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Tuck it in and tuck it high, my friends! Here’s hoping you bought dear old Dad something similarly stylish for Father’s Day.

Rising prices, job cuts, times are tough for lovers of fashion and don’t these designers know it. And with the forecast for more doom and gloom ahead, looks like we’ll be in rags and straitjacket straps for some time longer!

I don’t quite know what’s going on here but it appears to be all in the name of staying young and beautiful so I heartily endorse it.  Think of it as pumping life into Sleeping Beauty without having to wait for Prince Charming (or Viktor Frankenstein) to come to the rescue.

One minute it’s a disturbing trend creeping into Japanese underwear, the next it’s the highlight of the MTV Movie Awards. Is this globalisation or what?

If you thought last week’s Photovoltaic-powered Bra was downright bizarre, then you might want to recalibrate your weirdness-tolerance levels for this week’s advances in Japanese lingerie.  While I confess to retaining a large and diversified collection of plush childhood friends, I must say that they have never doubled as foundation garments. Isn’t it a bit wrong to exploit their padding powers in order to improve your dating odds?

Seriously, it’s enough to put a frown on your crotch.

Something big must be brewing at this basketball game.  What is Sean “Diddy” Combs kicking up an almighty fuss about?
(a) The Dalai Lama is here! Let’s be nice to him lest Sharon Stone say something stupid again!
(b) Avert your eyes everyone, it’s another Sex and the City spoiler!
(c) Hey, Eva Longoria! Love your hair, hate your movies!
(d) Woohoo! Bill Cosby’s sweaters are up for auction! Let me at them!

Hello there, ladies - got something to hide, like a hickey, vampire bite or Adam’s apple? Day or night, it’s a look that will protect your neck from prying eyes and other harsh elements!

Charge those babies up, Triumph’s Photovoltaic-Powered Bra is here! According to the caption:

The camisole bra, which the company calls it as “earth and human friendly”, features a solar panel which can display messages on the removable small electric board when the cell generates electricity. The bra is also equipped with pads designed to hold beverages so that the usage of cans and plastic bottles can be reduced, the company said.

Bearing in mind that it’s actually underwear,  I’m kind of excited about the ability to cleverly conceal unidentified liquids and communication devices beneath my everyday clothes.  Don’t you love it when lingerie and technology conspire to make spy movies the stuff of reality?

Sure, it’s tempting to follow Sarah Jessica Parker’s horticultural ways but you better stop and think about what you’re getting yourself into.  Can you handle the undergrowth? If your pruning skills aren’t up to scratch, it could take days to hack yourself out of there.

Is Buzz Aldrin the guy who punched that journalist for saying the moon landing was a hoax? I kinda think it was. That’s a lot of anger for a dude whose name is an onomatopoeia, but I guess that’s what you get for going through life being Neil Armstrong’s superterrestrial wingman. I get it. I also like his Grandpa Munster suit.

Anyway, because I don’t want to be the first blogger to get smacked up by a guy with a moon crater named after him, I will merely post this picture of Buzz Aldrin and his lovely, totally appropriately dressed wife Lois who is not in ANY WAY terrifying me with the evil grin and the illusion netting and the shadow that PLEASE GOD is just the draping of fabric on her thigh.

Which of the above appeals to your innate sense of style more? From this simple test alone, we can determine whether you forge new paths in fashion trends or are content to be one of the herd!

Manolo says, certainly not Isabella Rossellini.

Wired: Were you concerned that dressing up in a bee costume might affect your image as a high-style glamour icon?

Isabella Rossellini: I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it’s glamorous, sometimes it’s not.