• Brainwashing does wonders for a woman! Katie Holmes looked stunning at last night's Mad Money premiere, but one wonders why her stylist couldn't find a more fitting shoe.

• Fashion Island!

• Terrorists target gay Parisian mayor Bertrand Delanoe; police probing.

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France's Advertising Standards Authority banned an HIV awareness campaign because it's too "explicit". Gay activists such as ACT UP Paris are crying foul:

French organizations devoted to the fight against AIDS such as Act Up Paris criticized on Wednesday that advertising is judged depending on whether its characters are gays or heterosexuals. "This kind of measures are not taken when the protagonists are heterosexuals. It is an insult to the gay community", a spokesman for the Act Up Paris organization said.

And here we thought Parisians were more liberal with sexuality…

Frenchman Nicolas Panard's past may have caught up with him. Police arrested the 68-year old yesterday for his potential role in at least 18 murders. Yes, 18 - and many of his victims were gay men:

A 68-year-old man has been detained by French police in connection with as many as 18 murders between 1980 and 2002.

Most of the victims were gay men. Nicolas Panard was arrested in the French city of Mulhouse yesterday.

He is reported to be well-known on the gay scene and previously worked as a drag performer.

Police already jailed Panard's alleged accomplice for another murder.

Though they have no concrete evidence of Panard's bloody past, his name appeared in a number of unsolved crime files, all of which featured similar murderous methods, ie: blows to the head, stabbings and partially naked bodies with their faces covered. Coincidence?

Probably not.

• Facing GLAAD's wrath for his anti-gay slur during this weekend's telethon, Jerry Lewis issued the following apology:

I obviously made a bad choice of words. Everyone who knows me understands that I hold no prejudices in this regard. The success of the (telethon) and all the good that will come from it shouldn't be lost because of one unfortunate word. I accept responsibility for what I said. There are no excuses. I am sorry.

Well, when you put it that way…

• Michael Rogers auctioning off Larry Craig's scandalous history.

• 88-year old Loraine Barr comes out of the closet. Bitch is fierce!

• Laguna's Boom Boom Room locks up.

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Last week we offered you a look inside Milan's men's fashion shows (Here, here and here).

This week, we're heading over to Paris for a glimpse at what the boys will be wearing this time next year.

Take a peek at next season's sartorial offerings from French companies like Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Emanuel Ungaro and beastly muscle manThierry Mugler's eponymous, Clarins-owned label.

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An estimated 1.5 million party people lived it up at this year's Europride in Madrid. The revelers toasted Spain's government for its inclusion, including the government's 2005 passage of gay marriage and historic trans rights laws.

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Marc Jacobs loves him a young boy. Dlisted passes on word that the designer recently flew his 20-year old MySpace buddy, Ronny Giangualano to Paris for a little meet and greet. Obviously the duo hit it off.

Poor rent boy Jason Preston must be heart broken - he and Jacobs recently reunited. Now he's been dumbed for a zygote. Unless Jacobs and Giangualano want a little threesome action, an image that just took at least three years off our already endangered lives.

We were justing reading over the latest edtion of Jason Campbell's online style mag, JCReport, and came across this article on the latest trends in Paris.

Karl Treacy picks apart the latest collectons with a fine oh-so-fashionable comb to bring you the best sartorial offerings for next season.

We're sure you don't care, but we're particularly fond of the Lanvin collection, think we would look absolutely fetching in Rykiel Homme's polka-dots and j'adore the Marc Jacobs designed Louis Vuitton line (pictured). (You know, if anyone wants to make sure the Queerty boys look more fly than usual next spring.)

Our friends, Viktor & Rolf (pictured, right) have done it again. The avant-garde designers used their Paris Fashion week show to display a little gender-bending and homo-love. Tucked beneath the Louvre, attendees watched as hetero-couples ballroom danced to Rufus Wainwright's gayer-than-thou channeling of Judy Garland.

Then, according to Guy Trebay of The New York Times, just as the final march of models were to be tramping down the runway, the floor became a politically-minded playland of faggotry:

Pumped from the ceiling, a bank of artificial fog rolled onto the runway. Suddenly, through the mist, appeared eight men in tailcoats and with patent-leather hair. Filing onto the catwalk as the orchestra struck up a song, each turned crisply to another, partnered and began to dance.

Fred and Ginger became Fred and Fred.

It was not the Stonewall rebellion. It was not Paris, May 1968. Yet, amid all the posturing and attitudinizing that goes on in fashion…there was something sharp and resolute, even radical, about this one small moment.

In an effort to question popular opinion of homosexuality, the dynamic designing duo decided to put their own twist on the debate. "'It was using the very unnatural form,” or ballroom dancing, [Viktor] Horsting said, “to question what is natural.'" It's worth noting, as Trebay agrees, that Horsting renounced his Catholic baptism to protest the Vatican's relentless disdain for homosexuality.

If you have a cooler method of protest than gay ballroom dancing below the Louvre and possible self-imposed damnation, we'd like to know.

Related: Viktor and Rolf Tag Team H&M

With the recent outcry over skinny models, Jean Paul Gaultier took the fashion world to task by sending Velvet d'Amour (pictured, strutting her ample stuff) down the runway at his recent Paris show.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports:

In what seemed more of a nod to front-row guest, the burlesque artiste Dita Von Teese, Gaultier sent out the plus-sized Paris-based American model and actress Velvet d'Amour, 39, in a satin corset and negligee. The rest of his collection was on a "workout" theme, an athletic wear-inspired collection of silk track pants, hooded sweat tops and dresses.

He couldn't put the fat model in track pants because overweight people never excercise. And he probably wouldn't have gotten as much press.

• After weeks and months of mounting pressure from conservative religious types, WorldPride 2006 is out of Jerusalem and will take over Tel Aviv. [Ynet]

• We weren't the only ones obsessed with the models walking down Paris' runways. [Made In Brazil]

• One of Queerty's best friends attending the opening of the world's largest bathhouse in Cleveland. Unfortunately, he didn't bring his camera. But one blogger did. [FAF]

• Michael Jackson had no idea – zero, people – he was in cahoots with a gay porn director. [Jossip]

From Galliano to Armand Basi, we're not sure what the hell was going on with Paris' menswear runways. The designs were mostly too haute for our tastes, but that doesn't mean the designers didn't trump out some eye candy.

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