It's been a while since anyone has asked 'where are they now?' about former America's Next Top Model contestants, but it's probably because it's too depressing to answer. You may see them perched on a banquette at Marquee or in the pages of New York Social Diary, but it's become evident that the only career prospering over on ANTM is Tyra Banks's. And yet, ANTM fans still have hope! Their personal messiah? Last season's Southern ginger Nicole Fox, who went blackface, won Cycle 13 and later beat the odds by landing a lucrative contract with Alexander McQueen. At least that was the proclamation heard around the internet, prompting the fashion house to get all "WTF are you smoking?!" and deny the fan-fueled rumors.

You know what looks really dope on a dude? A gold, sleeveless turtleneck. Especially when paired with really long hair and big gold bracelets. Or at least designer Rick Owens sure thinks so! His designs weren't the only wackadoo creations strutting down the runways in Milan and Paris this week-- a week dominated by death and apocalyptic imagery. Blood and references to global decay were widespread and remorseless. See for yourself as we round-up the craziest, most unsettling looks from the Milan and Paris.

Apparently Lady Gaga isn't the only one who got a pair of Alexander McQueen SS10 shoes fresh off the runway. Last night Daphne Guinness sported head-to-toe SS10 McQueen to an event in NYC honoring Nars' 15th anniversary and Francois Nars' according new book, proving that while the monstrously high shoes look impossible to walk in, a seasoned skyscraper heel wearer can in fact manage to stay upright in such contraptions for at least a handful of consecutive hours.

Woe! Beyoncé's music video for the remixed version of "Video Phone" -- featuring Lady Gaga -- has been indefinitely delayed. But today offers some solace. Lady Gaga, who's been having something of a banner year, has decided to placate us by offering up her sharp video for "Bad Romance." This is the first single to be lifted off her one-and-a-halfth record. The aesthetic is simple and deliciously gaudy. Imagine a spartan bathhouse. Imagine Anakin Skywalker stumbling into that spartan bathhouse and coming toe-to-toe with an android queen. Toss in some slick choreography, wild costume changes, and a middle 8 that finds Gaga babbling about "fashion" as she struts around in a pair of Alexander McQueen's infamous lobster claw heels. What you essentially have then is a supplement to the original Star Wars canon far more welcome than any of those unfortunate prequels. Watch "Bad Romance" after the break.

If three is a trend then live streaming ones fashion show is as a la mode as comfort clothing and sheerness for SS10. Burberry did it. And Alexander McQueen (who announced his embarkation into the digital world this season via twitter) followed suit. Now, Louis Vuitton is hopping aboard the bandwagon, proving SS10 fashion truly represents the democratization of fashion (as Norma Kamali aptly titled her presentation at Apple's Soho store during New York Fashion Week). The latter's fashion show, set to take place October 7th at 2:30pm (local time) in Paris and will be streamed live on the luxury fashion brand's facebook page.

Tiffany Gong and Christina Rodriguez are fashion freelancers and jewelry designers for their line, Triskaidekaphobia (which means fear of the number 13) by day and the Six Six Sick girls by night. After hosting a Tuesday night party at New York’s Happy Ending bar, the girls started a following full of fashion panache and eccentric party-goers. Their current gigs include heading up private events and weekly parties at the Tribeca Grand and Webster Hall, BEast . They'll be throwing a Chictopia fashion week event at BEast this evening, and will have a night at Butter starting Friday, September 25th.

Robert Pattinson and Megan Fox make sucking it sexy, Lady Gaga accessorized last night's VMA performance with it, and HBO makes it True: Blood is having its moment. While sporting a pair of plastic fangs is only cool in a middle school cafeteria, and stage blood should stay on stage (though it also makes unnecessary appearances in middle school cafeterias), fashion houses like Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta, and Dolce & Gabbana have made fashionable interpretations of all the pop culture gore, sending modern-day vamps down their fall runways. With variations of pale skin, dramatic eyes, and blood-red lips, the look is perfect for a little bloodletting after hours, and with a few tweaks, can also be wearable at your day job.

In seasons past, numerous designers have forgone traditional collection presentations in favor of short films or multimedia installations -- and the trend has only gained steam given the recession's recent squeezing of fashion houses' resources. So it's not exactly a shock that heavyweights like Alexander McQueen and Stefani Pilati of YSL are sitting out SS10 presentations (which just wrapped in Milan and kick off in Paris today) this season, and instead supplying films in place of shows. McQueen enlisted fashion photog David Sims to help him create a film about a tortured artist (in some frames clad solely in tightie whities), and, though it's obviously intended to disturb, the end result feels more like The Strangers than The Shining.

The Spot: Happy Ending (Lower East Side) - The dirty boys and girls of the east side flock to Tuesday's Six Six Sick party to get dressed up, boozed up, then dirty all over again in this classic massage parlour turned drunk tank.

Patron Saint of Style: Lady Gaga. You know how you look at her with both interest and disdain, but also mentally note her couture for a future Halloween reference? That's exactly the kind of costume you should be prepared to rock here, where fashion is about fun.

Perhaps once a decade, an unconventionally beautiful (read: not thin) artist exerts such an irresistible magnetism as to blow the deadbolts off of the fashion world and disrupt production of the beauty myth. In the early 1990s, the comely voluptuousness of celebrity makeup artist Sharon “Mama Makeup” Gault inspired designers to push her from backstage to the catwalk. The immortal look of club icon Leigh Bowery—with his form-malforming, anthropoid Jayne Mansfield-in-sequined-ski- mask garments—made such a deep impression on fashion that his unlikely influence is still occasionally seen in Missy Elliot videos, and on the runways of Gareth Pugh.