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Last night, we invited our favourite UK bloggers to HQ for a night of dressing up and photo taking! Not only was it really lovely to meet everyone but what could be better than a night full of yummy canapés, amazing outfits and silly poses? After having a good look at all the exciting pieces about to land, our lovely bloggers wandered through the Arcadia photo booth to find an unexpected room packed with all the latest pieces from our AW09 collections. Yes, The Chronicles of Narnia was the inspiration behind that one! Having played dress-ups and styled up their favourite pieces,Alistair Guy was on hand to take everyone's photos. Armed with an array of props, there was some super-cute posing! Take a look at a few of our favourite pics and check out our Facebook page for more.

Are you in the UK? Do you like FREE BOOZE? (Dumb question, I know.) Why not enter our little competition over at BitchBuzz? We're giving away a FREE CASE of Magners Pear every single day this week!

With the popularity of the Twilight movies, it's come to my attention that lots of young girls want to pork vampires. Teenagers are lusting after Robert Pattinson—who by the way—has a ridiculous last name. Just change it to Patterson and make it easier on everybody. What is all the fuss about? That guy really does look like a vampire. They probably hired him just so they could save money on pale makeup. As a woman who has slept with more than her fair share of idiots and guys who look bad in daylight, I would like to offer some words to these horny young girls: When you're a teenager, most guys you date are dry-humping morons. Let's not make it more complicated by lusting after guys who sleep all day and then wake up only wanting to suck on your neck. That's what college is for. There are two things I stay away from: vampires and animation. I don't like anything not rooted in fact. I won't even eat Count Chocula cereal, but that's because of a black gym teacher I had intercourse with.

Facebook will not allow BitchBuzz.com to have a Vanity URL, but they'll allow groups about rape, beating your wife and hating women to exist. Inconsistancy doesn't even begin to cover it.

The Guardian have a lovely little feature on Kidston, describing how after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Kidston quit the interior design business and started up what we know now as Cath Kidston Inc.

“It’s got this perfect combination of content that’s female oriented, but it’s got this geeky-gadget-fashion-sex-feministy sort of awesome energetic feel to the entire site and I absolutely adore it.”

Other times it's because they're self absorbed dick heads who clearly don't understand that every time they announce what perfect thing they're doing with their perfect boyfriend or girlfriend, that the Internet simultaneously barfs in its mouth. 

Do you ever get that feeling when you run into someone that you haven't seen for a while and clearly their attitude towards you has changed for the worse?It's easy to brush that uneasy feeling under the carpet. "Oh, I'm just being silly. _____ knows me! Why would they be weird with me when I haven't even seen them for a long time?"But then that uneasy feeling explodes in your face when said person suddenly goes, "So. I hear you hate Carol/slept with George/told Jenny you never want to see her again and then called her a Fat Demonic Bitch?"Um, hello personal information!It's a really odd feeling when you suddenly realize you're in the presence of someone who has been told complete bullshit about you. And when private details or rumours about you suddenly are brought to light by an acquaintance, friend or sometimes someone you don't even know, it can hit you like a ton of bricks. Especially if it's happened more than once.

•    1/2 Dozen Stud Earrings•    The studs are zinc alloy with stainless steel pin.•    Each individual earring is about the size of a popcorn kernel. •    Stud earrings come in 6 delicious flavors: strawberry sprinkle, key lime (glow in the dark!), blueberry cream cheese, chocolate raspberry, black forest and red velvet.•    Wear your favorite color to match your t-shirt, or mix and match flavors! These make for great gifts! Both girls + guys could rock these. The neat, collectible packaging alone is worth the price - plus you get SIX pairs of dope earrings!

Examples: On Friday I was wandering the exhibition hall with two friends and we ran across Lou Ferrigno, aka THE Incredible Hulk. Saturday, I stepped out for a quick smoke (oh deal with it,) and Battlestar Gallactica star, James Callis (aka, Dr. Gaius Balter,) lit my cigarette...

The guy has good genes and some very potent sperm! Taylor Hanson and his wife, Natalie, have a total of four children."After two kids, you’re outnumbered,” says the former teen heartthrob. “So once you cross having three, having four is not such a big deal.”Unless you've hired a good nanny, that is!!!The couple have potential baby models Penelope Anne, 4, Viggo, 7 months, River Samuel, 2, and Jordan Ezra, 6!!!!We're tired just thinking about it!!!! "I never saw myself having this big family at a young age,” says the 26 year-old Taylor. “But I can’t imagine anything else now. It’s just the greatest.”Also, he gets to escape!!!!Taylor is going back on tour with his brothers in September to promote their new Hanson EP and upcoming album.Our thoughts go out to Natalie while home alone with four children! Posted: July 17, 2009 at 5:15 pm

Cate Sevilla has an up-to-the-minute report at BitchBuzz on a momentous cupcake event: the unveiling (and eating) of the giant cupcake that will feed 2,000 people!Just a few minutes ago, a gigantic cupcake was sliced and served to hundreds of tourists, cake lovers and opportunistic passersby at the Covent Garden Real Food Market.The cupcake, designed by Culinary Olympic winner Michelle Wibowo, was indeed gigantic. And, of course, as pink as possible.Surrounding the overweight cake was a mass crowd of people - cell phones, Flips, and SLRs raised - all dying to get a shot of the gargantuan cake in a faux cup.And then, naturally, there was a massive queue to get a taste of the free cake.photos via BitchBuzz on Flickr@willfrancis has a Twitpic. Anyone else? Email us at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com

Get the tone rightBilled as ‘the happy medium between hardcore feminism and the fluffy-out-of-touch women’s magazines’, the site is divided into seven sections. These are: news; life; style; tech; sex; home and culture. Celebrities do feature, but the site tends to poke fun at them rather than idealise them.

The last time I was here, it was for my mother's wedding to my step dad. I was 20, freshly tattooed, and mid-therapy. I brought a boyfriend into this house I wish I never had - but it's as if nobody even remembers he was here.

From red lipstick to pin curls and corsets, '50s fashion is everywhere we look. Whether it's Dita Von Teese or or your vintage-savvy best friend, it seems everyone wants to look like a pin-up or  vampy '50s housewife these days.

I got these killer Lego earrings this past weekend at TweetCamp! My Vox neighbor (adam.vox.com) posted this photo/post about them.

A world of wannabe Hemingways and aspiring Gonzos. A world where a man can pretty much write whatever he wants as long as he has the balls to back it up and female writers can’t, even if they had balls the size of antarctica. Why? Let’s think about it for a while.

Its President is Judd Apatow, the VP is Michael Cera, with Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen splitting the Treasury and Secretarial duties and Jason Segel in charge of coordinating events. (Oh, and Jonah Hill on the phones.)

We've been known to go searching around Etsy just to spy on whatever cute, snorglable dogs are modeling sweaters and carriers being sold by their crafty owners. (If you're having a bad day, searching for "dog sweaters" on Etsy is a great past time. Maybe a bit sad, but still fun.)

Today's twentysomethings, aka Gen Y, have a reputation for being overly self-focused and entitled. Although there may be some truth to this stereotype, it's neither 100% true nor 100% negative. There are upsides to focusing your awareness on yourself, ESPECIALLY if it has to do with gratitude and appreciation. Around this time of year, it is very common to list all the things you are grateful that you HAVE like health, family, friends, the roof over your head, and so on. But how often does your list of gratitude include statements that are solely about who you ARE?