WHAT a week. So much fashion to discuss, so little space. I really don’t know where to begin. It is almost as if summer came to an end, suddenly everyone returned from their beach homes in the Hamptons and Barbados and decided to throw a party.

Oh, wait a minute, that is exactly what happened.

After months bereft of glitz and glamour, red carpets have been rolling out all over the world like dough at Warburton’s.

The week kicked off with the MTV Video Music Awards in the States. There we got a reminder of how pretty Britney can be when she is not shaven-headed and guzzling down frappuccinos with Red Bull chasers. With a full head of hair and a show-stopping gown, it was a return to form for America’s favourite damaged diva.

Nice to see this time she accessorised her outfit not with a golf umbrella but a clutch of MTV Awards instead.

Then, on Monday night, it was the chance for our soapstars to get out of their dowdy clobber and into some bona fide glamorous gear for the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.

Sadly, soapstars tend to adhere to the less is more school of red carpet dressing, rather than go for the sort of understated elegance you see at the Emmys. But then, if you had to wear the tat some of them live in on-screen, you would go ga-ga for sequins, too. However, Corrie newcomer Michelle Keegan (aka super-chav Tina) managed to look cute in her mini-prom dress, picking up her award for best soap newcomer.

But the flashbulbs did not stop there. Just up the road from the TV ceremony, a gaggle of A-listers were listening to James Nesbitt read out the winners at the second National Movie Awards 2008, at the Royal Festival Hall.

It wasn’t quite the Oscars (actually it wasn’t even as glitzy as the Golden Globes) but it did give us the chance to peep at Nicole Kidman showing off her svelte new figure in a slinky mini-dress, just months after having baby daughter Sunday Rose.

The movie awards were also the perfect platform for the world’s favourite pocket-sized popstrel, Kylie Minogue, to reveal she has ditched the peroxide and returned to her natural hair colour.

It takes years off her and would no doubt have been the number one tonsorial tale if it hadn’t been for a certain former Spice Girl across the pond.

Forget the Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss/French borders, the biggest bang of the week came from the collective jaws of the New York Fashion Week attendees hitting Manhattan’s floor upon seeing Victoria Beckham’s new pixie haircut. Cue short beck and sides headlines the world over and a thousand copycat cuts.

There you have it – five days of fabulous fashion in 500 words.

Now I think I am going to go and lie down in a darkened room and not think about frocks for a while.