God of style Valentino to make the cut from top job

CELEBRITY and fashion go together like jelly and ice-cream. One can elevate the other from the banal to the near beautiful.

While the eponymous cult of the celebrity is arguably a legacy of the 1980s, the original silver screen star harks back to the 1920s and 1930s when screen beauties were exotic, aloof creatures not the high-speed tragedies epitomised by the likes of Kerry Katona.

Fashion for these latter- day magazine habituées is nothing more than hitting the speed dial to a fashion house and demanding what they believe is rightfully theirs.