• Agyness Deyn might try hypnotism to quit smoking. She "obviously" wants to stop so she can "settle down and have babies," says a friend of her boyfriend's. Obviously that's any woman's only consideration. [Daily Mail]

• Zac Posen will see your economic negativity and raise you an ounce of creativity. "I started my business in another trying time, right after 9/11. Everyone was saying ‘don't go into business, there's no place, there's no retail world out there.' Nobody wanted to hear about a new brand. But you create your own excitement, and you create the industry, and you create the customer, and that's what is going to get this country out of this difficult time." Yes we can wear beautiful dresses! [The Cut]
• Meanwhile a rag-tag group of former i-bankers has a crazy dream to make ugly shoes from recycled trash. Which is a kind of creativity that, environment aside, I'm not sure we need. [The Street]
• Lynn Yaeger goes to fashion week on the subway. Just. Like. I. Do. [The Cut]
• "Vivica Fox came out in this full sequined gown and she had the longest hair weave of her life. It was a shock, it was inspiring to women." If you've ever wanted to enter the mind of Christian Siriano, one good way of doing so would be to read an entire column by him. Fashion week is literally amazing, guys! [Time]
• Coco Rocha, in between attending fashion shows and walking in them, is also hosting an hour-long documentary about the lives of models during the week of weeks for E! Busy girl. [Elle]
• Kelly Cutrone had a hand in getting Ashley Alexandra Dupré to Yigal Azrouël on Friday. Yigal fired her. [NYDN]
• But Cutrone still wins for sheer audacity of media tricksterhood: she introduced Dupré to an editor at an avant-garde fashion magazine who wants to shoot the ex-callgirl, like, yesterday already. So this is how you get into Dazed and Confused. [The Cut]
• Are runways this season more diverse than last? It's looking like yes. The New York Times talks to some models from Harlem and the Bronx who are glad to see the "No ethnic models" signs retired. (The story also reminded me of how I know three models who all went to the same high school somewhere in deepest Queens. Once I told one of them I was thinking of moving to Queens and she gave me this withering look and said, "By 'Queens', you probably mean, like, Astoria, or Long Island City, don't you?" I did. But at least I know where Queens is, unlike a nameless designer in Eric Wilson's piece.) [NY Times]
• Model Sessilee Lopez eats egg McMuffins and asks to take home clothes from fashion shows. [NYDN]
• Peter Som has a fall collection, even if he didn't have a show. [Fashionista]
• An angel investor in Patrick Cox's struggling handmade shoe house was caught trying to license the Patrick Cox name and trademark for profit. [Telegraph]
• Somewhere, someone built an algorithm to analyze all the acres of type churned out in fashion week coverage, and that someone is here to tell us that this season's buzz words are "chiconomics" and "Michelle Obama." And "recessionista." [UPI]
• Anna Wintour is still talking about that sequined mini-dress The Recession made her not put in Vogue. Only now, in her mind it only cost $25,000, not $50,000. Times are hard. Anybody got any idea whose dress this might be? [WSJ]
• The May cover of Wintour's magazine might actually feature some models on it, in honor of the costume institute gala at the Met, which is model-themed this year. Online speculation points to Raquel Zimmerman, Natasha Poly, Liya Kebede, Isabeli Fontana, and Natalia Vodianova as among the final choices. [Fashionologie]
• British retailers are going to change their sizing for children's clothes because of the obesity epidemic. [Telegraph]
• Which will play right into noted obesity educator Karl "No Fat Chicks" Lagerfeld's talking points. The Kaiser also has reservations about online shopping, although this one time his assistant showed him how to order books and music on Amazon.com and it wasn't so bad, he supposes. [Portfolio]
• Nastia Liukin's line of denim isn't faring well. But her leotards, sold to other gymnasts, should keep her from the poor house. [The Cut]
• Wal-Mart isn't concerned about the souring fortunes of celeb-backed labels; it's launching a new Russell Simmons line. [WWD]
• Zooey Deschanel is also getting in on the action, with a limited-edition pair of $415 Oliver Peoples sunglasses she personally designed. My snark for this project is lessened in direct proportion to the share of the profits that will go towards victims of domestic violence. [LA Times]
• Posh's dress line has slightly lowered its prices from last season. But she's not sure if it's inspired by Mad Max or Mad Men. Either way there's a gray one with a butt ruffle. [Daily Mail]
• H&M's same-store sales beat analysts' expectations by only declining 1% on last January. This is good news. [WSJ]
• Whoa. A man in Osaka threatened 11 Uniqlo employees with a knife, tied them up with packing tape, and stole 2.5 million Yen. He was arrested as he tried to escape. [Breitbart]

• Britney Spears defied court-mandated visitation hours last night by refusing to turn her sons over to ex-husband Kevin Federline. So the cops were called! And then an "intoxicated" Britney was taken, via ambulance, to the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. [Us Magazine]
  
• Britney is still in the hospital for "an evaluation." She was under the influence of an "unknown substance." [People]
  
• There were nine police cars and three ambulances involved in the fracas, and Britney made a "rude hand gesture" as she was brought out of the ambulance on a gurney. [Reuters]
  
• And here's a report saying that two-year-old Jayden James is in the hospital as well. [TMZ]
  
• Wanna see video of Britney being rushed to the hospital? Click here. [Defamer]
  
• If you'd like to see some video of a Fox News helicopter capturing this insanity, click here. [Defamer]

• Pamela Anderson is moving ahead with her divorce from Rick Salomon: Papers have been served. Surely she'll bounce back from this and get right back out there. Soon she'll be ready for wedding number four! [Us Magazine]
• Is Kim Kardashian's so-called engagement just like her so-called $50 grand airport theft: Just a story to keep her name in the papers? [Page Six]
• Jennifer Lopez' twins are almost due, and friends say she is having a boy and a girl. [Page Six]
• Did Jay-Z quit as CEO of Def Jam records because the job doesn't pay enough? [Page Six]
• Poor Avril Lavigne! The lil' punk cried on New Year's Eve because Lil' Jon grabbed the mic and did the countdown at the party she was "hosting." [Page Six]
• Some dude claims he has video of Vivica Fox giving him a blowjob. Good morning! [Rush & Molloy]
• "Paris Hilton gave me my first alcohol poisoning!" — Kelly Osbourne. "I did? That's hot." — Paris Hilton. [Rush & Molloy]
• Blind item! "Which wholesome pop-star crooner demands that bags of blow be presented to him following his concerts?" [Rush & Molloy]
• Madonna's been taking long horseback safari outings in India, galloping for 17 mile stretches. There's a joke in there about being ridden long and hard but like, whatever. [Times Of India]
• Singer Natalie Imbruglia has split from her husband Daniel Johns, frontman of the band Silverchair. She was the one with the really good video, remember? Although she said she was "lying naked on the floor," but she totally wasn't. [Mirror]
• Eddie Murphy's beach marriage is invalid! A law specialist in French Polynesia notes that to be legally wed there you must live in the area for at least 30 days. OMG fake wedding! [Sydney Morning Herald]
• Oh, but Eddie and Tracey Edmonds are planning a legal ceremony in the US. Their Bora Bora wedding was a "spiritual ceremony." Cool. [People]
• Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbors are trying to sue him for building a basketball court they claim destabilized their property. The judge ain't having it: She says the couple are "seeking a scapegoat." [USA Today]
• Amy Winehouse is on holiday in the Caribbean while her husband remains in jail, but apparently she's been mopey because her friends didn't join her — sources say they didn't want to come unless she was trying to sober up, and she's not. Sigh. [The Sun]
• Meanwhile her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been voted Britain's top anti-icon by Arena magazine. They're calling him the "worst husband ever." [Independent]
• Former number one tennis star Martina Hingis is banned from the sport for two years, due to her positive cocaine test. Of course, when the results first came back, Hingis insisted she was "100% innocent" and retired. So. [BBC]

[Hollywood, September 1. Image via X17]

• Paris Hilton and Entourage star Adrian Grenier are hanging out because he's making a documentary about the paparazzi — although they "looked pretty couple-y at her Malibu house party last Saturday." [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
  
• The Obama Girl might vote for Hillary Clinton. Also, she'll be in the October issue of Playboy. Of course. [Rush & Molloy]
  
• At a tennis clinic in East Hampton, Vogue's Anna Wintour asked Roger Federer what he was going to wear to the U.S. Open. (Answer: blue and white for day matches, black for night.) [Rush & Molloy, 9th item]
  
• Sandra Bernhard thinks being famous today is without dignity. "You have to be like Paula Abdul and fall all over yourself and pretend you're strung out on something and behave like a freak," she says. "Paris Hilton and all these sorts of people can be famous now?" Crap, she's right. [The Sun]

• Foxy Brown is headed to NYC's Rikers Island. She'll stay in the Rose M. Singer Center, a women's jail, but we're sure it's still absolutely horrifying. Good luck, Foxy! [TMZ]
• When Warren Beatty's 8-year-old daughter asked what an orgasm is, he told her it's "a sexual sneeze." Man, it is too early to be thinking about this. [Page Six]
• Jeff Bridges wears an "complexly coiffed wig" to play a character based on Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter in the movie version of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People. Bridges will always be "The Dude" to us! [Page Six]
• Richard Gere doesn't need a butt double. Man, it is way too early to be thinking about this. [Page Six]
• Paris Hilton paid $2 million to make a lawsuit filed by Zeta Graff, Paris Latsis' ex-girlfriend, go away. Isn't there a more fun way to settle an heiress vs. heiress lawsuit? Arm wrestling, maybe? [Page Six]
• Joanna Krupa, a model we've never heard of, says other models are too thin. Thanks for the news flash! [Page Six]
• Bridget Moynahan gave birth to a boy yesterday, as we predicted. Tom Brady, the father, was either there or not there. The Post doesn't know, or they don't want to piss off Gisele. [PageSix]
• Vivica Fox's 43rd birthday party was kind of a mess, with a missing Rolls-Royce, an uninvited guest with a pending attempted murder charge, and a bounced check for $2500. Happy Birthday! [Gatecrasher]
• Actress and Tommy Hilfiger model Joy Bryant is engaged to a man named Sade. No need to ask, he's a smooth operator. [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
• Blind item! "Which Oscar-winning actor was recently spotted enjoying a summer cocktail with a male friend at the very gay Ramrod Club in Mykonos?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Pete Doherty news! The junkie rock star is accused of attacking a photographer. She claims she was "left with bruises and lost clumps of hair after she was assaulted by Doherty." Seriously? Honestly? How come Pete doesn't have a reality show? A fun romp with musical interludes, like The Monkees? [The Sun]
• Britney Spears: dissed by Swedish pop duo, who won't work with her because it could tarnish their image. [Daily Express]
• New MTV awards rumor: Justin Timberlake and Madonna, together. We'd actually rather see Britney Spears and Criss Angel Mindfreak, because that's the kind of crap you tell your grandkids about, but whatevs. [E!]

• Funny headline: 'Paris Hilton, Free To Speak Her Mind (Such As It Is)' [Washington Post]
  
• Nicky Hilton was annoyed by the "media circus." And you know what they say about the stars...[Gatecrasher]
  
• Britney Spears not going to perform with Cyndi Lauper and the MisShapes, much to our everlasting regret. Because she would probably puke all over the MisShapes, and we would love to see Leigh Lezark hold her party face after that. [Page Six]
  
• Vivica Fox, who has a middle initial we refuse to use, drives tipsy. Will it be as good for her career as it has been for so many starlets? [TMZ]
  
• So K-Fed and some guy from N-Sync who is not Lance Bass host dinner parties together. And Usher comes with preggers fiance, which gives gossips an excuse to drop Edgar Allan Poe ref in headline. [Rush & Molloy]