• A first look at the spring 2010 Dolce & Gabbana ad campaign with Madonna (doing the dishes) shot by Steven Klein.
• Tom Munro photographed the upcoming fall 2010 Forum Tufi Duek ad campaign in New York. It will feature Lara Stone and Marlon Teixeira, with styling by Patti Wilson.
• Jessica Stam is in São Paulo shooting the new ad campaign for Brazilian label Santa Lolla with photographer Henrique Gendre.
• Sex sells.
• Looking back at the year in Style.
• Sherry Vine's parody of Bad Romance, and Lady Gaga's Christmas album.
• Watch Leona Lewis' video for I See You from the Avatar movie soundtrack.
• Beyoncé's updated concert dates for Brazil in February are: Florianópolis on the 4th, São Paulo on the 6th, Rio on the 7th, and Salvador on the 10th. My guess is she is definitely staying for Carnival after that.

Photographer Vavá Ribeiro shot the new summer ad campaign for Brazilian label British Colony entirely in polaroids. The campaign features newcomers Zeiner and Marcelo Gallindo, and was photographed right at the beach in Rio. View more images here.

• Hello Germany! Here is a preview of the latest issue of EY! Magateen, photographed by Kira Bunse. 
• Not even Lady Gaga's bottle smashing performance saved the AMAs from being the tackiest awards show so far this year (and I'm not just saying that because of Carrie Underwood's outfit). I did not watch the show until the end because of the three hour time difference in Brazil, but I learned this morning that Jennifer Lopez was not the only performer who fell on stage. 
• Was Glambert's sex-charged performance supposed to be shocking? Watch it here, and read what my friend Arjan has to say about the show last night.
• Shakira outdanced everyone. Love her.
• JakAndJil's Tommy Ton goes backstage at the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
• Coco Rocha was in São Paulo over the weekend shooting the new ad campaign for Lanca Perfume, a brand which I honestly didn't even know until now.
• Jesus Luz spinned at Hiro on Saturday night.
• Preview the upcoming Dolce & Gabbana spring 2010 menswear ad campaign.
• New backstage shots of the 2010 Pirelli calendar photographed by Terry Richardson in Trancoso.
• Did you watch New Moon over the weekend? I guess pretty much everyone did considering it broke the single-day record with $72.7 million on Friday, and closed the weekend as the third largest film debut ever. I have to admit that I read all the Twilight books last January and they were fun, but not even Taylor Lautner's wet ripped abs and delts could compensate for Kristen Stewart's acting in the movie. Dakota Fanning's three minutes on screen were seriously the best part of the whole thing. I am now officially Team Jane.

• No more airbrushed Madonna. The new Louis Vuitton resort ad campaign features Isabeli Fontana shot in the Hamptons by Patrick Demarchelier.
• Martha Streck is the latest Brazilian model to shoot for Victoria's Secret.
• Ads, ads, and more ads: Caroline Trentini for H&M by Sonia Rykiel, Ana Bela for the Gap, and André Ziehe for Blanco.
• A dose of Mario Lopez to get you through the weekend.
• Models.com top 10 moments of spring 2010.
• Listen to Adam Lambert's debut single For Your Entertainment.
• Watch Britney's new video for 3.
• The 2nd Annual Brazilian Fashion Awards took place on Wednesday night, and it was such a joke that I felt embarassed to write an entire post about it. As expected, designers Gloria Coelho and Alexandre Herchcovitch took home the awards for Womenswear Designer and Menswear Designer of the Year, Raquel won Best Female Model, and Lenny got the award for Best Swimwear Collection. And while I am totally cool with that, all the other categories must have been either bought or voted by a panel high on crack. Juliana Jabour, a designer who's been in the business for at least six years, won Best New Designer, and left everyone perplexed as to why she was even running for that. Model Carmelita was the New Face of the Year, even though she is as much of a new face as Viviane Orth is, and Michael Camiloto won Best Male Model, a category in which the biggest Brazilian boys of the year such as Max Motta and Marlon Teixeira weren't even nominated. Stylist Flavia Lafer was awarded Best Fashion Blog, possibly for her extraordinary ability to take pictures from Jak & Jil's Blog and repost them with a comment in Portuguese. And for the most shocking moment of the evening, Vogue Brazil won Best Fashion Publication, which I find almost dangerous. I mean, giving an award to Vogue Brazil for the quality of their work is like petting a rottweiler in the head and giving it a treat right after it bites off the arm of a child or something. Just saying.

And here is the video to prove it.

Because if Carlos Freire's head was not supposed to be in the fall 2009 Armani Exchange ad campaign, they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of giving him a super cute (and much needed) haircut, or accessorizing him with sunglasses.

Related: Carlos Freire's Abs Make A Cameo In The New Armani Exchange Ads

Clip via Homotography.

I have said it before but I will say it again: Arthur Sales is my top choice for best new Brazilian model this year. I feel really lucky that I got to work with him back in August. Just wait until I can post some of his dance moves here. The kid is brilliant.

All pictures by Richard Phibbs. View more images and a making of video at Henry Cotton's.

Fyi, Arthur Sales is now represented by Major Model Management in New York.