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• Bergdorf Goodman will celebrate its 111th birthday this year with window installations, an in-store pop-up shop, and special merchandise created by over 100 designers "for every single division and floor in the women's and men's stores." [Racked]
  

• Venus Williams doesn't know yet where she'll stage the presentation for her sportswear line EleVen during New York Fashion Week. "I'm not sure of the exact location because I just got back from the Olympics," she said. "I'm still getting updated. Who am I? Where am I? Why?" [The Cut]
  

• Michelle Dockery says she's nothing like her Downton Abbey character, the infinitely imperious Lady Mary Crawley. But she does acknowledge that "it's amazing, really, how [the show] has affected fashion." [Harper's Bazaar]
  

• Industry darling Azealia Banks has landed her very own September cover. [Spin]
  

• Tyra Banks (no relation to the aforementioned Banks) has started documenting her life with GIFs she created for the photo-sharing site Cinemagram. [BuzzFeed]
  

• The image of a swimsuit-clad Michael Phelps sitting in a bathtub that was originally believed to be part of a campaign for Louis Vuitton "is not an official Louis Vuitton image," according to a spokesman for the company. [The Daily Mail]

Photo: Michelle Dockery photographed by Benjamin A. Huseby for the September 2012 issue of Harper's Bazaar.

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• Solange Knowles is making her debut as the new face of Madewell, marking her first major contract with a clothing label. She previously worked with Rimmel London and as a brand ambassador for Armani. [The Cut]
  

• Tavi Gevinson has signed with Hollywood talent agency UTA and is set to make her first film appearance in a Nicole Holofcener film next year. The movie is untitled, but the cast already includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, and Toni Collette. [The Hollywood Reporter]
  

• Betsey Johnson, who declared bankruptcy three months ago, will debut a new line of "solid and printed sexy, flowing dresses" at her retrospective runway show during New York Fashion Week. [WWD]
  

• Meanwhile, The Great Gatsby — which was supposed to ring in a new fascination with the style of the Roaring Twenties this December — has seen its release date delayed until Summer 2013. [Racked]
  

• Fashion editor Annette Lamothe-Ramos wore a traditional burqa around New York City for one day and documented the experience. [Vice]
  

• Nicole Miller has expanded her company's social media platform to include a page on VYou, where users can answer submitted questions with short videos. [VYou]

Because the fascination with Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette needs as much attention as the pampered kitten herself, the Kaiser revealed a little more about her in an interview with Harper's Bazaar.

Choupette's two maids — who obsessively catalog her every move — the Chanel bag named for her, and her penchant for eating food at the table are by now common knowledge. But what the world didn't know until today is where Choupette's dishes come from and what kind of toys she favors. Those tidbits and more below.

On her general temperament: "She has an attitude like a princess."

On her eating habits: "She goes in the kitchen and sits in front of the food. She doesn't like to eat on the floor, so I have to put the food on the table. Her dishes are by Goyard. She has one for water, one for her little croquette, and one for her paté. You have to serve everything, and she makes a choice."

On her toys: "She likes strange toys, toys that aren't supposed to be toys. She plays with pieces of wood, pieces of paper, shopping bags. She loves shopping bags . . . her favorite one is a huge Colette shopping bag that's under the kitchen table. She spends hours in there and brings all her toys in there. And when I'm in bed, sometimes she comes and brings all her toys in my bed."

On whether Choupette meows or purrs: "No, no, no — everything is done with the eyes. She knows exactly what she wants."

Milan Fashion Week's official calendar will have one notable exception this September: Jil Sander.

Instead, according to a report in La Repubblica, Sander will stage two independent showings because this season's calendar couldn't give her an ideal time. Milan Fashion Week is scheduled to run between Sept. 19 to 25, but many of the shows will take place between Sept. 19 and 23 due to fear that buyers and editors will leave Milan early to go to Paris Fashion Week.

"I'm sorry not to have Jil Sander on the calendar," said Mario Boselli, president of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. "We've been friends a long time and now that the queen of minimalism has returned to design for the brand that bears her name, we would have liked to have her with us."

Sander showed her first collection for the house since 2004 this July during Men's Fashion Week in Milan.