The British Fashion Council is continuing to grow by leaps and bounds.

After last week’s news about the creation of the BFC and Vogue Fashion Fund, they’ve just this morning announced a new addition to the British Fashion Awards—a one off called the “London 25.”

The “London 25” was created in honor of the 25th anniversary of the awards themselves and the winner is meant to be someone who “who embodies the spirit of London and is an international ambassador for the capital’s fashion industry.” The list of suggested nominees ranges from Stella to Alexa to Vivienne and, of course, Kate.

Unlike the designer awards, the public will be the ones deciding who takes home the prize the evening of December 9th by voting online for their favorites.

So, who gets your vote?

If you’re the kind of person who covers all the Fashion Weeks, hell, if you’re the kind of person who covers two of the four, you’re already exhausted from New York and trying to gear up for London’s 25th Anniversary spectacle and probably getting on a plane today.

We hate to tell you it’s only going to get more exhausting. Once you get off that flight and into your hotel you’ll find a surprisingly short stack of invites. Don’t worry, it’s not because your presence isn’t wanted on the runway, it’s because of the British Postal Strike currently on in London. So your invitations, along with 20 million other pieces of mail, are sitting in a bin somewhere until the government sorts it all out.

PR firms are scrambling, as if they’re not crazed enough, and sending out bikes, coureiers and e-vites instead. One said, “We clearly weren’t counting on this. We’ve posted hundreds of invites and now have to start again with e-vites, or couriers, and it is all a mad dash. We are hoping that the journalists will get everything in time.”

A BFC spokesperson said: “There are some things that are simply out of our control, but we are confident that the PRs have put alternate measures in place.”

Um, sure. We’d say, prepare to stand in epic check-in lines.

The British Fashion Council’s just made another announcement: People’s Revolution is taking over their stateside PR.

Kelly Cutrone’s firm will work to promote both London Fashion Week and British designers in general in the US.

And what better way to do that, really, then invite Bravo along to LFW to watch Kelly in action planning and promoting the BFC’s 25th anniversary celebrations at Somerset House. They’d like her to increase awareness of British fashion among US buyers and also, if possible, increase attendance at the week’s shows - most consider it the easiest to skip. Though we would never miss it.

Considering People’s Revolution’s probably the best known fashion PR firm outside of the industry itself, we’ll expect more crowds, more parties and more drama.

Woo-hoo.

Add another slot on the London Fashion Week calendar: Clements Ribeiro is returning for the first time since 2005.

The husband and wife team will be presenting in the British Fashion Council’s new space at Somerset House, not in the main venue.

The duo told Vogue UK, “The rooms have wonderful proportions and are perfect for the intimate setting we want to create for our salon presentation.”

We’re guessing they’ll pack the room.

The British Fashion Council just announced this season’s recipients of their New Gen award.

Topshop, the sponsor behind the award, will back twenty-four up and coming designers with space in the London Fashion Week tents throughout the week. The tents stand on the grounds of the Natural History Museum next to the main runway venue and get serious foot traffic from editors and buyers killing time in between shows.

Eight of the winning designers, including Henry Holland, Danielle Scutt, Louise Goldin, Meadham Kirchhoff and Peter Pilotto, will also get sponsorship for their runway shows. Which means, most importantly, a free venue. Last season’s Topshop space (an underground garage), was home to Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab, delicious food and an atmosphere more suited to partying than working.

Which we’re sure that bunch’ll be fine with.

Good news for emerging designers in London (and their prospective customers everywhere):

The British Fashion Council announced plans to start their own version of the CFDA in celebration of London Fashion Week’s 25th anniversary - and, presumably, to do something about the many young designers that show at the Natural History Museum then fall off the face of the earth.

We’re not really sure how this is different from the BFC’s NewGen initiative - backed by Topshop’s Sir Philip Green who’s also already named as the backer to this new initiative from the BFC in addition to Erin O’Connor - but hey, the more the merrier.

The first awards will go out next year - could this be Poltock & Walsh’s big break?

We don’t even have our full show schedules for Spring 09 Fashion Week (less than three months away!) and we’re already reading about Fall 09, which apparently is already causing some scheduling troubles.

The CFDA just announced that New York’s designers won’t show during the expected dates, February 6th to 13th, but instead from the 13th to the 20th. This is an annoying announcement to the British Fashion Council, because that means that New York’s shows will run straight over London’s. And since nobody else is pushing their dates forward but New York, that means that London only has four full days to show, from February 21st to 24th, before Milan kicks off on the 25th.

Clearly, they’re miffed. The CFDA said they’ve moved the February dates because this somehow affects the scheduling for Spring 2010 next September, which they’re trying to set up as a little further away from Labor Day.

One editor recently said to us, “But London doesn’t really need more than four days to show”, but we think this could mean more Style.com checking for a lot of editors, and maybe four free days in Rome and Florence…

Harold Tillman, the new chairman of the British Fashion Council, has given his first big proclamation since entering his new position about one week ago:

The fashion industry’s newer models need mentors to help look after them.

Tillman’s first suggestion? Naomi Campbell, explaining that the 90’s supermodels (like Cindy Crawford), are the kind of models that the younger girls idolize.

We’re not sure what kind of advice Naomi could give to a 15-year old girl.

Lessons in aim? How to look cute during community service?