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It's not every day a luxury fashion house on the scale of Versace and its pint-sized, plati-num-haired creative direc-tor Donatella Versace de-scend upon the Great Brit-ish high street, but that's exactly what happened on London's Regent Street this morning.Related arti-clesVersace for H'M launch in picturesVersace for H'M launches in New York with a lit-tle help from PrinceVersace for H'M' Behind the scenes with Dontella at the mak-ing of the TV commercialVersace for H'M hits Chi-nese website eight days

before launchThe 56-year-old, in town to launch her hotly-antic-ipated col-laboration with the Swedish fast-fashion retailer, was flanked by a 400-strong queue of ea-ger shoppers as she made the short walk from her chauffeured Maserati to H'M's flag-ship store at 8.30am. David Mills, a mens-wear design student at the nearby Lon-don College of Fashion, was first in the queue and one of five shop-pers picked to meet and have his pho-to taken with Ms Versace.'She was so nice' my heart was racing and I was really

Change is afoot at the Haus of Gaga. After sacking her creative director, Laurieann Gibson, in a fit of pique earlier this month, Lady Gaga appears to have changed course and set herself the un-characteristically simple challenge of debuting spring collections by British designers, to coincide with her touchdown on British soil.Related articlesLady Gaga's hats in picturesLady Gaga to design her own fashion line?In pictures' Lady GagaLady Gaga's sister turns designerStage one of Gaga's plan for British fashion domination was set in motion when she arrived at the Bambi Awards in Germany last week resplendent in Alexander McQueen. Naturally, Gaga went the whole hog and wore the full catwalk look, complete with gold-en tin foil swimming cap.Since then, however, she's been sporting a more subtle London look, beginning with a burnt or-ange structured jumpsuit by young

British designer Georgia Hardinge for a trip out on the town, acces-sorised with a mermaid-embla-zoned parasol. During the course of one day she sported two looks from London Fashion Week designer Osman's new collection, pairing a minimalist lemon yellow dress with heart-shaped sunglass-es for her day's excursions, before switching to an electric blue two-piece for an evening flit to the Rellik vintage boutique in Notting Hill.Lady Gaga's first perfume smells like blood and is called MonsterThe singer's voracious fashion appetite has since been fed with a spring'summer 2012 two-toned maxi dress by Roksanda Ilincic - which she was spotted sashaying out of London's Lanesborough Hotel in yesterday, complete with matching Philip Treacy hat - and today it was new season Burb-erry.Is subtle the new outrageous? The only thing that's certain is that British is best.

British designer Georgia Hardinge for a trip out on the town, acces-sorised with a mermaid-embla-zoned parasol. During the course of one day she sported two looks from London Fashion Week designer Osman's new collection, pairing a minimalist lemon yellow dress with heart-shaped sunglass-es for her day's excursions, before switching to an electric blue two-piece for an evening flit to the Rellik vintage boutique in Notting Hill.Lady Gaga's first perfume smells like blood and is called MonsterThe singer's voracious fashion appetite has since been fed with a spring'summer 2012 two-toned maxi dress by Roksanda Ilincic - which she was spotted sashaying out of London's Lanesborough Hotel in yesterday, complete with matching Philip Treacy hat - and today it was new season Burb-erry.Is subtle the new outrageous? The only thing that's certain is that British is best.

Not since the late Isabella Blow championed lobsters and ships as acceptable head-gear has there been a barmy hat wearer of note - until Lady Gaga.Related articlesLady Gaga's hats in picturesLady Gaga's first perfume smells like blood and is called MonsterPrincess Beatrice's royal wedding hat goes viralTake the pink fascinator she wore in London yesterday, which re-sembled a Godzilla-sized sperm (she's going heavy on the ad-vertising to make us buy her se-men-scented perfume . Maybe). Or the bird feather and deer antler mash-up that looked like Franken-stein's wet dream. Or the Blow-riffing pimped-up diamond lobster. Or any hat she has ever worn.Lady Gaga's hats in picturesThe sperm and lobster creations are by Blow favourite Philip Treacy, he of the Princess Beatrice's toilet seat'uterus'Sauron's eye wed-ding-hat fame. Gaga reportedly submitted her CV for an internship

Change is afoot at the Haus of Gaga. After sack-ing her creative director, Laurieann Gibson, in a fit of pique earlier this month, Lady Gaga appears to have changed course and set herself the un-characteristically simple challenge of debuting spring collections by British design-ers, to coincide with her touch-down on British soil.Related articlesLady Gaga's hats in picturesLady Gaga to design her own fashion line?In pictures' Lady GagaLady Gaga's sis-ter turns designerStage one of Gaga's plan for British fashion domination was set in motion when she arrived at the Bambi Awards in Ger-many last week resplendent in Alexander Mc-Queen. Naturally, Gaga went the whole hog and wore the full cat-

walk look, com-plete with golden tin foil swimming cap.Since then, how-ever, she's been sporting a more subtle London look, beginning with a burnt orange struc-tured jumpsuit by young British designer Geor-gia Hardinge for a trip out on the town, ac-cessorised with a mermaid-em-blazoned para-sol. During the course of one day she sported two looks from London Fashion Week designer Osman's new collection, pair-ing a minimal-ist lemon yel-low dress with heart-shaped sunglasses for her day's excursions, before switch-ing to an electric blue two-piece for an evening flit to the Rellik vin-tage boutique in Notting Hill.Lady Gaga's first perfume smells like blood and is called MonsterThe singer's

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