Hello and welcome to the new look Fashion Statement. It coincides with the arrival of the new look Guardian fashion site, which launched on Monday, and the end of Kate Carter's tenure at the helm of this weekly mailout while she's on maternity leave. We'll be sending Fashion Statement out on Friday mornings from now on, so that we can really capitalise on a week's worth of fashion-related news and you can enjoy a roundup of our own content and the best fashion news from the web that we didn't have time to cover. Enjoy!
Five things you should know about our new website
• We've tarted the website right up, so that all the Guardian and Observer's fashion content is now far, far easier to find.
• And there's more of it. Loads more. Reader research told us that you wanted more from the website and, by God, we're going to give you more.
• There are beauty features too. Oh yes. As well as the lovely Sali Hughes, who held a live two-hour Q&A with readers this week, we have a new weekly column from Anna Chesters on the history of a chosen brand, and Anita Bhagwandas will cover beauty care for dark skin every month.
• Then there's the fashion blog, which launched last month and has since featured everything from sexist T shirts to skin-bleaching horrors, Chanel pop-up shops and Elizabeth Taylor-inspired photoshoots. And more. Loads more.
• We're going to be launching a new feature called "Test the trend" later this month, in which we ask readers to try out new clothes for us. Email us if you want to take part!
Five things that happened at New York fashion week
• Luxury brand Missoni did a cheap range at Target (a bit like Primark for Americans) and shoppers raided everything in sight, leaving the retailer unable to replenish stock to meet demand.
• Photographs backstage at Marc by Marc Jacobs confirm that the man can do little wrong when it comes to prints and colours.
• Carlene Bailey-Thomas is a big fan of Betsey Johnson's Ass and Titties.
• Mr Street Peeper kept us up to date with street style in New York.
• Hadley Freeman is not feeling Michael Kors's safari-themed collection.
Actually, loads of things happened at NYFW. Here are some more
• Carlene Thomas-Bailey picked her top five hair and makeup looks from the runways. They're big!
• Victoria Beckham did rather well when she showed her first collection since giving birth.
• Googie, the Rolling Stones, French snappers. These are a few of New York fashion week designers' favourite things.
London fashion week kicks off today …
• And the British Fashion Council discover that 1930s jazz, ballet and Aboriginal art inspired the designers at LFW.
• Jess Cartner-Morley has done a who's who of the BFC award nominees and it's all cool and interactive-y.
• One publication who works LFW hard is Vogue. Here's a day in the life of one of their editorial team in the run-up to the big week.
Five things we didn't even have time to cover on the fashion site
• Harper Beckham's first Prada outing: "We went in to Prada yesterday and she loved it," Victoria said. "It was as if she was saying, 'Mummy, I'm home!'"
• Rumours of Marc Jacobs's Dior salary continue.
• There is going to be a Sex and the City TV prequel.
• H&M is set to launch a homeware store.
• The inexorable rise of the "mantie".
And one more thing
• We've got a Tumblr page – guardianfashion.tumblr.com – where you can find live coverage of London fashion week from later today.
Oh, also
• Watch a live stream of LFW shows on guardian.co.uk/fashion from this afternoon.
There's also …
• A competition for a reader to win a Mulberry handbag worth nearly £1,000.
And, just to say
No, that's it. We've finally run out of stuff. For now. See you next Friday!
