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.”

Karl Lagerfeld stepped out in Saint-Tropez yesterday (avec entourage, bien sur) looking decidedly more covered than the average vacationer. Now, we’re not saying the Kaiser should go full Speedo on us—ahem, Giorgio Armani—but a tightly buttoned shirt, heavy boots, and leather gloves? Is this a bit too extreme for August on the Côte d’Azur or [...]

All of the action isn’t in New York on September 10 (that’d be Fashion’s Night Out, for those of you not paying attention). Carla Sozzani of Milan’s celebrated 10 Corso Como store and art gallery is hosting a block party, celebrating an exhibition of the photographs found in the new picture book Italian Touch, commissioned [...]

AP – Barack and Michelle Obama are edging out Hollywood stars on Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List.

A chic doughnut-shaped, caramel leather bangle that turns into a Longchamp Le Pliage tote (pictured at left) is a boon to anyone still working out the logistics of the whole reusable-shopping-bag thing. And for that convertible convenience, you have Bless designers Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag to thank. The Bless bag for Longchamp is part [...]

Fashion Wire Daily – One of the perks of being a designer is that if there’s an article of clothing that you want but can’t find, you can always design it yourself.