The woman who threw the prosthetic leg heard ‘round the world has been fired from Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York City. Aviva Drescher, we barely knew ye.

[NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 13: Helena Christensen attends the Stella McCartney Autumn 2014 presentation at Harold Pratt House & Peterson Hall on January 13, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)]

Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Eva Herzigova, Cindy Crawford, and Yasmin Le Bon star in — and actually play the band — in the video for Duran Duran's new song, "Girl Panic!" The song is catchy, but the clip clocks in at nearly ten minutes thanks to long, interstitial scenes where Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon,…

Victoria Beckham, who reportedly has a slipped disc, is under doctor's orders not to wear her customary high heels until her back gets better. That's what Posh would be punished with if she were an uppity mortal in a Greek myth who got on the wrong side of Aphrodite. [Daily Mail]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that British red carpets are the best red carpets. And for sheer verve, style, eccentricity and bold failures, it was hard to beat last night's Elle style awards.

[New York, June 23. Image via INF]

I'd always associated the word "ball" with, y'know, gowns. But what do I know? At the 2010 Tribeca Ball, held at the NY Academy of Art, Parker Posey and Jennifer Connolly and everybody else looked, instead, ready for rooftop cocktails.

[Milan, April 1. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]