Get ready to cringe: Paul Frank hosted a Native American culture-themed "Dream Catchin" party for last week's Fashion's Night Out that makes Urban Outfitters' Navajo Hipster panty fiasco look like a United Nations peace treaty.

"Luxury is not shopping," says Rem Koolhaas.

Last night was Fashion's Night Out in New York City, which means there were huge crowds of people in stores they could go to any other night of the year and random celebrities doing random things. Sarah Jessica Parker signed Manolos. Lea Michele autographed T-shirts at Saks. Justin Bieber was at D&G and said he was…

For a third year, retailers in New York City and across the country put together after-hours events to boost the industry with celebrities stepping out to support the cause.

• Jean-Paul Gaultier, on Lady Gaga: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." [Telegraph]

• Stella McCartney, who gave birth last week, just announced the baby's a girl. She and her husband, Alasdhair Willis, named their youngest daughter Reiley. [Evening Standard]
• And Nina Garcia just gave birth to a son named Alexander David Conrod. [@ninagarcia]

• Fashion diva Karl Lagerfeld held up a luncheon given in his honor because he refused to eat any food not made by Nobu. [Telegraph]
• Breaking: Anna Wintour briefly removed her sunglasses before the Derek Lam show. [NYObs]

American Apparel held an open model call at a New York store last night. I went along with videographer Woodrow Jang to ask the hopefuls what they felt qualified them to model thong leotards. And whether they'd sleep with Dov.

You know how Hieronymus Bosch portrayed hell? Okay, picture that, add the Olsen Twins and three dudes in a box dressed as Ken dolls, and you have a good idea of last night's Fashion's Night Out karaoke at Barneys.

When I heard that Astrologyzone.com's Susan Miller was giving readings at Henri Bendel on Fashion's Night Out, I felt destined to get some astrological advice. Unfortunately, the scene was such a clusterfuck my moon was in someone's anus.

Anna Wintour will tell you, Fashion's Night Out tonight isn't about sales. Or about trying to catch a glimpse of an Olsen, or even mini-manicures or astrological readings. You know the score: it's all about getting sozzled on Fashion's dime.

On both sides of the pond, Fashion's Night Out has kicked off — and things will never be the same. (Okay, that last part was a lie. But there were a lot of celebrities in designer clothes.)

Designer Andrew Yang's 27" fashion rag dolls are, in his words, "Strange, Luxurious, Charming." Barneys commissioned these Vogue-themed mini-editors for Fashion's Night Out. We kinda want Grace Coddington; seems cuddlier.

• Balenciaga asked Cindy Sherman to create a series of six of her trademark in-character self-portraits for the brand. In each, naturally Sherman wears Balenciaga head-to-toe. [The Cut]
• Pop covergirl Britney Spears might perform at the magazine's FNO party. [DFR]

• A beige-clad Keira Knightley jumped on a beige Ducati to film a Chanel ad this weekend. [Fashionologie]
• Kim Gordon's Sportmax line retails for $135-$275. But Gordon doesn't shop at Sportmax herself. "I can't really afford their stuff." [WSJ]

• Betsey Johnson defaulted on a $50 million loan. Steve Madden bought the debt, and as collateral, Johnson put up all of her company's intellectual property — every design, every idea, everything that makes the brand its lovable pink-punk self.

• A dejected, underwear-clad Lady Liberty-Gaga and a tuxedoed Marc Jacobs, shot by Mario Testino, cover V's newest issue. [NYDN]
• Lanvin for H&M is happening! The men's and women's collections will hit over 200 stores worldwide on November 23. [WWD]

• Apparently, the last thing Lindsay Lohan did before she went to jail was wrangle a commitment out of Blackbook to publish her ramblings about fashion, personal style, and that feeling you get when you're cutting up a Gucci dress. Herewith:

• American Apparel has received yet another delisting warning from the New York Stock Exchange. The troubled company has been late filing its first two quarterly reports, and recently had its auditors quit. Its stock is currently trading at 0.71 [WWD]

• Crystal Renn is in an ad for Chanel's downtown New York store, which is reopening this fall. She poses alongside Lagerfeld boytoy Baptiste Giabiconi, whom she calls "the most gorgeous man I have ever seen, hands down."