Kate Spade is branching out into furniture, an interesting collaboration from the American Museum of Natural History, a major Oscar de la Renta retrospective in San Francisco, and more style news that made the rounds this week.

• Christophe Lemaire, former Hermès Creative Director, is designing a Fall capsule collection for Uniqlo.
• Fashion on the Ration, a new exhibition at the London Imperial War Museum, explores how the Second World War affected fashion.
• Giorgio Armani is planning a new womenswear line. The New Normal collection will be “full of classic items”.
• Bettina Graziani, one of the world’s first supermodels, passed away on Monday.
• Kate Spade is branching out into bedding and bath products, furniture, and a collection of kitchen goods.
• The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco is staging a major Oscar de la Renta retrospective.
• The Zoe Report is launching a subscription service. Four times a year, members will receive a “Box of Style”, containing Rachel Zoe-approved goods.
• For its second edition, The Karl Daily — Karl Lagerfeld’s fashion mailer — is going digital.
• NY City’s American Museum of Natural History has enlisted 22 Etsy designers to create 140 products inspired by the museum’s collections.

Fun Fashion Fact

Did you know that during the Second World War people attached “blackout buttons” to clothing lapels. These shiny buttons made the wearer visible on the streets after a blackout. The Guardian also mentions that: “The fashionably inclined would have worn more design-aware ones such as luminous flowers available from stores like Selfridges.”