Vincent Leroux

There is nothing sweeter than an interesting room seen through the eyes of a fantastic photographer. Ok, perhaps world peace, equal rights, and true love might give a pretty picture a run for its money -- but not much else. So it is with much whiz bang shazam that I present the work of Vincent Leroux, whose photographs strike a perfect balance between edgy and sophisticated, all seen through the glory of natural and ambient light. Overdone photography is the devil's work. Thanks the lords of the internets for showering us with some good stuff.

Later, y'alluns. Gotta go run errands before it gets face meltingly hot.

Is That Your Pupa, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Jean Paul Gaultier is the latest in a succession of fashion industry giants to design a room for Elle Decoration Suite, and the results are predictably offbeat. Because you can't exactly expect a man obsessed with assorted fetish wear and tasseled conical boobies to suddenly morph into a winsome Nick Olsen type, now can you?

Employing various motifs found within his fashion collections, Gaultier's apartment reads like a whimsical S&M club.

There's something larval about this whole setup, but I find it to be credible as a concept room. This, however, frightens me:

Sorry, but dolls are always going to elicit a WTF?! response from most people.

Oh, and there's also an indoor jungle. As if you could have a fashionable apartment without one!

These days it seems that every Tom, Dick, and Zac, is jumping from fashion to interior design -- often with retinal scorching results. If the previous two iterations of Elle Decor Suite by Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela hadn't been so worthwhile, I might altogether question the wisdom of these endeavors.

What do you dudes think? Love or hate Gaultier's take on apartment dressing? He is kind of cute in those stripes...