What's What in Australian Fashion : Westfield London opens

Friday, 31 October 2008

Westfield London A Huge Hit On Opening Day

Westfield London looks impressive at night with it's glass rolling shape roof

After five years of construction, 10,000 construction workers and 13 million man hours, Westfield London opened the doors of it's super chic £1.7 billion development in the heart of London yesterday.

Westfield London, with more than 280 speciality retailers (40 of which being luxury brands housed within The Village), five anchor stores and 47 places to eat at four different locations is one of Europe's biggest urban shopping malls.

Over 80 per cent of the retailers are fashion specialists who will fill six zones of fashion speciality including luxury, aspirational, urban chic, streetwear, kids and high street. The Village is anchored by Louis Vuitton and features a host of labels including Gucci, Tiffany & Co and De Beers.

Westfield London opened yesterday at 10:30am by Westfield's Mr Frank Lowy and Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and drew huge numbers of customers and journalists.

If you are soon travelling to London and want to learn more about this exciting new centre head to the Westfield London site.

Fashion News, by the lovely and vivacious Alicia Richardson

Alicia Richardson has worked in fashion media for the past 12 years. The first five were spent as part of the editorial team at Australian Elle Magazine, she then moved to New York in 1999. Based in Manhattan for the following five years, she worked on American Elle Magazine and www.elle.com (covering fashion, the New Yorks shows and beauty) and helped to launch the Bloomingdales fashion title, B Magazine, where she remained Beauty Editor until 2004.

Now back in Sydney and Editor of What's What, Alicia is able to immerse herself in both local and international fashion to keep you up-to-the-second with all the news and inspirational trends.