Last night was the second time this week we found ourselves in the car park at Selfridges.

On Sunday, Yasmin LeBon hosted the Really, Really Great Garage sale to raise money for Mothers4Children and last night, Vivienne Westwood showed her Anglomania collection to everyone from Tracey Emin, Rosemary Ferguson and Little Boots to Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Yasmin Mills and Lady Victoria Hervey. Daisy Lowe stomped down the runway as she’s prone to doing in an eye-popping, colorful Masaai warrior look - the collection’s recurrent theme.

The whole Survivor-esque thing felt quite timely, given that Londoners are still reeling from the Luella news, but Viv was not discouraged, “It’s a bit of a cull, innit? May be a good thing, she may just come out bigger and better. Tell an English bird she can’t do and she will come out stronger - trust me!”

In other fashion movie news, Coco Avant Chanel continues its international release rounds.

The movie comes out in the UK next weekend, July 31, where it’s being welcomed with various festivities. The Guardian’s Jess Carter Morley breaks down the impeccable fashions while the newspaper’s offering £100 to Selfridges - not quite enough for Chanel ready-to-wear, though plenty for this.

If you’d rather embrace something more authentic, QueensOfVintage.com is hosting a shindig at St. Pancras train station on the 30th. They’d like everyone to wear their “finest attire” and you’ll have a chance to win Chanel related memorabilia. Though of course Chanel would like you to know this has nothing to do with them.

As for us, well, by time it comes out here September 25th we’ll be in London anyway!

Stylist Patricia Field has created another custom Diet Coke bottle, currently available at Selfridges in England. This time the inspiration was Ugly Betty.

Now Ugly Betty hasn’t been much of a buzzworthy show of late, but perhaps that is not the case overseas. ABC almost pulled the plug on it this spring, so the timing seems a bit odd.

Also the bottle, wow is it not so cute. It’s a pink leopard-ish print. And guess what? It comes with stickers that you can put on your bottle…or maybe your notebook.

This morning’s inbox is flooded with sale announcements.

While no one’s hit 75% off quite yet, except for Selfridges which sadly we can’t make, spring prices are being slashed left and right.

Saks just announced 25% off all women’s denim (on top of their already 40% off sale), for two days you can take an extra 20% off sale at Shopbop and Barneys added inventory to their sale while knocking everything down another 25%, too.

J.Crew’s having a ‘secret’ sale - enter SECRET at checkout for 20% purchases over $175 and Net-a-Porter’s sale section’s already disappeared which means we expect it to be further discounted on the Outnet sooner than later.

And, someone emailed yesterday to ask why in the world Intermix is selling spring Rag & Bone for full price when it’s 50% off on Bergdorf’s 5th floor - we don’t know why, but we do think you’d like to know that if you have your heart set on that perfect romper at left you should probably head to 5th instead of Madison Avenue.

Happy shopping!

Any savvy shopper can spot Selfridges’ bright yellow bag from a mile away and the British department store has embraced their love of all things bright in honor of their 100th Anniversary.

They’ve launched a pop-up shop, open from today until the end of the month, full of fancy designer goods accented in Pantone 109.

The Christian Louboutin pumps at left might be our favorite. We admit, we would have loved to see a hot yellow sole and heel. But the compromise, a bright toe, is quite cool and unexpected. They’ve made very limited quantities, as in just a few pairs per size, and you can only get them at the pop-up shop.

There’s also a rubber ducky yellow dress by Giles, a special edition Marc Jacobs Stam, and some neon yellow Converse.

Happy Birthday Selfridges!

—CHARLEY B.

The downward spiral began when Victoria Beckham wore it.

Then we read that Moscow housewives are “shipping them in by the truckload” - the official death knell.

We’re talking, of course, about Balmania - the fastest spreading fashion virus ever.

Let’s talk about the “design genius” that made Christophe Decarnin famous in the first place: Very suspect looking shoulders on Michael Jackson jackets. And how about the ten, eleven thousand dollar price tags? We didn’t understand until we decided that editors rave and obsess because mere mortals simply cannot have them. And really, neither can actual journalists - unless of course they’re married to a tycoon. So they fawn over Balmain, even though Decarnin makes his darlings look like fashion robot victims.

A point driven home at Selfridges this morning when three very cool London girls stood over the (full) Balmain rack and squealed,”Ewww!”

—CHARLEY B.

Between the end of my Fashion Week duties and my chunnel train to Paris, I had approximately twelve hours to enjoy London.

Without the mental capacity to enjoy a museum, I spent three hours wandering Hyde Park, one on Portobello road, (which produced a vintage Louis trunk for just under £5,000), one hour controlling myself in Topshop, thirty minutes trying on Vivienne Westwood at Selfridges, (where, by the way, they hang Hussein Chalayan on the same rack as Alex Wang - strange, no?), and a few rapturous minutes in Luella’s shop, because I most definitely cannot do that stateside.

In the shop, I found two perfectly dressed salesgirls, racks of covetable, witch-like clothing, a ribboned bag I might defect for and the poster at left.

Ms. Bartley’s proudly displayed the Evening Standard news banner announcing her own shop raid on the wall of her store’s back room.

Oh Luella, we love you so.

Our hotel is located behind Selfridges.

If you haven’t been to London, Selfridges is like heaven, but with better shoes. They have everything from Chloe bags to beat up t-shirts, blue mascara to gourmet food and soon, a party celebrating Henry Holland for Levi’s.

But today, they have awesome windows, and we thought you’d like to see.

Maybe it’s because when you’re in a different country everything, even McDonald’s, is ten times cooler. Or maybe it’s because you never spot Vivienne Westwood in the windows at Barneys or Bergdorf. Or maybe the window designers just went all out for London Fashion Week.

Or maybe it really is one of the greatest stores on earth.

You choose.

Things Vivienne Westwood has done:

1) Opened the SEX Boutique on Kings Road with Malcolm McLaren.

2) Forced Naomi Campbell into 9” heels, upon which she inevitably fell to the ground.

3) Gave Carrie the wedding dress of her dreams

and now -

4) Curated an album of her 16 favorite songs entitled Catwalk Compilation to be released at Selfridges on September 15

Vivienne likens the mix CD to her design choices - that it may “refer to the past, but it’s always projected into this heroic future.” So we fully expect it to be a little schizophrenic, but totally cool - the perfect soundtrack to a few Naomi moments in our bedroom.

— ALEXANDRA BEN-GURION