Yesterday’s Preen show was at Espace. The only thing we know about Espace is that Christian Bale really needed to get there in American Psycho. Which brings the number of American Psycho references to a grand total of two this week. Which is way surprising.

Here’s what we saw and heard backstage:

- Make-up artist James Kaliardos, “We’re approaching each girl like we’re painting her portrait.”

- Jourdan Dunn, with her best friend from home, tasting different sandwiches. (You can read an interview with her at TeenVogue.com).

- Sewing, ironing, taping, pinning - up until the last second.

- Anja Rubik eating dates. Irina K. eating trail mix. Maryna Linchuk eating a turkey sandwich.

- Dresses that lace up, button up, ruffle up and look like they’re made to come off.

I was thirteen the first time I went to London and I spent half the trip trying to get the Queen’s guards to flinch.

One specific fellow at Windsor Castle was a dead ringer for Christian Bale - and I was obsessed with their hats.

But The Guardian just informed me that each of those spiffy hats takes one whole bear to make, which makes them decidedly less cute.

So of course the British Ministry of Defence has asked Stella and Dame Viv to come to the rescue and design not just a new style of headgear but to find an alternative material, much to Peta’s liking, I’m sure.

The Queen’s guards have been sporting those rather large bear hats since the Battle of Waterloo so it’d be strange, but cool, to see them wearing something different.

Now if only they’d give us a wink.