AP – Apparel maker Perry Ellis International Inc. said Thursday it inked a five-year licensing deal with S.A.R.L. de Gestion Pierre Cardin to find materials for, sell and distribute the Pierre Cardin brand for men’s sportswear.

New York nightlifers may know Mandy Coon as one half of the DJ duo Two Mandy DJs. Those who meet the pixie-ish Coon during daytime hours, however, have probably figured out that she has a foothold in the fashion world as well; among other gigs, she’s played design helpmeet to Camilla Stærk. Now Coon is [...]

If you aren’t all jazzed up about Fashion’s Night Out yet, the PSA, which just went live on www.vogue.com, should do the trick. With Diddy rapping, “Come on, let’s do it for the people, baby,” how could it not? Speaking of music, we hear that the Rodarte sisters have recruited the drag queen Justin Bond, [...]

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AP – Fashion designer Daniel Vosovic has someone very A-list in mind for the winning dress he created for the “Project Runway: All-Star Challenge.”

Fashion Wire Daily – What brings fashion designers running? If you’re in New York City on a hot summer night, it is Renee Zellweger, who stars in the new film “My One and Only.” The premiere of that Fifties-era comedy drew a who’s who of well-known couturiers on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

Eight floors. 50,000 square feet. “A monster megaplex” featuring shop-in-shops by the likes of Alexander Wang, Boy by Band of Outsiders, D.A.P. Books, Other Music, Trash & Vaudeville, and The Row. Welcome to Opening Ceremony, Japan. The store OC founders Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have built in the heart of Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district [...]

AP – Is it any surprise AMC’s “Mad Men” has sparked a hunger for 1960s sheaths and suits, with fans across the country creating sleek avatars of themselves from MadMenYourself.com?

Steven Klein’s Bridgehampton farm is the place to be tonight. That’s the photog’s Great Dane in the accompanying pic. We hear that Lindsay Lohan, among other boldfacers (maybe Courtney Love?) is expected at Heat, a benefit for the new Ellen P. Hermanson Breast Health Center at Southampton Hospital that our executive fashion director Candy Pratts [...]

Fashion Wire Daily – They were the cool couple in black, he in a linen suit and she in a fabulous, form-fitting strapless leather dress. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped traffic on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 10, as they joined Quentin Tarantino at the premiere of “Inglourious Basterds.”