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The 2009 CFDA Awards honoring the best in fashion was a night of celebration for the top designers, models, stylists and stars. The glittering glam fest was replete with a bevy of beauties embracing the red carpet as their stylish domain. Let the roll call begin… Model Coco Rocha stunned in a red assymetrical Michael Kors dress. Blake Lively oozed sexiness in an electric pink Michael Kors strapless dress and nude pumps.

The beautiful, ultra-leggy, and mane-of-gold American actress Angela Lindvall in a pair of uber-heeled, oh-God-they’re-just-so-damn-sexy Jimmy Choos. What woman or man could resist such a pleasing proposition? Buy, buy, buy.

EVERYWHERE KISS ME…and why not? When it comes to effervescent Polish model, Malgosia Bela, there would be many volunteers heeding the clarion call of the shoot’s title in April’s i-D magazine. Images at the original site are NSFW, but enjoyable any ways. )))

The most ubiquitous woman in fashion — she’s everywhere, everywhere these days — Lara Stone imitates a young Brigitte Bardot for Jean Paul Gaultier’s S/S 09 ad campaign.

A little of this, a little of that, a whole lot of wonderful best describes Eva Herzigova’s spread for Numero 100, as she channels the modern burlesque of Dita Von Teese melded with a Marilyn Monroesqe come hither naughty girl appeal, that culminates in an encounter with a giant white bunnyman. You don’t see that every day!

So, the invasion of the Supermodels continues at a hot and torrid pace for the upcoming spring campaigns. Lovely Stephanie Seymour gracefully lends herself to the Valentino S/S 09 ad campaign and elegantly captures the brand’s style and flair.

Salma Hayek was so taken aback by the plight of an African woman in Sierra Leone who was unable to breastfeed her child that the star breastfed the newborn herself. The 42-year-old actress, who was nursing her own daughter Valentina at the time, offered to help when the baby's mother stopped producing milk.

We always declare our endless love for H&M, but there is no point to our effusive worship, unless we show you its S/S ’09 ad campaign, featuring the flirty and seductive Coco Rocha.

Those of you, who love Lanvin, surely will like the house’s S/S ’09 ad campaign. It was shot by our favorite fashion photographer Steven Meisel and features model Iselin Steiro in breathtaking Lanvin dresses. Ahhh tres chic, our fashion appetite peaked, by Lanvin’s glamorous visual epoch and myriad usage of sensual stylings.

Claudia Schiffer may be out at Chanel, but she’s quite in for the Salvatore Ferragamo S/S 09 ad campaign. Schiffer projects an elegant look in the ad, rejuvenating the super in model, and establishing a broad-based sophisticated appeal of a glamorous woman in fab clothes…

Ahhh, one can rhapsodize about the glamorous nature of Israeli women forever. If only they didn't end up being Jewish mothers. Ohhhh, I'm just kidding. In terms of beauty, what separates Israeli women from their lovely Arab and Persian counterparts, true beauties in their own right? What has elevated the women of Israel above their Mideast cousins, allowing them to reach the highest echelons of Earthly Loveliness? The answer is an Inverse Diaspora. The reverse migration of Jews from around the world back to Israel, their homeland for 3000 years. While the homogenized nature of Arab and Persian society includes...

Muslim women of the Middle East and beyond are shielded, clothed, and occulted away through a series of archaic dress rituals, collectively known as the Hijab, that subjugates and entraps them to an ossified code of conduct, which long ago, should have been abandoned. The Abbaya, Burqa, and Niqab, function as baggy drapes of cloth, which render Muslim women formless, invisible to her surroundings, a non-entity outside the domestic sphere, and should be viewed as a transgression against God's wishes...I present to you, the Beautiful and Vivacious Ladies of Iran, unhijabbed and free...

The Middle East is filled with ugliness. Wars rage, Dictators dictate, Terrorists terrorize. Human rights are few and far between. So worrisome and wearisome are the issues eminating from the region, we have to take a break every now and then and look for beauty in that part of the world. And Great Beauty there is. The Women in the Middle East are Beautiful. To see the beautiful women from Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kurdistan, Jordan, Morocco, UAE, Turkey...

At a fashion show of Iraqi fashion designer Hana Sadaka(?), held in Amman, Jordan, models feature colorful dresses and accessories.