Cold weather dressing

Ahead of a frosty New York AW16 Fashion Week, we have been afforded some last minute winter styling tips by way of Kiev. Temperatures were around 2°C, and -1°C overnight at this week’s Ukrainian designer showcase, meaning show-goers had to keep layers handy while dashing between shows.

Here are five tips to take for a snug and stylish slog to spring…

SEXYYYY Gigi Hadid's catwalk highlights

Model strips nude for Paris Vogue

There’s no avoiding Gigi Hadid this year – or every inch of her toned, California sun-kissed body. If you haven’t witnessed the 20-year-old pin-up canoodling with boyfriend Zayn Malik in his new music video, then allow us to present to you the latest fruits of her modelling career: a nude magazine cover forVogue Paris.

The French style bible picked the model-of-the-moment to grace its March issue and asked her to pose for two covers, both proclaming the line 'The phenomenal body with 10 million fans' . While one features her preserving her modesty in just a Chanel bouclé jacket and some pearls, the other sees her sport just a pair of Chanel mules. She joked on Instagram – where she has since clocked up almost 13 million followers – that the latter was “the version where I'm wearing mostly Chanel N°5 ;) lol”, making reference to Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who famously declared that she wore nothing to bed except the famous perfume.

Oscars put an end to long thank you speeches

The time-honoured practice of Oscar winners listing name after name of the people they want to thank during their acceptance speeches is about to change.

This year, the speeches will be more anecdotal and the names of people they wish to thank will appear in a scroll at the bottom of the screen during their allotted 45 seconds.

The new rule was announced by producers Reginald Hudlin and David Hill at the annual Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, a star-studded affair taking place this year against a backdrop of controversy over diversity in Hollywood and talk of boycotting the Oscars ceremony on February 28.

All the nominees are being required to submit a list of whom they'd like to thank in the scroll, but they can still also mention major influences in their acceptance speech.

The issue of the lack of Oscars diversity dominated the luncheon, although Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs clearly did not want it to cast a shadow over the event.

"This year, we all know there is an elephant in the room. I have asked the elephant to leave," she said. "Today is all about your incredible work on the screen and behind the camera."

Love & Friendship Sundance review: 'Jane Austen has never been funnier'

Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship

Kate Beckinsale is back to her best in this flat-out hilarious adaptation of a Jane Austen novella

How well do Jane Austen and Whit Stillman get along? That’s the decisive question in Love & Friendship, the American director’s adaptation of an early Austen curio, her long-unpublished epistolary novella Lady Susan. It certainly sounds like a dream fit, since caustic comedies of high-society manners are exactly what Stillman does and always has – there’s even a barbed throwaway exchange about Austen in his debut film, Metropolitan.

It’s with ticklish glee, then, that you watch Love & Friendship live up to every possible expectation you could set for it, opening out the adulterous games of Austen’s surprisingly risqué text and elaborating on them with impish, often breathlessly funny verve. It’s flat-out hilarious – find me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I’m tempted to offer your money back personally. Gliding through its compact 92 minutes with alert photography and not a single scene wasted, it’s also Stillman on the form of his life.

Lady Susan’s confidante in these well-orchestrated indiscretions is a scruple-free American friend called Alicia Johnson, played in a spry, unshockable supporting turn by Chloë Sevigny – an old wingman of Beckinsale’s from an earlier Stillman comedy, The Last Days of Disco. Alicia is married – to Stephen Fry as a gouty killjoy, no less – but Lady Susan openly thinks he’s a bad match for her: “Too old to be governable, and too young to die.”

Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship

That line’s paraphrased from Austen, but so much here is ingeniously invented, like the scene where James Fleet, as DeCourcy’s doting but clueless father, agrees to recite a letter to his wife (Jemma Redgrave, superb) and makes a point of dimly including all the punctuation. Stillman has also threaded in a wicked pocket of anti-American insults – “You could be scalped!”, Lady Susan cries to Alicia in alarm, when she hears Fry’s character is threatening a punitive move to Connecticut.

The performances, even from some of the more surprising cast members, are uniformly sharp. It’s one thing for Fry’s cameo to fit in fine, but based on his polished, charming, and perfectly accented romantic lead, you’d never know Samuel was an Australian heartthrob who popped up in a Twilight sequel. The less well-known Tom Bennett, whose scene-stealing efforts should make him every bit as much of a star, grins and grins and understands nothing as the biggest stooge of the lot, a twittering eligible bachelor called Sir James Martin, in whose lap Lady Susan cruelly, and for purely mercenary reasons, intends to dump her hapless daughter.

Most films with this callous a heroine go through some rigmarole of redeeming her, but Stillman is completely uninterested in lessening the fun at any point, and lets compassion shine through in Austen’s other characters instead. His film takes the shape of an elegant mid-season ball with an immaculate witch presiding.

Beckinsale doesn’t miss a beat in responding with mere distaste to every wholly accurate slur levelled against her character – “Facts are horrid things,” she ruefully declares. Delivering all Lady Susan’s pirouettes of self-justification without ever landing too heavily, she’s gloriously bang on the money. Perhaps only by reading the book after you’ve seen this is the skill of Stillman’s treatment to be fully grasped – it’s one of the deftest feats of literary interpolation in ages. And it grafts wicked surprises – things even Austen didn’t quite dare conceive, plot-wise – right onto the merry finale.

Make it like for Charlotte's racy lacy bodysuit

Charlotte, 25, showed off her new surgically enhanced nose as she got ready to let her hair down in a black lace all-in-one. 

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Double trouble: Charlotte Crosby and Holly Hagan went all out when they headed on a bondage-themed night with the cast of Geordie Shore on Monday night

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Fashion boob: The girls wore the skimpiest of lingerie outfits, both revealing a little too much as they went braless for a night out at Madame Koo's in their hometown of Newcastle.

Shore you want to go out like that? Holly Hagan and Charlotte Crosby go braless in very daring sheer lingerie outfits as they join the Geordie cast on bondage night out

Charlotte, 25, showed off her new surgically enhanced nose as she got ready to let her hair down in a black lace all-in-one. 

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Double trouble: Charlotte Crosby and Holly Hagan went all out when they headed on a bondage-themed night with the cast of Geordie Shore on Monday night

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Fashion boob: The girls wore the skimpiest of lingerie outfits, both revealing a little too much as they went braless for a night out at Madame Koo's in their hometown of Newcastle.