Karl Who? The Kaiser talks about the bag that got us all talking. {WWD}

Paul Hearts Michael: A runway finale tribute to the King of Pop. We’re almost over the nostalgia moment. Almost. { Catwalk Queen}

Happy Belated Birthday! Ed, we’re so sorry we missed your party because we’re sure that invite just got lost in the mail. Guess we’ll catch you on your 23rd. {People}

Hat Day: We went to a wedding this weekend where a lovely girl totally rocked one of the black Marc Jacobs hats. We’re still debating whether or not we’d be able to pull it off. Perhaps this will help us decide. {WhoWhatWear}

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}

Michelle Trachtenberg’s danced around the fashion crowd for a bit now without actually attaching her name to anything (except for her stint as one of the faces for Candie’s at Kohl’s which she’d probably like us to forget.)

But now she’s throwing a party for Guess.

They’re re-opening their Soho flagship store at the end of July and Georgina Sparks, along with Marie Claire, will host the bash.

Which of course makes us wonder, will Michelle grace an upcoming cover of Marie Claire or join forces with Guess’ sultry models?

It also makes us wonder what went wrong in the world of Gossip Girls-turned-campaign faces. We’re still not over Leighton for Reebok or Ed for K Swiss, and Michelle for Guess is just as disturbing. They all have faces worthy of high fashion campaigns and Michelle and Leighton both have curves we’d love to see in runway clothes.

Make us proud Blake.

The Oscars are safe.

Starlets choose something long, something pretty, something with a jewel on top. But our Oscars, the CFDAs, are a celebration of all things fashion with a capital ‘F’ which means we get to choose best dressed, not US Weekly.

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}

—PHOTOGRAHY BY JEREMY KOST

Obviously, we don’t think we’re alone in loving that President Obama is pretty much the hippest guy to hold his position, well, ever.

But we’re quite sure we’ll never tire of examples of this.

Like the fact that the guest list at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner now includes people like Chace and Ed, Jason Wu, Donatella and so many others from our little world.

And of course, the guests are all looking their chicest to impress the first fam and the fashion press, who have taken coverage of MObama’s sartorial choices to an almost stalker-ish level. Not that we have a problem with that.

With Gossip Girl and fashion designers in the mix, it is really starting to feel like “our” White House, too.

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}

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

Ed Westwick gets very close to Helena Christensen in next month’s Bazaar. This makes us feel:

1) Jealous, so jealous we could cry.

2) Hot, it’s pretty sexy.

3) Excited to be 40, Helena only pops up in front of cameras when she gets to wear lingerie these days.

4) Creepy, she’s old enough to be his mother.

5) Bummed, that we have to wait five more days for a new Gossip Girl and that we won’t even get to watch it because we’ll be at shows.

6) Did we say jealous?

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.

Pop Quiz!

This really weird video that starts out with Taylor Momsen and ends with an equally bleached blonde stunt double is:

a) Part of Nike’s new underground campaign - note gratuitous shots of Little J’s sports bra’s swish and insanely bright Nike sneakers.

b) Part three of Gossip Girl’s sneaker invasion, Ed for KSwiss, Leighton for Reebok? (Can Chace land Puma? Will Blake follow up her Vogue cover with an Adidas campaign? Will someone on Gossip Girl actually wear sneakers?)

c) The missing part of Taylor’s awkward Teen Vogue gym story (in which she’s also rocking Nikes)?

d) Part of something we don’t know about, and you’re going to tell us…

Well, Leighton Meester finally landed an ad campaign.

It’s not Marc, it’s not Miu Miu, in fact it’s nothing we really care about which is painful since we really care about Leighton.

She’s the new face of Reebok.

And not the way Agyness was the new face of Reebok, not just a passerby at a party who happens to be wearing Reeboks, there’s proof this time.

She shot the ads in New York on Saturday morning, with short brown hair and an outfit that would make Blair Waldorf cringe and Jenny Humphrey jump for joy.

The funny thing is, no one on Gossip Girl actually wears sneakers.

Ok, this is the first and probably only time we’ll say this, but this clip of Chace Crawford is so much better than our Ed and Leighton news of the day.

He suffers through a fashion quiz with Grazia Magazine and doesn’t know shit about fashion. Though he does have explosively large biceps and a really manly not-at-all Nate Archibald laugh, (sorry Perez).

The best part features him speculating on just who this mysterious Alexander Wang person might be, though he couldn’t really get it more wrong.

Every once in awhile websites have super random ads that make us giggle and wonder how that company chose that target audience.

We don’t know how we missed this on Style.com, so thanks to reader Claudia for sending it in.

Nikon’s having a Gossip Girl contest - just enter your info and a picture of your “most stylish party moment” and you might win a trip to New York, dinner at a “trendy” restaurant and obviously a Nikon Coolpix camera to record the whole thing.

But the best part’s scrawled across the top in bright yellow writing, “Win a Photo Op with Leighton or Ed.” If you scroll to the bottom it says in very teeny tiny font, “Meet either Leighton Meester or Ed Westwick pending their availability.”

If they can’t even confirm one of the stars, and they know enough about their fiercely loyal audience to advertise this contest on Style.com, they should know they can sub a meet and greet with a Lorick dress and Bendel’s make-over for twice the amount of contest entries.

Or for us, at least.

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.

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.