Christopher Bailey and Burberry Win Big at British Fashion Awards

Burberry is on a roll, notwithstanding its hideous new Burberry Heart Collection (a play for the Coach-soaked tween crowd?). The British company’s signature trenchcoats, checked goods, and Prorsum ready-to-wear line are selling briskly, bringing in £572.4 million (approximately $930.3 million, at current exchange rates) during the first six months of 2009, according to financial results released Wednesday. Later that day, 500 fashionable souls gathered at London’s Royal Courts of Justice for the twenty-fifth annual British

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