Fashion

British portrait and fashion photographer Rankin has photographed the great and the good from Britney Spears, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Kylie Minogue and even the Queen. Nowit could be your turn.

Rankin has launched an new project and is looking for eccentric Brits to photograph in aid of Oxfam. Rankin Live! will see Rankin shoot and instantly print the portraits of 1000 Brits on site at his exhibition in August at the Truman Brewery on London’s Brick Lane.

If you think you have a distinct sense of style and embody British eccentricity and enthusiasm, you can apply to take part. Send a photo of yourself and your reasons for applying to rankinlive@rankin.co.uk.

The 1000 best applicants will be invited to take part and make a donation of £50 to the charity.

Distressed denim is back. And it is back with a vengeance. Stay ahead of the fashion pack this spring, team your toweringly high platform stilettos with a faded fitted denim jacket and pale blue skinny jeans with rips all over them.

To me, this seems like the anathema of true style, but distressed denim has already been spotted on some of London’s most fashion forward designers, buyers and journalists and it’s filtering through to celebrity world as I type. Think Alice Dellal with a few more clothes on and you’ll be on the right track.

To get the look without destroying your beloved Seven for all Mankind’s, head over to Bunnyhug.co.uk where you can get hold of box tickers like these destroyed boyfriend jeans by Sass and Bide. Price? £189.

Yikes, if you’ve ever worried about getting older, or have been contemplating anti-wrinkle nonsense then check out Cindy Crawford in Allure magazine first.

She looks phenomenal and at 43 she is a perfect role model for aging gracefully/hardly aging at all. The sexy shoot is for an anti-aging issue and it definitely gets its point across. The article also offers insights into her beauty regime.

“Basically, I take care of myself, but I don’t want to be obsessive. And I don’t want to not like who I am today. I’m all for fighting the good fight, but I don’t care how much you work out or how much cream you put on—things change.”

She offers that good hair care is in fact the tool to anti-aging, and offers some reassuring sense:

“I think I look pretty good for 43. But I don’t look the way I did when I was 23,” says Crawford. “So if Star magazine or whatever wants to print a picture of me on the beach from the back, at the worst possible angle, and say that I have cellulite, I’m like, Guess what? I do, and I never said I didn’t.”

Make sure you check out Allure to get the full shoot and more anti-aging hints and tips.

If you could have heard the screams of excitement when we found out that Gwen Stefani is appearing in Gossip Girl you would have been deafened.

What a fabulous piece of casting this is, the fashionista’s favourite show with the ultimate fashionista herself… perfection! Oh but it gets better, she will be appearing with her amazing band No Doubt!

The band will appear in the last episode of the current series, which will air in the US on 11th May. The cameo will take place at an 80s themed party where they will play Adam and the Ants’ Stand And Deliver. The 80s theme is of great significance to Gossip Girl fans. For it was recently confirmed that Gossip Girl is getting its own spin off series set in that very decade.

The new series will centre around the character of Serena’s mother Lily Van Der Woodsen and her life as a teenage in 80s LA. Viewers will follow her hectic party lifestyle and all the dramas that go hand-in-hand with it. There are also rumours that this series will cross over with the cult series The O.C. and Lily will hang out with Kirsten Nichol and Jimmy Cooper. If you think Gossip Girl is fashionable, this series will be even better. 80s bad taste is of course the look of the moment.

We can’t wait to see Gwen in full 80s get up, this will be a must watch episode!

But we should also add that Gossip Girl isn’t the only high fashion TV show around, oh no. In an new US pilot Elle Macpherson is playing the boss of a New York model agency. The show titled A Beautiful Life will also star Mischa Barton as an aspiring model and is being produced by actor Ashton Kutcher. Let the fashion face off begin.