Supermodel says her hand got ‘jammed’ in a machine at Brighton station for an hour and a half

With her famous nickname, you might think Twiggy is the perfect person to call on if your sweets get stuck in a vending machine.

But the supermodel has told how she once became stuck at Brighton railway station as she tried to retrieve a chocolate bar.

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The model and actor wrote on Instagram ‘My heart is broken’ after house in Studio City apparently collapsed after a fire broke out

A Los Angeles home that appears to belong to the model and actor Cara Delevingne was destroyed in a fire Friday.

One firefighter was taken to a hospital in fair condition with unspecified injuries, and a housesitter who was inside at the time was treated for minor injuries, a Los Angeles fire department spokesperson, Nicholas Prange, said.

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Dropping by this week for a spot of comfort eating is the legendary glamour model turned reality TV star, Katie Price. One of the most photographed and filmed women of our times, splashed across page 3 and lads mags as Jordan 30 years ago, then in six of her own TV series, multiple documentaries and reality shows, everyone thinks they know her. But talking to Grace over a squishy, soft and ‘bald’ dish, Katie reveals a more nuanced picture – opening up about childhood, horses, early photoshoots, love, abuse, men, the media, breakdown and being a proud mum of five. ‘Never underestimate the Pricey’ – it’s a motto to live by and Grace embraces it all – the ups, the downs and snacks in between

New episodes of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent will be released every Tuesday

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Australian supermodel appears in a fashion show for the first time in over a decade. Plus, high-end ‘happy shoes’, two blockbuster fashion exhibitions, and more this March in Australian style

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On Monday night, arguably Australia’s most famous supermodel walked the runway for the first time in over a decade, then did it all again two hours later. After QR codes flashed on enormous screens beside the words “shop the runway”, Elle Macpherson, who will be 60 at the end of March, opened Melbourne fashion festival.

Her first outfit was a floor-length brown coat layered over orange knitwear and silk terracotta trousers by Viktoria & Woods. Later, she wore a pale yellow trench coat with matching pants by Bianca Spender, then closed the show in a floaty, black boho dress and oversized blazer by Aje.

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Images created by AI are getting exponentially better, to the point where many people are unable to distinguish them from the real thing. As this technology continues to develop, challenges to our perception of what is real are immense, and our trust in what we are seeing is eroded. Fakes are already changing industries such as modelling and marketing, but can they offer a more diverse reflection of humanity than has historically been available – or are they destined to reflect the narrow standards of beauty these industries have long been drawn to?

*With thanks to the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

* Great British Brands is published by Country & Town House magazine

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Sorbet shades, gingham and twinsets rekindled by a brand that can lay claim to irony-heavy cuteness of era

Donatella Versace was never going to get left behind in the season of the supermodel. After all, as the person who convinced her brother Gianni to have the model stars of George Michael’s Freedom video walk the Versace runway lip-syncing the song in 1991, she pretty much invented the concept.

This catwalk season has seen a four-strong supermodel cameo at Vogue World in London and Christy Turlington in gold lamé at Ralph Lauren in New York, but Donatella had an ace up her sleeve in the shape of Claudia Schiffer. With Barbie dolls created in homage to her long career in modelling, Schiffer has been all but retired after walking Yves Saint Laurent’s farewell show in 2002. She has made only one appearance since, in a 2017 Versace show marking the 20th anniversary of Gianni’s death, but she returned to the catwalk in Milan at Versace’s show on Friday night.

Versace invited Schiffer to star in a show which paid homage to two classic Gianni Versace collections from 1995, a year when Schiffer was the face of every Versace catwalk and of a billboard campaign shot by Richard Avedon.

Cute, lemon-sorbet tailoring, flickable blonde hair and teeny handbags brought back to life the spirit of the year when Friends was in its television prime and Clueless was in cinemas. Schiffer, who wore a lithe pistachio metal-mesh evening gown and smiled broadly to an audience which included her 18-year-old daughter Clementine, attending her first fashion show, told Vogue she had accepted the call-up because Donatella “is a wonderful, warm-hearted, gentle, genuine, nice person”.

Nineties nostalgia is big business in pop culture right now, so it was a power move to remind the assembled fashion industry that Versace can lay claim to the irony-laden cuteness of the era – and the power move is the ultimate Versace look. At an early preview in the grand marble-slabbed corner office from which Donatella presides over Versace’s new Milan headquarters, the designer, dressed in a black dress and 8-in platform heels, was keen to point out that “a powerful woman is still powerful in sorbet colours”.

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