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• John Galliano just signed a licensing deal for eyewear, effective September 2009. The collection will include men’s and women’s styles, including prescription frames. [WWD]
• Cindy Crawford’s restaurateur husband, Rande Gerber, is being sued for $500,000 because he made an in-flight cocktail menu for Delta Airlines called Midnight Sky. He had signed a contract with his former employer Skybar (the L.A. bar he once managed) that he wouldn’t use the word “sky” in any of his future ventures. [British Vogue]
• Rachel Zoe will host a booth at Super Saturday in Water Mill this weekend. She’ll sell stuff like Jennifer Garner’s shoes and a handbag signed by Heidi Klum. [British Vogue]
• Lacoste and Visionaire magazine made polo shirts together, with artwork by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and Karl Lagerfeld. One has a giant image of Coco Rocha’s face on it. [WWD]
• Project Runway runner-up Jillian Lewis previewed her fall collection this week. [GlaMalan]
• Ports 1961 signed a deal with NBC to dress four of its female Olympics commentators. [WWD]
• Comme des Garçons retrospective in China consists of printed matter from the past 25 years. Not clothes. Boo. [WWD]
• ADAM designer Adam Lippes is going to launch a blog on his Website on Monday. Because a bajillion is never enough. [WWD]
• Rachel Weisz was spotted wearing a crazy outfit with a giant feathered headpiece in her Vogue photo shoot. [Jezebel]
• Leighton Meester’s puffy-sleeved Zac Posen dress at the Summer TCAs in L.A. did not have shoulder pads in it, ‘mkay? [PopSugar]