As specialty cupcakes sweep our sweet tooth, designers have been inspired to created jewelry and handbags to curve our latest obsessions over the delectable sweets. Some have also placed personal touches on these creations, like Judith Leiber, who decorated a strawberry cupcake diamond encrusted clutch.

Leiber’s haute couture handbags have been carried around by first ladies and featured in art galleries in Washington, DC, London and New York. Her handbags are also famous in Hollywood and appeared in the Sex in the City movie.  Leiber’s pink strawberry cupcake clutch was in the scene with Charlotte’s daughter in the blockbuster hit.  The bag also comes in a vanilla version and retails at $4295.00. If you can’t afford this, Bag Barrow Steal is currently renting the clutch for $134 a week/$395 a month.

The clutch below goes for $4395.00 and can be purchased here.

I’ll just stick to edible cupcakes at the moment.

Photo Source: Bag Barrow Steal, Gear Fuse

Janet Jackson was photographed wearing Christian Louboutin lace up boots for an article featured in Prestige Magazine.

During the 2008 RTW (Ready to Wear) fashion shows, Lace up boots were seen all over the runways. Lace up boots have also become an instant hit with Celebrities this year. This season offers a variety of colors and styles, from ankle to knee length boots and peep toe ankle booties.

Boots are a universal accessory that can be worn with leggings, skirts, dresses, shorts or skinny jeans.  I would rock all the outfits below:

A model wears suede ankle booties at Balmain’s 2008 RTW Show (Courtesy of Sytle.com)

Rhianna made an appearance on TRL rocking black from head to toe (Courtesy of MTV)

Sarah Jessica Parker wore white L’Wren Scott lace up boots at the MTV Movie Awards (Courtesy of MTV)

Erin Wasson pairs her lace up boots with ripped skinny black jeans and a gray blazer.  The first picture is not relevant to this post but I love Alexander Wang and decided to post a picture of Erin with him (Courtesy of Teen Vogue and )

Daisy Lowe’s ’90s Grunge inspired look was completed with hot pink Dr. Marten’s (Courtesy of Teen Vogue)

From the streets of Europe, a Fashionista wears blue lace up boots with skinny jeans and an oversized blazer, I love her outfit! (Courtesy of the Sartorialist Blog)

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1.  Calvin KlienWomen’s Sadee Boots

2.  Dolce VitaCher Cutout Bootie

3.  Minnetonka Moccasin Boots

4.  Giuseppe ZanottiPeep Toe Bootie

5.  Rock and Republic Lace Up Boots

6.  Colin Stuart Knee Length Lace Up Boots

Even though reviewers panned the Sex and the City movie as “mediocre” at best, I put on my Manolos, drank up my Cosmos and joined my girlfriends for an afternoon at the movies on opening weekend. And let me tell you: Die-hard fans of the six-season long HBO series will get “Carrie-d” away!

The movie opens perfectly: the theme song done Fergalicious style, photos from past shows summing up Charlotte, Samantha, Miranda and Carrie’s experiences over the years and a voice over by Sarah Jessica Parker. Most fans going to see the movie already know that Carrie is supposed to marry Mr. Big during the course of the film, thanks to spoiler photos of SJP donning a dreamy Vivienne Westwood gown hitting the Net early into production, however, fans might not expect the drama, tears and laughs that follow.

At 2.5 hours long, the movie does actually feel like a movie (and not like five regular TV episodes sewn together) with one cohesive storyline from start to finish. I must say that the acting done by pretty much all of the actors translates really well from the boob tube to the big screen. I think that my favorite performance from the girls is by Kristen Davis (Charlotte), who is fierce and sassy and very entertaining to watch.

And about the two most important aspects of the movie: the fashion and the sex. Both are… well, orgasmic! All we see on the girls, Carrie especially, are labels, labels, labels! She just goes from one drool-worthy couture gown to the next from Diane von Furstenberg to Christian Dior and of course, never without her toes delicately peeping out from a pair of highly-coveted Manolos.

Fashionistas might also notice that this movie features a large selection of Louis Vuitton products. From the Richard Prince Motard Firebird bag Carrie gives Jennifer Hudson’s character as a Christmas gift, to the Denim Patchwork Bowling bag J-Hud “rents,” to the Damier Azur Boite Falcons travel case Charlotte takes to Mexico and the Limelight Clutch that Carrie carries throughout the film, stylist Patricia Fields doesn’t go light on sprinkling on the LV and probably did so as a tribute to the house’s mark on the history of fashion and to complement classic, timeless pieces with more trendy, avant-garde garmets.

Now on to the sex. Well, there’s lots of it, and it’s heavy enough stuff to carry an 18-A rating (my friends and I were asked to show our IDs when buying tix). So girls (and guys) won’t be disappointed.

Overall, I give this movie four Cosmopolitans and a Muff Dive out of five! Obviously, those who haven’t watched many of the show’s TV episodes aren’t going to get as much satisfaction out of the movie as say, your’s truly, but nevertheless, Sex and the City offers audiences a fun and flirty, romantic chic flick that is as sweet and fluffy as your grandma’s lemon merengue pie!