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.

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Tomorrow Westfield Figtree will open the doors with even more to love, with the completed $20 million redevelopment which began in February 2008.

This has seen Westfield Figtree centre size increase by 1,850sqm to an expanded 21,770sqm and created space for 22 new retailers. The new includes fashion stores Autograph, Katies and Tree of Life, plus others such as The Reject Shop and EB Games.

During the construction of the Westfield Figtree, sustainability was a focus and to achieve this, this team developed recycling methods for waste materials as well as fitting all new light fittings with energy efficient globes.

The ambiant upgrade has added new tiling throughout the entire centre, timber ceiling fans and lighting which will all work to make the centre appear much fresher and brighter - thus an even more enjoyable location to do your fashion shopping. Now what's not to love about that!

For more details on tomorrow's launch, which will include everything from entertainment, kids activities to a host of special offers please go to the Westfield Figtree launch page

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Australia's brand new national league competition - the Westfield W-League - kicks off this weekend with eight teams from around the nation participating.

"This is not only an exciting new era in women's football, but it's also another landmark for women's sport," said Football Federation Australia (FFA) CEO, Ben Buckley.

One match each week from the Westfield W-League will be broadcast live and exclusive on ABC1 each Saturday at 4pm.

Westfield Group is supporting women's football ranging from the Westfield Championship for Girls, the national women's teams and the Westfield W-League.

Recently some of the star players from the Westfield W-League teams spent time with Sydney Magazine's Fashion Director, Amanda Newman, putting together fashionable looks that both reflect their individual personalities and represent the latest in summer fashion. To view these amazing athletes in their stylish best head to this Famous Fashion story.

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Today the Hon John Brumby, Premier of Victoria, along with Steven Lowy, Group Managing Director, Westfield Group and Erika Heynatz of Westfield Style Counsel fame,  are to open Victoria's latest luxury retail destination, Westfield Doncaster.

Westfield Doncaster is located 12km east of Melbourne's CBD and will now offer 109,000 square metres of retail space. The centre has more than doubled in size since the redevelopment began in January of last year, growing from 200 to now 400 stores.

It will also declare a series of shopping centre firsts, including Australia's first bulter service, Victoria's first permanent valet service, Victoria's first parking guidance system and gizmo - an IT support service.

Additionally there is a dedicated styling suite space with fashion stylists on hand to support the wonderful array of Australian and international retailers.

The completion of the centre will see the opening of a new David Jones, a refurbished Myer department store, a premium fashion district including designers sass & bide, Hugo Boss, Zimmermann, Gorman, Lacoste and Tommy Hilfiger, in addition to cosmetic boutiques at the level of Mecca Cosmetica, Kit Cosmetics and Aesop.

Environmentally concious, Westfield Doncaster has also been awarded a 4 star rating by the Green Building Council of Australia by implementing some unique iniatives including two 50,000 litre rainwater tanks for general cleaning and irrigation purposes, solar hot water panels fitten to 'The Drum', light fittings that have 'energy saver' globes and sophisticated management systems installed to monitor and minimise energy use.

What's What congratulations all involved in this exciting project, with Westfield Doncaster certain to be highly successful and an amazingly rewarding luxury retail desination.

For more information please head to the Westfield Doncaster website

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Diva is already well known for it's very reasonably priced, yet always funky and fashionable, accessories. And today they are launching their Mid Season, Nothing Over $5 Sale which will leave your beautifully decorated for less than a coffee and slice of cake!

Diva have hundreds of styles to choose from in this fab sale, and the offer is valid until Friday 24th October 2008 (though What's What predicts that they will sell-out well before this so be sure to add to your to-do list now).

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Renowned make up artist Napoleon Perdis is launching an exciting new cosmetic collection, named 'NP Set', at Target this Thursday 16th October - the very first beauty initiative in the Designers for Target program.

Napoleon, who grew up in Sydney, Australia and is now based in Los Angeles, is one of the world's leading makeup artists who has fans including Winona Ryder, Debra Messing and Nicolette Sheridan. He is also well known for his popular makeup range Napoleon Perdis which is available, along with advice from trained makeup consultants in many Westfield locations.

The new NP Set cosmetic collection is dedicated to immediate beauty solutions and affordable quality and price. All housed in Pop Art-inspired packaging and the range including both products and brushes - this is both a fun and functional makeup range.

Napoleon recently commented on NP Set saying "NP Set is my spirited new makeup collection for glamour on-the-go. Think rich colours, cool trends, and fix-it products that are easy and fun to use."

To view more looks created by NP Set, plus to learn more about this exciting new beauty brand you can head to the Designers For Target site

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Wanting to be 100% prepared for the coming summer's trends? You can let celebrity fashion expert Erika Heynatz show you the hottest summer fashion pieces, how they can be worn and also share hints on hair and beauty for the warmer months ahead.

Date: Saturday 11th October 2008
Time: 2pm
Cost: Free
Location: Westfield Eastgardens - Centre Court

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A crisp, bright white shirt is a wardrobe essential every woman needs, no matter what your style, and now Witchery is giving us even more reason to ensure we have at least one white shirt ready to wear, with their brilliant White Shirt Campaign.

For, beginning on 13th October, Witchery is starting a major fundraising initiative for ovarian cancer with the 'White Shirt Campaign' which will sell a range of limited edition shirts with 100% of fund going direction to the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation.

For the 'White Shirt Campaign' a divine selection of shirts have been designed to cater for all tastes, which include a classic oversized boyfriend shirt $99.95, a delicate silk-satin ruffle sleeve blouse $149.95, a tuxedo vest $149.95, a pretty asymmetrical silk jersey ruffled top $109.95 and a sexy silk voile pleat front tank $89.95. 

The 'White Shirt Campaign' is a follow-on from Witchery's 'Every Cloud' campaign which raised over $330,000 for ovarian cancer research in 2007-2008. Witchery are wanting to raise the bar even further with this new campaign, and are hoping to rasie over $500,000 through the 'White Shirt Campaign'.

What's What applauds Witchery's dedication to the OCRF and believe that there really couldn't be a better reason to buy one (or for that matter two or three) new white shirts next week.

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Today is definitely a day to be heading into Sportsgirl with both the new 'Sportsgirl Like' ranges by designers Cohen Et Sabine and Andrea and Joen hitting the shop floors.

Both these limited edition collections are right on trend, with romantic summer maxi and mini dresses from Cohen Et Sabine and sexy bold accessories from Andrea & Joen. In fact items from both ranges will look great teamed together!

So don't delay, as this may cause you to miss out, check in with your local Sportsgirl location to see if they are stocking these special ranges and head over super fast before they have the chance to sell out.

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