By Gregory Katz

Associated Press Writer, London

Carla Bruni, where are you?

The French first lady's sophisticated style was sorely missed Monday as London Fashion Week moved into its second day, with festivities capped by a Downing Street reception for fashion designers hosted by Sarah Brown, wife of notoriously rumpled Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Brown and his not-very-GQ Cabinet colleagues have been the object of some derision in the fashion world as magazines have used side-by-side photos to point out that French ministers are far more chic than their stolid British counterparts. Sarah Brown, for her part, has shunned the fashion limelight.