“And new-millennium Balmain has definitely caught the fashion moment, as well as the attention of a whole wide world of bloggers, Tweeters and cyberspace image makers. They see in Mr. Decarnin the vibe of the moment: love it, grab it, own it, have fun with it. MySpace is his space.” —Suzy Menkes in her interesting IHT article that cites Balmain and Christophe Decarnin getting twice the Tweets and Google results of the superior, in her opinion, Nicolas Ghesquière and Balenciaga.

Just what the world needs, right…another online community. But this one has us at least mildly intrigued.

Launching today, Talenthouse.com is a site for the creative and artistic. You can upload your art, designs, music etc onto your profile and it will also link up with Facebook, MySpace and the like.

I guess the point is that it’s a more focused, niche community and who are we to knock anything that lets people get their creative work out in front of more people. Their soft launch has already garnered 25,000 members and they’re hoping that number will grow to a million.

Naomi Campbell is on board as a supporter. As is Stephen Dorff, which is super duper random. But the name that made us take notice is director Fernando Meirelles. Because City of God might just be one of the most amazing movies EVER.

If you guys join up, let us know how goes.

Designer Malcolm Harris hung up on Angelina Jolie twice when she called him up to order some dresses.

You know, because usually when you answer the phone, the most famous actress in the world is not on the other end. Maybe he should have asked to speak to Maddox for confirmation?

Anyway, he finally believed it was the real Angie and took her order for three of his One-Dress - which got us wondering about said dress.

Turns out that Harris spent about a year and a half gathering the opinions of women, via social networking outlets like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and ASmallWorld, about everything from fabric to cut to color and then created the One-Dress.

You can wear it in a million different ways and it’s meant for every body shape. Check out the website to see options that people have come up with. As you’d expect, some are great and some are not.

We can actually imagine Angelina working something nice out. Plus, there’s totally a humanitarian aspect which we’re sure is how she came to find it in the first place. A chunk of the proceeds go to Womankind Worldwide and KIVA.org.

All in all, kind of a cool thing.

Chanel Iman likes being a model so much that she took some pictures of herself and made a little story she calls “Murder She Wrote”.

The Strangers Exclusive Clip
Serena Van Der Woodsen isn’t the only dangerous beauty out there:

Gemma Ward’s new movie The Strangers might actually come out soon, and MySpace is running this clip of her chasing Liv Tyler through a creepy locked house, wearing a creepy white mask, and carrying a big knife.

The clip reveals nothing about the movie except that Liv Tyler has excellent hair and a powerful scream, but oh well -

If the hype keeps up, maybe next season’s Costume Ball can be all about thrillers and macabre, and then Alexander McQueen can have a field day and Gemma + Liv can host.

Agyness’ Who video is on MySpace TV…

And you thought Faran was a flake.

Today, Lauren Conrad announced a new partnership with College Tonight, a social networking site aimed at campus communities.

Not only will Lauren be paid a lot to blog her opinions on the site, she’s also being given her own opportunity to showcase her style, and of course, her burgeoning fashion line, which she’s aligned with ShopIntuition in order to drive eCommerce.

Now, we think Lauren Conrad should absolutely take advantage of every business opportunity possible, and so if an internet company offers her a gig, cool -

But we can’t help noticing: Lauren’s life on The Hills seems a lot more like Juicy Campus, not some sanitized attempt at the social networking that Facebook and MySpace already enable college kids to do.

But maybe that kind of tawdry network is more of a Heidi endeavor?

We’re all for Sex and the City spoilers, but MySpace comments?

Not so much.

So imagine our “oh ick” moment this morning, when the official Sex and the City MySpace left us a comment - a giant photo of SJP eating pizza that said, “Hey, it’s Carrie. Need to talk about Big. Maybe over pizza?”

Maybe over our puking bodies?

Of course we’d expect a major motion picture to have its own MySpace. It’s just the pretending-they’re-Carrie and the leaving-pizza-comments that gets a little out of hand.

So although we’re thrilled to see the movie when it finally premieres, here’s what we’re going to tell this silly MySpace campaign:

We’re just not that into you.

Last year, Topshop revealed their highest group of website hits came from their MySpace page.

This year, they’re using their online fan base to its full advantage.

Today we got an email from The Arcadia Group, also known as TopShop’s parent company, saying they had a new online press person whose only job is to get images, samples, and scoops to the internet media.

The idea makes sense, since TopShop is a youth culture company, and if you’re under 30 (and not Amish or in med school), you basically live online.

But it’s impressive to see that such a major financial force is taking the rumblings of highly unqualified blogs like us into their fold, and also their consideration, and realizing that it’s not just market pages and celebrities that drive sales.

Although, that photo of Iekeleine Stange in the striped Topshop dress from last month?

Hello, we’re still waiting for our order to arrive in the office.

We hope some of you are looking for an internship, because the beautiful/lovely/intelligent ladies over at Ellegirl need some interns, now.

The deal:

1. Maintain Ellegirl’s MySpace page

2. Fax stuff, file stuff, research stuff, don’t mess up stuff

3. Do the fashion closet limbo

4. Work a minimum of three days a week - hopefully Tuesday, Thursdays and Fridays

Email jking@hfmus.com with your resume.

Good Luck!

Our favorite MySpace message today comes courtesy of Courtney Love, who wants everyone to check out Marc Jacobs’ updated profile:

“Please add marc jacobs and check out the wonderful work my guys who design myspace did on his page, his layout is sick..!!! please add him and compliment him on his layout thanks xcl”

The whole thing is quite funny, especially since Courtney’s MySpace was sending messages last month asking for excellent web designers - we guess they were for Marc.

As for the new page, those of you who were first friends with Marc won’t see anything too new, until you check out his photo section, where you can view pictures of Marc with Mary Kate, Marc with Irina… and Marc with Christina Aguilera, at her husband Jordan Bratman’s hula-themed birthday party.

Yes, really.

In fact, there are so many photos, we suspect Marc will transfer the Hawaii vibe to next year’s Christmas party, just so everyone can wear swimsuits and get lei’d…

We’ve been reading about the new fashion networking site, Fashionspace, and we have to say, despite the good press, we’re skeptical.

The site, inspired by the internet-based success of the creator’s high school classmate Lily Allen, is another in a string of attempts to create such a site for fashionistas, after Myspace.com/fashion and the unsuccessful Iqons.

While it seems like a great idea to network on a site to break into an industry practically surrounded by the Great Wall of China, it misses the point. Most fashion people are way too discreet to do anything as conspicuous as “networking,” especially online- they don’t even leave comments on websites, let alone post detailed profiles of themselves complete with contact information.

We still think Fashionspace might succeed at being like a Monster.com for aspiring designers- maybe fashion houses will look to it when hiring assistant designers? But as far as becoming the all-out fashion MySpace that it wants to be, we doubt it- it’s just too straightforward to be picked up by the least straightforward people on earth.