Lily glams it up in Hollywood
Aww! Isn't Lily Allen adorable? Well, I think she is. And hopefully America is starting to think she is, too.
Little Lil's over in LA at the moment, schmoozing with the great and good - and she's starting to look really quite glam as a result. She was snapped here at famous celeb eaterie Mr Chows, where she was having dinner with Karl Lagerfeld, Dennis Hopper and Courtney Love - as you do.
And she looks beautiful, tanned, and ever-so grown up in that outfit of hers (worn, please note, with blue toenail varnish. She's not that grown-up, thankfully). Although is it just me, or is there something of a young Cherie Blair about her? Cripes.
It's Friday! Friday, I tell you! What are you doing reading this?! You should be out there, erm, enjoying the strange weather! Skipping through fields! Or, alternatively: sitting at your desk, in the office. In which case: it's a very good thing that you're reading this. Because you've just found yourself in with a chance to win our very first Fashion Friday prize.
Oh bless little Lily Allen! She arrived in Manchester today for the launch of her collection at New Look - and signed trainers and dresses and arms and everything.
I popped down to New Look on Oxford Street at lunchtime today. And I can safely say that is was a veritable oasis of (brightly coloured) calm - despite it being the first day of the Lily Allen collection going on sale.
Yes, there were no Kate Moss For Topshop-style queues here today. Despite a very pretty display of models (one revolving, no less) at the entrance...
...and despite a massive picture of Lily in the window. Yes, despite New Look and Topshop's best celebrity-led efforts, it seems that Primark could be winning the battle of the high street - because Oxford Street was full of people carrying those huge brown bags of theirs (as in this picture here). Still, considering what you can get for your money in Primark, it's not too much of a surprise that those bags are so big, is it?
So, Rebecca was the lucky one representing OSOYOU at the launch of Lily Allen's range for New Look last night. She arrived at the fashionably late time of 8.45pm - and as you can see, immmediately bumped into close personal showbiz chum Keith Allen, aka Lily's dad. Who was apparently larking around for the paparazzi outside. As Keith Allen does. Bless.
Inside, there was wine (and nibbles) a-plenty, a great friendly, party atmosphere and a really interesting crowd of funky people - including Lily's boyfriend Seb Chew, who was DJ-ing, and her little brother Alfie. 
Anyway: Rebecca bought three dresses and a pair of trademark Lily trainers at the launch, and brought them into the office this morning. Which resulted in this scene on the left: women like poor industrious Alex here, trying to launch an internet site while sitting at a desk festooned with Lily Allen clobber.
So, Lily Allen's collection for New Look goes on sale next Wednesday - and we're going to be down there, blogging live from the store (presumably not the one that got burned down last week, though. If we get there and there are just the charred remains of hundreds of pink hoodies, we'll let you know).
Either way, the advent of yet another celeb-led high street collection means that there's about to be a style war between the too-cool-for-school, rawk chick look that Kate has designed for Topshop and the fun and colourful, '50s throwback style Lily's sporting for New Look. 
