Lea Michele has revealed she has "never felt so beautiful". The Glee star – best known for portraying Rachel Berry – said the hit TV show has helped her to discover her inner beauty.

"I've honestly never felt more beautiful than working on Glee," she revealed at the Los Angeles premiere of Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. The 24-year-old actress recently told US Harper's Bazaar that she was advised to get a nose job if she wanted to establish a Hollywood career.
 
She said the show, which picked up three gongs at the Teen Choice Awards, had given her a huge confidence boost. "Glee has really helped me to embrace my true beauty, no matter what I look like.

"That's why I'm so thankful to be part of this show."Lea was joined on the red carpet alongside her co-stars Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith, Darren Criss and Dianna Agron, as well as director Ryan Murphy.

"This is crazy. I'm very excited about it because I'm really proud of the movie," said Ryan The director was clearly taken aback by the crowds waiting to catch a glimpse of their favourite cast members.

"We had no idea that we were going to do a concert tour or a movie, it just happened. "Because the concert was sold out and so many people couldn't get tickets, we did the movie for them."Glee: The 3D Concert Movie is set to hit UK cinemas later this month.

There is not a mention of the vaunted Hermès scarf in Inès de la Fressange’s guide to Parisian Chic: A Style Guide. There are no scarf-tying tips, either, from the 53-year-old French style icon, born Inès Marie Laetitia Églantine Isabelle de Seignard de La Fressange, now brand ambassador for Roger Vivier.

But the 5-foot-11 former model, who was the face of Chanel as well as Marianne, symbol of the French republic, does mention the bag and the fab Hermès website, while her daughter Nine d’Urso models in the book with an Hermès Kelly handbag discreetly at her elbow.

That discretion is the cornerstone of de la Fressange’s style mantra: you can look too rich (although probably not too thin). The book, which is also a guide to Paris shops and restaurants, is refreshing in its capture of what makes modern dressing, which is essentially about defying convention, finding your own style and not being a slave to trends or clichés like the Frenchwoman’s chic little scarf.

Keep it simple and classic, then embellish with choice bits, according to de la Fressange. Keep half your budget for quality — the navy blue cashmere sweater that is forever — and half for impulse buys, she advises.

More mantras: Mix it up: sequin sweater with trousers, not a skirt, couture with street. Outfits are out: chic means never having to buy a complete outfit. Be aware of good taste: navy with black, orange dress with yellow shoes. Who knows? In the ever-evolving world of fashion, maybe Parisians will one day accept mini-shorts with leopard jackets and studded ballet flats. Not likely in de la Fressange’s view, however.

Resist the temptations of fashion, like sequin dresses and petticoat skirts. Her “magnificent seven’’ list includes the blazer, the trench, the navy sweater, the tank (white, grey, navy, khaki, and black only), the little black dress, jeans and leather jacket (“tan is always tasteful’’).

As for shoes, de la Fressange cannot get enough of ballet flats. She advises wearing them with pencil skirts, pants, dresses — which is fine when you’re 5 foot 11. There’s much more than fashion to the book. A beauty section (“I never buy makeup in ugly containers.’’), Fashion Botox (“An ill- advised print dress can age a woman 10 years!”), home decor and dinner party tips are part of the stylish mix.

But la crème de la crème for those planning to visit Paris are the extensive listings of favourite boutiques (very Left Bank-Saint Germain) and restaurants.

A series of suggestive photos featuring a 10-year-old model Thylane Loubry Blondeau have sparked controversy over the sexualization of young girls, ABC News reported. For the photo spread, which appears in a recent issue of Vogue Paris, Blondeau was styled in the haute couture and mimicked the sultry pout and steely gaze popular among models more than twice her age.

In one photo, she poses in a skintight dress, laying on her stomach atop a tiger skin rug, with stilleto-clad feet kicked up behind her. The fashion industry's interest in a younger generation of consumers and models is nothing new, but Blondeau's seductive photographs ignited concern that she is part of a growing - and disturbing - trend of sexualizing girls at too young an age.

"The research clearly shows that the fashion industry affects girls and women's images of themselves and their self-esteem if they do not meet the industry 'image' that is currently in vogue," Paul Miller, an associate professor of psychology at Arizona State University, told ABC.

"Even the very young are quite conscious of media images of what is 'pretty' and desirable."Such images also raise concerns about child predators, he told the network. "Any creepy child pornographer could plead 'artistic license'", Miller said. Even at 10, Blondeau is hardly a new face, as the model reportedly got her start on the runway for Jean-Paul Gautier at age 5.

A Tumblr account dedicated to the young model - not affiliated with Vogue - features additional photographs, including one of her posing topless on a bed. The model is the daughter of a soccer player Patrick Blondeau and Veronika Loubry, a former television personality and current fashion designer. 

BEYONCE'S latest chart-topping album hit stores a month ago. But it is not the singer's music that has the fashion world buzzing. The artist's fourth album, titled 4, features a fold-out cover that looks more like a glossy fashion magazine spread than a record sleeve.

As with other leading pop divas including Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Katy Perry, fashion has always played a big role in Beyonce's artistic persona. In her music videos, she uses outfits to take on different roles, while onstage, revealing ensembles spice up live performances. The difference this time is in her choice of designers. Instead of sticking to major fashion houses such as Versace, Gucci, Prada or Chanel, the singer has thrown the spotlight on a number of up-and-coming designers whose names are likely to be unfamiliar to all but the most diehard fashion followers.

Beyonce's creative director, Jenke-Ahmed Tailly, along with the singer's stylist, Ty Hunter, pointed her in the direction of these designers. 'The album is a musical gumbo of everything Beyonce likes,'' Tailly said. ''Each song really has a different personality, so we decided to do the cover like an editorial for a magazine, with each song having its own style.''

The album's cover image illustrates the singer's embrace of under-the-radar creators and features Beyonce wearing a fox fur stole by the cult French designer Alexandre Vauthier, embellished with Swarovski crystals by the Lesage embroidery house. Vauthier's work also shows up inside the fold-out cover, as does a pair of Daisy Duke shorts by the young French designer Julien Fournie, who founded his brand only three years ago.

Even student designers got a look-in: Lleah Rea, who just received her degree in fashion design this spring from Parsons, the New School for Design in New York, created a form-fitting bodysuit for the album spread. ''It was important to Beyonce that the choice of clothing not be about the brand but about the quality of the work,'' said Tailly, who - with the creative consultant Melina Matsoukas - brought Rea's designs to the singer's attention.

For the ''deluxe'' version of the album, which features extra songs and remixes, a photograph of Beyonce in a purple-and-black beaded dress by the 27-year-old French designer Maxime Simoens replaced the fur stole as the cover image. On the back of both versions of the album, the singer is photographed in a vintage Azzedine Alaia jacket and some gravity-defying high heels by the 36-year-old Dutch designer Jan Taminiau. Having Beyonce wear their creations has already helped these niche designers garner a higher visibility on the global fashion stage.

Vauthier, for example, has seen his collaboration with the singer evolve. For her appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in Britain earlier this year, Beyonce wore a gold mini dress by Vauthier, chosen at the last minute over a planned ensemble at the suggestion of her husband, Jay-Z, the designer said. Worn with a wide belt and a pair of black hot pants, that outfit helped generate a lot of interest in Vauthier.
''I dress women who have something to say,'' said Vauthier, who clothed Rihanna for the cover of her single Hard and whose designs have been worn by the pop singer Roisin Murphy and by Sophia Loren and Isabelle Huppert. Tailly said Beyonce's quest to collaborate with new artists did not end with the clothing. She also tapped the young French photographer Greg Gex, alongside renowned photographers Ellen von Unwerth and Tony Duran, to shoot the cover art.

If there is one item of clothing guaranteed to make a woman feel ladylike this season, it is the pencil skirt. Sleek, slimline, and a shortcut to the sexiest of sashays, it is the linchpin of a Forties fashion resurgence set to put the genteel back on the fashion map.

Much of the credit for its return must go to the woman for whom God created hip-hugging skirts. Joan Holloway, the feisty flame-haired secretary played by Christina Hendricks in the hit series, Mad Men , has inspired designers and female shoppers alike to embrace a quintessentially refined working wardrobe, paired with, where possible, a smoking-hot set of curves.

The fashion world has long found this ladylike look impossible to resist, from Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, who squeezed supermodels into teeny corsets and big skirts last autumn, to Donna Karan, Frida Giannini at Gucci and Jean Paul Gaultier, who have played out their love of the hourglass this season to produce simultaneously strong and feminine silhouettes that hark back to the curves of such Hollywood greats as Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth.