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Victoria Beckham recently admitted that she only pretends to be glamourous and she has to work very hard to look good and keep up her perfect image she is best known for, she also said she sometimes even run’s around her home wearing a tracksuit! 

It seems that the Victoria we see going to parties with Katie Holmes, Gwen Stefani and Nicole Richie isn’t the real Mrs Beckham. Victoria who is a mother of three explained, ”If I go to the supermarket looking like s***, that affects my work. I am selling an image. Plus, I have fun with it…I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.”

Victoria added “I run four miles a day…I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into ‘Victoria Beckham.’ Victoria is well known for her strong fashion sense and wanted to design dresses women can go to the toilet in…

She launched her second collection of women’s clothes – and was determined the most important features the outfits needed.

She said: “I put all the clothes on myself and walk around in it, and I know what feels comfortable. I know how a dress should sit. I’ve worn so many in the past and when I see the photographs I think, crikey, my boobs are up round my neck again because the corsets are too short and not cut high enough.”

Heidi Klum, what are those shoes, seriously, they may be cool with a pair of skinny jeans but they have completely ruined that lovely dress. This is the outfit Heidi wore for the Golden Globes awards. 

Heidi is one of the most gorgeous women out there, and a source of inspiration to women who insist that motherhood need not lead to asexual frumpery. And she was so close to being a total win in the hot mums department  last night…

But then she put on those shoes – too small, plastic-looking and entirely inappropriate for her outfit – a pretty floaty dress like that should be worn with elegant kitten heels or cute flat pumps, not stripper style plastic shoes, and surely they were far from comfortable! The dress is lovely, the flower is a little overpowering but nothing compared to those awful shoes!

Kate Moss has sparked rumours she is pregnant after gathering all her family together for a “big announcement”. The supermodel has been dating Jamie Hince from The Kills for over a year now, and she has told all her close relatives and friends to clear their diaries for a ‘special party’ she is holding on 18th December. 

The 34-year-old party animal has recently tamed her wild ways of late partying and drinking and has been pictured wearing looser clothes.

A source said: “Kate has been on the blower to the Primrose Hill crowd. Her PA has been on the case to her family.”

It is thought if Kate’s big announcement is not a pregnancy it will be an engagement. Supermodel Kate already has a six-year-old daughter, Lila Grace, from her relationship with publisher Jefferson Hack.

Kate was spotted recently treating Lila’s nanny – Mary Davidson, the 60-year-old mother of Kate’s friend Sadie Frost – to a shopping spree in Topshop.

 Mary was shy and bewildered at first but soon got into the swing as Kate encouraged her, she came away with more than £3,000 of clothes and shoppers found their jaws dropping as they bumped into Kate shouting ‘Come on girls, buy, buy, buy!’

Kate designs a range of clothes for the chain and didn’t even pay the bill, Tophop’s owner Sir Philip Green offered to pick up the tab – alright for some!

Recent research into advertising has found that skinny models are actually a turn off to the consumer in TV commercials and other forms of advertising. They found that images of super-thin models carry no edge in encouraging young women to buy and for the majority of adult women adverts showing skinny girls actually discouraged sales.

So-called ‘plus-size models’, on the other hand, actually encouraged them to buy. The study performed by psychologist Phillippa Diedrichs from the University of Queensland, Australia, created a series of ads for underwear, shampoo and a party dress. Each advert was made twice, once using a skinny size eight model and another featuring a size twelve woman.

When women aged between 18 and 25 saw the adverts they felt better – and more likely to buy – after viewing the images of the size twelve models.

Miss Diedrichs said: “For anything to change, research has to be convincing, not just to government and health researchers, but also to people in advertising who actually make the decisions. Often people make the argument that thinness sells, and that’s why they use thin models.”

“But we can change the images we see and still sell products but also make people feel better about themselves.” The soap brand Dove has based its image on a campaign using “real women” and highlighting how much imagery in advertising is manipulated.

There have been concerted campaigns against the ultra-thin “size zero” with fashion weeks in Madrid and Milan banning models from the catwalk that were of a weight deemed unhealthy by the Body Mass Index measure.

The British Fashion Awards 2008 shortlist has been announced this week, and it’s just six weeks until the event and we will find out who will be awarded a British Fashion Award this year. The British Fashion Awards is always a glamorous and popular occasion where a large variety of celebrities attend sporting the latest fashions and accessories; some have even called the Fashion Awards Britain’s equivalent to the Oscar’s. The event is going to be held on November 25^th and it will be a huge occasion in the diaries of the nominees that have been announced this week.

Model of the Year contest is one of the most sort after awards presented and the same model is a nominee who won the award last year – Agness Deyn, she is competing against Lily Donaldson and Jourdan Dunn who are both successful models who have made themselves well know in 2008. This award is so popular in this event due to the event being fashion based, and using models does a large part of fashion promotion. Jimmy Choo, Agent Provocateur and Paul Smith are all nominated for Designer Brand of the Year and Tim Walker, Pat McGrath and Terry Jones and nominated for the Fashion Creator Award.                                    

Red Carpet Designer of the Year Award is another huge award and has a number of successful designers as nominees, at the awards last year it was won by Marchesa, and this year nominees are Matthew Williamson, Giles Deacon and Stella McCartney. The Accessories Designer of the Year was won by Tomm Binns last year, accessories have been a huge part of fashion in 2008, where a trend was to wear plain clothing and then use big, bold and bright accessories to become the focus of the outfit – the nominees for this award are Rupert Sanderson, Jonathan Kelsey and Lara Bohinc.                                                                                                

The night has been promoted as a black tie event and it has promised to be a sparkling night in the fashion calendar, providing a great show of the fashion’s and trends in 2008 and what is to come for 2009 – which is apparently going to be influenced by street culture which will include rhythm, vibrancy and lots of colour, the clothes for 2009 will be packed with energy and graphics will be a strong image on the clothing, using logos and pictograms with strong typography for decoration, hopefully the Fashion Award’s will reveal some of these pieces and celebrities will be wearing them!