• Diane von Furstenberg, Vera Wang, Donna Karan, and Simon Doonan are voting for Obama. Doonan says, "Apart from being the right candidate, Mr. Obama looks better in a suit, which can only be a good thing." [WWD]

• In rough financial times, shoppers are getting creative with how they embrace high-end apparel: Three men have proposed on Saks' eighth-floor footwear mecca, 10022-SHOE. “It’s a little sick, but it happened,” said Saks president, Ron Frasch. [WWD]

• Zara is opening a new 15,000-square-foot outpost on the Upper West Side this spring. [WWD]

• Kate Moss is on the cover of British Vogue. This is her 26th cover; she last appeared on the cover of the October issue. [British Vogue]

• A pair of skull-and-star-decked Kitson moccasins has been sold out for months, after Shiloh Jolie-Pitt was photographed in them; Suri Cruise's velvet Baba dress from Bonpoint is nearly sold out. [NYDN]