Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy just signed with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. WWD reports the agency will "advise the label on opportunities in publishing and film and identify potential strategic partnerships and sponsorships." The Mulleavy sisters routinely draw on films for their collections. Previous inspirations include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser, and Star Wars. So they could costume something or produce something, most likely in a horror, a sci-fi, or some other creepy genre. This is a very promising development in the film industry, whose love affair with all this vampire crap needs to end. Maybe the Mulleavys can steer the industry (and feisty tweenagers) in a new direction. Like mermaids. It's time for their fashion moment. And just like vampires, they don't age! Ariel's dad had the body of a 22-year-old.

TALE OF TWO SISTERS [WWD]

Last night on the Rachel Zoe Project, Rachel, Brad, and Taylor went to fall 2009 New York Fashion Week. Even though the Oscars were to occur immediately after the eight-day affair. We don't know about you, but we just died when we learned Rachel would have to find an Oscar gown for Anne Hathaway and schmooze with designers on an entirely different coast in the same week. On top of that she has to style Jennifer Garner — her first client, whom she will always be there for — for the cover of InStyle. Stressy! Thank goodness she has Taylor to dump small projects like that on while she deals with adding a train to one dress. And thank goodness she has Brad to keep her company and help her pick out outfits for herself while Taylor's hustling. As usual, we learned much about the fashion industry and life this week. And as usual, none of those lessons involved stress management.

What we learned about fashion:
• If Rachel, Taylor, and Brad don’t go to Fashion Week, Fashion Week will “disappear.” Sounds extreme, but she has a point: the amount of money she spends shipping five suitcases, staying in the Thompson Hotel, having her makeup artist, assistant, and husband around at all times, and buying clothes for herself probably funds 25 percent of the entire eight-day event, while keeping unemployment from rising in the retail and hospitality industries.
• If walking in your Oscar dress is easy, you should have worn it to the Golden Globes. Rachel is stressed about Fashion Week because the Oscars are two days after they return. The best option she has for Anne Hathaway is a sequined Armani dress. As is, it’s perfect for the Golden Globes, she explains, but for the Oscars she needs glamour and drama so she has to ask Mister Armani to add a train. If Karl Lagerfeld did it for her, Mister Armani might too. Lest you think she’s not a real designer, she can sketch her vision, okay?

This season Burberry Prorsum is moving its fashion show to London, after showing in Milan for seasons. Shortly after its announcement, Pringle of Scotland, Matthew Williamson, Antonio Berardi, Jonathan Saunders, and Clements Ribeiro announced they'd move to London, too. It's unclear what exactly is prompting the great migration back to the U.K., but Burberry designer Christopher Bailey tells the Telegraph money had nothing to do with it:

"It's actually costing us a lot more to show here. It was a gut instinct," he says. "It's the 25th anniversary, films are being made, art, theater, and design are buzzing, they're planning the Olympics. London is the place to be right now. Am I nervous? No! It's pure adrenalin. It's my first London fashion show. The only other time my designs have been on the catwalk was when I graduated from the Royal College of Art, in 1994."

Or, as the Telegraph reiterates, "Bailey's lean, boyish frame masks the strength of an ox, and his head buzzes with ideas as hot as a furnace." So how do they explain the return of the other designers? More animal metaphors, please.

Burberry has come home [Telegraph UK]

Stacy Haiduk, an actress on The Young and the Restless, walked the red carpet at the Daytime Emmy's yesterday with a (presumably) stuffed cat. We're told it's a prop from the show.

Would you have gone this far? And really, what animal is most appropriate for the red carpet?

Isn't it funny how last season Whitney Port was a lowly glorified intern at Diane Von Furstenberg, "working" backstage at Fashion Week, but this season she's staging her very own fashion show in the tents? Reality-TV stars — they grow up so fast. On September 10 at 2 p.m., she'll show her Whitney Eve collection back-to-back with Nicholas K and Mara Hoffman, who are all represented by public-relations firm People's Revolution, which is the subject of forthcoming Bravo reality show Kell on Earth and also Whitney's "employer" on The City. It's like a love triangle — nay, orgy — of realness! However, Whitney's fashion show probably won't be on The City, since those shows are about Whitney's real, non-famous life. With any luck, it will be on Kell on Earth, though Whitney's ironclad MTV contract may prevent her from appearing on Bravo, the greatest television network in history. So what this boils down to is that Whitney is "interning" for herself and employing her co-workers, while Kelly is working for her "intern." We're staring blankly at the air and trying to figure out what this all means (somewhere, Olivia Palermo is staring daggers at us). The bright lights and long nights and hirsute men of The City return to the airwaves on September 29.