidered poof before Keren and Georgina even hooked up. And of course the dress in the sketch turned into the dress in real life (thanks to Chuck apparently? thanks to Natalie for ruining the end?) without a single mention of Marchesa.

Wonder what Harvey Weinstein’ll say about that?

While perusing one of our favorite entertainment blogs, EW’s Popwatch, we happened upon a link to this site, What Chuck Wore.

That’s right, an entire blog devoted to the fashion stylings of the current head of Bass Industries.

The premise is simple: screen shots accompanied by fictional commentary from Chuck. Genius.

By far, our favorite goes along with the above pic. “What am I up to? Oh, just riding around in my limo, artfully mixing patterns. You know how I roll.”

Yes, Chuck. Yes we do.

Not Fashion: But too good not to share. Ed Westwick said, “I have used his name before and just said, ‘Hi, I’m Chuck Bass’ like a catchphrase. It makes me giggle.” {Mirror}

Someone’s Hiring: If you look up to girls like Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port and Stephanie Pratt, Kelly Cutrone needs a new assistant. Consider yourself warned. {CityFile}

Who’s That Girl?: Raquel Zimmerman’s embraced bleached blonde for the summer. Should look lovely with the Proenza she’s wearing tonight. {StyleFile}

Marc, Highlighted: The best bits from yesterday’s Times Talk. Marc talks princesses, urine, Lacroix, Paris and BryanBoy. {BlackBook}

So Gossip Girl’s a re-run tonight.

Which means we/you are in desperate need of a dose of Chuck Bass and can thank Teen Vogue for this behind-the-scenes video. Of course, it’s even better when it’s a dose of Ed Westwick because then he’s British and not royally fucked up.

Westwick says of his own style, “I’d like to think it’s cool,” to which we’d respond that ripped sports jerseys are very difficult to pull off and he shouldn’t feel bad for trying. His sartorial choices are inspired by his love of music and apparently, in his Gossip Girl downtime, he has “plans to start a musical movement in New York City.”

Wearing Rag & Bone cardigans and Lady Grey necklaces is a good place to start.

Once a month, after school, I used to walk across town to get my braces tightened by my dentist.

Dr. Cashion was a folksy man, as in, he didn’t wear gloves when he touched my teeth. I’d wait in the operating chair, listening to his assistant tell knock-knock jokes until Dr. Cashion shuffled my way. I’d inevitably bust out of there forty minutes late and speed-walk back to school, late to orchestra and suffering from my stretched jaw.

My reward for all that pain? A smile as symmetrical as college-ruled paper. Yet, I’ve been wondering lately, with the influx of crooked-teethed stars, whether it was all worth it.

“Straight teeth are bullshit,” said Keira Knightley. Amy Winehouse’s mouth looks like Stonehenge and Kirsten Dunst’s teeth aren’t exactly picture perfect. Of course, best of all is Chuck Bass’ crooked grin. It’s not like these people can’t afford perfection but rather they’re saying, “I threw my retainer in the trash and you’re going to like me regardless.”

The problem with braces isn’t that they’re one more symbol of unnatural beauty, not that they cost thousands of dollars and not that once removed the changed teeth often return to their natural state, but that braces are also, when forced on children, unethical. They make kids’ gums ache for years and cut up their cheeks. “It’s like forced plastic surgery for children,” says my straight-toothed friend Josh - without anaesthesia, of course.

“I was totally obsessed with my two front teeth being straight from ages 12-19,” says my friend Tamzin, who had braces twice. “Then the second time they went back to being crooked, I said, fuck it - it’s not meant to be.”

So embrace your crooked smiles, don’t force your kid to get braces and admit it, you want to make out with Chuck Bass, British teeth and all.

—GLENNA GOLDIS

If you, like us, were in the woods for four days eating sickening amounts of turducken and cranberry sauce topped off with pumpkin pie and whipped cream, you missed this gem.

Germany held their Bambi awards last week to honor those in media and entertainment. (To give you a vague idea of their merit, Meg Ryan took home the lifetime achievement award.)

Anyway, Britney Spears performed Womanizer, minus Chuck Bass, in a very Madonna-esque ouftit before Karl Lagerfeld presented her with the Pop International Award. We’re not positive what that means exactly, but we do know that Karl admires Britney, “not only for [her] art, but also for [her] energy,” (emphasis ours) and is thrilled she’s come “back not just as a phoenix but as a Bird of Paradise.”

You can’t really catch the rest due to the German translation, but Meg Ryan’s priceless face kind of says it all.

I didn’t think this gloomy day could get any worse.

But now, on top of thinking about K-Swiss when Chuck Bass comes on the screen, I have to think about the Sex and the City sequel.

Thanks, Kim Catrall (she confirms its existence at about ten minutes in).

I hated the first movie’s wardrobe. The eclectic and charming use of vintage, high street, designer, and couture fashion that made the show so much fun to watch was missing from the big screen. All the vintage was designer vintage, all the “risky” outfits came from the runway, and every single outfit was An Outfit. All the fun parts were missing.

So now that the women aren’t just older, but plain old, how will Pat put the fun bits back into the wardrobe? Because honestly, the plot will be shit - there is absolutely nothing left to say about these women, or Big - and the clothes are all we have to look forward to.

On a related note, wouldn’t it be wonderful if they shot the entire thing inside so that we don’t know what everything looks like months before?

Ed Westwick is the new face of K-Swiss.

In fact, he’s allegedly shooting their new campaign in New York right now and we couldn’t be more disappointed.

We’ve been waiting with bated breath for the first Gossip Girl to land a campaign. Would it be Leighton for Marc, Blake for Neutrogena, Chace for Gap? Or would it be Ed, who, since he’s known to the world as nothing but Chuck Bass, has stupendous fashion world potential.

We should’ve seen this coming when we noticed that Ed wears nothing but soccer jerseys ripped down the middle, accessorized with dog tags. Was it naive to cling to our hope that Bass’s sartorial choices would eventually influence Westwick’s?

Meanwhile, we wonder which talent Westwick will bring to his K-Swiss commercial since they usually feature athletes, rappers or dancers, and he can’t just stare into the camera like he’s staring at Blair’s neck.

Oh, Ed, you can’t go from K-Swiss to Ralph Lauren. Leighton, it’s up to you now.

Michael Phelps might have won all those gold medals, but Nastia Liukin’s cute face, blonde hair and mad gymnastic skills have scored her quite a few endorsements - not to mention a front row seat at Peter Som.

WWD reports on the Wheatie’s Box, denim line and tween fashion website that will sport her name until the Olympic shine wears off. Those lucky fashion week seats, Issac Mizrahi included, come courtesy of her also athletically inclined, pretty faced friend Maria Sharapova and might prove a valuable education.

The gymnast boldly claims, “I’d love to do some acting and modeling, but not as my career.”

The best bit’s nestled in the first paragraph, as if it’s just some minor detail that no one cares about when it’s actually the most important thing - Nastia’s scored a cameo on The Greatest Show of Our Time. As in, the lucky duck will share screen time with Chuck Bass on this season of Gossip Girl, or at least that’s the way we see it going.

Because, what would be the point of going on Gossip Girl and not making out with Chuck Bass?

Here’s a little story from the Fashionista table:

The other day, we were tipped off that Gossip Girl was filming on Grand Street between Mott and Bowery. So we stopped by on the way home, only to turn right around upon meeting a throng of paparazzi clogging every street corner.

But on our way, we noticed that whoever’s in charge of assigning trailers did the same thing we’ve noticed every time we walk past a GG set - they keep putting the actor’s real names on the doors, so Ed lovers can stand in front of Ed’s trailer, and Leighton lovers know exactly from which trailer door she’ll appear. So imagine our shock when right next to the trailer marked “Tinsley” was another marked “M.K.”

MK? The only MK we could think of was obviously Mary-Kate, but we’re pretty sure Gossip Girl doesn’t really fit with her vibe, not to mention that nobody writes her nickname with those periods in between her initials.

So WWD solved our little mystery for us this today - looks like Michael Kors is set to appear in an upcoming episode centering around Fashion Week.

And there you have it.

The Gossip Girl rumor mill is in overdrive these days, but this one’s the best yet.

Ed Westwick, ahem, Chuck Bass, is in talks to design a line.

Yes, you heard us correctly. Apparently, the king of ripped shirts and lead singer of Filthy Youth can’t wait to add his “two cents” to “the creative side” of a certain label related to his Vanity Fair shoot.

His outfit, (in the August issue), is Thom Browne, but his sunglasses are Jack Spade and, well, that would be the most perfect collaboration ever.

So instead of ripping out magazine pictures and taking them into stores to emulate your favorite GG character, which is apparently all the rage, you can just buy it from your favorite character in the first place.

That’s easier. And way more fun.