Our favourite look this morning is bold black and white from christian Dior Fall 2008 Couture Collection. Two colours you need to love this season…

Vogue.com UK predicts that fingerless gloves will be the rocking hot look this season and covets this hot pink pair from Louis Vuitton’s Cruise 2009 collection. You like?

It was always going to be a fashionable extravaganza as well as a musical one. Madonna’s Sweet & Sticky tour is well in motion with Givenchy among the costume designers.Yves Saint Laurent and Roberto Cavalli are contributing to the stage look too.

Vogue…

It promises to be a bumper issue with Karen Elson championing the autumn-winter vibe.

Meanwhile, Editor Anna Wintour’s fashion-packed bigger-than-norm September issue of US Vogue hasn’t been flying off the shelves, prompting fashion watchers to speculate that Wintour’s magic is melting. Will Vogue UK do better?

Take four purple dresses…

Topshop jersey wrap dress and Oasis one-shoulder cocktail dress and Stella McCartney cowl neck knit dress and New Look prom dress…

Girls Aloud Cheryl Cole stepped out in London this week in D&G to rock the celebrations with bandmate Kimberley Walsh’s sister, who was birthday girl.

Poor Maggie. The actress is under fashion fire for her Dark Knight red-carpet choice of outfits.

The satin black Stella McCartney jumpsuit and Gaultier orange lace dress have both resulted in fashion fall-out from style watchers around the globe.

Seriously? OK, maybe she hasn’t pulled off a succession of killer looks but shouldn’t the designers take some of the backlash too?

Maggie has been hailed as quirky, cookie and just a little bit different from the Hollywood girls – and with good reason. How dare she be different. Pour her into a body-con dress with breast thrust high – is this the answer. We think not.

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Uma Thurman turns out another fashion fierce cover, this time for Harper’s Bazaar’s big fashion issue Down Under.

The New New Face is all the talk in Tinseltown. New York magazine hails Madonna as its shining example…

The clean-cut  grey or black leather dress, £149, from Marks & Spencer’s autumn/winter collection is flying off the shelves.

It hit the shelves a fortnight ago and didn’t linger long, forcking M&S to re-stock fast.

The dress can be ordered from any store but is only stocked at London’s Kensington and Marble Arch branches, Camberley in Surrey and at Cheshire’s Gemini branch.

‘It’s the definitive leather dress for this season. It’s a simple design that will flatter all shapes and sizes. Everyone should have one,’ says Neil Hendy, the head of womenswear design at M&S.