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Balenciaga’s SS 2012 show is all over Twitter and fashion news sites this morning, but not for the reasons you would expect. The headlines were enough to make any fashion editor cringe with sympathy: “Broken Benches Send Editors and Buyers Crashing to the Floor at Balenciaga Show” and “Balenciagea Attendees Forced to Stand Throughout the Show Because of Faulty Benches”. No one was hurt, thank God, but standing during a runway show? How terribly gauche!

Thanks to live Tweeting, we get to experience the event almost as if we were there. Runway show veterans the Traina sisters were the first to hear the bench creaking, and jumped up seconds before it came crashing to the floor. (Kate Lanphear and Eric Wilson weren’t so lucky!) But despite the surprise of a standing-room-only presentation (and difficulty for the shorter members of the audience), the show did go on. Everyone present, including the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Salma Hayek, and François-Henri Pinault, stood like champs, and watched the show as though the models were brides heading down the aisle. We can’t even imagine how horrible it would have been had Anna Wintour been one to fall on the floor.

Ice cream, pink lemonade, and nearly 2,000 balloon animals aren’t typical ways to start a Sunday morning—but then we only get to start our day off with a Mulberry fashion show but twice a year. This show is always a big ticket of LFW, for its prime guest list (um, today’s show included Kristen Stewart AND Kate Moss, who wore a Canadian tuxedo and a brown hat!), super-luxe venue (the upscale Claridges Hotel in the tony Mayfair neighbourhood), dogs on the runway (this season: miniature schnauzers), and, obviously, the fact that the brand is one of the fastest-growing luxury brands out there. Another way to start the day: sequins, and yet another sorbet palette of yellow, green, and pink.

Former Dior Homme designer, Hedi Slimane, confirms that he will be returning to fashion design. [Fashionologie]

What’s today’s rumour mill churning out? While there’s still no definite answer on who will be behind Kate Middleton’s dress on the big day, there is some talk that the future princess has several designers on stand by.

One new name that has been added to the pool of brought to the royal wedding’s table? Jasper Conran⎯a British designer worn by Princess Margaret‘s daughter, Lady Sarah Chatto during her own nuptials. Interestingly enough, Conran’s wedding gown collection has mysteriously since been removed from his website since the buzz began.

Another source of conflict in the dress debate? It was recently revealed that Palace officials turned to EIC of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, looking for help in regards to who should be behind what Kate walks down the aisle in. While Alexandra was said to have been pushing for a McQueen concoction designed by his successor, Sarah Burton, any designs from McQueen were left out of the magazine’s recent blockbuster issue dedicated to the royal wedding.