We have fought over high street creations of Roberto Cavalli, Stella McCartney, Victor & Rolf and Karl Lagerfeld and now it’s over to Japanese avant-garde designer Rei Kawakubo of  Comme des Garçons to provide yet another designer collection for H&M worth making the trip to your local store on this week. 

Once upon a time there were three women called Diva, Viva and Fifa, who wore dresses with a Dvf logo starring in "inspiring tales about women and the life-empowering choices they face." Comic book Be the Wonder Woman You Can Be: The Adventures of Diva, Viva, and Fifa is Diane von Furstenberg’s latest creation to raise funds for one of her favourite charities Vital Voices, a non-governmental organisation to support women in developing countries.

The facts read like 90s sci-fi movie script: “Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation causes 80% of all diseases and kills more people each year than any form of violence, including war.  More than 1.1 billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water. 4,500 children will die today from water related diseases”. Sadly this is real life in many parts of Africa, a continent that continues to struggle to provide the basic qualities of life for its population.

My latest shopping obsession called my-wardrobe.com (don’t even get me started about their great brands!) is launching their ‘My Loyalty Card’ this Thursday and offering double points for the first 48 hours so you get two points for every pound spend on designers like Vivienne Westwood, Anya Hindmarch, Mulberry, Paul Smith, By Malene Birger, PPQ, American Retro, Hannah Marshall and a long list of others.

If pink is your favourite colour then October must be your favourite month as everywhere you look there’s something in pink in support of breast cancer awareness. Earlier on this month I bought an updated version of the pink ribbon pin to keep company to last year’s one. It’s only a pound but I like to think it makes an eeny weenie difference. Gadget brands have seen a niche in the market of all things pink as well as joining in support for the good cause and now you can have Blackberry Curve in pink (I like it!), as well as Sony Vaio notebook and Fujifilm Finepix camera.

My first day at Dubai fashion week nearly ended up in no-show when I got
stuck in a massive traffic jam near the Trade Center, I seriously thought I
would not reach Godolphin Ballroom at Jumeirah Emirates Towers that day,
like at all. In true Dubai style, there was another major event starting the
same day, Cityscape, at the Trade Center for the exact same days as DFW.
Why, oh why is it not possible for the organisers to check the calendar for
any colliding events in the same area?

If you’re a fan of Alexander McQueen, here’s a treat for you – on Monday 29th Net-A-Porter.com is organising a virtual private catwalk show of Alexander McQueen’s Pre-Spring 2009 collection and a chance to shop eight looks two months before they go on sale anywhere else.
The collection offers body-con tailoring and dresses -  fitted skirtsuits with voluminous pagoda shoulders, tailored all-in-ones and figure-hugging day and evening dresses.

BETTY JACKSON’s show at BFC tent filled the front rows with an eclectic mix of fashion, music and comedy with Erin O'Connor, Jennifer Saunders, All Saints’ Melanie Blatt, John Rocha, George Clooney’s ex Lisa Snowden and ‘Rolling Stone chicks’ Jo and Leah Wood. The show started with a conservative direction of ‘vicar meets utility’ feel with high-collars, black midi length dresses with white vicar’s collar, parkas, drawstring waist dresses and slouchy pants before relaxing into tangerine jumpsuits and hot pants, tie-dye print dresses.

The future is blue, well, literally. At AQUASCUTUM, designers Michael Herzand Graeme Fidler must have been feeling blue when they came up with their latest collection with a display of entire blue spectrum from the faintest powder blue to dazzling electric blue and midnight blue. We were told that “Aquascutum’s mission has always been to provide stylish protection from the unpredictable British weather”.

I started the morning at LOUISE AMSTRUP show the central London location of On/Off at Royal Academy of Arts. This Danish designer presented her first collection last season and looks like she going places this season with her wearable pieces.  This time around Amstrup had taken inspiration from the 1984 cult film “Paris, Texas” so there was less tailoring and more feminine elements in metallic blue voluminous tulip skirt, cleverly draped cocktail dresses in pastels and trench coats-comma-dresses with yards of fabric in generously folded panels.