According to Chicago police, a man shot and injured a woman before fatally shooting himself in a Chicago Nordstrom store on Friday night.

Two gunmen who took 14 hostages at a Los Angeles mall last night have apparently escaped after an overnight standoff that involved the LAPD SWAT team locking down the mall and holding around 200 moviegoers in theaters until nearly 3 a.m. All 14 employees who were trapped in the Nordstrom Rack where the hostage situation unfolded have been found safe; KTLA reports that the LAPD is saying the suspects are still at large.

America's least subtle criminal has been arrested in Maryland, after stealing as much as $60,000 in merchandise from a Nordstrom warehouse.

Things Robert Pattinson has inspired: an entire generation of screaming tweens, magazine covers, cardboard cut-outs and entire lines of merchandise at Nordstrom, and, come September, fans of Twilight can buy Robert Pattinson-inspired underpants at British department store Marks & Spencer.

[A shopper tries on some shades today in Union Square at the opening of Nordstrom's first store in New York. Image via Getty]

The Virgin Megastore space in Union Square won't be empty for much longer. Confirming rumors that have been floating around the last few weeks, Nordstrom announced today that it plans to open its first Manhattan outpost of Nordstrom Rack there next spring. [PRN]

• Kate Moss's latest collection for Topshop hits stores (and the web) tomorrow. [Fashionologie]
• Anna, Oscar, Vera, and Carolina—among others—joined Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall this afternoon to announce Fashion's Night Out, which is scheduled for Sept. 10. [NYM]
• A former assistant to Karl Lagerfeld (and the author of a tell-all about the designer) is making waves once again with his descriptions of life inside the house of the Kaiser. [Fashionologie]
• A chat with French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. [Guardian]
• Halston's new creative director is Marios Schwab. [Vogue UK]
• Nordstrom be eyeing the Virgin Megastore space in Union Square. [WWD]
• It's Fleet Week! Why not get dressed up for the occasion? [Pipeline]

• Were you looking forward to that Kate Moss cookbook that was rumored to be in the works? It ain't happening, according to her rep. [SW]
• Topshop is scouting for a second location (possibly near 34th Street), and Nordstrom is looking to crack the Manhattan market. [NYM]
• Simon Doonan on Michelle Obama's edgy fashion choices last week: "What's next? Lady Gaga zippers on the eyes?" [NYO]
• The owner of Christian Lacroix is in talks to sell a stake in the company. [WSJ]
• Designer Samantha Pleet has a fashion-centric reality show in the works. And Bee Shaffer was approached to do a show, too. [Pipeline]
• Spa Week runs from April 13 to 19, if you're interested. [Metromix]