My friend Cameron made this short film with the bodacious Josephine de la Baume for Lily Parker and Ben Grimes’ label LP.BG.

I went to see John Waters and his vaudeville act This Filthy World at the Opera House the other night. He was talking nineteen to the dozen - firing on all cylinders. He blasted just about every social, sexual, gender stereotype and taboo out of the [excuse the pun] water. The man is dynamite. He told the story of how he and Divine used to cut school and go to a burlesque club - a time when burlesque in Baltimore was in its last throes. They used to go and see an overweight stripper. “She came out naked. She’d stand there and say, what the f**k are you looking at? We worshipped her.” Waters said if he had his own burlesque act, he’d do just that. Go out there “naked and alone with no makeup - like Tilda Swinton at the Oscars,” just to make people uncomfortable.

He was heading straight from Sydney to LA to hit up the Oscar parties and have lunch dates with Patti Hearst and Ricki Lake.

I like this old picture of Waters - look at that head of hair… who knew?! And I had the best time chatting with him for this issue of RUSSH… go check it out.

MAJOR man crush

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Calvin Klein’s casting… so perfect for the times.

Stella! Kristen! Iselin! Kirsty! And RUSSH girls Jacquelyn Jablonski and Julia Nobis.

Breathing life into Francisco’s minimalism.

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Kiki D Rockin’ Rodarte leather backstage at their AW10 show

Oh Marc…

Doing subdued cool and RULING at it

Marc Jacobs AW10 via style.com

This is Susan T. Miller and ‘Little Mom’ - the greatest Astrological mother-daughter duo in the world! We are so happy our friend (and Susan’s daughter) Chrissie Miller of Sophomore introduced us.

We love Susan, her passion for her work, her belief in following your own path and her spot-on astrology forecasts. If you have not picked up the current issue of RUSSH, you’ve got to check out Susan’s 12-page in-depth forecast by star sign for the year ahead.

And click onto astrologyzone.net right now for your February forecast. Her motto? “Never make a decision out of fear, because it will be the wrong decision. Life is made to live courageously.”

Oh and Susan’s other daughter Diana puts together this GEM of a music blog - www.ilistentoeverything.com.

The Millers - talk about a dynasty of kick-ass women!

“Be careful, Donald”

Nice to see Olivier Zahm looking out for the safety of his subjects.

Watching this video gives me vertigo.

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Dear Julianne Moore,

You are one hot mamacita in the new Bvlgari campaign.

If you don’t know this band already… get to know them!

They are DAPPLED CITIES and they are easily one of the best bands coming out from down under right now.

They will make you laugh, they will make you dance and they even manage to turn a Joy Division cover into a camp-inflected theatrical performance - YES that’s a good thing!

Here they are rocking out at the Laneway Festival in matching gold lamé unitards like it’s no big deal… American Apparel should give them a call.

Their new album Zounds is out now. www.dappledcities.com

Gotta love Chloe bartering with Courtney for a bit of early Imitation!

“I had a dream the other night that a guy was sentenced to death for attempting to commit suicide. And in my dream the guy was me and I was standing at the back of the court room screaming ‘nooooooooooo… noooooooooo’. - Daniel Johnston. Laneway Festival. Sydney. January 31st 2010.