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Your morning fashion and beauty report: Katie Holmes is happy with her Calvins. Buyers are happy at N.Y. Fashion Week.

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Katie Holmes is the perfect woman for Calvin Klein clothes, says a very reliable source: the brand’s women’s creative director, Francisco Costa. She’s tall and modelesque and the clothes drape beautifully on her figure. It’s a mutual admiration: Holmes was sitting front and center at Calvin Klein’s New York show Thursday, along with fellow celeb fans Julianne Moore, Kerry Washington and Isabel Lucas. [People]

News flash? Men are starting to care about what women think of their looks and are responding to commercials for grooming aids that hit them with sex and humor as sales tools. Silly me: I thought the Isaiah Mustafa ‘look at me’ commercials were mostly aimed at women who buy for their men. (Private note to spouse: Honey, throw out the Tiffany for Men; you’re getting some Old Spice!) [WWD] (Subscription required.)

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If you’re near London, make a stop at Selfridges, which has just opened what is billed as the world’s largest shoe department. It includes gold foil ceilings chosen by Tamara Mellon and a trompe l’oeil chandelier courtesy of Christian Louboutin. [WWD] (Suscription required.)

Retail buyers seemed happy with the spring selections designers offered during New York Fashion Week, which my colleagues Booth Moore and Adam Tschorn have been telling you about here at All the Rage. (Look for more of their coverage in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times’ Image section.) Buyers predict that these are looks customers will want to buy. [Wall Street Journal]

Model Sessilee Lopez is on the cover of the first Jones Magazine fall fashion issue, and was honored with the Model Award at the first Jones Awards during New York Fashion Week. She shares some fashion tips for this fall: Pick cute dresses with military boots and lots of statement jewelry. [FabSugar]

---Susan Denley

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