NERD-Y PLUMES: Now that Moncler’s creative ties with major designers are going strong, word has it the outerwear specialist is exploring new ground. According to sources, Moncler has teamed up with Pharrell Williams to work on a special project. A company spokesman declined to comment.

CALL HER: Betsey Johnson is eager to embrace the post-recession mood and design at lower price points — if only the masstige brands would ask her. “I would die for a collaboration with Target or H&M,” she said at Paper magazine’s 25th anniversary party. “They should call me.”

Johnson plans to spend Fashion’s Night Out tonight driving between her stores in a pink convertible brandishing large signs, though she worried that it might violate some regulation. “But I have a good relationship with the police,” she said. “I did some fund-raisers for them, and their girlfriends wear my clothes.”