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• A lawsuit brought against Polo Ralph Lauren by former employees accusing the company of not properly compensating them and failing to provide breaks has been given class-action status. That means 5,300 other employees could join the suit. [WWD]
• Retailers are worried back-to-school shoppers won’t spend big this year since teens aren’t making much at summer jobs and consumer spending is down. [WWD]
• Frida Giannini said she worried the opening of the Gucci flagship in New York overshadowed the reopening of the renovated Rome flagship that same month. [WWD]
• Check out these Brazilian Volkswagon ads starring Gisele Bündchen and Sylvester Stallone. Now we know what they were doing in a car on that California highway together a while back. [Fashionologie]
• Vivienne Tam will join Stardoll, the Website that lets members dress celebrities like Anna Wintour and Rihanna. She’ll judge a virtual styling contest this week. [WWD]
• Pharrell Williams’s protégé Teyana Taylor will walk in Diesel’s swim show in Miami. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Lord & Taylor had Bronx-based graffiti artists do over their windows. [Racked]
• Sunglasses are the new “It” bag to women and the new fancy watch to men. [NYT]
• It’s going to be tough to crash the Acria benefit Vanity Fair and Calvin Klein Inc. are holding at Steven Klein’s Hamptons house on Saturday. [NYP]
• David Beckham filmed a cameo for Sesame Street in which he “almost comes to blows with Oscar the Grouch.” WTF? [Mirror]
• Agyness Deyn bought a puppy with her new boyfriend, Albert Hammond Jr. They’re so cute it’s disgusting, isn’t it? [Mirror]