-Julia Roberts has returned to work with Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani to raise money for the fight against AIDS in Africa, designing a T-shirt to be sold under the “Red” label.

-The Procter & Gamble Co. is linking laundry to fashion in what’s billed as the biggest product launch yet for its venerable Tide brand. This is being done with a tidy $60 million dollar budget.

-Madonna has chosen French Haute Couture house Givenchy to design clothing for her new “Sticky and Sweet” world tour which starts in Britain this month, the fashion firm said on Tuesday.  Great boost and good tie-in.

-U.S.-based modeling agency Wilhelmina is planning an initial public stock offering (IPO) this year, according to a German daily. More details should be available shortly.

I love this pair of twins in cut-off shorts!!

Here is a little heat for the ladies and the gay guys, some smok’in hot underwear models taking a break.

Here is an intersting fashion statement from some crook.  Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks were constructed from women’s thong underwear.

A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada, Colorado, shows two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in the May 16 robbery.

One man wore a green thong and the other wore blue.  Each thong barely covered the man’s nose, mouth and chin and left the rest of his face exposed. One also wore a pink backpack in which he stuffed the stolen items.

The suspects were described as being in their 20s. One had a left arm tattoo. Rumor has it the one with the green thong will go to jail for double the time because it clashed with his brown jacket.

Sometimes you need to check-out a little eye-candy - here are a couple of total hotties:

This girl is very pretty and she has some very sexy curves.  Gratz to all women out there with real bodies!!

I guess there really is a model for every occasion, here are some when you need someone who is beauty challenged.

Find more great ugly models here.

Brazilian Gisele Bundchen is the world’s mega top supermodel with estimated earnings of $35 million during the past year, according to new ranking released on Wednesday. She more than doubled the estimated $14 million earned by Heidi Klum, who came in at No. 2 on the list by Forbes.com, followed by Kate Moss with $7.5 million, Adriana Lima with $7 million and Doutzen Kroes with $6 million.  That’s a lot of dough, but she deserves it!

Forbes.com said that although Bundchen finished her lucrative Victoria’s Secret contract last year, she continues to juggle 20 other modeling jobs. The web site said that while Klum is still a Victoria’s Secret model, the mother of three is “more of a media and retail mogul” these days with her U.S. “Project Runway” and “Germany’s Next Top Model” hosting duties and lines of jewelry, jeans and skincare.

Is it my imagination or have men’s designer t-shirts come a long, long way in the past few years. I remember a time when a ‘t-shirt’ was for working out or hang’in around the house on a Sunday afternoon. Now I see all kinds of cool designer t’s that I could easily wear out to the clubs on a Saturday night. Ya, baby….long live the t-shirt because it not only shows off all my hard work at the gym but they are comfortable as heck.

Brain freeze, it is my girlfriends birthday next week and I was smart enough to ask her what she wanted and I got the reply - Bench, time to crack out the plastic and do a little shopping online. Laterz!

I am finally able to admit it, my style sense and love of fashion is mostly related to casual styling. Sure I enjoy watching the hotties do the catwalk in outrageously cool looking fashion but when it comes time for me to hang-out with my friends I enjoy the laid-back comfort and look of casual clothing. I will take Henleys or G star anytime over a Giorgio Armani Suit or a Calvin Klein Tux.

So whisper behind my back and make faces if you will but when I want to look my best I need to feel comfortable. Catch you at the clubs!