If you thought that the school run is all hastily pulled together ponytails, jeans and runners, think again. Regular mums are getting up half an hour before their kids to make sure they turn heads, writes Paula Burns.

Don’t listen to supermodel Claudia Schiffer in the advert on the television — Opel Astras do break down.

IF the recession has taught us anything, it’s that everything is up for grabs.

NEW Health Minister Leo Varadkar intends to focus most of his attention on one patient that has suffered a nasty fall recently — Fine Gael’s poll rating.

Parts of supermodel Claudia Schiffer’s home have been damaged in a blaze.

MasterChef Ireland and Hector both make welcome returns.

Claudia Schiffer once turned down a £1m dinner date.

Fur has made a comeback on the world’s top catwalks, fostering a thriving industry in the Nordic region to the dismay of animal rights activists.

THIS week in Paris models are pounding the catwalks in next season’s clothes.

From cutting-edge fashion to celebrity style, Vogue’s innovative covers are enduring snaphots of our culture. A new book compiles the very best.

It began as a coffee table book — ex-Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld took photos of models, actors, and musicians, all wearing Chanel's classic coat. Now, the Little Black Jacket is a major exhibition, opening in London next month.

Put away the tracksuit bottoms. ‘School Run Chic’ demands super-model levels of style — heaping more pressure on us mere mortals, writes Vickie Maye.

Nude photos of pregnant celebrities are now more likely to draw a yawn than a second glance but are such images empowering or just tacky, asks Suzanne Harrington

AFTER 14 years and 26 top-10 hits, Westlife are to bow out following a farewell tour next year.

AS editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, Glenda Bailey has seen some pretty fantastic things — “epic moments,” she calls them.

Cindy Crawford is unhappy that today's models are so much skinnier than her contemporaries.

WHEN German coach Joachim Löwtalks about his German team he keeps repeating the same words.

PARENTS are playing it safe when it comes to baby naming with number one favourite Jack and top 10 regular Sophie the most popular choices for newborns last year.

Claudia Schiffer has named her baby Cosima Violet Vaughn Drummond.

Claudia Schiffer has become a mother for the third time.

Model Claudia Schiffer and her British film director husband Matthew Vaughn today announced the safe arrival of their third child.

Three women who are old enough to claim their pensions appeared in a list of the 10 most beautiful women in the world, which was released today.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her husband, director Matthew Vaughn are expecting a girl, it has been announced.

Naomi Campbell was given the Outstanding Contribution award at last night's Elle Style Awards.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her British film director husband Matthew Vaughn are expecting a third child, it was announced today.

Claudia Schiffer no longer wants to do catwalk modelling.

Model Claudia Schiffer has insisted that she will never have plastic surgery.

Illusionist David Copperfield is being sued by a woman who claims he sexually assaulted and threatened to kill her.

Eva Herzigova thinks plastic surgery is "scary looking".

Christy Turlington will front Yves Saint Laurant's upcoming Autumn/Winter campaign, taking over from German beauty Claudia Schiffer, who starred in their most recent series of advertisements.

Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has launched a bizarre attack on Heidi Klum, branding the German supermodel a nobody and criticising her husband Seal's looks.

BILL CLINTON’S saxophone and Robert Pattinson’s lips have helped a star-studded charity event raise money to fight AIDS.

IT’S not enough that they are sickeningly beautiful, but most of the world’s top models are also multimillionaires — with the top five raking in $70 million (€45m) between them last year.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer is postponing the writing of her autobiography - because she's terrified at the prospect of divulging intimate details of her life.

The Queen has been named alongside Kate Moss and rocker’s daughter Daisy Lowe as one of the world’s most glamorous women.

Pop stars, film stars, royalty and supermodels strutted down the catwalk to raise money for the victims of the UK floods – while supermodel Kate Moss donated £25,000 (€35,844) to the cause.

Hollywood stars joined top designers and celebrities for one of the biggest events in the fashion calendar.

Italian designer Valentino, whose signature flaming red couture gowns have graced royalty, Hollywood stars and the international jet set for 45 years, announced today he was stepping down as head designer of the Valentino fashion house.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer is in mourning after her father, Heinrich, died of a heart attack in France.

Pop princess Kylie Minogue is putting in an appearance in the south of France tonight to help raise money for Aids research.

Diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith in the early 1990s reveal her love for her husband, octogenarian oil tycoon Howard Marshall.

Catwalk beauty Claudia Schiffer is the latest celebrity to wade into the row over super-skinny models, branding plans to ban them from runways "discrimination".

Claudia Schiffer has hit out at the current generation of supermodels, branding the beauties "bony".

GOVERNMENTS may fall and stock markets may fluctuate, but those events will be eclipsed by the global epidemic of football fever set to dominate the planet for the next month — following yesterday’s opening of the 18th World Cup in Germany.