Yasmin Le Bon

Months of planning had resulted in this moment. Months of cajoling designers, models, resp., and style watchers, have all lent their help - and money - to a hitherto unintentional venture: a show that exhibits the best of British fashion under one roof. Or, rather, one square of canvas. I felt a surge of pride and pure excitement as I watched the last touches being applied to the huge tent that would host the first ever London Fashion Week. I knew some of these people had been skeptical, but as I stood at the back of this amazing new space, I hoped that this would be the start of something amazing.

If Simon Le Bon, the lead singer of Duran Duran's 1980s pop band, will not be daydreaming about past glory days for a while, keep a prayer. I'm proud to say that The Wild Boys singer and his partner, the evergreen model Yasmin Le Bon, have been greeted with a ferocious attack in which they've been accused of everything from high-handedness to explicit deceit. As if that weren't enough, Harry Dorrance-King, the man who compiled the excoriating charge sheet, is an up-and-coming Treasury mandarin who lives in a low-rise building just yards from Le Bons' £5 million, ten-bedroom mansion in Putney, south-west London, and that's just right. The couple, who were granted permission three years earlier to extend their house by a third, are now looking to build an additional outside building, complete with changing rooms, next to the 50-ft swimming pool they're currently constructing in their walled garden.

Sophia was inspired to dig out her old castoffs as Rosie Green announced that her teenage daughter Sophia was wearing high-street reworkings of her looks from 25 years ago. The fashion-loving pair couldn't resist having a huge try on!