Shakira in Armani Privé jacket.. VanityFair.com, Michael Roberts photographer.

Believe it or not, I wake up every morning to Shakira and Howard Buffett. Like a Smart Sensuality beacon, Shakira shines as the top story at A of C, sometimes droppping in page views, as she has with my late posting of her Vanity Fair October 2009 photo spread.

Shakira is our muse, here at Anne of Carversville. I formally crowned her Saint Shakira last week and linked her to Lubna Hussein and my own life mission yesterday: Shakira & Lubna Inspire Smart Sensuality, Smarty Pants Types Saving Mother Earth, Vanilla Version.

Having lived with Shakira’s spirit for months now, the combination of her talent, sensual message and people-centric activism are my best daily vitamin B pill.

When multi-vitamins are my preference, the Anne of Carversville trio of Shakira, Madonna and Angelina Jolie give me such an inspiration jolt that nothing stops me from trying to move mountains for women around the world.

These three Smart Sensuality, Smarty Pants women —  named in honor of Lubna Ahmed Hussein’s arrest for wearing “indecent trousers” in Sudan — never let us forget that sensuality rests comfortably with their activism.  “Forcing” the topic of female sexuality into the arena of what it means to be a “respectable woman” is part of their activist mission, as it is mine.

If you hate Shakira or consider her “immoral”, you won’t be happy with Anne of Carversville.

Like Shakira, we believe that women are empowered in embracing their sensuality, not reduced.

As American and European culture grows more sexually confrontational by the minute — see my Sexy Futures website — women are increasingly subjected to harsh and repressive measures around the world.

We rejoice in Lubna Ahmed Hussein’s quick release from prison in Khartoum, but the real question is what will happen next for women in Sudan. Lubna is one woman; 43,000 women in Khartoum were flogged last year for “indecency”.

Just last night, I featured again Zambian journalist Chansa Kabwela, who faces five years in prison for turning over photos of a woman’s baby dying in childbirth, on the steps of a striking Zambian hospital. Zambian president Rupiah Banda charges that the photos of the dying baby being born with no medical help are pornographic.

Shakira wears Valentino Haute Couture headpiece. VanityFair.com, photography MIchael RobertsIt’s great that after the sexy She-Wolf photos of Shakira, Vanity Fair brings us a spectacularly sensual, sophisticated series of Shakira photos. As a Lebanese-Colombian “mutt”,  the real beauty of these photos underscores the marriage of sexuality and respectability.