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Jean Paul Gaultier at his spring 2011 couture show.

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Jean Paul Gaultier Gets a Museum Retrospective; Louis Vuitton Gets a New American CEO

• Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet has been named Jean Paul Gaultier is getting his first museum retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this June. [Fashionista]

• Actress Sofia Vergara is partnering with Kmart on a capsule collection of clingy dresses and leggings. [WWD]

• Tommy Ton collaborated with Justin Wu on a movie of male models lip-synching and dancing. YES. [Jak & Jil]

• Sean Lennon and his model girlfriend, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, are providing the soundtrack to Rebecca Minkoff’s runway show. [WWD]

New fashion blog the Coveted is having a legal dispute with another website of the same name. [Signature 9]

• Macy’s is expanding its contemporary offerings to lure customers under 30. [WWD]

• Bulgari’s watch sales jumped 21 percent last quarter thanks to their new women's Serpenti timepiece, which launched in December. [WSJ]

• Coach wants to double its menswear business, and it plans to do so by offering more freestanding stores and shop-in-shops. [WWD]

GQ has announced the finalists for their annual Best New Menswear Designers in America competition, which include Patrik Ervell, Alexander Wang, and Michael Bastian. [Racked NY]

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