Now You’re Talking: Here’s a peek at Numero’s September issue. R’el Dade and Mélodie Dagault were shot by photographer Greg Kadel. It’s super hot & super NSFW. {Models}

How to Glam: Glamour’s launching a new video feature on their site. It’s called 20 Outfit Ideas from America’s Most Stylish People and includes commentary from Phillip Lim, Karl Lagerfeld, Rachel Zoe, Jason Wu and more. You can watch the preview & sign up for the daily videos now. {Glamour}

On Repeat: Keira Knightley’s latest Mademoiselle ads for Chanel look a lot like the last ones- pretty, and strategically naked. {Egotastic}

Lucky Duckie: Style Rookie, Tavi Williams, video taped the Rodarte for Target preview this morning while editors were sworn to secrecy. {Lucky}

We’ve seen some big stars like Thandie Newton and Halle Berry in Erdem’s creations, and last night, at the ultra exclusive (so exclusive, you practically needed a secret handshake to get in) premiere of The Suicide Brothers—a film starring Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend—Keira showed up, all hard bangs and Erdem maxi dress.

Ms. Knightley’s stylist and friend, Leith Clark who like Erdem is Canadian, chose the butterfly covered creation—carrying on with the insect and bugs theme that is the designer’s leitmotif. It was a brilliant choice, and seemed to match Keira’s quirkiness: “Isn’t it beautiful?” said the actress. Yes, in fact it was.

We’ve admired Erdem for many seasons—well before he was fashion’s “next big thing”. But it’s hardly a surprise that fashion journos have traditionally been lukewarm to the Canadian-Turkish London-based designer. His prints, all blurry and off-kilter are definitely an acquired taste for many. But his “hang on, I am going to hurl” prints are indicative of what is going on right now in fashion—a jerky roller coaster ride of of perching highs and stomach dropping lows, with euphoria and nausea in equal doses. In other words, what we have lived with in fashion for the past year.

But this dress was more calm, sedate, even happy. Could Erdem be telling us something? Keira was anyway: “It’s perfectly comfortable. I may even just sleep in it tonight.”

—CHARLEY B.

Roksanda Ilincic showed her Fall 09 collection in a proper British library yesterday afternoon at Whitehall.

It was sponsored by Barbie - who continues to reign over Fashion Week on this side of the pond, too - but featured a string of dresses much too elegant for the iconic plastic doll.

The Central St. Martin’s grad, as someone said, “makes high fashion you can actually wear.” Her dresses are Rodarte pretty and equally well made, but you can wear them regardless of whether you’re Keira Knightley or not.

Dresses came in pinks and greys with lace and rhinestone detailing. There was a black coat made entirely of ruffles and tops and skirts made out of what looked like fancy aluminum foil. The models wore fabric discs on each side of their head, Mickey Mouse-like, but the oversized gold bow bracelets made up for them.

If we were ladies who lunch, this is what we’d lunch in.

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

Did you catch this on Friday?

Vogue UK called out Keira Knightley’s Anya Hindmarch dustbag.

Instead of busting out one of her $1,000+ Anyas - which she had to have bought to get the free dustbag - she carried around the little tote one would be packaged in.

Now, this might go back to when everyone started carrying their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in designer shopping bags - apparently, it makes lunch a little more bearable when you pull a Chanel-bag lunch out from under your desk.

But now that public bag recycling has moved on to the shopping bag innards, we wonder what the next step in designer re-packaging will be. We predict we’ll get lots of Christmas gifts wrapped in Marc-branded tissue paper this year.

Maybe it’s the economy (could designer dustbags be the answer to the overpriced designer It Bag? Is this the official death knell for being seen carrying exorbitantly priced fashion goods at the moment?) making some stretch their designer purchases just one step further, or maybe they’re just so pumped to have that new bag that they want to remind the rest of us that we don’t have one.

Either way, we just thought we’d tell you about it.

—KYLE HAYES

We had a semi-rude awakening Saturday morning when we caught a glimpse of Britney’s new album cover on Jezebel.

She looks healthy and happy, sure. And maybe we can’t stop humming “Womanizer,” (though we’d attribute that more to Chuck Bass than the songstress), but the pink Rodarte dress kind of knocked the wind out of us. From Alyona on Spring 08’s Runway to Britney on the front of something called “Circus?”

We wondered:

1. Did Britney buy the dress at Barneys last spring and save it for the album cover?

2. Or, more likely, did a stylist buy the dress and give it to Britney for the album cover? Because then we’ll wonder which stylist she’s working with. Rachel Zoe works with Keira Knightly, one of the few celebs ballsy enough to wear Rodarte, but would Zoe work with Britney?

3. Are the Mulleavys secretly huge Britney fans? Which would mean, and this would rock our fashion world, that they actually loaned her the dress.

4. Does Britney know what Rodarte is? If so, will she dutifully sit front row this February?

If you have answers to any of the above, inquiring minds, (that means us), want to know.

—BRETT KANE

We have a feeling some people might be a little nervous with this Mario Testino interview, a “diary” of his life put together for the Independent.

“Some people” include the PR department of Vogue, the PR department of V, and the front desk at the Chateau Marmont in LA, where Testino revealed he lives, where swarms of wannabe anorexics will now camp out in hopes of being discovered.

Mario Testino also revealed…

1) That Keira Knightley will be on the cover of September’s Vogue (but without Sienna, her co-star in the movie The Edge of Love which they are both currently promoting. Wonder which magazine cover Sienna will end up gracing…)

2) That V Man’s next issue stars Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl. Mark your calendars for that one.

3) That Testino thinks Toni Garrn is the next Claudia Schiffer, maybe.

4) That if you’re under 30, Mario Testino wants to be your friend.

Hey MT, we can help you with that one…

Hermione, um, Emma Watson, is the new face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle.

The 18-year old, who’s signed with Storm modeling agency, has worn Chanel in public for as long as we can remember but this is the first official partnership between the two. And aside from the copious amounts of dresses and shoes she’ll surely continue to earn, she’ll be paid a sweet $6 million.

The contract will reportedly be announced next month, right before Keira Knightley’s contract runs out, which will make Emma, the youngest girl to grace the cover of Teen Vogue, the youngest face of Chanel.

So Karl, please dress the girl in more than just a bowler hat.

Update: Oh no! Chanel says that Emma for Coco Mademoiselle is “100% not true.” So sad, we thought she’d be cute.

Confession: We’ve only seen about half the movies nominated for Golden Globes this year.

But we’re still excited for the ceremony, because it should boast some incredible fashion. In particular, two of our favorite red carpet cuties, Keira Knightley and Marion Cotillard, will be walking the line in January, and their outfits will be hotly anticipated by celebrity weeklies and fashion newspaper pages everywhere.

We should note that both Knightley and Cotillard have strong ties to Chanel - Keira is the face of their perfume, Chanel Mademoiselle, while Cotillard’s incredible movie, La Vie En Rose, had its American premiere thanks to sponsorship by the fashion house. But while Keira doesn’t seem contractually obligated to wear Chanel in public - she’s sported Rodarte to recent premieres - Marion is all Chanel, all the time.

Will they both sport Karl’s gowns on the red carpet?

Or will Keira commission Kate and Laura Mulleavy to make her something else?

Incidentally: We didn’t actually believe that Rodarte could work in real life until we saw Keira wear their gray mist dress, at left, to a premiere…