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Le Tigre Erects Billboard With Tiger Woods Quip; Balenciaga Shoes Available at DSW for Cheap

• Lifestyle brand Le Tigre erected a billboard on the West Side Highway today that reads “Golf Needs a Tiger: Let’s Get Back on Course.” Oh, HAR. [WWD]

• OMG, YOU GUYS: There are some Balenciaga shoes at the Union Square DSW for under $100. Multiple styles are available, including those futuristic ones Loehmann’s used to have a lot of. [Nitro:licious via Racked]

Gareth Pugh dressed Julia Stegner for a Mercedes ad shot by Nick Knight. It’s a recession — why not? [WWD]

• Twelve Macy’s stores, including the Manhattan Herald Square location, will stay open ‘round the clock until 6 p.m. on Thursday. Nothing beats being at Macy’s at 4 a.m.! [WWD]

• British Vogue’s website named recently unemployed Alexa Chung the most stylish person of 2009. [Evening Standard UK]

• If you need a conversation starter for your holiday dinner table, why not begin with something Tom Ford once said? “When I was asked as a child what I wanted to be, I’d say, ‘I want to be rich, I want to be famous, I want to live in the big city, I want to have a fabulous life’. All I’ve done my entire life is fulfill my destiny.” [Independent UK]

Le Tigre Erects Billboard With Tiger Woods Quip; Balenciaga Shoes Available at DSW for Cheap