I look to my mom for gift-giving ideas, and she seems to hit a slam-dunk every year with “gift of the month” clubs—new books, fresh flowers, or jewelry delivered to the recipient’s house every month for up to a year. But in researching this culture, I came across several odd or crazy-specific ones that I had to share. For instance, did you know that you could get a crocheted skinny tie or a miniature jack-o-lantern? And I’m sure you want to know what the “Forbidden Food of the Month” club is.

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The teenage trollop Juno Temple so boisterously plays in new film Dirty Girl would certainly not approve of the outfit the English actress is wearing today. Dressed head-to-platform-bootied-toe in Miu Miu, Temple, 22, looks ladylike and New York-y. And absolutely nothing at all like Danielle, the hot-pants-wearing Oklahoman hell raiser who is the heart and soul of the movie.

Lucky sat down with Temple to get her take on the film and its fashion—the movie meticulously mines the ’80s for everything from music to puffy pink paint­ to feathered hair. (Check out Milla Jovovich’s do in the trailer.) She also had a lot to say about underwear—specifically Victorian underpinnings. We’ll explain…read on.

I like your shoes.

These are so comfortable! I’m wearing Miu Miu again tonight for the premiere. They’re my favorite. I’ll be wearing bright blue glitter heels. Sensational!

Miu Miu does those amazing glitter boots too, with the crisscrosses on them.

I have a pair of those. They’re amazing.

You are going to be a good person to talk to about fashion, I can tell already!

I want to be a lingerie designer at some point in my life.

I heard about that. What sparked your interest in Victorian lingerie?

When I was pretty young I started wearing vintage slips and little vintage onesies from the Victorian ages over fishnet tights with biker boots, and it kind of became my thing. I love corsetry and, let’s be honest, being a woman is a pretty powerful thing. Underwear just makes you feel good. I’m not a huge makeup person, so in the morning it’s more about picking out my underwear set. I’m wearing the Juno set by Agent Provocateur today. I’m a huge Agent Provocateur fan, and I just think underwear is such a sensual, beautiful thing. If you’re wearing great underwear, you can take over the world!

Do you actually sketch your own designs?

I do and I really hope I can make it happen. I don’t want to stop acting at all, but I hope on the side I can do some lingerie designing.

You were born in 1989. What’s your take on the ’80s? Does it seem like a fabulous time to you, a cheesy time, or both?

I’ve never been crazy about ’80s fashion. Except for some Azzedine Alaia. My mom has a beautiful collection that I’ve started dabbling in! But my parents were very busy in the ’80s doing a lot of rock n’ roll music videos, so my picture of the ’80s was very different than the Dirty Girl picture of the ’80s.The movie is colorful and pop-y. I grew up with a much more punk, rock ‘n’ roll idea of the time. It was really exciting to get to explore a different part of it because it is much more feminine. Much more girly, and at heart I’m a very girly human being.

Your character has some, let’s say, attention-getting, outfits.

I like the fact that my character has more ’70s clothing in a ’80s world. She’s got on her mom’s hand-me-downs. I think the ’70s and the ’90s are my two favorite time periods for clothing. It was really fun to wear all the little rompers and the amazing platform shoes. I got to have this long sleek hair with these beautiful Farrah Fawcett bangs. I think of the ’80s as, like, bad perms. So that was fun. Danielle sticks out like a sore thumb in her high school, especially in Oklahoma where everyone’s much more straight laced. Yes, she looks slutty but in a daaaaamn awesome way!

You seem like a real style chameleon. How do you describe your style?

I think it’s important as an actress to be able to change your look up. In my personal life, my friends tease me for being a bag lady because I’m normally looking quite homeless. Grunge is my favorite. I like to buy a lot of ripped boy jeans, flannel shirts, oversized T-shirts, round sunglasses, lots of necklaces, lots of eyeliner. But I also like the style from movies like Clueless and The Craft. Oh my gosh, I wish I’d brought my bag with me to show you. I have a “Clueless” bag, it’s the new Prada thing, their fluffy bag. You’re going to die when you see it! I named it, because it’s my favorite thing in the world. It’s called Clarence. It’s hot pink—this big fur bag, not real fur, like proper old fake fuzz-fur—with a little Prada sign and a metal chain. It’s very Clueless.

It sounds crazy—in a good way.

I like kilts and knee-highs too, love them! I almost wore that today, actually.

What are some of your favorite places to shop?

There’s one specific thrift store near my house in Los Feliz, called Squaresville. They have a really cool mixture of great old clothes slash second-hand designer stuff. I bought an Alexander McQueen dress there for like 75 bucks and it’s amazing. I’m a big flea market girl too. I like the Melrose Fairfax Flea Market. And I grew up going to the South of France, so I went to a lot of beautiful flea markets there.

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• First time phone sex. (The Frisky)

• Curvy Girl’s guide to lingerie. (Betty Confidential)

• Hooking up more talk than action. (YourTango)

• Calling it quits when you haven’t date long. (College Crush)

• Hugh Jackman looking buff at the beach. (Celebuzz)

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It’s November 23, 1992: Champagne and cigars for baby Miley!
Oh wait, that’s not her real name?:
Sorry. Let’s try that again. It’s November 23, 1992: Champagne and cigars for baby Destiny Hope!
A nickname appears: Take a drink for Smiley.
That nickname gets shortened: Take a drink for Miley, and then take a bonus drink, because the legend has now been given her legendary name.
Baby Miley gets a godmother: Take a drink.
That godmother is Dolly Parton: Seriously? Wow. Take a drink. Actually, take two drinks. And go to Dollywood.
Miley changes her middle name: It’s now “Ray.” Take a drink for the departed Hope.
Miley goes to her very first audition: Take a drink and cross your fingers.
Big Fish! Take a drink for Miley’s first big screen appearance! Also take a bonus drink, because she’s credited as Destiny Cyrus.

Miley auditions for Hannah Montana: Take a drink.
Wait, she auditioned for the role of the best friend?: Take two drinks.
She’s cast as the title character: Take three drinks and get ready for craziness.
It’s a hit!: Take a drink and party! (But don’t party in the USA. Yet.)

Miley signs to a talent agency: Take a drink for each agency.
There’s more than one?: Yep. Take a bonus drink.
Meet Miley Cyrus: Breaking out of the mold, I see. Take a drink for daring.
It goes platinum: Take a drink for each time it goes platinum. Count ‘em: 1, 2, 3.
The licorice picture happens: Take a drink through a Twizzler straw.
Whoops! That wasn’t sexy, it was ACCIDENTALLY sexy!: Sure it was. Take a drink.

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Look, I know Gisele didn’t write the copy. She certainly didn’t art direct these spots, nor was she likely responsible for the shot composition. But no one held a gun to her head while the cameras were rolling—and probably not before or after either. Girls, I know you’re tempted to say, “I saw City of God, so I know that kind of violence happens in Brazil all the time,” but resist the urge—let’s expand our horizons, ladies, not our waistlines. I’m pretty confident she signed up for this on her own free will. And I’m not confident about anything, amirightladies? I wish I weren’t.

Allow me to present Exhibit A:

It’s like, why do women even bother getting dressed, amirightladies? Stay in your underwear at all times, and the world is your oyster. Of course, it helps to have a body more like Gisele’s and less like a beached whale. Either way, to be safe just be nearly naked at all times.

But seriously, ladies, we always be crashing cars, amiright? I think I just crashed a car right now. Wait, what’s a car?

Allow me to present Exhibit B:

I totally forgot to mention these are actually lessons. The makers of Hope Lingerie were kind enough to spell the nudity rule out for us in the simplest of terms. After all, if we don’t know how to drive properly and don’t comprehend the basic concept of a credit line, then how the heck are we supposed to infer the meaning of a commercial? Thank goodness they kept the spots to 15 seconds; anything longer than 20 and I’m already thinking about my hair and huffing nail polish. Life is distracting, amirightladies?

So women are bad with money, bad with automobiles, but great with taking their clothes off. Gisele didn’t invent this wheel, she’s just riding it all the way to the bank. So can we really hold her accountable? I say yes. She’s the one speaking the words, so she must believe in them—that’s how advertisements work, right? Ugh, I shouldn’t have huffed so much Pirates of the Caribbean Planks A Lot OPI nail polish. I think I’m definitely dying alone.

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Whether or not you believe a 17-year-old has the wherewithal to make decisions about her own body, the reality of the situation is that she’s a minor under the guardianship of her mother. And when her mother is Dina Lohan, a woman whose judgment has time and time again been clouded by a yearning for fame, it’s hard to see these photos as more than an attempt to stir up headlines (looks like we’re feeding right into that) and garner more fame for the family.

In terms of degrees of female exploitation, are these photos the worst I’ve seen? No; they’re hardly the worst I’ve seen this week. All I know is that I’m 26, and if someone had taken sexualized photos of me at 17, I’d most definitely regret it by now.

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Lingerie brand Agent Provocateur has given Paz de la Huerta the role of a lifetime in this new ad: they’ve allowed to to “accidentally” slip out of her clothing over and over again. Which is, of course, what the Boardwalk Empire star is best at.

At first we saw this ad and laughed at Paz’s clothing follies, but the more I thought about it, the more I acknowledged that sometimes it is really hard to stay inside your clothing. I can’t tell you how many times I bent over to pick up a pen and found myself suddenly topless right there in that Bank of America.

Though it is kind of weird that they left out, “A lady always remembers to fling her snot across the room.”

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Articles on how to plan the perfect Valentine’s Day with your lover are horrible and cliched. Articles about how great it is to be single on Valentine’s Day reek of desperation. Why do you have to have an Anti-Valentine’s Day party, ladies? To celebrate how much you are anti-love? Not cool. I’m sorry you are lonely, and I’m sorry for people in relationships who stress out about what to get one another, but if you have to spend more than 20 minutes thinking of something unique to your partner that they would enjoy in a pleasant, no-pressure way to celebrate this day, than you guys probably won’t work out anyway.

I don’t care if you suck at buying presents. If these items ever come across the table during Valentine’s Day, they will be thrown out the window. There is nothing worse than generic Valentines, so here is my helpful list of replacement items to buy if we ever find ourselves dating. Not that I care. Dumb holiday.

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• If the government isn’t too busy handing out abortions, it might just start giving us all free birth control! (Jezebel)

• Here are some lingerie that is both sexy and eco-friendly! (Blisstree)

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