—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

We’ve gone back and forth on presentations vs. runway shows for a while -

Actual runway events are more fun, more stressful, quicker, and sometimes include drinks.

Presentations are sometimes fun, not stressful at all (you can come by at whichever point during the time range), and always have drinks.

So we’re kind of excited/stressed over the news that two young designers with a little more cash in their pockets than last season, Catherine Holstein and Frank Tell, are switching to runway shows. (Cat’s showing at the Bumble and Bumble space.)

This means we’ll have a much smaller window to snap pictures of each look, but it does mean we don’t have to figure out what kind of awkward smile to give the models while we stare at their outfits and touch their hemlines.

So it’s kind of win-win.

Is it Fashion Week if Julia Restoin Roitfeld doesn’t design an invitation?

We don’t think so.

Last season, she beckoned fashion kids to Peter Som’s Spring ‘08 show (which boasted a beautiful custom lip color from Lancome, and a last breather before Mr. Som took the helm at Bill Blass).

The year before, she created a heart-stamped Luella leaflet informing the chosen cool kids - Agyness, Camilla Belle, Leigh Lezark - that they were needed at the Hotel on Rivington for Ms. Bartley’s bash with Teen Vogue.

And now?

Julia’s hooked up with Frank Tell, a nascent designer whose apprenticeships ThreeAsFour and Sue Stemp will be tested with his very first independent presentation, at the Tribeca Grand on February 2nd.

We hear Julia’s designed the invitation for 21-year-old Mr. Tell, and her friend Keegan Singh, a stylist for Vogue and Teen Vogue will helm all the models’ costume changes.

It should be a very hip crowd and hopefully Mr. Tell’s Fall ‘08 collection will match…