· Stuff Editor Greg Gutfeld arrived at the Phat Farm show on Thursday wearing a bearskin cape complete with head, claws, eyes and teeth. Said Gutfeld, the bear's name was "Skittles . . . and he lived and died for fashion." [Page Six]
· Imitation of Christ reps were spreading rumors that Jeremy Scott's show was cancelled, fearing that it would interfere with their after-party. [Page Six]
· Fox News put an ad in a cable business publication that read "We report. You golf." It featured a figure chipping a golf ball toward a cup with a CNN flag. [NY Daily News]
· The $700 sale price of Calvin Klein to Philips Van Heusen breaks down to $430 million in cash and the rest in PVH stocksignificantly lower than the $1 billion-plus asking range in 2000. Only four designers showed up to Laura Bush's "Red Dress Collection" benefit for heart disease Friday morning. Michael Gross writes, "Zac Posen, at least, had a good excuse," and goes on to explain that Pretty-Boy Prima-Donna Poseur Posen was up late the night before partying at the Four Seasons with assorted models and celebs. [Ed. noteIf getting wasted with the fashionably emaciated the night before is a "good excuse," isn't it fair to say that at least 80% of the designers who didn't show up had a "good excuse"?] [The Word]