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.

This is very exciting news for Londoners and others around the world that are totally obsessed with fashion and just go into tears when thinking about not getting to go to London Fashion week. This is one of the best weeks in the whole year, aside of course from other fashion weeks.

But on Wednesday, every person out there that was crying stopped when the British Fashion Council announced that they plan to stream the show for the first time on their website. This is also the first of the 4 major international fashion weeks to go digital and stream the shows.

The first Digital Schedule will be on February 19, and fashion obsessed men and women can go to www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/digitalschedule, which will lead to more information about the streaming and a schedule of all the catwalk shows and presentations. British Fashion Council chief executive Caroline Rush says that this is great step in developing their digital strategy and is an important area of development for the future.

The streaming will feature all the designers who will be showing at Somerset House. Some of the big names include Burberry Prorsum, Marios Schwab, Jonathan Saunders and Vivienne Westwood Red Label. There will also be short films created by the likes of Twenty8Twelve, Antoni & Alison, Boudicca, and Danielle Scutt shown between the shows. Hussein Chalayan will also show three of his most iconic short films from the past decade.

Now it’s totally unbearable that we have to wait! But this London Fashion Week will definitely be the best in history, as now anybody who wants to watch it can without leaving home!

Teachers in local public schools across the UK are constantly looking for inventive, interesting new ways to keep young pupils interested in learning. Some of the most challenging subjects include math and science, and instructors are constantly adapting teaching methods to appeal to these young, technology savvy students.

And while Ofsted has said that one such school was using drums to get students to understand the relationship between numbers for a math section, a school in London staged a mini “fashion week” inspired after the annual London Fashion Week in order to generate an interest in the science behind making clothing.

The move, however, has broached concern that instructors are simplifying complex science concepts in order to capture the attention of uninterested students. Think-tank, Civitas’ head of education Anastasia de Waal expressed her fear that techniques such as the fashion week approach would take away from challenging students with bigger issues.

Many have argued that by “dumbing” down such science concepts so that they will be entertaining to children is missing the idea of education, which according to de Waal is to challenge and engage students.

Patrick Lesson, director of education for Ofsted, disagrees however. He added that using creative approaches can make school more relevant and interesting for young students capturing their attention and increasing cognitive learning. He even added that one school in the UK altered their teaching methods to include more alternative, creative methods and over a period of three years saw GCSE results double.

London has one of the hottest fashion weeks in the world. Rivaled only by Paris’ fashion week, the London fashion week attracts industry insiders and players from all over the world. London is known for its fashion year-round, but the end of February is a time not-to-be missed in this capital city.

The yearly London Fashion Week brings out the young, the rich, the famous, and the fashion icons from all over the globe and is one of the most anticipated social calender events of the season. However, London Fashion Week is not just for the wealthy, stylish, and beautiful. Having celebrity status or a million pounds in the bank is not necessary to enjoy the amazing creations making their way down the infamous catwalk.

London Fashion Weekend, which this year will be held from February 25th-28th, will take place at the Somerset House and feature designers like American Retro, Lulu Guiness, Emma Cook, and Luella. Lulu recently told Vogue that she creates many of her own ideas while bathing in a hot bath.

Beauty experts will be on hand as well, and many local retailers will be offering knock-out sales on all of this year’s favourite designers. Londoner hair and beauty experts are also on-hand so happy shoppers can get their hair and make-up done to match their fantastic new purchases.

Professional shows will also be feature showcasing new designs for 2010. Catwalk shows are held at the British Fashion Council catwalk and guests can secure tickets to check-out the newest trends.