The next London fashion week kicks off on 20th February and the first party has just been announced. Yesterday it was revealed that Downing Street would play host to another party celebrating British fashion.
As London celebrates 25 years of British fashion, Sarah Brown is hosting a circus themed shindig rumoured to have a catwalk showing starring BFC vice-chairman Erin O'Connor.
During September's London Fashion Week there was a lot of talk of the future of fashion in the British capital following rumours that New York wanted to overlap their dates. This resulted in the launch of the British Fashion Fund backed by Sir Philip Green and, it seems, the subsequent saving of London Fashion Week!
Yesterday the dates for the Autumn/Winter 2009 shows were released allowing London to have a full five days to showcase the best of the city's talent. 
London Launches British Fashion Fund Although London Fashion Week is at risk of being squeezed out by New York and Milan next season — Diane von Furstenberg is in town to discuss the matter — Harold Tillman, chairmain of the British Fashion Council, had a more positive announcement to make last night.
Earlier in the month we announced a change in plans by the British Fashion Council to tackle the problem of size zero models at London Fashion Week. The BFC had previously announced plans for the models to have health checks before appearing on the catwalk but could not get support from the three other major fashion weeks (Milan, Paris and New York) so were forced to scrap the plans amidst fears of scaring off models.
Today the week faced another blow as the mayor of London Boris Johnson is being asked to pull funding from the fashion week. 
This week the date was confirmed for the British Fashion Council 2008 British Fashion Awards as 25th November. The awards will take place at Lawrence Hall in London's Westminster. Last year Stella McCartney took home British Designer of the Year and we're wondering who might steal her crown this season. 
Graduate Fashion Week may feel like a lifetime ago but this summer's show of graduates is still having a big impact on the fashion industry. Today it was announced that Manchester School of Art graduate Nabil El-Nayal is the lucky winner of the British Fashion Council's scholarship.
The young designer will take up his place at the Royal College of Art to study an MA in Fashion Womenswear.
This morning Hilary Riva announced the designers to be sponsored by the British Fashion Council for the New Generation initiative. From 100 applicants, a judging panel chose five young designers to present at this September's London Fashion Week. Louise Goldin (pictured), Danielle Scutt, Meadham Kirchhoff, House of Holland and Peter Pilotto have all won catwalk sponsorship at London Fashion Week with Nasir Mazhar receiving events sponsorship.
In the wake of the British Fashion Council's Model Health Inquiry, which resulted in models under 16 being banned from the London catwalks, the airbrushed pages of magazines are now coming into question.
The British Fashion Council (BFC) wrote to the UK's Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) in December to suggest "a voluntary code covering the use of digital manipulation [in photography]." A BFC spokeswoman said that rather than limiting magazine's use of airbrushing, they would like to see a warning that the image had been altered instead.
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