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When Heidi Klum arrived at Elton’s John’s Oscars party in that eye-popping plunging gold gown we thought that maybe her, um, assets accidentally busted open a seam (or five) on the way to the bash.

Well, it turns out that the Project Runway host, 39, actually had the Julien Macdonald dress altered to be less revealing. Yes, you read that right.

“You should have seen it before!” she told PEOPLE at a launch party for her spring New Balance pieces. ”I did actually make it very modest; it was all the way down to my belly button.”

Blame it on the supermodel’s killer cleavage, which she’s understandably proud of.

“To me it wasn’t even that risky,” Klum added. “Those are my boobs, you know? If they were like all the way down to my knees I would be like, ‘Okay, maybe that’s the wrong dress,’ but I felt like, Why not?”
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On Monday, we were totally bewildered by Jessica Chastain‘s sheer-thigh trousers. Tuesday we tried to make sense of Justin Bieber‘s drop-crotch pants fixation.

Now we’re facing yet another pants crisis of epic proportions: Rihanna‘s dual-zip, dual-wash pair of jeans.

Perfect for the gal who feels that a single pair of jeans is just too flattering, or for one who likes the look of pants hanging off her butt while still giving a “mom jeans” vibe, these trousers are actually an original Rihanna design, part of her critically-lambasted collection for River Island.

And what we find even more distressing than the pants themselves is that the $150 pair has already sold out at River Island’s website — meaning that we’re doomed to see girls who aren’t Rihanna trying to pull this look off.

But since three’s a trend, maybe we’re the crazy ones, and these unusual pants are here to stay.

Tell us: What do you think of Rihanna’s latest look? Are you going to try wacky pants this spring?

–Alex Apatoff

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First a fragrance, now a clothing line? Adam Levine is quickly becoming quite the celebrity mogul, whether he likes it or not. The Maroon 5 frontman has partnered with Kmart and ShopYourWay.com to design a men’s and women’s apparel collection called 222 by Adam Levine, launching this fall.

But The Voice judge swears his line isn’t like other celebrity-endorsed brands. For starters, fans are involved in the design process: That’s right. You can submit your ideas and Levine might integrate them into the pieces.

We sat down with Levine to discuss his latest venture, his tattoos and his effortlessly cool style:

What convinced you to finally do a clothing line?
It was cool that they really promoted creative control. I like to be involved with process rather than just phoning it in. I want to make sure that every stitch is something that I approve of. That’s kind of been a theme amongst all of these enterprises, it’s not just being a name or face behind it, but actually putting the work into it to make it really good and what I love.
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Of all the adjectives we expected to hear about Rihanna‘s first-ever fashion line (for U.K. chain River Island) — “’90s-inspired” or “skin-baring” among them — we have to admit “horror show” took us by surprise. But fashion critics called it just that, savaging her debut collection for being uninspired, underwhelming and just plain unattractive.

The show, held in an abandoned central London post office, started an hour late and ran for nine minutes — including a brief appearance by the star. It wasn’t difficult to see why the show wasn’t critically beloved, but there’s no denying Rihanna’s influence was clearly visible, from the belly chains to the see-through mesh tops to the high-slit skirts. In fact, a large part of the problem may be that the only person who can pull these clothes off is Rihanna herself.

And while some onlookers (like The Daily Beast’s Tom Sykes) found the collection “porny” and “hideous,” other acknowledge that the designs are likely to sell, no matter how bad: “She’s Rihanna, after all,” shrugged New York Magazine‘s Alex Rees. If you want to judge for yourself, River Island’s Facebook page is replaying the show on loop.

Tell us: What do you think of Rihanna’s debut clothing line? Would you buy any of the pieces?

–Alex Apatoff

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