• Catherine Malandrino’s twelve-piece line in collaboration with Lacoste will be in stores next month. [WWD]
• Jason Wu showed his fall collection at an event in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, and one attendee bought 41 pieces — basically the whole collection. [WWD]
• Hedi Slimane’s PR representatives are claiming that a recent interview in the Guardian was deliberately misleading and have reiterated that Slimane would not be opposed to heading a luxury house like Dior. [Vogue UK]
• Alexander Wang’s footwear designs will be sold in half-sizes also, starting with this fall’s collection. [Racked]
• The director of a new film about famed Vogue photographer Guy Bourdin says working with him on shoots was probably like having good sex: “A lot of foreplay, mucking around, games, teasing, hard work and then, usually very late at night, a miracle.” [Guardian UK]
• Swatch will open a store on Fifth Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street. [WWD]
• Here is a slideshow of British designers featured in the London Show Room event currently in New York. [Vogue Daily]
