Lily Allen announced at the beginning of December that her concerts in March will be the last ones she does for a while, as she will be taking a break from music. While she’s on her break, she wants to start a career in fashion.

Allen says that she will take this break from music for about five years. She also revealed that she has started a fashion project with designer Wayne Hemingway, who is launching a music and fashion festival called Vintage at Goodwood, which Lily will be a part of.

The 24-year-old singer says that she will also launch her own shop with her sister Sarah Owen, which will be called Lucy in Disguise and will feature vintage clothes that people can rent. The shop will be filled with amazing stuff that’s really expensive if someone was to buy it, but girls will be able to rent the clothes for a night out. Renting vintage clothes sounds like a great idea!

Talking about her plans for the future, Lily said that she’s helping Wayne with Village at Goodwood first, and then she will be busy opening a shop with her sister and a few other people. She said that she’s in the office sourcing clothes every day, and she’s getting really excited about the new venture.

Despite the break to do something new, Lily made sure to let everyone know she’s not giving up music altogether. She says that she’s setting up a record label, as well as a music charity and website.

A wonderful group of A-list celebrities gathered on Monday night for the sparkling Elle Style Awards, which was held in London at the Grand Connaught Rooms. The finest from the music, television, film and fashion industries took to the red carpet, including Naomi Campbell, Leona Lewis, Kristen Stewart, Alexa Chung, Corinne Bailey Rae, Carey Mulligan, Claudia Schiffer, as well as Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen. With them were a few of their counterparts, like Jared Leto and Colin Firth.

The awards has become the most anticipated and prestigious show of London Fashion Week. Presenting the awards were fashion designer Henry Holland and Elle editor-in-chief Lorraine Candy.

To highlight some of the outfits, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, a Victoria’s Secret model, wore a full-length red dress by Christian Dior. Naomi Campbell was wearing a dress by Alexander McQueen, who passed nearly two weeks ago, while Danni Minogue, who has a baby on the way, had on a Grecian-style, yellow dress by Lisa Ho.

Looking their best is part of being a celebrity, no matter what industry they work in. Many times they look great, but there are a few times when they flop. The Elle Style Awards picks who they believe did the best in choosing stylish attire throughout the year, and here are their decisions:

• Style Icons of 2010 – Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen

• Style Woman of the Year – Kristen Stewart

• Model of the Year – Claudia Schiffer

• Editor’s Choice – Alexa Chung

• Outstanding Contribution – Naomi Campbell

• Best TV Star – Danni Minogue

• Best Actor – Colin Firth

• Best Actress – Carey Mulligan

• Best Music – Florence & The Machine

• Breakthrough Talent – Nicholas Hoult

Burberry made history on Tuesday when they streamed their London Fashion Week show in 3D at 5 major city locations around the world – Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Dubai and Paris. The event was host to a list of Hollywood celebrities, who turned out to see the British label’s newest creations, despite the pouring rain.

Fans of the label worldwide attended the parties via invitation only, but otherwise watched the show streamed in 2D on Burberry’s website. Chief creative officer Christopher Bailey said that they are very excited to be hosting the first ever global fashion show. The event will allow people to experience the atmosphere and energy of the show around the world, he continued. The 3D technology, he added, will bring their worldwide audience into the London show and allow them to see the fabrics and colors, to hear the music, as well as be a part of the moment when everything comes together.

However, while the guests of the 3D shows were sporting 3D glasses, the red carpet was sparkling with Hollywood stars. Actress Kate Hudson arrived in a green sequin dress, while Kristen Stewart from Twilight graced the carpet as well. Other stars included actress Clair Danes, actress and model Mary-Kate Olsen, Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright, actress Tamsin Egerton, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, M&S model Twiggy and supermodel Erin O’Connor.

The Burberry Cadette Girls military-inspired collection focused heavily on coats, which is this year’s staple, in fur leather and sheepskin with embellishments and belts. Burberry is making selected accessories and outerwear available for order now on their website.

London Fashion Week featured a new designer, whom no one has ever heard of. His name is Hakaan, a 37-year-old based in Instanbul who won a fashion competition in Turkey. The competition victory earned him attention from Mert Alas, who is part of the photographic duo Matt & Marcus, who photograph about half of the fashion campaigns in the world.

Hakaan wasn’t expected at all this season, but he has made an immediate impact on critics. He even attracted Vogue editor Carine Roitfield to the show, while Kate Moss also attended to see the designs firsthand. The new designer also booked some rather well known models, Anje Rubik, Natalia Vodianova, Lara Stone and Natasha Poly, as well as Vogue stylist Edward Enninful.

The clothes Hakaan has designed are testament to why Roitfeld just had to be there. They look like they have been made specifically for her. They feature short, lean dresses with bold shoulders and hips with cut-outs, as well as have a toned down color palette that combines London edge with French elegance.

In just this single show, Hakaan has founded himself as one of the industries most exciting-to-watch designers during this London Fashion Week. He joins another well talked about designer this season, Mark Fast, who has put his plus-size models down the catwalk with body-conscious knit styles.

There’s always more room in the fashion industry for visionary designers who will cater to the elegant yet edgy group of celebrities. It’s nearly certain that, with the response given this week, Hakaan will become a new big name in fashion.

Plus size models took to the catwalk on Saturday at London Fashion Week in the newest collection from Mark Fast, the British knitwear designer. The show came not long after fresh arguments started in New York over what fashion models should weigh.

The British designer was at the center of this same issue last September during London Fashion Week. A stylist was forced to deny that she walked out of his show due to him using models that wore bigger sizes than most. British size 12 Hayley Morley was one of the models at that show, and Fast also used her in this year’s show.

Fast’s new collection was more conservative than last season, but the natural curves of the women were clearly defined. As one of the most up and coming designers in London, his collection was more practical for Autumn/Winter 2010. It featured tight dresses with detailing around the hem and neck, as well as matching swaying skirts and cropped capes.

The dispute over how much a model should or should not weigh lays heavily in the fashion industry this year. It all started with Monika Jagaciak, a 16-year-old model that wears the standard sample size 0. On the other end of the weighing scale, Coco Rocha has complained that she is being overlooked as a model due to weighing too much at 110lbs.

However, Britain is praising stores for revealing British size 16 mannequins in their windows for a limited time to show that a majority of women in the UK are between the sizes of 14 and 16. The head of creative department for Debenhams, Mark Stevens, says that they are proud to offer a variety of choices for women of every age, shape and size at their stores, and they wanted to reflect that in their windows.