Springlike Hump Day Links

• Shoe Inn's annual warehouse sale is well worth a visit, just don't go at lunch. (RACKED)
• Karl Lagerfeld has a new protégé. (Vogue UK)
• The Gauloises era is so over. French court fines the Valentino Group, licensee of Marlboro's popular European clothing line, €60,000, (about $88,000) for "illicit indirect advertising”of tobacco products now illegal under the new smoking ban. (DNR)
• Designers are getting seriously nervous about losing their awards show PR opportunities this year (WWD)
• Erstwhile Lois Lane, Kate Bosworth is the new face (and presumably ass) of Calvin Klein Jeans. (Fashion Week Daily)
• Simon Doonan muses on the other side of suffering for fashion (Simon Says)