Next Stop: London

Arrived in London over the weekend and after sleeping late, headed straight to the oyster bar at Harrods for Scottish smoked salmon and Champagne. There's a funny exhibit of electric guitars at the store, customized by different artists. There's always something going on at Harrods.

Hit the ground running on Monday morning and ran into someone from L.A. at my very second show. It was Arianne Phillips, the stylist and costume designer extraordinaire. She has been wanting to come to London Fashion Week for years and finally the time was right -- she just wrapped a movie in Santa Fe, a remake of the Glenn Ford western "3:10 to Yuma," directed by James Mangold and starring Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Peter Fonda and Gretchen Mol. The film is set in 1870, and she said she had a lot of fun building all of her costumes from scratch.

London was the first city that inspired her fashion sense, when she arrived at age 18 for a few weeks, toting a backpack and eager to see Kings Road.

And there we were again in Chelsea at the Bluebird Shop, a boutique devoted to up-and-coming designers and the host for the Fashion East group show. Louise Goldin had some very cool knitwear -- '80s inspired sweater dresses with metallic accents that looked very Grace Jones with their hoods. House of Holland designer Henry Holland took up where '60s designer Katherine Hamnett left off with his rhyming slogan tees, except his are not about politics but fashion, with sayings such as "I've Got More Than a Handful for Naomi Campbell." They are all the rage here and sell in the States at Barneys.

Later in the week, Phillips is speaking on a panel with Bronwyn Cosgrove, author of the new book "Made for Each Other: Fashion and the Academy Awards." And of course Phillips plans to see her best client -- Madonna -- and meet her son David for the first time.