Newly married Kate Moss appears to have toned down her bad girl image these days, so imagine our surprise when we heard it had once again been unleashed for W magazine. 

Photographed by Steven Klein and styled by Edward Enniful, Kate Moss sports a lace Vera Wang dress and white Erdem habit for the angelic cover, and a black Gucci silk georgette dress for the other…. both stunning covers in their own rights.

Kate Moss’s latter look was less rock and roll/bad Sandy and more Lady Gaga, as the model’s cheekbones are so defined it looks like she borrowed some of Mother Monster’s beloved facial prosthetics(remember them?).

We have to say that we are drawn to the “bad Kate” cover more and think it is, in actual fact, less eerie than the “good Kate” one, but we know opinions will be divided, so let us know which one you prefer…

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When we said Mother Monster would soon take over the world, we didn’t think it would happen this soon, or indeed, this literally.

Lady Gaga has decided to give Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a run for his money by launching her very own social, network littlemonsters.com, for all her fans to communicate on.

This makes total sense to us – the singer was the first person to reach a staggering 19 million followers on Twitter so to say the site would generate traffic is a severe understatement!

Littlemonsters.com was created by Lady Gaga and Backplane (a company she invested in) and although it isn’t active yet, potential little monsters can register their details to receive an invitation to join the site when the time comes.

If you register you’ll get the following message:

“Your invitation request has been received! We’re excited to share the world of LittleMonsters with you very shortly, keep an eye out for an official invite sometime soon.”

Well, what are you waiting for?  Put your paws up (and other such Gaga-isms…)

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This one’s especially for all our younger readers: Justin Bieber is on the cover of V Magazine’s February issue – also known as the ‘music issue’  – looking extremely dapper in his Dolce and Gabbana getup.

Justin was photographed by Nicola Formichetti, and his accompanying interview is surprisingly candid and less sugary-sweet and generic than we perhaps expected.

“Now that I’m on top, everyone wants to bring me down,” he told the mag.  “Everyone’s trying to tug at me and take my spot. Like Floyd Mayweather, he’s the best boxer in the world. Now he is a champion. Every time he goes to a fight now, people are like, ‘He’s going to lose this time.’”

We never thought we’d hear the Biebs get all insightful, but the rest of the interview is quite deep and is actually a good read.

Lady Gaga’s column is once again in the magazine, although this issue Mother Monster takes a back seat to let some of her designer pals take the reigns instead – you can find out what the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani and other fab designers have to say about the Marry the Night singer. We’re also treated to a very special sketch by Kaiser Karl himself: not to be missed!

You can get your hands on February’s V Magazine from January 12^th – and we encourage you to act fast before all the hardcore Beliebers beat you to it!

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Wow, wow, wow and double wow. Nobody could ever accuse Lady Gaga of turning up to an event under-dressed and this was certainly the case when she celebrated New Year’s Eve in Times Square at the weekend. Performing in front of thousands in the streets on New York, she looked a million dollars in her slinky silver Atelier Versace gown.

The dress, from the labels Spring/Summer 2010 collection, featured a beautiful sparkling bodice and high-thigh split. Her shoes of choice were a gloriously decadent pair of silver platform ‘Daffodile’ pumps from Christian Louboutins. To ‘couture’ the look up further, Gaga paired it with a pair of long white gloves and a dazzling Swarovski crystal-covered headpiece. Wowzers!

With one fell swoop Gaga has inspired three of our New Year’s resolutions.

1. New Louboutins

2. Be fearless in the face of fashion

3. Unleash our inner sparkle monster.

For that, Lady Gaga, we are thankful!

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Yes, this is the second magazine cover featuring Lady Gaga in just as many days but, as is the Gaga mantra, she always mixes it up. 

Yesterday we brought you the singer’s two Elle UK newsstand covers, where she looked a little more natural than perhaps we are used to, but looked stunning nonetheless. The natural theme seems to be a recurring one as far as Gaga January covers are concerned, as the war paint has come off for Vanity Fair’s photoshoot.

Styled by Nicola Formichetti under the fashion direction of Jessica Diehl and shot by the sometimes controversial photographer to the stars Annie Leibovitz, Lady Gaga is seen posing completely nude in one picture, while she wraps herself in pink fur with a ballerina-style up-do and barely there (by Gaga standards) make up in another. Lady Gaga is once again doing her bit for Alexander McQueen, posing in another fabulous creation fresh from the spring/summer 2012 catwalk.

See more pictures and read some of the candid interview at Vanity’s Fair’s website.

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Just like that old saying about buses goes, we’ve waited ages for a Lady Gaga Elle UK cover and now two have come along at once. Not that we are complaining about having the Marry the Night singer grace two newsstand versions of the January 2012 edition of Elle magazine. 

On one cover, Lady Gaga is modelling possibly one of the most recognisable and memorable pieces from Alexander McQueen’s spring/summer 2012 collection. Every last detail in the dress complements Gaga perfectly and in our opinion, could easily have been made especially for her.

The second cover also sees the singer in a far less outlandish outfit than what we are used to seeing from her, as she posed in a soft, pale green Simone Rocha dress, although it could be classed as a little on the sheer side for some people’s tastes.

We also have the subscriber’s edition cover to look forward to, unless one of the two has been mislabeled as a secondary newsstand cover… we’ll just have to sit tight and wait patiently for clarification.

An exclusive behind-the-scenes video from the photoshoot has been released by Elle and also sees Lady Gaga in another Alexander McQueen creation hot off the spring/summer 2012 catwalk, as well as a purple Richard Nicoll dress with a sheer skirt and a white Mandy Coon jumpsuit, also from the latest collections. As stated on the cover, the magazine features the best pieces from the new season, and Lady Gaga is the perfect person to showcase them, wouldn’t you agree?

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Despite Lungta De Fancy designer Mai Marimoto being on her way to celebrating the 10th anniversary of the brand, penning a book and branching out into lingerie in the next coming months, the Central Saint Martins graduate remains a humble and fuss-free designer with a true passion and talent for her work – and a desire to please every one of her shoppers.

And, since we mention it, those shoppers happen to include some of fashion’s most famous faces from Lady Gaga to Victoria Beckham and Rihanna (and even a royal, too).

The appeal, it seems, is her ability to meet every girl’s needs.

You can find Lungta De Fancy in London’s New Bond Street, Knightsbridge and St Christopher’s Place, which is where we caught up with the designer last week as part of the fabulous Thank You Thursdays shopping event.

Find out what Mai Marimoto told us about her inspirations, her plans for the label, and those Lady Gaga shoes…

How do you manage to balance getting the maximum out of your creativity and keeping the prices down to (relatively) affordable prices?

I understand that every customer is special so I wouldn’t mind if someone came up to me and said ‘I love this’, but it needs to be a bit different here so each item can be individual if that’s how a lady wants it. Every lady is something special and everyone has different figures. For three of our stores we do free alterations so we like to make sure it fits the client perfectly before their special event. Like this client that’s come in today – she thinks the dress is a little too long so we are fixing it to how she likes for no extra cost.

London isn’t the only place you have a store, so where would you say you get the most clients?

In London there’s lots of different cultures – Arabic clients, English clients. I’d say my clients are about 50%. 50% live in London and the other 50 are from the rest of the world. Obviously with Arabic ladies they like their arms covered so I add the sleeves, so it gives everyone the chance to wear the designs, which is why maybe they come here.

Do you show at fashion week?

We did presentations in Paris and New York last season… next season we are going to do New York.

Where did you get inspiration for everything in this store?

Everywhere. The collections have always been different to the last collection, every collection you can see the signature. If you look through, I do things very structured, classic, feminine, girly, ruffles. It’s very feminine and romantic.

Many items are custom-made – where are they manufactured and are they of a limited quantity?

They are made in Italy. My stores carry one-off pieces and there are very limited quantities because if I go to a party I don’t want to see another girl wearing the same dress.

So lets talk about the shoes that Lady Gaga wore…

These (pictured) are versions of the ones Lady Gaga wore, she wore the boot version, and they were made in Italy. They’re very comfortable, they don’t look comfy but they actually are. Obviously for the days you run around town you wouldn’t wear these but for a party, these are fine. These are £455, and the ones Lady Gaga bought were £750. She drove past our Knightsbridge store the other night and told her PR that she wanted them.

What other famous women have you dressed?

In the past we’ve had Rihanna, she wore an oversized cardigan, then we had Victoria Beckham, who wore a dress just before she got pregnant, and we had Princess Beatrice who wore my dress the day before Prince William’s wedding. It looks so much better on, obviously. She’s been a good customer for many years, she wears some of my stuff for Ascot.

The other day we heard Victoria Beckham saying that she’d only design something that she’d wear herself – is that your sentiment?

Mostly. I think it makes it more personal. I think there’s something for everyone but I like everything that I design.

Are you branching out into anything else?

I am doing a book, and I am working on a lingerie brand under the same name. We are aiming to launch in February, and if not, the second line will be out in July. We do a silk pyjama set – Japanese kimono style – and we’ve done all the sketches already. It’s always nice to wear something pretty underneath because if you have a lovely dress on it definitely makes a difference. We’ve used some really amazing silks and lots of bold colours like you see in the store. We try to make them match the dresses.

Click through our gallery below for highlights from Lungta de Fancy…

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