By the time the stores doors opened on Monday morning, there were more than 200 fans, mostly teenage girls, crowded outside, and some had been waiting overnight, clerks at the store said. They streamed into a special promotional counter surrounded by live-size cutouts of Mr. Bieber, jostling for position and laying down the money they had borrowed from relatives or somehow scraped together.

— Justin Bieber introduces his latest scent, Girlfriend, at Macy's. His prior effort, Someday, was the biggest celebrity launch at Macy's, ever. Read more at Bieber Fever Comes to Macy’s at the New York Times.