Bill Clinton

Blog Part Nouveau, or ‘partly new’, delves into fashion history to showcase the inspiration–be it art, photography or design–behind some of today’s biggest fashion moments. It’s fascinating and impossible not to get lost in, so we asked the site’s founder, Lilah Ramzi, to give us a little history lesson each week. This week's lesson? Presidential poses never go out of style.

They should probably just go ahead and cancel fashion month right now because absolutely nothing I'm telling you NOTHING that could possibly happen within the next four weeks will be able to come close to topping this news: Tamagotchi is getting its own clothing line. And WWD is reporting it... so it's REALLY HAPPENING.

It sounds like Hillary Clinton could be on her way to scoring her second Vogue cover--all she has to do is become President.

Is fashion going country? Karl Lagerfeld may be headed to Texas, but his friend, designer Oscar de la Renta, is going even deeper south--Arkansas, to be exact, when his retrospective "Oscar de la Renta: American Icon" opens at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center next week.

Gucci is launching Made to Measure, a new men's fragrance with James Franco as the decidedly not-unattractive face. {WWD, subscription required} Neon-tressed model Chloe Nørgaard divulges the one hair color to which she'll never, ever commit. {WWD} A lot of Nicholas Kirkwood's livelihood seems to revolve around... go-karting in Spain? Allow him to explain. {Elle} The Church of Scientology just found a brand new celeb recruit in model Jessica White. {NY Post}

This weekend I was one of several journalists flown out to cover the 21st annual Life Ball, a massive fundraiser for HIV/AIDS research and awareness held at Vienna's City Hall. The theme was "1001 Arabian Nights" and over 1,500 people turned out for the themed bash. That meant that Barbara Eden, in her full I Dream of Jeannie regalia, was there along with hundreds of dancers who looked like extras from a naughty Vegas revue version of Aladdin and still more revelers who were naked save for some body glitter and lamps covering their crotches (rub here-get it?). To put the whole evening into perspective, Bill Clinton was there for his work with the Clinton Global Initiative and so was a bearded lady named Conchita that the New York Post has since deemed Kim Kardashian with a beard. Here's what went down: