Kids’ Stuff: You can’t really argue with the fact that little ones look extra cute while wearing designer clothes. Unnecessary? Sure. But still adorable. Especially when said clothes are made by the lovely Stella McCartney. {W}

A Belated Happy Birthday: Mr. Mickey got serenaded by a pretty chic group for his bday this weekend…um, Madonna anyone? And Penelope Cruz, and Beth Ditto, and Pedro Almodovar. Well played, friend! {FWD}

Joanie Got Married: Okay, so this isn’t exactly fashion-related (though the dress looks amazing), but our favorite Mad Men redhead, Christina Hendricks got married and we love her so much we had to post something. Let’s hope her new husband is more of a stand-up guy than that wuss that her alter-ego married. {Just Jared}

Beauty Mark the Calendar: Crazy talented makeup artist Dick Page is coming to town, the Shiseido counter at Bloomies to be exact, on October 21st. We highly suggest making an appearance. {Beauty Counter}

Kinky Mickey: These S&M meets Mickey Mouse ears that Stephen Jones created for Ascot are one more reason to love the fantastical milliner. {VogueUK}

Forget Disneyland: If we won a lawsuit we’d go shopping, too. 50 Cent just dropped $33,000 on Tom Ford suits. {NYPost}

But We All Wanna Be Like Kate: Beth Ditto wouldn’t perform at Topshop without designing her own line. They said no, but gave her Evans and now plus-size lines are popping up everywhere. Ruth La Ferla discusses. {NYTimes}

W in Jersey? Someone over at W has actually eaten at the restaurant where the Real Housewives of New Jersey finale, aka the best episode EVER, took place. Perhaps it’s time for a Zip car road trip. {W}

“Beth Ditto is a fat lesbian. She’s also a fashion “icon”. Hilarious, isn’t it? I love fashion people, I really do. They’re so… how do I put this? Stupid? Yes, that’s it. They’re so stupid. Here’s what happened: stung by criticism of their unhealthy obsession with rexy supermodels, they hit back by lionising a pathologically exhibitionist 16 stone woman from Arkansas. Clever, huh? That’ll get the feminazis off their case. How can anyone say they only promote thin women when they are so enamoured of a porker like her?” Alex Bilmes, Features Director of British GQ, causing quite the stir on their blog

We produce models as fast as we can, given the fact that you guys steal them away within months.`

We’ve recently lost Agyness, Daisy, Alexa and Karen, so thank goodness our model machine keeps churning out new faces.

Meet Amber Le Bon, daughter of Yasmin and Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon. The combination of her mum’s legs and her dad’s rock star appeal is thoroughly British. And she’s still too young to leave us. It’s no wonder she’s just signed contracts with high street store River Island and Myla, the lingerie brand whose recent ads starred your Lydia Hearst.

Thanks in no small part to her mum’s enviable Alaia collection, she stood out at last night’s Hogan party, even while surrounded by the likes of Beth Ditto, Giles Deacon, Savannah Miller, Lily Cole and Katie Grand.

—CHARLEY B.

Urban Scoops: Lizzie Fortunato’s working on a collaboration with Urban Outfitters, a role previously held by Bing Bang’s Anna Sheffield. It’ll be called Hope Marian and her jewels’ll look swell with Lark & Wolf’s striped tanks for summer. {TeenVogue}

Sneaking Suspicion: Natalia Vodianova for Vogue UK looks very similar, and yet so different, from Beth Ditto’s inaugural LOVE cover. {CatwalkQueen}

“Having brought the house down with the spectacular “Standing in the Way of Control,” Beth decided to execute a celebratory stage dive, a move that I can only describe as ill advised with a mosh pit comprising various supermodels and sundry fashionistos in aching want of a square repas. In fact, as far as I could determine, there was a parting of the waves as the svelte and deeply panicked hordes flung themselves out of the oncoming path of the potential weapon of mass destruction that is la Ditto, and there was something closely resembling a resounding thud in place of the expected slap of flesh on expectantly upraised palms.” - Hamish Bowles, in his post for Vogue Daily.

“Fashion may be frivolous and superficial and often cruel. (When she met Karl Lagerfeld, Ms. Ditto explained, he uttered a lot of “fat-phobic” remarks.)” - On the meeting between a new front row fixture and The Kaiser, in the Times.

A riot broke out at Jeremy Scott yesterday - and not because you-know-who finally descended upon Paris Fashion Week - but because the world was desperate for Scott’s red-telephoned Longchamp bags.

The one-offs were intended for rows one and two - home to Beth Ditto, Peaches Geldof, Cory Kennedy, Kelly Cutrone and Gareth Pugh - and the security guards were determined to do their job well - so well that we witnessed beefy French men grabbing them out of third row purses and putting them back in front.

Anyway, Scott was inspired by Mickey Mouse. Capes and coats made of Mickey’s white gloves and black and red mini-dresses printed with Mickey’s silhouette marched out to “Hey Mickey You’re So Fine.” Then there were brightly colored coats and hundreds of buttons covering corsets and dresses, all on models topped with angular black bobs.

At the end, everything was hole-y and one editor philosophized, “Britt, I think those holes are a metaphor for swiss cheese.”

It was like eating cotton candy in the middle of the gourmet seven course meal that is Paris Fashion Week.

You arrive in the Place Vendome - it’s calm, civilized, Cartier sits on one side, Chanel on the other and The Ritz holds court in the middle. Suddenly, you hear a slight roar and land in a fashion mosh pit.

Vivienne Westwood’s Gold Label show is about to begin. It’s being shown in a building with one glass wall which means all of Paris is sticking their face up against the glass to get a good look. They might be looking for Kate Hudson, whose name is prominently placed front row. But the Hollywood starlet never shows and the crowds make do with Beth Ditto and Georgia May Jagger.

The program notes advise, “I always hijack my fashion shows to talk about culture and politics. The collection is called +5°. Somewhere between 400 ppm and 500ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere the earth will settle down to a new equilibrium of 5° hotter than now. Our luscious comfortable world will be gone. What is left will support hopefully 1/5 of the population. We must plan…How do we prepare for a world to help survivors; just in case there is time to affect this irreversible event, what can we do?”

Then Pamela Anderson storms down the runway, swinging her blond locks and twirling for the pit in a swept up pink tutu and one wonders, “Really Vivienne?”

The Fall 09 collection is 100% Westwood, stripes and glitter over silks and wools pulled and twisted every which way. Colorful socks and printed tights emerge from hefty platforms. There are crystal headbands and violins around the neck. People clap and laugh, Pam still dances, Eliza Cummings closes and even though Vivienne’s show notes go on to demand, “Buy Less!” you want to buy every single thing you just saw - even if you can really only wear it in a dream world.

Yesterday, somewhere in the UK, someone got the last copy of LOVE - That’s right, 67,000 copies have been distributed and sold, making the new glossy one of the fastest selling debut magazines ever.

So with all these people having a naked Beth Ditto on their coffee tables, it’s become the obvious time to launch her clothing range for Evans, that part of the Arcadia group owned by Sir Philip Green which has been described as the Topshop for the “bigger lady”.

Well today I can reveal the collection may be coming sooner than we all thought: I have word that the campaign is being shot in the next couple of weeks and the collection will be in stores late March / early April.

More details to follow from the shoot.

—BR(IT) BOY

News flash:

LOVE has not just a blog now, but also a full blown site on the Conde Net network.

Excerpts, images, funny quotes from Lara Stone, Alber Elbaz, Agyness Deyn, etc, and the ability to zoom in on parts of Beth Ditto’s cover - it’s all there.

You know, in case you’re looking to read about something other than clothes.

Ok, back to the shows.

This just in from five hours into the future:

Bad news: The first copies of LOVE are still being printed - as in, right this second - so those advance copies at Harvey Nichols and Dover Street Market are happening only on Saturday.

Fun news: The Beth Ditto cover is a full naked page, kind of like when the major singer posed for NME in ‘07.

So make that a Valentine’s Day launch for LOVE and a cover that may not be as original as we’d hoped.

To: Natalie@fashionista.com

From: Br(it)Boy@Freemail.com

Hey,

I’ve been told through a friend that the Beth Ditto cover for LOVE is very “ballsy” and like nothing she’s ever done before.

Apparently she got wasted, too, at the POP xmas party. Amazing!

Not sure what that means…but it sounds fun.

-Br(it) Boy

So, you think we’re obsessed with LOVE?

Maybe.

But only because we’ve been obsessed with POP since we went to London sophomore year of college and spent too much money on mind-blowing magazines.

Since then, we love all things Katie Grand. And while we can’t wait for LOVE’s debut, it’s with great sadness that we mull over her final, Drew Barrymore-covered issue of POP.

Her last letter from the editor, in which she talks beginnings, highlights and ends, after the jump.

Scratch that.

It’s no longer a rumor but now a fact. The Gossips’ Beth Ditto’s already been shot for the inaugural issue of Katie Grand’s LOVE magazine.

We’d kind of expected the magazine to go the model route what with their high fashion cred and ridiculously cool circle of friends but we can’t wait to see what Katie does with Beth on the cover.

Ditto’s graced the pages of POP and Jalouse, not to mention the cover of NME, but we’re expecting something totally new, with lots of Giles, of course.

Rumors are swirling that Beth Ditto will grace the first cover of LOVE.

The magazine is slated to launch in February which means Katie Grand might not even know who she’ll put on the cover. But she and her editorial staff threw their first official party in London the other night and Beth was particularly honored.

Her closely cropped bright orange hair only slightly distracted from the fashion scavenger hunt going on during the party, but no one could dig up the answer to the cover question.

We’ve sent Br(it) Boy on the prowl and in the meantime, he says he can confirm an upcoming party and major announcement from Kate Moss.

As for LOVE, we’ll keep our ears open and eyes on the blog.

You, too please.