• Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]

• Halle is the first black woman to make the cover of Vogue's September issue since 1989. "What that means for a woman of color and what that means in the fashion world, what that means to pop culture," she says:

• Cristiano Ronaldo lends his abs to an Armani campaign. Excellent timing. [TLF]
• So. Gisele Bündchen just after she had a baby looks just like Gisele Bündchen when she'd never had a baby. [Vogue UK]

• Lady Gaga wore a custom Prada dress on her Monster Ball tour stop in Dublin.
• And Fergie wore a tiny corset dress by the Blonds, whose fashion week show we so much enjoyed. [JustJared]

• Britney Spears is returning as the face of Candie's, minus the pink spray-painted haybales. [People]
• Julia Roberts is in Paris for a week, shooting advertising for her previously-announced Lancôme contract. The endorsement deal is worth a reported $20 million. [Radaronline]

• Stella McCartney's collection for GapKids is pretty damn adorable. [KanyeUniverseCity]

Burberry designer Christopher Bailey — a working-class Yorkshire lad — is profiled at length by the New Yorker's Lauren Collins. Bailey is notable not only for overseeing a house that was until recently considered moribund, but for being unusually nice.

• Saks will open a shoe department in its flagship NY store that's so big, it has been given its own zipcode. Somewhere, the ghost of Carrie Bradshaw squeals and says something painfully cutesy. [WWD, sub req'd]]
  
• Fashion designer Jill Stuart taps actress Lindsay Lohan to star in her fall ad campaign since she's so "sexy…