The House that Zippered Ankles Built; Rachel's Retail Renaissance; Quirky Collabs

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Local
· Buy a bikini car wash from Octomom, help save her house. Or not. [TMZ]
· Hello/goodbye: Tori Spelling had a clothing line?! And it's pro'lly dunzo [OCR]
· Would you wear these recession friendly, reversible jeans? [All the Rage]
· Guess founder's $63 million mega mansion [LAWeekly]

National
· OMG, this exists: James Perse Pingpong table [Racked]
· Pendelton does refined with new Portland Collection [Hypebeast]
· Gareth Pugh X MAC coming in November [Racked]
· An even more unlikely collab: Mini X KISS [Freshness]
· A primer on girdles shapewear [WSJ]
· Rachel Zoe may rule the world with her expanding retail empire [The Feast]

International
· Bitter Naomi gives chocolate a bad name, gets apology from Cadbury [The Cut]
· Fantastic Mr. Fox + Alice in Wonderland = New Mulberry campaign [FGR]