Have you got it yet? Okay, we’ll give you a clue. She has a wardrobe that puts Barbie to shame, drives a pink convertible Bentley and has a multi-story home for her seventeen pet Chihuahuas. So who is this saucy leather-clad minx, you ask? This, ladies and gents, is PARIS HILTON.

Honestly, it really is her.

Those clever people at V Magazine have rendered everyone’s favourite squillionairess entirely unrecognisable, kitting her out in kinky clobber and framing her pouty features with a blunt fringe and poker-straight locks. Blimey. Just check out the provocative pose above that sees her in nothing but a Versace leather jacket and thigh-high snakeskin Alexander McQueen boots. Is anyone else reminded of a hybrid between a raunchy Bridget Bardot and raunchier Taylor Momsen?

Or how about this topless shot featuring an oversized Yōji Yamamoto coat and bondage straps at the waist (in fact, that’s a couture headpiece by Heather Huey, Paris). Well, we say, fierce, fierce, FIERCE! And isn’t it maaarvelous to see her going futuristic and edgy rather than Barbie-tastic? Even despite that slightly freakish doll-like stare…

So prepare to see even more of her dark side as The World According To Paris hits our telly boxes this year. ‘I get to use my real voice,’ the 30-year-old says of the project. ‘I love it because it’s showing more of the real me, as a business woman. I wanted to show what it’s like to be in my world.’ And what is it like, Ms Hilton? ‘I’m very fun, and I’m very daring. I don’t copy anybody,’ she says. ‘I’m like my own Barbie doll!’

Ah yes, something’s never change…

- Jessica Vince – Grazia Magazine

Are you going baaannnaaannnaaasssss for Rachel Zoe’s debut line???!!  I am!!  I’ve seen the Look Book and I could D.I.E.   The boho-glam, the 70′s style silk blouses with bows and tiered ruffle dresses, that’s the Zoe we know, but in an inspired turn of events, Rachel has decided to go in a slightly different direction. Though you can almost always count on Rachel to show up in a bold yet loose one shoulder dress, her line seems to lean in another direction. Rachel’s line is filled with ultra tailored looks with a slight androgynous feel and surprisingly not overstocked with fur. It’s no secret Rachel would rather die twice than be buried in anything but vintage and her new signature collection radiates with fresh pieces that scream vintage with a modern kiss. It’s filled with great-looking skirt-suits with bubble hems, long, lean pantsuits, and uh-mazing shift dresses.

The collection, a collaboration with manufacturer Li & Fung, is the first that Zoe herself has designed. Rachel describes the collection as “uptown chic and downtown cool infused with Parisian elegance and London street style.”  She recently shared with Woman’s Wear Daily “I’d imagine everybody is expecting something from me that’s kind of a seventies, uber boho-glam kind of thing, and, you know, very accessorized. And it’s not.” The collection which will also feature bags, flats, boots, and of course HEELS is appropriately titled “The Rachel Zoe Collection.” The pieces display some of the best tailoring one can hope for in RTW.

The line is rumoured to be priced from $250 to $700 and although no retailers have yet to be confirmed, Zoe plans to have the pieces on the shelves of specialty and department stores soon.

I think you will agree we will all be going baaaannnnaaaannnnaaasss for this range!!  What do you think? Let us know x

John Galliano leaving the Paris Police Station after the hearing.

French fashion house Christian Dior fired John Galliano Tuesday after an online video clip circulated around the world showing its star designer shouting anti-Semitic abuse at people in a Paris bar.

Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, who was signed to promote a Dior perfume, said in New York that she was “deeply shocked and disgusted” by the video and no longer wanted to be associated with him.

Galliano, one of the world’s most famous and long-lasting designers, was suspended by Dior Friday, hours after a couple complained to police that he had shouted racist and anti-Semitic comments at them in a Paris bar.

A separate complaint was filed by another woman Saturday for similar behaviour from the British designer in October.

“I very firmly condemn what was said by John Galliano, which totally contradicts the values which have always been defended by Christian Dior,” Christian Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano said in a statement.

Paris prosecutors are expected to decide by the end of the week whether Galliano will face trial over Thursday’s incident in the trendy Marais neighbourhood of Paris.

Galliano’s dismissal comes on the first day of Paris Fashion Week and three days before his Dior show was due to run on Friday.

It was not clear whether the show would go ahead, although Monday, the press office of John Galliano, the designer’s own label, said his Sunday show was still on.

Dior is the leading fashion house at LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury group.

(Reporting by Astrid Wendlandt; Editing by Catherine Bremer and Paul Casciato) Router.com

The rise and rise of Olivia Palermo continues apace, with the lady herself dropping another detail about her plans for fashion world domination.

Remember that new TV show she’s got in the works? Turns out that cameras will follow Palermo as she develops her own clothing line, she said in an interview with a Spanish magazine.

Although we’re pretty sure that that was the exact concept behind The City, in which Palermo came across as something of a fashion villain, count us in… Now, can anyone tell us whether this show will make it to the UK any sooner than the last Palermo series?

By Emily Cronin | Posted: Wed 29 Dec 2010

Sharp shoppers snapped up all available leather and nubuck shoulder bags within an hour of the item appearing on the site.

There’s one style remaining – the hexagonal chain crocodile bag – but at £8,950, it’s not what we’d consider an impulse buy. Although the two-tone wonder won’t reappear, expect to find five more of Ms B’s bags online from February.

UPDATE: We received word from Net at 1:45 that the second bag, which we anticipated might stick around a bit longer, has also now sold out. What Christmas rush?

By Emily Cronin vogue.co.uk

Borne in 2005 in La, Dakota Collective is fast fashion for the contemporary customer. Their look is citified prep, Americana with a quirky, feminine twist. The Dakota Collective brand is glamorous, sophisticated, intelligent, at times demure, at times sexy, always feminine and always confident.  

Made famous in America by Rhianna and Kristen Stewart (She worn one of their coats in Twilight!!), it’s gone from strength to strength.

Kristen Stewart as Bella in BB Dakota*

Expect skinny combat trousers in olive and camouflage, teamed with long silk vests and raw edge T’s.  Masculine with a femine twist, sexy and confident.

Arriving end of Feb

Jewel colour combinations of green, turquoise, purple and orange – for grown-up skirts or tapered silk trousers worn with slippery, loosely knotted tops that were belted in stiff metallic gold at the waist, had a richness reminiscent of Yves Saint Laurent, though long glossy blazers added a less welcome Eighties element, particularly when combined with harem pants.

Then the colour bleached away to a nude set of pale linens, leathers and suedes that were ladylike and luxurious and made us think of safari living – the six-star way.

Dresses were woven or whip stitched in leather and, as jewels and feathers were added into the mix the theme took on a tribal energy – it was glorious fashion armour featuring knots and macrame reminiscent of South American handiwork. It had an exotic appeal and, despite being a summer collection, was bursting with leather and suede – enough to impress the super rich, super gorgeous wife of a polo player on their ranch full of money.

Fringed jackets and dresses made for fabulous investment pieces – Frida herself took her bow in a black one – and cocktail versions looked great in strapless woven suede with gold metal worked in. One dark gold silk strapless jumpsuit was the epitome of urban safari glamour.

The final line-up of fringed, feathered, jewelled dresses in dark orange, gold, emerald and black made for an impressive statement.

We were ahead of Gucci in this trend we started stocking this trouser in September and they have been a great success,  check out our grey and black version here.http://www.citrine-online.co.uk/trousers/skirts/cat_4.html

Pair with a great vest top or tunic such as our Raw edge jersey range and a fab jacket. http://www.citrine-online.co.uk/tops/cat_2.html

Let us know what you think!!

Excepts by Dolly Jones ~ www.vogue.co.uk

THINK of utilitarian basics like the parka, the cargo pant, the T- shirt and the hoodie, you almost certainly think of Gap – and you almost certainly do not think of Valentino, but the two worlds have collided. Gap has unveiled its latest collaboration, with the couture house of Valentino, and the results are surprising to say the least.

“We love mixing different cultures and we have been excited to mix gap’s timeless essentials with our roman culture of couture,” the label’s designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli explained. ”It brings together the iconic world of Valentino and Gap’s fashion staples, synthesizing the current trend of combining luxury with basics.”

“The work that Maria Grazia and Pier Paolo are doing at Valentino is so exciting,” Anita Borzyszkowska, VP of global PR and special projects for Gap, told us. “They’re reinventing the label with a modernity that feels really fresh but is staying true to the original handwriting that’s recognizably Valentino. I love that they’ve worked with that vocabulary and applied it to quintessential Gap pieces to create something that feels very cool and new, rather than a high street interpretation of their own collection.”

The seven-piece collection, which was launched to celebrate the opening of Gap’s first Italian store last week in Milan, will arrive at Gap in London- as well as Dover Street Market and Colette in Paris

Lauren Milligan ~ Vogue.co.uk

SEE THE TOM FORD WOMENSWEAR COLLECTION HERE 

Ford convinced his most beautiful and stylish friends to model the collection for him, whilst he announced them. Beyonce’ Knowles, Lauren Hutton, Liya Kebede, Rinko Kikuchi, Stella Tennant, Amber Valletta, Natalia Vodianova, Karen Elson, Karlie Kloss, Abbey Lee Kershaw and Julianne Moore, amongst others, showcased a collection which reminded onlookers of Ford’s best collections for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent.

“There’s continuity from what I was doing at YSL at the end; that’s the customer,” Ford admitted. “It’s about individuality. Real clothes, real women. For a fashionable woman aged 25 to 75. That’s why I literally put many of my own muses in the show. I hear them say, ‘God, I can’t find that anywhere!’ “
So, does this expansion of his own line mean his priority is fashion once again?

“The day I don’t love to do it, I’ll sell it,” he told US Vogue. “Because we’re all only here for a little while, and nothing we do or make has any permanence at all. I care now because I’m doing it. I want to be proud of what I do. Which may be ten or 20 years – who knows?”

Lauren Milligan ~ www.vogue.co.uk