WWD reports today that Samantha Fennell, Elle's associate publisher, who got her start selling ads at PAPER in the early '90s, has given her notice and that she's going off to work for the Obama campaign. Samantha is gorgeous and means business!!!! Does this mean she's the new Condi Rice?

Photograph of Samantha, flanked by PAPER's David Hershkovits and Hunter Hill, by Caroline Torem-Craig

In case this blogging thing doesn't work out, Mr. Mickey just found out he has a career to fall back on. The cuties at Barneys asked MM to jump out of a cake at the going-away party for Barneys NY CEO Howard Socol. MM j'adores and j'aimes Howard and his wife Sharon beaucoup so it was a pleasure. Check out the pictures. MM emerged to the strains of the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey and said, "God I'll do ANYthing for a $50 gift card!"

Photos by Drew Elliott

Last night rock star Michael Stipe had a show of his sculpture at the Rogan store on Bowery. The full title of the evening was Rogan v Stipe and it was a hot hootenanny! We loved the sculpture and Michael let us take a little radio shaped box he'd made! It was a super cute crowd including the rock, fashion and hipster worlds. Chris Martin, Mike D, Barneys Julie Gilhart, Terrence Koh, Jack Pierson, Andrew Saffir & Daniel Benedict, Sean McPherson......

Sorry MM's camera burnt out after only one shot! That's professionalism. Michael Stipe is pictured above with Jack Pierson.

Meanwhile in Evora, Portugal, Prince Charles-Phillipe d'Orleans, Duke of Anjou, married Portuguese aristo dona Diana Alvares Pereira de Melo, Duchess of Cadaval. The bride wore Carolina Herrera and despite being from fancy old families, both are modern and hip by royal standards. Both are interested in humanitarian work and have been on missions to Serbia and Ethiopia.

Yes Mr. Mickey knows it's very last century to be enthusiastic about a royal engagement but MM loves a wedding and none more so than a high fashion royal or aristo affair. Consequently MM is excited to read the news of the engagement of Marie-Christine of Austria (daughter of Archduke Carl Christian and his wife Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg) to Count Rodolphe of Limburg-Stirum. The wedding is in December and will no doubt be a tiara filled fete!

Photo from Hello! Magazine

Just when you thought you'd seen it all on the internet, here come our favorite fabulous fashion duo Viktor & Rolf with their new 3-D website. It's outrageous. Find out where to buy their clothes (from Kazakhstan to California) or just enjoy the 3-D parade of dolls fashion show.

Regular readers of the Mr. Mickey blog know that MM loves him a little Atlantic City! You can keep your Hamptons and give MM a stroll on the Boardwalk! Anyhoo, one of Mr. Mickey's favorite showbiz legends is appearing this weekend at the Circus Maximus Theater at Caesar's Palace: Miss Carol Burnett. The show is called "Laughter and Reflection with Carol Burnett" and is a Q & A session. How fun. Mr. Mickey will be asking about the Gloria Swanson appearance on the Burnett show! And naturally MM and his buddies Lee & Michael will invite Carol after the show to AC's only gay club West Side Bar & Lounge!

See you in AC!!!!

It's all about the scantily clad male cuties today (as if it's ever about anything else!). In our web travels we came across David Beckham's new Emporio Armani underwear ad and nearly messed our own man panties. Later (at DListed) we stumbled upon this shot of muscle bound dude Mario Lopez from People Magazine recreating the classic Mark Wahlberg shot for Calvin Klein undies. Oh today has truly been an embarassment of riches!!!

Mr. Mickey ran into NY Times cutie Maura Egan on the street and it seems camo bags are back! MM was toting his new Fendi bag which is super gorgeous. Maura's bag was also chic particularly because she got it as a registration bag at a film festival in LA!!!!

Photo by Mrs. Eliot Ferguson

Check out the outrageous headgear chosen by the royal ladies at the opening of Royal Ascot. Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York cruised in with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Photo from Hello! Magazine

Mr. Mickey couldn't resist posting this shot of one of our favorite glamourpusses Becca Cason-Thrash who was in Paris for a Friends of the Louvre event. Becca is on the right and look who's in the middle: Caroline of Hanover aka Caroline of Monaco. Pretty fancy!

Two of Mr. Mickey's favorite young Euristocrats seem to be hooking up. Pierre Casiraghi (Mr. Mickey drools even typing his name) and Beatrice Borromeo are both at university in Milan and seem to be getting cozy. Beatrice's sister is married to John Elkann, brother of dreamboat Lapo Elkann.

One of our favorite designers Cynthia Rowley showed her resort collection last week and she had the perfect setting: her own backyard! Personally we think Cynthia's clothes look best when Cynthia herself is wearing them but they were also adorable on the models lounging around her swimming pool. Check out the girl with the Cabana hat -- talk about not needing sunblock!

Prince William gave the crowd a thrill at a polo match over the weekend when he took off his shirt. Nice way to start the week MM must say!

Photo from Hello! Magazine

Okay, so it wasn't really last night, it was the night before but anyway it was glamour glamour glamour galore at il Cantinori for a dinner celebrating Sir Phillip Green the NYC outlet of his fabulous shop Topshop which opens in October. Sir Philip is classic international glamour and take a peek at his super sexy South African wife Lady Christina and their cute daughter Chloe! It's like an issue of Tatler come to life!
And have you kids eaten at il Cantinori? Mmmmm delicious!

MM was walking through SoHo yesterday (en route to a business appointment, of course!) and stumbled across this fabulous DVF ad at the corner of W. Broadway and Grand. Isn't it fabulous? Love how it's just the lips and the logo with no background except the building and the faded Coca-Cola ad.

Mr. Mickey is in love and this time it's with two ladies!!! Last night hostess with the mostess Miss Beverly Smith hosted a dinner for songstress Solange Knowles at The Harrison in TriBeCa sponsored by Hennessy, the super high-end hooch. Solange has an amazing new record coming out this fall and her single "I Decided" is exactly the kind of upbeat Motowny madness MM can't get enough of. Solange is gorgeous and filled with sass -- "Did you know you can't say douche-bag on TV?" she asked. MM sat next to Miss Tina Knowles at dinner and this lady is FIERCE people! Gorgeous (with an amazing sexy figure), smart and so real! MM couldn't believe it! Take a peek at the snaps of Solange, Tina & Matthew Knowles, hostess Bevy with her parade of fashion cuties and more!

Sad news for Zara Phillips, Elizabeth II's granddaughter. The champion equestrian won't be going to the Olympics in Beijing due to an injury to her horse Toytown. The same thing happened to Zara at the last Olympics. Zara's mother (and MM's favorite member of the Royal Family, Anne, the Princess Royal, was an Olympian at Montreal in 1976.)
Luckily Zara has a super sexy fiancé who can help her forget her troubles! There is a long history of royals and the Olympics. King Constantine of Greece won a gold medal for his country in sailing at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Photo from Hello! Magazine

If anyone asked Mr. Mickey who the hottest man in movies is the answer would have to be Daniel Craig. Girl, he makes MM swoon!!! Here's a shot of dreamboat Daniel filming his new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. MM has a question: Could that title blow any harder? Poo stink! It's worse than A View to a Kill. Who thinks up these shitty titles? Whatever the case, he's HOT and Mr. Mickey will be in the theater the Saturday morning after the movie opens!! MM loves a Saturday morning show!!!

It was a case of publishing world smartypants people rubbing well-attired elbows with fashion bessies at the book party for Joseph O'Neill's wildly celebrated new book Netherland (if you want to read the kind of blow-job review book review that comes along once in a lifetime, go to NYTimes.com and read Michiko Kakutani's review of Netherland!). O'Neill is the literary sensation of the season for this his third book. The fashion angle might be explained by the fact that his wife is Vogue's Sally Singer, one of the smartest and most beloved ladies in fashion (who wore Hussein Chalayan for the evening). Go buy this book!!!