“Geez”, muttered a friend Wednesday night. We’re standing in a jam packed club - not even a famous one - heaving with human traffic and queueing for £14 drinks. “What recession?”

Indeed what recession — it’s certainly not in London. After a manic LFW, one would expect everything to calm down for a moment, for the money and champagne to stop flowing. Instead, we’ve experienced a pent up demand to party - and wear the clothes \ we so innocently bought during fashion month.

The action’s hot and heavy: this week alone saw the bash celebrating the Juicy Couture store opening (which shares a block with Matthew Williamson & Stella’s store), the Tatler 300th anniversary party and the Vogue/Bulgari party. Last night, Alasdhair Willis (Stella’s husband), threw an intimate do at his Duke Street gallery, while Cindy Crawford launched her Omega collection at the Almada club (where Anna Wintour made her LFW date with Chris Kane). The latter drew the most stars yet including Lily Allen, Rosie Huntingdon Whiteley and Jasmine Guinness whilst Rhys Ifan flirted outrageously with model du jour, Tolula Adeyemi.

Lily Allen’s landed the cover of ELLE UK’s October issue in honor of the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week.

They’ve put her in a blond wig and custom outfits by Brit designers including Richard Nicoll, Stella McCartney, Burberry and Giles. The crystallized, body con Louise Goldin’s her favorite.

In this behind the scenes video, which also features photographer Rankin talking about how “uber-cool” Lily is, she says she’s never really been into the whole Kate Moss, Sienna Miller thing and jokingly claims Alexa Chung’s her London Style Icon.

It’s the graphic rock star make-up we really couldn’t take our eyes off of though.

No, No, and No: I am incredibly opposed to jean on jean. I will never be convinced otherwise. Brit Brit and JT scarred me for life. Kanye on Idol this season did not help the cause. {Grazia}

Does This Make You Smile? We’re not exactly sure why Lily Allen is designing jewelry. But we’ll reserve judgment until we see pictures of the whole collection on Monday. {Vogue UK}

Over and Done: Kiefer’s in the clear as the charges against him for headbutting Jack M. are dropped. We just hope he doesn’t cause any more trouble come September. {Us Weekly}

Heads are so hot right now. This summer, it started with the resurgence of the hat. Over the past few years, we’ve heard people asking, “Why doesn’t anyone wear hats anymore…like men in the fifties…like Humphrey Bogart? It’s so classy!”

Enter Mad Men, to show that yes, those hats were damn classy. Sometimes people just need a little boost to start wearing a new (or new/old) trend. Though currently the look is less business and more casual - it’s not just for company presidents and Hollywood stars.

Lily Allen’s landed on that oh-so-enviable list of Karl Lagefeld’s favorites.

Elle UK reports that after much campaigning - she does carry Chanel handbags everywhere and she does sit front row at Chanel each and every season - Lily will be the face of Chanel accessories for AW09. Karl’s set to shoot her next week in London.

We’ve long been told of Karl’s obsession with youth and young people and if there’s such thing as the perfect person to carry off lucite encased 2.55s and furry pink evening clutches - it’s probably Lily.

Or Blair Waldorf, but since she’s not real Lily’ll do.

We’ve been documenting the return of the 90’s (backpacks, Chloe’s OC line, crop tops) with genuine fervor lately, and we have another one to add to the list -

Stuffed animal bags.

Yesterday, we spotted an otherwise chic woman lingering outside Cafe Gitane on Mott Street. She was an otherwise normal-looking person except that she had a dog-shaped purse under her arm. Not a fuzzy wuzzy kind of pup, more like a taxidermic-looking version that we really did mistake for a real - albeit completely stiff - dog that she for some reason was carrying on her shoulder with a strap.

We had kind of a funny discussion about animal backpacks in the office not too long ago, an offshoot of a Clueless discussion. Did you used to have one? Would you wear one? What if it was a bunny, like Stella’s for LeSportsac? But we had no idea this look had taken to the streets.

Has anyone else seen this?

[Semi-related note: We went to see The Wackness yesterday, mostly because we were curious to see what MK would look like with dreads (overstatement - more like messy braids), and it was amazing, mostly because we have never missed the 90’s more than when we left our seats. Olivia Thirlby wore kinky hair and door knockers, and we have to say, it didn’t look Lily Allen so much as just what we thought “cool” was in 4th grade. Summer 2008 style inspiration?]

We haven’t been on Bluefly in awhile.

It usually takes too long to find something good and by then, it’s still too expensive, ie this gorgeous Prada clutch.

But we logged on today, clicked on YSL and found this bag. You know, the one Lily Allen carted everywhere just a month ago and the one Kate Moss has been carrying for at least a week.

We always thought the products on Bluefly ended up on there because no one was buying them, and even then, not less than a year after they leave actual stores. Are we wrong?

The good news is, if you want Kate’s bag for less than retail, you don’t have to wait for it to go on sale.

The bad news? It’s still $1,500.00 - and you know Kate paid $1,500.00 less than that.

These days, it seems like a lot of people get a TV show for reasons unknown, and then try to make a name in some kind of industry, often fashion. But at least Simon Doonan knows that it should probably be the other way around.

WWD reports that Simon’s memoir, Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints, is being turned into a TV show on BBC 2, and will be produced by the same people that brought us Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.

But the show won’t be totally factual, just based on Simon’s childhood in industrial Reading, leading up to his search for glamour in London. Expect to see SImon fleeing from police in Vivienne Westwood bondage pants.

The show debuts this fall, so casting and scriptwriting have got to be in full swing. Hopefully, this program will work out a lot better for the BBC than Lily Allen’s failed Lily Allen and Friends.

So who will play Simon?

Not even Simon knows that yet, but we’re hoping BBC 2 has Rhys Ifans on speed dial…

The biggest news from across the pond today: Lily Allen just got her very own television show, and it sounds like a cross between MySpace and Saturday Night Live.

The internet queen, who launched her first album without a major record label by posting all of her songs online, will host a variety show with a live studio audience. Everyone on the program will be chosen from Lily’s extensive MySpace friend list - she has almost 500,000 of them.

The show will air on BBC3 and is set to premier sometime in the spring, and could make a New York pit stop in Spring ‘08, which means you’ve got to get ready:

Grab a Luella or Stella McCartney dress to make sure you’re fashion approved, and then practice your British accent -

The last time we saw Lily, in Paris, she told us that “British girls have it, and Paris girls just don’t… If you’re from New York, you could go either way, but you need to stop pretending you don’t care about clothes.”

Lily’s obviously born to be a talk show host - Tyra would totally say the same thing.

—NATALIE HORMILLA