Creme of Fashion: The British Fashion Awards 2008

Yesterday Jourdan Dunn was crowned model of the year, Luella Bartley was named Designer of the year and Louise Goldin was offered the Swarovski Emerging Talent Awards for ready-to-wear.

But the 2008 British Fashion Awards did not only make for speeches and new talent.

It is fashion, which means a party to celebrate style talent is about who wore what.

First of all, there was Jourdan Dunn's white knitted Stella McCartney dress, and Luella was in her own lilac designs.

There were some interesting choices but overall the awards lacked the eccentricity of other creme-of-fashion parties.

The best style must have been Stephen Jones who wore his black crown all evening after being crowned for Outstanding Achievement In Fashion Design by Erin O'Connor.

The full list of the winners:

• DESIGNER OF THE YEAR: Luella Bartley
  

• OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN FASHION DESIGN: Stephen Jones

• ACCESSORY DESIGNER: Rupert Sanderson
  

• MENSWEAR DESIGNER: Christopher Bailey for Burberry
  

• MODEL OF THE YEAR: Jourdan Dunn

• RED CARPET DESIGNER: Matthew Williamson
  

• SPECIAL AWARD FOR BESPOKE: Richard James

• ISABELLA BLOW AWARD FOR FASHION CREATOR: Tim Walker

• DESIGNER BRAND: Jimmy Choo
  

• SWAROVSKI EMERGING TALENT AWARD ACCESSORIES: Nicholas Kirkwood

• SWAROVSKI EMERGING TALENT AWARD READY TO WEAR: Louise Goldin

Face the new beauties

Forget Agyness Deyn for a minute: there are three new faces who are being introduced as the new Winter face.

Jourdan Dunn, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Eden Clark are all posing for the November issue of British Vogue.

"The three young models on the cover of this issue have been chosen specifically to showcase different types of good looks, possibly even beauty, in the autumn of 2008," writes editor Alexandra Shulman, for Vogue.com.

They have all kept their personal style while posing for the issue: Jourdan Dunn as the face of young cool black beauty, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley displaying a classic budding sexiness, and Eden Clark, a strong but fragile tomboy look.

The girls are striking, but I find their features a little too cool. It is always the same high cheekbones and full lips.

They have an undeniable fashion appeal, but their faces are not radically different. Jourdan Dunn has a street beauty look, that appeals to most, but I doubt she will revolutionise fashion photography.

Eden Clark however does have a particular face and piercing gaze that might well shoot her ahead of the rest.

Precisely because she does not look like anyone else. She is not beautiful in an obvious way, but she will make you turn your head more than twice if you pass her in the street.