Fashionistas were out in force this past week for London Fashion Week. STYLEist manages to capture some street style off the catwalk.......

Away from the glitzy London Fashion Week, the British Library held its own alternative fashion show this week as part of the London Design Festival. The focus was eco-friendly high-street fashion showcasing the best of sustainable style by pioneering eco-fashionistas People Tree and REVAMP.......

We're sorry, Ms. (Janet) Jackson, but celebrity fashion lines are usually a wardrobe malfunction of the highest order: throw a star and a bunch of fancy garms together, and hope gawping sleb-sessed punters will part with cash on dubious trends. Yet André 3000 (née Benjamin) of OutKast holds a little more credibility. Over the years he's furrowed an idiosyncratic line in Thirties dandy-wear and collegiate apparel. His new Benjamin Bixby label, launched at a lavish......

Vauxhall Fashion Scout is a showcase of the top emerging fashion designers in the UK and is located right near the heart of London Fashion Week in South Kensington. STYLEist takes a peek inside with designer Xterity London fashion show in progress.......

STYLEist takes a break from the streets of London and takes a peak into one of the London Fashion Week's On-Schedule catwalk shows in the British Fashion Council (BFC) Tent. Designer Amanda Wakeley's Spring Summer 09 Collection on the runway. Inspirations for this collection include Verushka, Safari Ready, Utilitarian Lux, Shaped by Japan. By Natalie Ujuk......

Capturing street style through the seasons. Shades of autumn in Covent Garden. By Natalie Ujuk......

Taking the lead from our cousins in LA, here starts a seasonal series Style-ist. We're sending forth our Flickrpool photographers to capture street style through the seasons. First up, Portobello Road in diffident August sunshine by Natalie Ujuk.......

A recommendation from a British Fashion Council (BFC)-commissioned inquiry to ban 'size zero' models has failed, after other fashion capitals failed to support the idea. Fashion representatives in New York, Paris and Milan did not respond positively to the initiative, that involved catwalk models providing a doctor’s certificate to prove their good health. London has the least clout out of the four fashion capitals, and without support from other countries the BFC claim it......

An entire catwalk of models dressed as Tilda Swinton; a dress covered in bells that you can hear before you can see; one model wearing an entire collection… such is life in the fabulous House of Viktor and Rolf installation at the Barbican. Including samples of each collection’s couture, as well as pieces of their early work and live footage of their innovative shows, the epicentre of the exhibition is a giant doll’s house,......

Fashion writer, dispenser of sardonic sartorial advice, and (would you believe) ghostwriter to Victoria Beckham, Hadley Freeman, will be joined by writer Bronwyn Cosgrave and fashion journo Roger Tredre tonight at the Barbican for a discussion about celebritism and fashion, and whether in a 'sleb-powered world, a talented designer can thrive without the red-carpeted rub of a Kate or a Kylie. The talk is part of the Barbican's exhibition on Dutch designers Viktor &......

The Face of Croydon: it's not, despite what you may hope, the perma-tanned scowl of Palace chairman Simon Jordan, nor the sneering snarl of ex-Big Bruv contestant Alex de-Gale. No, it in fact belongs to one Kym Whittle, who became the Face of the borough after winning a modelling competition last weekend. Yet the result, announced at a festival on Saturday by organisers Fashion Enter, has been thrown into doubt after questions were raised......

From the moment we first heard the song, we were hooked, and we've been addicted to Adidas ever since. The song, of course, was Run-D.M.C.'s classic paean to their favourite footwear, "My Adidas", from their 1986 album Raising Hell. By 1989 the Beastie Boys had released Paul's Boutique and "The Sounds of Science" reaffirmed that we'd made the right decision when it proclaimed, "Rock my Adidas, never rock Fila!" Following this declaration, a Pato......

The Sex remains the same, but the City was a less familiar one last night as four glamorous ladies and a retinue of A-list stars stepped out on the red carpet, not in New York, but in London's Leicester Square. Sarah Jessica Parker and pals (or not-quite pals, if on set tension rumours were true) rolled up for the worldwide premiere of the Sex and the City movie last night, sporting rictus grins and......

Spring is in the air: The warm weather’s finally here, it’s light well into the evening, and the tube workers may or may not be striking. If you’ve ever flirted with the idea of adopting the bicycle as your means for getting around town, then the current climate is bound to make cycling seem a bit more attractive. But for many people who’ve dabbled with the idea of peddling around London, the question remains......

Come now. Tell us. Have you ever been caught staring folornly at a stone cold fox across a crowded tube carriage? Have you ever acted on a subterranean erotic impulse? Are you and your lover in fact sitting there now, fondling each other and fondly remembering the time you bumped bits on the Jubilee Line, laughed shyly and struck up a saucy conversation? Qype wants to know, nosy blighters. So does Annie Mole (we......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 37. Fashionably Nice – Ties It’s official, to be nice is on trend. A fashion designer friend of mine told me of an article she had seen on WGSN (a paid subscription service for the fashion industry that forecasts future trends), forecasting that fashion would get a bit more wholesome and nice. It used inspiration......

Pollution pulverised—well, not exactly, but Ken announces hefty £25 C-Charge for heaviest polluting vehicles. Fresh criticism of the “angular mass”—no, not the razor-sharp hip bones on London Fashion Week models. Rather, English Heritage have some sharp words for Doon Street Tower plan. We’re absurdly wealthy. Well, we’re not. But some people in this city apparently are. “Someone else” blamed for the £90,000 worth of Fortnum and Mason merchandise gone missing during a saleswoman’s work......

Londonist may know nothing and care even less about London Fashion Week, but that won't stop us cartwheeling down the nearest catwalk and devouring garms and gimcracks galore like fickle fashionistas on fascistic diets tearing each others' hair extensions at a Primark opening. The Times has offered a handy cut out and keep (for lunch, perhaps, paper being low in calories) guide to 18 trends for London Fashion Week. Sadly one of those trends......

As Camden is recognised as a musos’ haven, Ken pledges cash for the rebuild. Silly bitch niece is banged up for life for killing her poor 100 year old aunt. Over her inheritance. Doherty is putting it around (his guitar, of course), with gigs here and there. Kings College is developing some good news for diabetes sufferers. London Fashion Week carries on in spite of Londonist apathy: apparently Conran’s a hit. Piccie courtesy of......

The Met might not be happy about their pay right now but they should certainly be pleased to learn that their boring old uniforms are being reviewed by students at the London College of Fashion. Oh wait, fashion students? Actually, that's probably quite alarming. On their homepage at the moment there's a lime green catsuit, rows of sequins and some silver biker boots. Still, lime green cat suits aren't a million miles away from......

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings... It seems that everywhere we’ve gone recently, we’ve had the opportunity to buy environment-friendly souvenir and decorative tote bags. Gone are the days when......

It's been a bad few weeks for the Spice Girls: they released the worst selling Children In Need single ever (to put this into perspective, let's remember that Martine McCutcheon once had a Children In Need single. Martine McCutcheon), appeared in terrible Tesco adverts, played to half full shows in America and Baby Spice sprained her little baby ankle on stage. However, little Emma Bunton ingested her weight in painkillers, soldiered on and appeared......

31. Phantom Assailants: Part Three The last two episodes of the Strangeness have concentrated on bizarre and elusive individuals who have slashed their way into folklore. This third instalment in the mini-series continues the thread except that the victims have been domestic cats! 1998 was a very grisly year throughout the city with regards to frequent mysterious moggie murders, by way of decapitation and tail removal. Forty cats had turned up in eight months......

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings... We recommended memberships to various arty places as Christmas presents earlier this week, but in terms of things you can wrap and place under......

Josh Rouse might not be a well-known name, but he fills the Shepherd’s Bush Empire with ease tonight. In fact everything seems to come naturally to him, from the relaxed shuffle onstage to his casually turned-out country-pop gems. Opening the bill is Sweden’s Jens Lekman, playing a solo set except for a girl who joins to play bongos and occasional piano. Lekman’s bittersweet tales of small-town romance sparkle with lo-fi pop hooks mixed with......

The Met is expanding its use of Tasers, now permitting non-firearms officers to carry the stun guns. Today is the first day in a trial of increased Taser use; the Met is looking to use them as an alternative in violent situations where guns are not needed. Tasers work by sending a charge of 50,000 volts through the body of the person they are used on (imagine a static electricity shock that could temporarily......

The fashion world has been in a glitzy hooha this week as Karl Lagerfeld, AKA The Count (cue: one, one supermodel; AH HA HA HA HA!") jetted in to much celebrity fawning for a posh nosh ding dong at Nobu and the first ever Chanel show in London. Those who know are hailing the Brit chic collection as beautiful, sumptuous and decadent and intimating design influences from the original Duke of Westminster, the Tudor......

Black fashion week at the V&A. Police to hold talks with gang leaders. Why don't any of the articles on this topic explain why the police don't just arrest the gang leaders? Speaking of arrest, Eubank's about to receive a call from the boys in blue. Eurostar ads cause offense. Meet Honorary Constable Tizer, a 13-year old feline in the employ of Lambeth North. Image courtesy of tezzer57 via the Londonist flickr group.......

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did......

Had TfL existed in his time, the great Samuel Johnson may well have amended his famous aphorism to read "a man who is bored of London needs to hop on the number 19 bus". In its perambulation from Battersea to Finsbury Park, the 19 cuts a swath across the capital's economic and cultural barriers, revealing the world within one city that modern London manifests. Vogue has certainly been impressed by the number 19. The......