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Meet the world's next lifestyle designer extraordinaire: Lenny Kravitz. Following his random footwear collaboration with TOMS, the rocker-turned-Hunger Games-actor has announced plans for complete fashion world domination. On the subject of his forthcoming fashion empire, Kravtiz told CNN: "The plan is to make it a lifestyle brand...In the same way you would see Ralph Lauren or Giorgio Armani." With furniture, bedding, clothing, and an eco-resort on his Brazil farm all in the works, the thought of Lenny Kravitz 800 thread count sheets is particularly—how should we say it—entertaining. [Telegraph]