A safe place for extravagant taste, the annual Costume Institute Gala is the ultimate platform for fashion's finest to bring their sartorial A-game. Considering last night's Met Gala was a tribute to Alexander McQueen, we were surprised to see only a handful of guests wearing his famously outré designs. In fact, many attendees played it safe this year, which only made the risk-takers shine even more on the red carpet. One guest who didn't skimp (does she ever?) was Anna Dello Russo, who wowed in a tuxedo by Sarah Burton topped off with a glitter egg fascinator. See a few other gala surprises after the jump.

● Farrow took the stand at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor to say that Naomi Campbell told her about the "blood diamonds," contradicting the super model's earlier testimony. Farrow, watch your back. [Daily Beast] ● Taylor Swift may star alongside Taylor Lautner in a sequel to Valentine's Day called New Year's Eve. We're going to have to get more creative with the titles, here, because we're literally running out of holidays. [E! Online] ● You Don't Need a Man to Have a Child: The Jennifer Aniston Story. (Sad face.) [PopEater]

Supermodel and not-particularly-friendly person Naomi Campbell finally did a good thing for humanity on Thursday, testifying at Charles Taylor's war crimes trial at the Hague that she did indeed receive a bag of diamonds from the former Liberian president following a dinner with Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1997. Not surprisingly, her testimony—which contradicted earlier statements she made on the subject—was filled with hedging, caveats, and pleas of ignorance that suggested she didn't know what the diamonds were at first, nor whom they came from. But they form an important piece of evidence against Taylor, seemingly implicating him in the trade of blood diamonds that, prosecutors allege, he used to fund fighters in the Sierre Leone Civil War. This is good news for those looking for some measure of justice in the awful decade-long conflict that involved unspeakable atrocities, but it also provides an important lesson to men everywhere as the holiday gift-giving season approaches: When a woman says she wants diamonds, she means cut, polished, mounted diamond jewelry, not a sack of "very small, dirty-looking stones," like Campbell said she received. Charles Taylor might know how to commit war crimes, but he knows nothing about women.

● Naomi Campbell literally refuses to walk up stairs, according to a lawsuit filed by a former agent. But, if you think about it, Naomi sort of has a point—why should she and her assistants both waste their energy? [Page Six] ● Baby Gaga is what those pessimistic Mayans were warning us about. [BuzzFeed] ● No one could take their eyes off Christina Aguilera's private parts during her performance at the MTV Movie Awards...because they were flashing with LED lights. [HuffPo]

● In what she calls "a great story for the grandchildren," Courtney Love describes getting pinned down by a '90s Kate Moss for some sexy fun. And it wasn't the drugs, she insists. [HuffPo] ● James Franco will star in the Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes, either squandering of all his artistic goodwill or transforming himself into Charlton Heston. Lose-lose? [Vulture] ● Naomi Campbell may be a key witness at a war crimes trial, further inflating her sense of self-worth. [CNN]

In cold-hearted supermodel news today, Naomi Campbell has refused to go out of her way for someone else's benefit. This would normally not come as a surprise, but the "someone else" in this case is victims of war crimes who've had their hands chopped off, so Naomi comes off looking a bit rude. In what sounds like something right out of a Zoolander sequel, the Hague itself has asked Campbell to testify in the war crimes trial of Liberian scary guy Charles Taylor about a diamond he gave her in 1997. According to Page Six, "the excitable supermodel and the genocidal warlord" (reality TV show alert!) were hanging out at Nelson Mandela's house with their scrappy sidekick Mia Farrow, just giving each other makeovers and shooting the shit, when he gifted her with a giant blood diamond as a token of gratitude for her exhaustive work in the field of sexiness.

● Michael Jackson's children were playing with a taser. In some bizarre twist on Cain and Abel, Jermaine's kids wanted to stun Blanket. [TMZ] ● A woman claiming to be Diddy's wife was arrested after trying twice to get into a house she thought was his. Little did she know he's not married and probably lives on a yacht. [AP] ● Kanye West on creativity, in all caps, naturally. [Kanye West]

Some things to love in London. 1. NAOMI. I mean, there must be formaldehyde coursing through those veins or is it possible to be eternally flawless? Clearly, it's possible.

● Megan Fox, like Lindsay Lohan, has a Marilyn Monroe obsession (see Fox’s Marilyn tat) and fears that she will meet the same tragic end, adding she has “’bouts of schizophrenia.” [Yahoo] ● There’s at least one reason to tune into this year’s MTV Video Music Awards: the Twilight gods will bless the ceremony with an exclusive New Moon trailer. [MTV] ● Naomi Campbell is looking to start a catfight with PETA. Fifteen years ago the model posed for PETA’s “I’d rather go naked” campaign, but now Campbell is back to hawking fur coats for designer Dennis Basso. [AdFreak]

●That leaked footage of Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart about to engage in a threesome is not a sex tape says their rep Marty Singer, it’s a ‘naked tape’ with ‘at most three people…wanting to have sex!’ [TMZ] ●The actor who starred in an U.K swine flu PSA has been diagnosed with swine flu, oh the irony abounds. [THRFeed] ●David Cook has his sights on an acting career. Let’s hope it turns out more Jennifer Hudson than From Justin to Kelly. [E!]