• Worst-selling, that is. Swift's April Elle issue sold the fewest copies of the year, and her covers of Glamour and Marie Claire were nearly as bad. Blake Lively bombed on Vogue and Esquire, but weirdly sold well for Allure. [WWD]

• Tom Ford: "I feel that fashion has become too serious...Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life." Ford also believes in, wait for it, "real clothes for real women." [Racked]

Websites like Groupon.com have offered consumers unprecedented, exciting access to flash deals that must be purchased without much time to mull over their usefulness. And now we're all addicted to bargains.

With The Book Depository's new Watch People Shop feature, you can indeed watch people virtually book-shop in real time all over the world. Surprisingly addictive! But so much for buying those romance novels from the privacy of your own home...

Sample-sale websites — like Gilt, Ideeli, and Rue La La — may seem like convenient ways to get discounted clothes without the hassle of pawing through bins. But here's the trouble with them:

"What's wrong with online shopping?" You mean, besides the fact that it's way too easy, things don't fit, and you can do it in the middle of the night? Apparently, a lot:

• Gwyneth Shoes is suing Paris Hilton for copyright infringement. Her alleged offense? Giving her shoes, in the heiress's words, "a heart-shaped comfort pad...so you can dance all night!" Gwyneth apparently considers all heart-shaped design features on insoles its property. [NYP]

• Russia's space agency chief says he's entertaining the idea of sending out a spacecraft to blast an asteroid that may be headed for the earth. But relax: NASA puts the chance of impact at just 1 in 2500. •

• Is Valentino over? About to celebrate his 75th birthday, there are rumors the designer may be stepping down and selling to a private owner. [Vogue UK]
• Clothing has become the top category (travel excluded) in online sales for the first time in the history of e-commerce. After all: Why look at your ass in bad lighting…