This was the year the titfer got its mojo back. Thanks to a certain wedding and some feisty female performers, a woman's crowning glory is no longer just her hair, says Karen Dacre ... more
She’s been handed a budget of £5million and had a cake flown over first class from New York. Fiona Leahy tells Summer Litchfield why London’s hip crowd call her first when it comes to celebrating... more
Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood recently called off their engagement and Marilyn was seen getting over the break-up by partying in Los Angeles ... more
Dita Von Teese has always been an ambassador of stockings and suspenders but, all of a sudden, she’s not the only celeb who is outing her undergarments... more
I stand four-square behind Dita Von Teese. That's a sentence I've always wanted to be able to write. But I'm not being creepy - or, at least, not just being creepy... more
Even during a prosperous year, I have often felt that Paris Fashion Week, with its champagne parties, dark-windowed limos and fashion editors wasting thousands on handbags, teetered on the absurd. But this year it was like watching Louis XIV's court gorge themselves while the rest of the country starved... more
Queen of burlesque Dita Von Teese today unveiled her new lingerie collection. Von Teese said the Wonderbra range was inspired by the glamour of the 1940s and 50s.... more
Kelly Brook brought some much-needed colour to the Cartier International Polo event today. The model/actress/TV presenter pulled out all the stops by wearing a glamorous floral shorts jumpsuit.... more
Team Cruise and Team Beckham reunited on the red carpet last night at the social event of the season, the annual Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which drew a who's who roll call of international stars
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Claudia Schiffer's modelling heyday may be behind her. But she still manages to make quite an impression at showbiz events. The statuesque model left petite burlesque star Dita looking like a little Teese, as the pair stood side by side at a gala hosted by Mont Blanc in Geneva earlier this week... more
She was never a plain Jane. But with her long blonde hair and girl next door sunny looks, there was little inclination that this fresh-faced teenager would undergo a stunning metamorphosis, into brunette bombshell and burlesque star Dita Von Teese
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Young artists are hawking their wares at the Frieze Art Fair, Dita Von Teese kicks off her cabaret show and the filthy, gobby Merrill "Peaches" Nisker flies into town.... more