- Supposedly Brad Goreski left Rachel Zoe‘s employ because he was on the cover of the Times Style section during fashion week and Rachel Zoe must be the star of everything. Further proof the Style section ruins everything. [PopEater]
- Sammi from “The Shore Of Jersey” wants a clothing line, inevitably. [Fashionista]
- Uniqlo pitchman Orlando Bloom sat front row at Balenciaga to watch his pregnant wife, Miranda Kerr, walk in the show. [WWD]
- An exhibition of garments created by Cristobal Balenciaga, curated by Hamish Bowles and supported by Oscar de la Renta, will open at the Queen Sophia Spanish Institute in New York in November. [DFR]
- Jil Sander‘s latest collection for Uniqlo hits stores on October 7. [Fashionologie]
- Some Texans are mad there isn’t an H&M anywhere in their state. [Statesman]
- But even if you can’t buy Lanvin for H&M in Texas, you could theoretically shop Lanvin–Lanvin online anywhere in the U.S. [Lanvin]
- Photographer Richard Reinsdorf is suing Skechers for $250 million. Reinsdorf, who was hired by the brand to shoot campaigns in 2006, says Skechers has exceeded its contracted usage rights for the pictures. [TMZ]
- Giles Deacon sounds like he’s trying to undo the damage at Ungaro. He “stressed” to Women’s Wear Daily that his collection is for “real women, not starlets.” (Who could he mean?) And he’ll be hosting a presentation, rather than a splashy runway show. Still, the one look he allowed WWD to photograph has cutaways up to here — it’s like more cutaway than dress. [WWD]
- Style.com probably thinks that the only way to compete with fellow Condé fashion property Vogue.com is to try and become the sort of unassailable brand that Vogue is. Perhaps, though, a reality television show is not the way to do this? [NYDN]
- Bernard Willhelm just canceled his runway show in Paris. [The Cut]
- P. Diddy wants to sell his Sean John clothing line in Europe. [WWD]
- Tom Florio, the former Vogue publisher who said he wanted to go into entertainment when he left his job at Condé, has landed at IMG in the newly-created position called “Senior Advisor for Fashion.” [DFR]
- William Klein and Nan Goldin are said to be working on “a project” for Barneys New York. [WWD]
- Lindsey Wixson, grey-haired, avec cats, in the fall Barneys catalog: ridiculous or hilarious? Both? [Fashion Gone Rogue]
- Gee, the Post really is paying a whole lot of attention to Marc Jacobs‘ hot, naked bod. This story about how OUTRAGEOUS and IMPROPER his Bang cologne ad is is like 4,000 words long and contains references to Jacobs “bulging…biceps.” [NYPost]
- We love the idea of a serious fashion magazine dedicated to plus-size women, but Britain’s Just As Beautiful seriously suffers from an unnecessarily self-justifying title and graphic design that looks like it was done on MS Paint. [Daily Mail]
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