>> New York Fashion Week is a little less than two weeks away, and the tidbits are flowing freely — a compilation of the highlights from the past couple of days:

• Juergen Teller is meeting Cathy Horyn for a free, open to the public, discussion about his work at New York's Visual Arts Theater Sept. 12, 7 pm [On the Runway]


• Zac Posen explains his move from the big Tent at Bryant Park to a smaller Altman Building show for 400: “For this collection, an intimacy between model, clothing and audience could only be achieved in a smaller space. I really enjoyed the experience of a more intimate show after Pre-Fall 2009, followed by our successful Resort 2010, which was held at my downtown atelier." [WWD]

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• Models fees are required in France, so Christian Lacroix chipped in to pay his 10 models 50 euros apiece. Normal couture fees are said to be around 1300 euros per show for new faces — every year of experience earns a "raise" of about 1000 more euros. [Imaginary Socialite]


• Jean Paul Gaultier had a 12-lb dress, Chanel had three seamstresses working on the bride look, and Maison Martin Margiela used 2,000 pen caps for a jacket: it's Fall 2009 couture by the numbers. [The Cut]


• Cathy Horyn yearns for Alessandra Facchinett's Valentino; Of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli's couture, she says: "Frankly I’d be worried about getting too close to one of those prickly, encrusted numbers. You might get a rash." [On the Runway]
Couture clients, a video of Chanel couture in the making »

»Eniko Mihalik, former "chopstick" [TI]

»Yigal Azrouel designed condoms [The Cut]

»Ownership of Jil Sander has changed hands [WSJ]

»Kai Kuhne is being backed by the venture capitalist who co-founded Proenza Schouler [Style File]

»Iris Strubegger loves Bette Midler songs [Supreme Being]

»Style.com is launching e-commerce [Racked]

»Chris Benz is staging his first runway show, inspired by pre-American Revolution period dress [Style File]

»Cushnie et Ochs, the "new Proenza Schouler," guest bloggers [Word Up!]

»Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Karen Elson, and Sarah Sophie Flicker act in a short film for Wren that debuts next Thursday [Style File]

»Which new models are creating the most casting buzz? [TI]

»Instead of farming out its production to cheap foreign labor, Mulberry is made by a young British "iPod-listening" workforce [Racked]

»Wilhemina Models is going public — marking the first agency to ever do such a thing [Forbes]

»Michael Kors's Project Runway fame has translated into five percent of his company's gross [NY Times]

»Style.com is launching a runway-to-iPhone application for fashion week [The Pipeline]

»Why has Erin Fetherston partnered with a cookie company? [Fashionista]

»Viktoriya Sasonkina's September 2008 Vogue Italia cover was inspired by Bette Davis [Women Management Blog]

»Chloe Sevigny, Agyness Deyn to host Christie's art preview; Andre Leon Talley is feting Jennifer Hudson [FWD, FWD]

»A peek into the home of Teen Vogue senior fashion editor Aya Kanai [The Selby]

»Mario Sorrenti returns to his modeling days, Kate Moss days for the cover of Purple Fall 2008 [FAD]

»Jenni Kayne is pregnant, will be missing her Spring 2009 presentation [FabSugar]

»Anna Sui, staunchly anti-Forever 21 though she is, seems to have copied a vintage bag for production [Fashionista]

»Calvin Klein launches e-commerce [FWD]

»Who's more expensive: September Vogue or September Elle [Jezebel]

»Designers are increasingly using embellishments and high-tech fabrics to ward off knockoffs [The Cut]

»American Apparel to do shoes? [Fashionista]

»Avion Feminin launches lingerie [Style File]

»Kate Moss has backyard teepees that are causing problems [Daily Mail]

»More Spring 2009 show packages: DNA, 1 Model Management, Women, Trump [Of the Minute]

»Veruschka will attend a Assouline launch party for a book about her during New York Fashion Week [FWD]

»Lisa Levine is shuttering her jewelry line "for other pursuits" [The Pipeline]

»Cathy Horyn is back to blogging after a month-long break [On the Runway]

»The namesake of the Chloe Bay bag [FabSugar UK]

»Comptoir des Cotonniers is opening its first stateside store in the next two days [Racked]

»Kate Schelter: Now a Huffington Post contributor [The Transom]

»A flip through Nanette Lepore's Victorian West Village townhouse [CasaSugar]

»Vanessa Traina and Harley Viera-Newton have Elite+ show cards going out for Spring 2009 [Of the Minute]

»Paul Starr, makeup artist to Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Dolce & Gabbana, mysteriously passed away Tuesday [BellaSugar]

»Coco Rocha acts out for Barneys Fall catalog [The Cut]

»Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann has a new cause [FWD]

»Lakshmi Menon has some upcoming work in Vogue Paris [Models.com]

»Spring 2009 show packages galore: Supreme, Muse, Ford, Elite [Of the Minute]

»On the rise: Pamela Love, whose claw bracelets appeared in the Fall 2008 Gap ads, and who is collaborating with Marchesa for Spring 2009 [The Cut]

»Does Jane Mayle already have placement at another, larger label? [The Pipeline]

»Preen, Roksanda Illincic, Marios Schwab on their Spring 2009 inspiration [Dazed Digital]

»Diane Pernet is launching a touring fashion film festival [FWD]

»Siri Tollerod stars in a really over-the-top Harajuku Lovers commercial [Fashionista]

»Julia Stegner has moved from Women to IMG [Chic Report]

»New York Models Show Package [Of the Minute]

»Alison Lewis, formerly of Mooka Kinney, to launch solo line [The Pipeline]

»PETA isn't a fan of Gwyneth Paltrow's Tod's ads [The Cut]

»The winner of Stylista starts as Anne Slowey's new assistant editor at Elle tomorrow [FWD]

»Karl Lagerfeld: Now in pink gingham [Jezebel]

»Could Kate Moss make an appearance at Interview's fashion week party? [FWD]

»Emily Weiss, former Teen Vogue intern of The Hills fame, is now working for stylist Katie Mossman [Fashionista]

»Jourdan Dunn closes Cape Town Fashion Week [FabSugar UK]

»Rankin designed a limited-edition Coke bottle [Vogue UK]

»Shipley & Halmos launched a new website boasting the "Cursor is God." [Racked]

»Rachel Comey schleps her team out to Long Island house to work on her Spring 2009 collection (peeks involved!) [Refinery29]

»Vanessa Traina and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld are co-hosting a Boucheron gala during New York Fashion Week [FWD]

»Kate Moss's Fall 2008 Topshop collection is dropping September 9 [Topshop]

»Hana Soukupova is hosting a Victoria's Secret preview at her Sag Harbor home this weekend [FWD]

»Net-a-Porter has started stocking Halston [Fashionista]

»Alessandro Nivola has been cast to play Boy Capel opposite Audrey Tautou in Coco avant Chanel [Vogue UK]

»Sean Avery's fledgling styling business is kaput now that he's moving to Dallas [Style File]

»Which Olympian should replace Roger Federer on Anna Wintour's arm? [The Cut]

»Alice Burdeu got banged [TFS]