My friend Sante D'Orazio, a noted fashion photographer, portraitist, and life-study specialist, has a new book: Katlick School, published by teNeues. Inside the composition-book cover are 130 more or less erotic photos by an artist who ought to know. The model for all of them is a young woman named Kat Fonseca, who looks mighty good in and out of a school uniform.

I'm not going to say much more about it because I wrote the introduction, "School Girls Rule," a title inspired by one of my favorite old Red Hot Chili Peppers tracks, and I worked hard on it, so why paraphrase when I'd prefer you went out and bought it (or at least read it at Barnes & Noble)?

There was a book-signing party the other night at the bar at Ian Schrager's Gramercy Park Hotel, and I got mine, hot off the presses, signed by the artist and his model. It was a night of torrential rain, but a cool crowd turned out anyway to toast this little gem of eroticism that seems to have put the Diocesan panties in a twist.

We saw actors Mickey Rourke, Kate Bosworth, and Val Kilmer, hotelier Andre Balazs, artist Jeremy Blake, and writer Theresa Duncan (one of my favorite bloggers), art dealer Tony Shafrazi, and models Helena Christensen, Petra Nemcova, and Molly Sims, among many glittering others.

Here's Kat Fonseca and artist Jeremy Blake:

Rourke vs. D'Orazio:

Sante, Kat, and Andre:

Supposedly some less sporting Catholics were upset that Sante's dust jacket portrait shows him wearing a Roman collar and cassock. But we all like to look like that sometimes, don't we?