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

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