For the girls who hung on every word of the September Issue (2009),  who couldn’t get enough of Isaac Mizrahi’s Issac-isms in Unzipped (1995) and for model Sara Ziff’s Picture Me (2009) offered a much-welcomed peep into the big baller but less-than-kind world of modeling, comes God Save My Shoes, a soon-to-be released documentary about that game-changing wardrobe staple that girls will do just about anything for.

As I wrote in Fashion 101, shoes forever hold a special place in  girls’ hearts. The average American owns 30 pair. When SATC fashion icon Carrie Bradshaw was mugged, the assailant demanded not only her handbag and jewelry, but her strappy sandals to boot.

The obsession traces back to the mid 16th century, when Henry II’s wife, Catherine de’ Medici, discovered high heels (traditionally only worn by men). She loved how the new shoes made her look taller, thinner, more fabulous. Ever since,  women have found that heels give an instant posture makeover. Our chests stand taller, our legs appear longer and our butts get a nice little lift–pretty rockin’ results for just a simple change in footwear.

Of course, God Save My Shoes documentarian Julie Benasra features footage from modern day royalty (celebs, of course) on why shoes make them feel so fab. Look for cameos by Fergie, Kelly Roland, Dita Von Teese and more. The film is scheduled to be released later this year.

The always fierce, forever business savvy Tyra Banks has just launched a brand-spankin’ new fashion and beauty site called TypeF.com. And thanks to  my expertise gleaned from writing Fashion 101, her fashion-forward team asked none other than me to drop some knowledge on fashion’s most vital wardrobe staple, the Little Black Dress (LBD). Check the article here and let me know what you think!

Body painting is all the rage right now. Louis Vuitton featured painted models in its spring/summer 2011 show (baring zebra-striped torsos in lieu of shirts) and now, W magazine rendered Kim Kardashian tin-man silver for its November cover.

I’m finishing work on a beauty book in which I highlight 50 iconic makeup styles and how to achieve them. Body painting didn’t make the cut, but I wonder, If I were to do this book 5 years from now, would it have grown big enough to be considered an iconic beauty look?

Comment and let me know what you think.

In the meantime, the beauty bloggers at Style.com posted an interview with makeup maven Gucci Westman, who got Kim looking sinfully silver for the shoot.  Here’s what she had to say:

So, what was the inspiration behind the silver look?

They wanted to do something a bit different, and because they were working with Barbara Kruger and doing the artwork on the cover, it had to be something that was going to be relatable to her work. Quite graphic and poppy and all of those things. They asked me what color I thought would be the most beautiful on her skin. We didn’t want it to be sensual; we wanted it to be chic. I thought that silver would be the best idea in terms of contrast. It’s the most luminous, gives the most photogenic effect of those metallic paints.

Kim is famously curvy. Did it take a long time to cover her?

No, it didn’t take very long at all—maybe half-an-hour. It’s kind of an easy application, with a sponge.

Doesn’t sound too tricky. Is it something that might have a life off of the runway or the editorial page?

It’s not that easy to do it on yourself. It’s more fantastical. For a show, you put on a show by doing things like that. For this issue, we did it because it was the Art issue—and she has a beautiful body.

And how. Speaking of that body, it has gotten a lot of close scrutiny from the internet commentariat. In particular, everyone is debating whether Kim’s had posterior enhancement surgery. As someone with, ahem, first-hand experience, care to comment?

I don’t know anything about that, I [just] think she’s beautiful. I think Kim Kardashian looks so much like Scarlett Johansson—I never noticed it [before]. There’s some angles where she looks so much like her it’s crazy.

My last book, Fashion 101: A Crash Course In Clothing, has been made into a game! The Box Girls, who make super cute, smartly-designed boxed card games, has just released the Fashion 101 Box of Answers.  It features some of the same info featured in the book–the skinny on what different items of clothing look like, the eras that inspired them, the celebs who made them hot and how to wear them. While the cards don’t feature everything that’s in the book, they do cover a solid 75 iconic items, including Baby Doll dress, Mini skirt, Military Coat, Polo shirt, Capri pants and Hot pants.