Babies, Gaga And Bling, Oh My!

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  • “Rumors are swirling” that Marc Jacobs and boyf may be adopting a baby girl. [New York]
  • Damon Dash and Rachel Roy are divorcing. [NY Daily News]
  • Why is Nicole Richie dressed as Lady Gaga? [BlackBook]
  • Oy. Barneys eliminates 76 positions. [WWD]
  • Tiffany‘s profits are down…although not as low as people expected! Silver linings…? [NYT]
  • This 30-something reporter is worried that she’s too old for “sheers.” We feel her pain! “Then there is the problem of the sheer panel. You know the sort – where one five-inch peekaboo slot has the ability to make a slick cocktail dress look startlingly cheap.” [Daily Mail]
  • And another one down: menswear designer Mark Shale files for bankruptcy. [WWD]
  • Lady Gaga has totally ripped off Hussein Chalayan‘s bubble dress. But they should feel honored! Besides, the original covers the vagina, a problem with Mme. Gaga rectified. [New York]
  • Fashion types are awfully excited at the news of Marni‘s new summer capsule collection, which will feature “Marni’s unmistakable abstract prints and block colour panels feature on easy-to-wear T-shirt dresses, casual jackets and mannish trousers.” [ElleUK]
  • So when she says, “her husband,” is Michelle Obama really talking about “the media?” M.O. says: “He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.” [New York Times via Fashionista]
  • Taking the pulse of the times, Margiela opens a German flagship: “Eight white rickshaws and 10 white bikes ferried guests from the new shop on Maximilian Strasse to the art museum, while those who preferred to walk had only to follow the white Tabi toe-sock footprints and white helium balloons pointing the way.” [WWD]
  • Speaking of which: we can add nothing to this quote from VogueUK: “The yummy mummy enclave of London’s W10 is set to become even yummier with the addition of Burberry‘s first UK childrenswear store on Westbourne Grove. [VogueUK]
  • Fashion parties, on the other hand, are feeling the pinch: “At a recent soiree, there was a strict one tipple per guest rule.” Accordingly, fashionistas are packing flasks. We know that game. [Fashionista]
  • Patrick Robinson asserts, again, that he’s changing the image of the Gap. Visits to the store fail to back this up. [VogueUK]
  • Clarins is opening a series of in-department-store spas. [WSJ]
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