I’ve just zipped a carry-on-sized suitcase that hold all the contents necessary for me to look presentable (maybe even good!) for nine days. Bow to me, gods of efficient packing, because my days of checking two huge bags for a one-week trip are dead and gone. Read on to learn how to pack like an OCD organizer a pro for your next vacation.

• Choose pieces that complement one another both in color and in style. That means choose a color scheme and stick to it, but also choose a general look so that pretty much any and every piece can be mixed and matched. This should be easy for those of you who are more consistent in your dressing, but for those of us who are fans of dress-up days and odd outfits, it can be more of a challenge.
• You get one statement piece, so choose wisely. Something like a great skirt or jacket is better than a dress because it can be mixed in with a handful of the other pieces you’re bringing, in case you need to repeat.

We get it, Margiela: You like to be “conceptual.” But when that starts translating to borderline-offensive things like expensive duct tape jeans, which look like they’re about to fall apart, we have to ask what the point is. Margiela’s latest creation is a pair of paint-splattered sneakers made exclusively for Barneys. Inspired by the working-class man? Hardly. [HighSnobiety]

It’s not easy being a real husband of Orange County. Not only do they have to maintain the lifestyles of their image-obsessed wives, they have to do it on national television. Let’s take a look at which one we’d shun, shag, and marry.

“Spray tans! I usually don’t like to have them because I don’t like the smell of it, but I have had it before. Spray me up, baby! I’m going full-force on this show. I’m not going to hold anything back.”

—Olympic ice skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek on being willing to go orange for his next big competition—“Dancing with the Stars.” [People]

• Katherine Heigl is not expected to return to the “Grey’s Anatomy” set. [PopEater]
• Can Robert Pattinson hack it as a married and cynical journalist in “Remember Me”? [TrèsSugar]
• Jennifer Aniston apparently knows how to avoid showing her you-know-what while wearing a super short skirt. [Hollywood Life]

Saturday

• ”Kell on Earth” on Bravo at 10:00 a.m.
• “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” on FX at 11:00 a.m.
• “Freedom Writers” on TNT at 12:00 p.m.
• “Clean House” on Style at 1:00 p.m.

• In a historic move, Natalie Randolph, 29, a teacher at Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C., was introduced as the school’s head football coach this morning. As a former women’s professional football player, Randolph was a wide receiver for the D.C. Divas team. In 1985 a woman was named head football coach for a different D.C. high school, but was removed from the position one day later. [CNN]
• Four women, including superstar Danica Patrick, will be racing this weekend in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This will be the first time ever that four women have started an IndyCar Series race. [USA Today]
• A study of over 46,000 has found that women who took birth control pills beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than women who never went on the pill, including cutting the risk of death from bowel cancer by almost 40 percent. [AP]

It’s a story ripped from an episode of “Jersey Shore”: Utah’s House Majority Leader, Rep. Kevin Garn, admitted yesterday that in 2002 he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet during his Congressional campaign about a 1985 incident where they sat naked in a hot tub together. Garn, who is 55 now, was 30 at the time; the girl, Cheryl Maher, who is 40 now, was 15 at the time.

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