Check Out The Dress Made From 3,000 Cow Nipples

Lady Gaga's meat dress, eat your heart out, there's a new 'most controversial dress around. Check out the dress made from 3,000 cow nipples…it was made by British designer Rachel Freire and made its runway debut at London Fashion Week. The dress, along with the rest of the 'Nippleocalypse' Spring/Summer 2012 collection, is now on its merry way to France to strut down the Paris Fashion Week catwalk…what do you reckon the Parisians will make of it?

Did L'Oreal Lighten Freida Pinto's Skin?

Another controversy today, again concerning that pesky Photoshop. It seems to do a lot more harm than it does good these days, does anyone else agree? Freida Pinto is arguably one of the most beautiful, natural young actresses around these days, so why her face requires anything more than a quick once over with the airbrush is beyond us.

Although it's obvious that her skin is a lot lighter than we know it to be from films and red carpet appearances, it is possible that it could be a genuine trick of the light and the post-prod editing just involved the usual round of over-airbrushing. Who knows; we don't think L'Oreal will admit to actively, purposely making Freida's skin lighter so we guess we'll just have to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Is Britney's Criminal Video Too Reminiscent of the Recent Riots?

You may be aware by now that the one and only Miss Britney Spears is on England soil to shoot the music video to her next single, Criminal. However, Britters has been seen wandering the streets of London (well, her music video set) with a prop gun, which Hackney council say is insensitive due to the riots that affected England a few months ago.

Ian Rathbone of Hackney council said, "I think she should apologise and make a sizeable donation to a Hackney charity that deals with young people... for the rudeness and damage she's done to this community."

As disgraceful as we think the riots were, we don't really think a blonde, American pop star had anything to do with them and we're pretty sure the people of London and all those who watch her music video will feel the same way as the council. Luckily, Britney's 'people' weren't scared off and the filming of the video was resumed. There's nothing like a bit of controversy surrounding a music video…now we're anticipating its debut more than ever.

Emily Blunt Announced As New Face Of YSL Opium

Congrats to the gorgeous Emily Blunt, as she's just been named the brand new face of Yves Saint Laurent's Opium fragrance. We always get a nice, warm fuzzy feeling of pride when a fellow Brit is snapped up for a huge project.

We do however, know that posing for YSL's Opium hardly ever comes without its fair share of controversy. Remember the infamous Sophie Dahl advert way back in 2000 where the the naked image of her was branded too provocative? And more recently, the Melanie Thierry commercial which got accused of glamourising and promoting the use of ecstasy?

According to WWD, Emily Blunt has already shot the campaigns which were photographed by Romain Gavras and Patrick Demarchelier and apparently she wasn't the only one in the pictures, oh no. A leopard allegedly stars in some of the shots with her which already has us very curious indeed. We should catch a first glimpse of them soon as they're set to land in October.

Karlie Kloss's Naked Allure Shoot Makes People Uncomfortable

More editorial controversy now, (it's been a few days so it's about time!) this time courtesy of Karlie Kloss - good, clean, wholesome teenager Karlie Kloss. She hasn't done anything scandalous per se, but her Allure editorial pictures shot by Mario Testino are a bit too racy for some people's liking.

Top fashion site 'Fashionising' had this to say: "there’s no allure to it and, frankly, it’s not that much better than what you’d expect to find in a whole range of low-brow men’s titles…" 

Karlie's 'implied nudity' (i.e. being naked but without showing it) has made many people uncomfortable, but I personally don't think it's any cruder than many of those Parisian Vogue editorials where models are near enough completely starkers. The black and white shot in particular is shot beautifully and Karlie is absolutely breathtaking. What do you think? 

Name your own price Gap clothes

If you thought some garments were overpriced and not what you would want to pay for them, perhaps you should do your shopping at the Gap, or rather, the website dedicated to bringing you bargain Gap clothes. Sort of. The Gapmyprice website has selected 15 items which it calls 'haggle-worthy' and enables customers to choose their own price for them. Customers can submit their suggested price, and it will either be approved or denied. If a customer is denied three times, a final price is presented to them and they have a choice to pretty much take it or leave it. You are then given a voucher code to download and can redeem it in stores (unfortunately you can't do it online), so everyone wins. 

You get something at a fraction of the price, and their stores get more customers. Not sure what to make of this type of shopping; it's certainly a bold and interesting move, but begs the question: just how broke IS the Gap?!

Andrej Pejic's Dossier cover censored

The famous androgynous Andrej Pejic will find that the issue of Dossier which he so graciously covers will be censored. Dossier have been forced to provide black poly bags to put the magazine in, for it to be sold in Borders and Barnes and Noble. It's not certain whether or not they knew he was a male, but even when informed, they still didn't change their mind on ordering the censorship to take place. Poor Andrej Pejic - for what it's worth, we love you and urge you to keep doing what you're doing and don't let anyone get you down. If we had half the bone structure and looked half as graceful as he does on this cover, we'd be very happy bunnies indeed.

Miu Miu's ad under fire

Another day, another controversy in the fashion world. If it isn't one fashion house suing another, or yet another photoshopping scandal (ahem, Victoria's Secret), then it's ad campaigns being complained about for one reason or another. 

American Apparel has had its fair share of scandal surrounding its ad campaigns, but they have steered clear of this so-called scandal. Miu Miu has come under fire for the above campaign, as many people believe the model in the advert (23-year-old Kasia Struss) is 'too thin' and as a result, the advert should be banned as it promotes others (presumably impressionable young people) to be 'irresponsible.'

These accusations even seem ludicrous to the Advertising Standards Authority, which says a lot as they are usually quick to get on the banning bandwagon so to speak, as they have banned Diesel's Be Stupid Campaign and Beyonce's steamy Heat commercial. 

The ASA revealed in a statement that they did not deem the advert to be any more 'irresponsible' with the representation of skinny models than any other advert, and that they believed the lighting, make-up, outfit and photoshop were all factors contributing to Struss appearing as thin as she did. 

Thoughts?