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SAG red carpet: Highs & lows
In the lull between the Golden Globes and the Oscars, Hollywood's hottest step out for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Life & Style Editor Nicky Park has sifted through the red carpet snaps to find her loves, loathes and those in limbo.

Girls set for Miss Junior NZ
The parents of girls as young as 10 are paying $700 each to enter their daughters in a junior Miss World beauty pageant.

Contest winner battles to get prizes
From the high of winning an Australasian fashion competition, an Otago designer is fighting to receive her $12,500 prize money.

One Direction launch jewellery line
Pop stars One Direction have expanded their business empire by launching a cut-price jewellery collection.

Backstage at Couture Spring 2013
A backstage look at the Couture Spring 2013 collection shows in Paris.

Anger over model's racy ad (+vid)
Supermodel Kate Upton's saucy Super Bowl advertisement has been criticised by a parenting group for "selling sexual objectification".

Jean-Paul Gaultier Couture Spring 2013
Jean-Paul Gaultier makes us travel to Rajasthan through his latest haute couture collection.

Elie Saab Couture Spring 2013
Elie Saab has accustomed us to his rich embroidery, his threads of silk, his sequins, stones and crystals, but this time, he excelled in the delicacy, lightness and transparency.

Vanessa Paradis latest face of H&M
French singer Vanessa Paradis has signed up to front fashion house H&M's new environmentally friendly line.

Giorgio Armani Couture Spring 2013
Only a few living designers can execute a couture show where almost every look glistens as much with classic timelessness as it does with innovation. Fashion legend Giorgio Armani, 78, is one of them. Proof was Armani Prive's spring-summer 2013 show on Tuesday: a finely balanced affair contrasting the classic with the exotic.

Why it's good to be Stella McCartney
Viva joins designer Stella McCartney in Miami for a sneak peek at her new sports collection.

Dare to detox
A routine of yoga, siestas, massages and seriously healthy eating leaves our editor and her partner blissfully re-energised.

Raf Simons Spring Couture 2013 for Dior
Christian Dior chief Sidney Toledano said the house is winning new couture customers and that China is the "big market of tomorrow'', as womenswear artistic director Raf Simons kicked off four days of shows in Paris. Lee Radziwill, sister of the late Jackie Kennedy, and Princess Charlene of Monaco were among those who turned out for Simons's second couture show since replacing the disgraced John Galliano last year. Bernadette Chirac, wife of former French president Jacques Chirac, and Valerie Trierweiler, President Francois Hollande's partner, were also in the front row.

Donatella Versace kicks off Couture Spring 2013
Donatella Versace dazzled Paris on a dark, snowy night with a spring couture collection heavy on 24-carat gold pinstripes and crystal embroidery that some might say tended towards bling. Hollywood actor Kevin Costner, Princess Charlene of Monaco, actresses Melissa George and Olivia Munn and rapper Ne-Yo were were among those who turned out. Versace, whose collection was shown the night before the rest of the couture shows begin, said she took inspiration from the "architectural splendour of glass domes where the fragility of glass contrasts with the strength of iron and steel beams".

Cellulite fighting jeans
Jeans with moisturising and slimming properties are the latest offering from the fashion world.

Rihanna will debut at London Fashion Week
Rihanna will make her debut at London Fashion Week with her Rihanna for River Island clothing collection.

Wannabe models turn heads
Dozens of hopeful models turned out to the Albany shopping mall, keen to be the next big thing on the runway.

Racy Mila Kunis ad banned
An advertisement featuring Mila Kunis in her underwear has been banned in Britain.

'Wrinkles aren't funny' - Julianne Moore
US actress Julianne Moore believes that whichever way you look at getting older "wrinkles are not funny".

Taylor Swift has breast enlargement - reports
Taylor Swift has sparked rumours she underwent a breast enlargement after showing off a noticeably fuller cleavage on red carpets recently.