W magazine zones in on the intersection between fashion and music in a photo shoot that matches currently hot designers with the same from the pop music world. This one of Versace Donatell with MIA is by far the best. See Kanye with the Rodarte sisters, Esperanza Spalding with Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein and Janelle Monae with Karl Lagerfeld.

Celebrity nail stylist Naja Green shares recent images of a manicure she did for M.I.A., who got her nails did for an upcoming video, directed by Hype Williams. The featured polish is Minx Nails’ “Lusion,” which has a 3-D effect in the light.

How you like Sephora now, nail art girls?–Style

Racked has jokes about that ridiculously priced Balmain tee-shirt.–Racked

Meanwhile, will the Racked editors collapse in a sobbing heap if they’re not the first to pin down the location of Alex Wang’s first retail door?–Racked

If we didn’t include Paulina’s last name (Porizkova) in this post would you know who we were talking about? (And even now with her full government, do you still not know who she is??)–Modelina

Praying that this doesn’t turn into a Lauryn Hill part two story–Blogue via Gawker

M.I.A.’s media blitz in front of her record release continues. Nylon has her on its cover for its July/August issue, and as in other recent interviews with Complex and the New York Times, Google seems to be the biggest recipient of her rage this go round. Love her a lot, but the truth is she or someone is botching how she’s being repped right now and it’s going to take her more than a minute to clean up the messes she’s made in multitudinous aisles.

Scan above from TFS. Images from the (extremely mediocre) Nylon editorial shoot after the flip.

We highlighted M.I.A. on the coverage of Complex yesterday and mentioned that her marriage to a richie-rich combined with her incendiary politics was likely to draw heat, and sure enough, a recent New York Times profile goes in deep on M.I.A. and shines a very unflattering light on her dichotomous personality, making the backlash official with a capitol “O.”  To add gasoline to the fire, via CollegeFashion, we’ve learned that M.I.A. retaliated by tweeting the phone number of Lynn Hirschberg, who wrote the story! Fire!!

M.I.A. is on the cover of June Complex magazine, gearing up the press push for her upcoming album release. And judging from the accompanying interview, motherhood hasn’t mellowed her a drop. She’s still intensely political and all in on various and sundry conspiracy theories. I’ll say this though, she is going to be taking an endless amount of heat given her politics because of who she married, a guy who is deeply monied and has been that way since birth.

On this page, she’s looking her usual smoldering self, in a design by Henrik Vibskov. Lots more images after the flip, some of which are compelling if only because she’s styled in a decidedly different way than the rebel bohemian look we’re used to seeing her sport.

Via DontTripYet.

Rihanna sporting M.O.B. cap (image via NecoleBitchie)

Should’ve guessed J-Brand didn’t come up with the idea for Houlihan cargos on its own.–NYTimes

You can take the Tamil out of of the land of tigers but you can’t take the tiger out of the Tamil–NYMagazine

Rihanna join ranks with the M.O.B. crew.–Necole Bitchie

Lara Stone supposedly getting attached to ball and chain this weekend.–Style

World freaking out over eight-year-olds dancing to “Single Ladies” in black-lace-trimmed red bikinis.” VidiVodo

We already posted some of our favorites from the MET, but I’m posting up this image featuring Alexander Wang in lieu of my giant screw-up post (since deleted), whereby I got all excited over an upcoming Alex X Gap collabo, which as a reader kindly informed me was from last year! Ugh. And I call myself a Wang groupie—shame on me!

We’ve been fans of  MIA in these parts way before she hit it big  and became  in her own way a fashion icon. Compelled by the comment of one of our readers, we’re featuring her latest video” Born Free”. Definitely not a dance tune. War and violence are serious occurences that for many of us are distant far away occurences but for others your truly included  are more than ever close to home.The reality of fashion trends illustrate that we  all have different views and opinions and reaction on pretty much every thing . These images I’m sure were meant to provoke. Knowing MIA that is probably the intent…

Created exclusively for opening ceremony, the African Jacket from MIA’s  apparel collection is probably the best piece so far. Available at OC. Detailed images on the next page.