Fashion is going prep, and I don't just mean the fact that Harvard is moonlighting as a fashion house. Just in time for "back to school," collegiate nostalgia seems to be sweeping the fashion community here at New York Fashion Week. Saturday, Alexander Wang showed an entire SS10 collection whose inspiration was seemingly sourced from a high school football locker-room, albeit with looks intended for ladies only. (To boot, his after-party was held in a gas station on the West Side Highway -- spending Saturday night partying at a gas station? Hello high school.) Meanwhile, both Opening Ceremony (via a collaboration with Pendleton) and Balenciaga are offering up varsity jackets for FW09.

● Taylor Momsen may cite Kurt Cobain as an inspiration for her newfound music career, but she stops short of a heroin addiction despite rumors to the contrary. [MTV]
● After an eventful two weeks, Michael Jackson’s children were visited by Los Angeles Child Protective Services to make sure they’re doing all right. [Rpulse]
● What started out as a parody has now become the real thing. The "Slap Chop Rap Remix" will soon be used as a real Slap Chop infomercial. [TMZ]

Every designer needs a muse, as this year's Costume Gala and related Met Museum exhibition "Model as Muse" shows. And for Anna Sui, that inspiration comes from the four female leads on none other than CW cult hit Gossip Girl -- at least for her upcoming capsule collection for Target’s Go International series. “When I was in Asia last year, all the young girls kept asking me about the different locations in New York City where the characters from ‘Gossip Girl’ live,” Sui told Women’s Wear Daily of her fictional muses. Sui’s Target collection (her first for the mega retailer, though not her premiere diffusion line) is slated to hit 250 of Target’s US outposts September 13, where it will line racks until October 17.

George Clooney may have Darfur, and Brad Pitt has New Orleans, but Anna Sui has a plight of her own: saving the Garment District. The New York designer is doing what she does best -- designing -- in order to rescue the rapidly evaporating manufacturing center. You can purchase a T-shirt that reads "Save the Garment Center"; on the back are the phone numbers for important NYC government officials. Sui told WWD, "What are we going to do? In my lifetime, I have seen the area changing, but I can't believe New York can't set aside some building designated to preserving the industry here." The root of the garment industry problem is rising cost of rents (what else?!). The T-shirts will be available for $6 through Thomas Miller at Anna Sui; all orders must be submitted by Friday in order to wear by Fashion Week.