All the fashion news of the week that’s fit to reprint.  Goop scoop From May 5 to 11, kale-fed Angelenos can drive their Teslas to Brentwood and drop dollars at Goop’s forthcoming pop-up shop. The announcement came by way of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Instagram, where she posted a pic of a whitewashed front door, complete with quaint lowercase signage.  Pieces in the Middle East Karl Lagerfeld has joined forces with the Dubai-based retail distribution company Chalhoub Group and agreed to open 10 Karl Lagerfeld concept stores and another 15 shop-in-shops by 2018. The focus? Handbags.  Message in a … shopping bag Back in September, an Australian woman living in Harlem was digging through her Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag when she found an SOS note written by a man working in a Chinese prison factory. Months later DNAInfo was able to track down the letter-writer, Tohnain Emmanuel Njong, who is now free and spoke about the 15 hours of forced labor he and the other prisoners performed each day. It was a fortuitous find, should get us all thinking about where our luxury goods really come from, and gives a whole new meaning to the term “free with purchase.”  A star returns The fashion critic and reporter Robin Givhan will return to The Washington Post (where she won a Pulitzer in 2006) after a hiatus of more than three years. Her first tenure lasted 15 years; she left the paper to work for The Daily Beast and has spent the last year freelancing. Everyone at the Post seems stoked to have her back.  New blood Jil Sander has a new creative director. It was announced almost six months after the departure of the company’s eponymous founder that Rodolfo Paglialunga, the former women’s design director at Prada and creative director at Vionnet, will be stepping up to helm the brand. He’ll make his debut in September at Milan fashion week. Mazel tov!  Come and get it Guess what? Interested parties can now channel Diane Keaton authentically. She and her antique-store-owning sister Dorrie Hall are curating a sale on One Kings Lane. Teapots? Yes. Doorstops? Definitely. Cartoonishly-masculine-but-weirdly-flattering-on-the-female-form accessories? Probably.  It hurts so good A new study from the University of British Columbia shows that customers respond favorably to unkind treatment by employees. Forget the compliments. Forget the gratis champagne. Shoppers, it seems, are a masochistic bunch.  McCartney’s critters In a brilliant move, Stella McCartney has teamed up with Disney on a capsule collection of children’s clothes inspired by “Maleficent,” the new Sleeping Beauty film starring Angelina Jolie. The line includes winged black sneakers and a purple sparkly dress with matching horns. Will high-end designers pegging kid’s collections to fantasy movies become the new normal? We can hope.  Instagram of the Week The highest honor.
Plus, a cry for help in a Saks bag, Karl Lagerfeld’s 25 plans for Dubai and more from the week in style.