The Brit’s are taking a cue from our successful CFDA/Vogue Fashion fund; Vogue UK and the British Fashion Council have teamed up for the sake of their country’s flourishing young design talent and formed the BFC Vogue Designer Fashion Fund.

Each year, the fund will award £200,000 to a fresh-faced designer, plus a mentor, to help him or her build a successful brand on “the international stage.”

Britain does, of course, already have similar programs. Topshop’s NewGen, which has sponsored Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab, Richard Nicoll, Louise Goldin, Henry Holland and so many more tends to scoop up the most talented, most broke of St. Martin’s talent and give them the perfect place to show, but the BFC/Vogue fund will have more follow through and individualized attention.

So Liu Me: Alexi Lubomirski shot Liu Wen for this month’s Vogue China. If anyone can skip pants in lieu of a striped leotard and camel coat, it’s Liu. {Models}

Big Apple, Big Move: Henry Holland told Grazia he’d consider moving here after coming to town to launch Six Scents Series Two. That very night we talked about swapping apartments for a month, had I known he was this serious, I’d have packed my bags already. {Grazia}

One More Time: We’ve already talked about the top girls this season - who walked the most and the best - but this is the prettiest mash-up we’ve seen yet. And you know how we feel about pretty. {COACD}

Grand Sam: Samantha Morton’s landed the cover of T’s winter issue which is full of ‘nutty’ Brits including Alice Dellal, Stephen Bayley and Vivienne Westwood. We barely recognize her behind the fake lashes and hat - it’s a long way from The Libertine. {TheMoment}

Sometimes the events gods smile upon you and actually hold parties in the same damn hotel. Amazing. After taking in the scene at the Teen Vogue party, I hopped into an elevator to the terrace of the Gramercy Park Hotel to check out Blumarine’s new scent, Bellissima, where the cedar scent of the Rose Bar was replaced by the girly (in a good way) notes of grapefruit, peony, and vanilla.

The new fragrance (and yes, they did give everyone at the party a bottle) is a total break from anything done under the label’s name in the past—their aim is to bring it back to a place of relevance in beauty land. Next up is a Blugirl scent for spring 2010.

Apparently, the night was perfume-themed because much of the beauty/fashion crew then headed down to Donna Karan’s studio for Henry Holland-hosted Six Scents event which featured, um, performance art meets perfume spritzing. It is always interesting to see what people come up with for these fetes.

Then it was onto The Box for the beauty directors to attend the launch of YSL’s new men’s fragrance. Side note to beauty PRs: People are kind of over the whole events at The Box thing. Just sayin’.

Quite a fragrant evening indeed. I wish someone had told me to pack my own coffee beans.

Anti-Fug: I’m starting to worry that my favorite outfits always get Fugged. This is the Olsens at Opening Ceremony’s Tokyo opening this weekend; they look perfect. {GoFugYourself}

A Friendly History: Juergen Teller talks about the origins of his relationship with Marc Jacobs, his campaign process and the controversies they’ve faced together. {TheMoment}

Peachy Keen: Peaches Geldof continues her random TV reign. She’ll cover New York Fashion Week for GMTV, “Fashion is the thing that establishes creative talent and a person’s aesthetic individuality, but most of all it’s a fun way to express yourself,” she says. {PressAssociation}

In the Dollar Dumps: The Post reports Derek Lam’s having a few financial issues. He’s allegedly losing $1 million per month and his CEO’s been MIA for all of August. The CEO, of course, denies the whole thing. {PageSix}

Henry Holland for Topshop?

We wish. Instead he’s heading to their stateside flagship to celebrate the launch of his brilliant new tights collection, or so we hear.

The legwear, launched in collaboration with Pretty Polly, launched at Dover Street Market last week, though we’ve already seen them on Agyness and the Geldofs. The tights go for about $15 and mimic the pastel stripes of his AW09 collection.

We’d love Henry to be here for Fashion Week.

In fact, we think he’d fit into Intermix’s Fashion’s Night Out party, hosted by Sienna and Savannah Miller, quite well.

Six Scents, the fragrance collaboration spearheaded by Givaudan and Metaproject and curated by Seven New York’s Joseph Quartana, is ready to launch series two.

This year’s designers are Henry Holland, Phillip Lim, Richard Nicoll, Damir Doma, Henrik Vibskov and Toga, each of whom paired with an individual perfumer to create their perfect scent. I spent this morning with three of the noses and they discussed the collaboration process. Henry wanted something cheeky; he imagined a big purple couch, made of velour, for all his friends to hang out on surrounded by puppies. When his perfumer, Stephen Nilsen thought about making it unisex, Henry said, “Just lots of sex.”

Jason Wu’s resort show was at the Greenwich Hotel which was exciting just because a) Gwyneth GOOPed it and b) we’d never been.

As our cab pulled up, Vogue poured out the front door and we thought, “Shit, we’ve missed it.” But there were two shows, so we scrambled past practically the entire staff, watched Nina Garcia swallow the tiny Wu in her big hug and made our way upstairs to check out hair and make-up (see below) before taking our seats with champagne in hand.

The clothes were pretty. There were rosettes and pleats and bright colors and even structured shoulders - more ladylike than most - with crystals beaded on. There were petaled sleeves, a pink and orange petaled coat (which we swear we’ve seen before) and a blue petaled dress like this one from Henry Holland on steroids.

It was cute. It was fun. It wasn’t our favorite Jason Wu, but it was definitely the most wearable, which given the times is probably more important than satisfying our runway fantasies.

The Cat’s Pajamas: Catherine Holstein talks past, present and future collections and about how hard it is for a small designer to make quality clothes at a reasonable price point. {Coutorture}

Hair Raising Good Time: We’re just completely obsessed with this picture. And Agyness clearly agrees with our stance on pants. {Jezebel}

Ohh Johnny: This must related to fashion somehow - outtakes from Johnny Depp’s Vanity Fair cover shoot styled by Samantha McMillen and shot by François-Marie Banier. {VF}

Star Trek: A sit down with jewelry designer and Central Saint Martins alum Tomasz Donocik and a peek at his super awesome jewelry which might be made for men - but we still want it. {Starworks}

Vogue’s recruited Henry Holland to host a handful of interviews on their website this week.

There’s a slight problem in that you can’t actually watch them via VogueUK.com from America, so here’s one in which the Brit designer interviews Alexander Wang. Discussion includes Alex’s love of black, his childhood dream of becoming a back up dancer, and the time that Henry couldn’t get into Alex’s SS09 after party - the one with Foxy Brown.

Henry tells us, “I got to meet some amazing people, some of my heroes. Paul Smith was so
inspirational and a lovely amazing man, but then chatting to my friend Katie
Hillier was much more informal and a funny chat. I loved them all!”

This is a picture of Drew Barrymore at one of last night’s Prop 8 rallies in California, but we’ve noticed that she’s been sporting these blue swipes for a couple of weeks now.

The last time we wore blue eyeshadow was to Henry Holland’s after party - a completely appropriate and reasonable occasion - but Drew’s pop of neon is making us want to add color to our summer makeup routine. (A routine that usually consists simply of no makeup.)

We’re a bit afraid of coming off alien-like, however. The idea looks awesome in the pictures we’ve seen shot from a distance, though up close it looks like a child tried to circle her eyes in crayon, or sidewalk chalk.

Have you tried this? Will you try it? Tips, please.

Guess Who?: Gucci’s finally cracking down on Guess for their interlocking ‘G’ logo. Wonder what took them so long? {Bloomberg}

That’s What He Said: Olivier Theyskens likes fashion parties , but he’d rather smoke cheap cigars and pee in the Seine. We’ll see him at the former, thanks. {Hint}

Broken Brants: Stephanie Seymour just filed for divorce from her husband of sixteen years/owner of Interview Peter Brant. Poor thing’s sleeping in the maid’s quarters, probably surrounded by Alaia. {NYMag}

The Boyfriend’s Back: Suzy Menkes says the 80’s are back in the shape of boyfriend suits. Does your boyfriend dress like this? {The New York Times}

Boys for Boys: Henry Holland, Philip Lim & Richard Chai make the perfect white tees for Topshop. We pout because they are for boys but realize we’ll probably buy them anyway {Refinery29}

Pretty Hair: If this is the season we finally relent and embrace pretty hair accessories, we will choose these, please. {Starworks}

The City Breaks: Whitney left DVF to go back to work for Kelly because Olivia got promoted/sent to London and she didn’t so now Joe Zee gets a bigger role on The City? Is it too much to hope it just ends? {New York Post}

Topless in Topshop: Someone got so excited to get to Topshop she forgot to put on her shirt! {Imaginary Socialite}

If you remember when we mentioned that Gareth Pugh would be designing his own doll during Fashion Week, here’s the rest of the details about Barbie’s debut:

On April 8th, Dover Street Market in London will open up a space curated by Henry Holland to display the goods ready for sale in honor of Barbie’s big 5-0. And while reports first named Gareth Pugh as her stylist, it looks like he’ll be sticking exclusively to Barbie’s boy-toy, who’ll escort Barbie to the event.

While Henry Holland will be handling most of the Barbie-themed space, designers Danielle Scutt and Roksanda Illincic will team up to design her attire. So for those of you who were looking forward to your decked out Pugh doll, looks like you might have to settle for Ken instead. Or if you’re a real fanatic, you could always get one each of the happy couple and play fantasy wedding.

—CARSON GRIFFITH

Rosie, Henry Holland’s Casting Director

Got Her: Outside Henry’s show.

Stalked Her: Because we’ve wondered what happened to Henry’s collaboration with Levi’s - we haven’t seen them since September’s runway show.

Shot Her: Because she really made them look amazing. Plus we loved the little fur around her neck.

She Says: “Fur with Levi’s, naturally! It’s actually Burberry, though yes it does seem vintage doesn’t it?”

We Say: How long until Henry’s polka-dotting luxury furs?

Henry Holland’s show was maybe the most literal thing we’ve ever seen walk down a a runway.

It’s like he took the little paint cards from Home Depot, in the most bubble-gummy colors, blew them up and put them on super fun little dresses with major zippers, transfered them onto shaggy fur coats, men’s shirts and shorts and even bags. And to top it all off, the girls got to wear jewels by Katie Hillier (of POP, of Marc by Marc accessories, of Mulberry etc) exclusively for House of Holland.

Agyness’ and Henry’s families took up an entire row which meant lots of cheering - especially when the two danced down the runway at the end. In fact, our aisle seat lent a perfect view of Henry pulling each girl out from behind the curtain and doing a little dance before sending them out onto the runway.

Dancing, bright colors and shaggy coats might have been the perfect way to end London Fashion Week.

Until Paris, mes amours!

Just a teeny tiny bit of Fashion Week news today:

The big non-Golden Globes announcement this morning seems to be all about Sebastian Professional sponsoring the Henry Holland show for London Fashion Week next month.

So we take that to mean that the hairstyles will be particularly over the top, meaning a glimpse of Agyness in extensions is now on our backstage sightings wish list.

But could this also mean a surprise catwalk turn by Sebastian’s face of the moment, Charlotte Ronson?

Guess we’ll have to wait until February 24th, when Henry unveils his newest collection at Quaglino’s restaurant.

And if you can’t wait for Fashion Week just yet, we suggest reviewing Henry’s Spring 09 show, just to be ready.

During London Fashion Week I drove Faran crazy: “But Topshop! When do we get to go to Topshop??”

“Britt,” she’d say, “You have a ticket to Luella in your hand. Do not worry, we’ll get to Topshop, after we work.”

When we finally got to shop, I left with an inordinate amount of retro lingerie. At that point, I might’ve actually believed that my Spring wardrobe would be as sheer as the runways. So of course I’d need vintage slips and conservative, but still sexy underwear - Hanky Pankys weren’t going to cut it under Henry Holland’s sheer florals

Now reality’s set in and I most definitely won’t be wearing that Louise Goldin dress I thought was so cool three months ago - but I still have extremely high-waisted underwear, (which has since been duplicated at your local Urban), sitting in my drawer and I’m wondering, do I wear it?

If I do wear it under something barely sheer so that one notices a different silhouette, will they look more Bridget Jones than Betty Page, or will onlookers just wonder what the hell is going on with my lace-covered tummy?

I suppose it’s more likely that no one will notice, but out of curiosity, would you, or have you already rocked high-waisted underwear? If so, how’d that go?