Yesterday brought news that Paul Wilmot is shuttering his west coast operations saying, “I opened up the Los Angeles office to see if there was there was business for us out there, and we just didn’t find it.”

But others, like Starworks, are finding business booming. In fact they just doubled their office size by moving into new 5000 square foot digs on Beverly Boulevard.

Allison Oleskey, who heads up the LA office of 15 employees, tells us, “As we expand our offerings and client range in LA, we felt the need to move to a larger space that would better accommodate our brands and also better reflect the Starworks aesthetic. We have always been passionate about the LA Market and see tremendous opportunity in the years to come.”

Autumn Bottom: Whether fall makes you think of fashion or of crunchy leaves, both visions probably come in the same color palette. Hillary and Katherine take layering to the max in their fall fashion editorial. {WWW}

On the Job: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former director of special events for Vogue, just landed a new position. She’ll be the director of Fashion Week for Lincoln Center when it moves in September 2010, “consulting on internal and external coordination between Lincoln Center and the fashion industry.” But the question is, who can she steal back from MAC? {FWD}

Still Haunting: Alison Sarofim’s Halloween party brings out fashion’s best and brightest. This year’s theme was downtown New York circa 1980’s; Marc and Lorenzo were dutifully costumed while Valentino opted for a spot-on Valentino look. {VanityFair}

Joy to Your Feet: Loeffler Randall’s resort collection just landed on their website this morning. Jessie Randall found inspiration in the children’s book Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni and you can also find the booties from Costello’s show. {LoefflerRandall}

O-Style: For anyone who wants to truly follow Michelle Obama’s style choices there’s been one go-to site, Mrs-O.org. Now, blogger Mary Tomer’s got her own book on the First Lady that looks to be equally well-done. Also, we love the Alaia in this first official family portrait. {StyleFile}

Hands off our DvF: For shame, criminals of Madrid. Diane von Furstenberg was mugged this weekend in the Spanish city. Though we’re sure AmEx hooked her up with some new cards really quickly. {Jaunted}

Phew! Sesame Street is not, repeat not, collaborating with Amercian Apparel. Thank god, because we don’t want to imagine what Dov was dreaming up for the ad campaign. Shudder. {Stylelist}

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}

Best Of: Now that Fashion Month is actually and officially over (too many forgot about Giles yesterday), the best of the month’s fashion’s been rounded up for your viewing pleasure and consequent envy. {Style}

Watch Out: Just in case you were trying to ignore her, two days after Becka Diamond was named NylonTV’s newest host, the actress is Who What Wear’s Girl of the Month - a coveted title that means she’s not going anywhere. {WWW}

Real or Rubbish: There’ve been a few whispers suggesting that once Condé Nast finishes their 25% cuts, they’ll bring Elle on board from Hachette. In that case, does Condé own every mainstream fashion magazine? And imagine a holiday party at which Katie Grand, Anna Wintour and Joe Zee all answer to the same boss. {FWD}

My Favorite Martian: Daria returned to the runways this morning at Balmain. And apparently, the alien-like beauty of Tanya D. will grace us with its presence once again very soon. We missed your boundless energy backstage in New York, Miss T! {Fashin}

LSD’s Burial Outfit?: Apparently it may be a Julian Louie dress. And yes, that’s vaguely morbid. But we still love the commentary on the Vogue-ette’s Fashion Week choices. {StyleFile}

Copping To It: The Nina Ricci relaunch tonight in Paris will be a low-key affair. Our desire to see what Peter does, still anything but low-key. {FWD}

What Did You Think?: Hadley Freeman wonders whether or not it’s really true that models subsist on coffee, cigarettes, vodka and champagne. Just for the record, we’ve seen them eat sandwiches, with champagne of course.{TheGuardian}

Risky Business: Karla Martinez just left her job as Market Editor at T, The New York Times’ style magazine, for Karl Templer at Interview. {FWD}

Surf’s Up: Yigal Azrouel took a trip to Costa Rica & took lots of pretty pictures. What we’d have given to be on that boat… {TheMalcolm}

Too Good: Mickey Boardman, Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos will be manning the dunk tank at Bird & Vena Cava’s Fashion Week Block Party. It’s over 90 degrees outside & we love all those people and it pretty much sounds like heaven. {Refinery29}

Sign Us Up: Now this sounds like an epic shoot. Daphne Guinness, David LaChappelle, an 18 acre former nudist colony in Maui, and bathtubs in trees. Very good times. {Fashionologie}

Lay Lady Lay: Rachel Zoe is apparently my music twin. Her iTunes playlist is pretty much my most-played songs rotation. A hippie who immediately equates an REM song with 90210 and also swoons for Chris Martin singing “Green Eyes”? Nice. Now if only we had similar clothing budgets. {The Zoe Report}

It’s A Beautiful Life: Nina Garcia’s IMDB listing just got a little longer. Ashton signed her up for a guest spot on the The Beautiful Life. Maybe Mischa could benefit from some of her tough love. Let’s hope they had a sit-down. {FWD}

I will fully admit to being obsessed with The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Those ladies really made the most of their brief stint on Bravo and I anxiously await their return.

Sometimes lost in all the table-flipping drama were crazy Danielle’s two daughters. The first time I saw the older one, Christine, I thought she was one of the most gorgeous girls I’d seen in a long time.

And apparently so does IMG as they’ve just signed her. She told FWD, “I’ve never really done any modeling before, so I’m just learning while I have a chance and being guided by the best in the business. I’m also getting used to industry people looking at my face so closely!”

We’re slightly concerned about the crazy “mom-ager” situation that is sure to come out of this deal. Visions of Dina Lohan are dancing through our heads.

Now You See It: Photographer Greg Kadel shot an editorial titled Come As You Are for Australian Vogue and released an early shot to models.com. In the actual magazine, they’ve airbrushed out Abbey Lee & Cat McNeil’s nipple rings. So, the title’s kind of funny. {Frockwriter}

About That: Those Sex and the City auditions were yesterday. Here’s a sampling of the crowd looking to linger behind SJP & Co. in the film’s sequel. {Interview}

Babies’in’Fashion: Cynthia Rowley’s designing a line of baby clothes for Babies’R’Us. It’s called Hooray, launches in 2009 and she’s been “dying to do baby clothes for a long time.” Because designing bibs and diaper bags gives her something a runway doesn’t? {PRNewswire}

Better & Better & Better: As if there’ll be a moment to breathe during London Fashion Week, now you’ll have to squeeze in the National Portrait Gallery’s Twiggy exhibition. {Telegraph}

Marco Zanini was reborn with a presentation at Rochas last season, after the ugliness that was the whole Halston affair.

Now FWD is reporting that come September he will get his first proper runway show for the house.

The show will pretty much kick off the week on September 30th which has to have Marco feeling pretty good about where he stands with his new-ish bosses.

Though we wouldn’t be surprised if he still has Harvey Weinstein flashbacks on a regular basis.

Oh No, Coop: Word out of LA is that Mischa Barton is being held at the hospital on a 5150. That’s a Britney-style psychiatric hold. Send in Ryan Atwood! {WWD}

Tonchi to Times Square? Stefano might just be leaving T for the 12th floor of the Conde building. Interesting, very interesting. {FWD}

ALT In NC: Andre heads south, discusses Ashford and Simpson, The Wiz, and Maya Angelou. Needless to say the pic is brills too. {Life With Andre}

We All Scream For Ice Cream: When is the Coolhaus truck coming to NYC? One Mies Vanilla Rohe and one Richard Meyer Lemon, please. {The Moment}

Loving You Is Easy: Girl crush Emma brings it again in Christopher Kane on Letterman. Can’t wait to see what she wears to the NYC premiere tonight. {Grazia}

Small Screen Move: We would totally watch boy crush Lorenzo on any sort of reality show he’d like to sign on for. {FWD}

Picture This: There’s no video yet from Vanessa Bruno’s short film, just stills. But we’ll take Lou Doillon any way we can get her. {Fashionologie}

And They’re Off: Recession be damned, there will always be couture. Even if Anna isn’t there to watch it happen. {FWD}

With One Notable Exception: A “restructuring” plan has effectively wiped out most of the jobs at Christian Lacroix. {WWD}

About Bloody Time: The NY Times finally caught on to the whole vampire obsession. Phew, now we can believe it’s real. However I do thank them for giving me an excuse to run a picture of Edward Cullen, er, Robert Pattinson. {NY Times}

Say It Ain’t So: Isn’t it bad enough that Christian Audigier has basically taken over entire blocks of Los Angeles? Now he’s threatening to show in Paris. {FWD via Vogue UK}

DC Style: Of the non-Obama variety, that is. Check out what the kids are wearing on Dupont Circle. {Washington Post}

Heaven On Earth: Coco Rocha discovers the utter beauty that is the “beauty closet”, especially the one at Vogue. {VogueDaily}

Blonde Ambition: Sessilee lightens up in Vogue Italia. We rather like it. {FashionGoneRogue}

Dirrrty Riot Grrrls: We can’t wait to see what sartorial decisions Christina Aguilera makes based on her new musical collabo with feminist trio Le Tigre. Maybe she’ll bring back some weirdo pants just to spite Lady Gaga. {Popwatch}

The Baron Returns: Fabien’s back in at Interview. We get why they need his creativity, but still haven’t quite decided what the upside is for him. Word has it much more staff shuffling is to come. {FWD}

Model Girfriend: Kanye’s lady (or maybe ex?) Amber Rose just signed with Ford. We’re supposed to see him at a party tonight…stay tuned tomorrow for updated relationship status. {Racked}

Online Targets: Target’s embracing online media with the help of Daily Candy. They’re launching Red Hot Shop - a selection of up-and-coming designers, articles and artwork compiled by Daily Candy editors. {WSJ}

Fashion Fight: There’s been a slight controversy over Susie Bubble’s Pam Hogg fitting room photos. Here’s the latest update. {Racked}

Coming to America: Luella’s finally shipping to America! Come July you can buy directly from her website which is a huge improvement from the tight edit Net-a-Porter offers - since that was the only way to get your rich-Brit-rock-n-roll outfits before. {Nylon}

Envision This: Pics from the Visionaire & Calvin Klein party. When I grow up I hope to be a teeny tiny bit as cool as Cecilia Dean. {TheMoment}

Wu’s New Lady: Iris Apfel will serve as inspiration for the designer’s resort show next week at the Greenwich Hotel. Bring on the eyewear, please. {FWD}

Scarlett’s Posing Again: Johansson is the new face of Mango in a campaign shot by Mario Sorrenti. She’s also recorded a Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot-style album with Pete Yorn. Seriously. {Style} and {Billboard}

Random Fun Photo: We love when people find fashion (and Chanel) in the most unexpected of places. {J’AdoreJoey}

Before There Was Topshop: BIBA’s Barbara Hulanicki chats with Glenn O’Brien about drawing for Vogue, the mail order biz, and Barbie’s bad taste. {Interview}

If Only They Were Scarlet Begonias: We’re in a really Deadhead-y state of mind today and have decided to just go all out with it. Feel the love and the patchouli wafting through the air. {This Is Glamorous}

Confederacy Of (Not) Dunces: An interview with the trio behind the grooviest new boutique in Los Feliz - including Hyde from That 70s Show. Don’t hold that against the shop. {Blackbook}

Are You Cool Enough? Submit your most stylin’ photo and Teen Vogue will be the judge of that, thank you very much. {Teen Vogue}

“Vanity Unfair”: Max Wiedemann’s latest exhibit slashes and thrashes all we know and love—in a totally cool way. The Moment

Talking Cats: Mad-libs with Catherine Holstein. She loves cut-offs as much as we do, all things purple, dogs and shoes. {Glamour}

Twittered: In case you missed it, here’s a tweet by tweet account of Anna Wintour’s 92Y talk last night. It started with Peta and ended with Andre’s blogging. {NYMag}

Dig Deep: Ali from The City gets questioned. She really likes Splenda and scented candles and ended up on the show after Adam was cast. {Nylon}

Suzy Says: Suzy Menkes took a trip to SF. Alas, she doesn’t have time for tweets. {FabSugar}