The last, unfinished collection of Alexander McQueen has previewed in Paris to rave reviews.

McQueen’s 16-piece autumn/winter collection was shown to an exclusive clutch of fashion scribes on Tuesday.

The fashion designer, deeply depressed, took his own life at the age of 40 in his Mayfair apartment in London in February. Fashion’s elite, gathered in Paris for its Fashion Week, is in mourning.

His last creations are inspired by paintings of the Old Masters, according to Christina Binkley of the Wall Street Journal. She writes: “Entire works of art by Botticelli, Jean Fouquet and Hans Memling were photographed and woven into jacquards, imprinted on silks or embroidered onto garments.”

AFP reports the appearance of the first model in McQueen’s showing caused audible gasps. The Times’ fashion director Hilary Alexander said: “The showing was an emphatic demonstration of the intense skill and artistry of McQueen, but all the more tragic for being such a brief and poignant reminder of what the fashion world has lost.”

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Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren was reportedly talked out of filing for divorce by her twin sister.

The Swedish ex-model was about to go for a formal split from the shamed golf star. But she changed her mind after speaking with Josefin Lonnborg who jetted to Florida to be with her.

Elin, 30, had hired an Orlando-area divorce attorney after her husband’s secret affairs emerged.

But Josefin, a lawyer, convinced her sister not to take radical action. The two are extremely close and Josefin persuaded Elin not to file divorce papers while her emotions were raw.

“Elin wanted to file right away,” a source said. “She was devastated when the first mistress was revealed but when she realised he had betrayed her throughout the marriage, she was furious and she wanted out. But Josefin has been by her side through every crisis, and at every key moment during all of this.”

When Elin travelled to Gentle Path rehab centre in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for Tiger’s therapy, Josefin took care of the couple’s two children, Sam, two, and 18-month-old Charlie.

“When more and more women came forward, it was Josefin who told Elin not to file divorce papers out of anger – that she could always file them later,” the source said.

“When Tiger told Elin he really wanted to change and would do anything to save the marriage, it was Josefin who convinced her sister to give him a chance.”

The stunning blonde is reportedly planning to move back into the family’s £1.3 million home in Windermere, Orlando, after spending the last few months in a rented mansion nearby.

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Glee star Jane Lynch said it was a ‘dream come true’ to work with Meryl Streep on Julie & Julia.

The 39-year-old actress can currently be seen on screens playing the role of Sue Sylvester on the US show Glee.

She previously appeared opposite Streep in the hit movie Julie & Julia.

Lynch said: “Meryl is my idol, she’s awesome. It was great – a dream come true. It was a joy meeting her, if intimidating, but I really tried to shut that part of it out.

“I did my best just to act like a normal person. When you come down to it, she’s an actor like everybody else, just a really good one! So I was a little nervous going in, but she made me feel really at home.”

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Molly Ringwald, 42, turned out at the Oscars in a slender, Trojan-style gown that made the recent birth of her twins seem eons away.

But the actress laid her fine form to working out and a simple rule of thumb. Always choose something green.

She told People Magazine: “I try to make sure that I eat something green. I think that’s just a really good rule of thumb. I love all different kinds of vegetables, but the green ones are generally the best for you and the best for your diet.”

Ringwald, who stars in The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, just eight months ago gave birth to Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos. She said that getting into her current Oscars shape was a matter of “Just dieting basically. And it wasn’t even like a really strict diet. It was more just a sensible diet, cutting down on sweets and upping the vegetables and protein, less starch, and I just worked out a lot, I’d say about three or four times a week.”

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Charlize Theron’s 1940s-style Oscars gown has landed her on a myriad of worst-dressed lists.

The sultry South African beauty chose satin rosettes that encircled her covered nipples in an unusual move that set her lilac-toned dress far apart from the glittering crowd.

Just when it seemed women’s breasts were becoming unremarkable, the dress has been tagged a “style boob” and “controversial”. Theron, a past Oscar-winner, in footage from the audience at the ceremony seemed to pick up on the vibe early on. Her expression was uncertain and flat.

Joan Rivers lambasted the dress, which was designed by John Galliano for Dior, as that featuring Cinnabon cakes, TimesLive reports.

South African designer Abigail Keats said: “A very controversial dress. What is the point of those roses? Honestly, they look stupid. So many South African designers would [have been] honoured to dress her but instead she attends the Oscars in this? Why?”

South Africa fashion blogger Jacquie Myburgh Chemaly wrote: “Sadly, Charlize Theron gets my worst-dressed award at this year’s Oscars. Dior’s lilac creation with Chelsea bun breast rosettes and a train is just horrible.”

Cape Town designer Malcolm Kluk, who has dressed Theron, said: “I’m hoping it’s just a bad picture. She usually has very good taste in clothes. It might be part of her contract with Dior to wear what they tell her.”

But US stylist and fashion commentator Mary Alice Stephenson said: “Charlize’s dress was really dramatic. Love it or hate it, you want to talk about it.”

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Avatar star Zoë Saldana has turned the air blue by admitting that she “loves” sex, “can’t live without it”, and won’t rule out filming an X-rated scene.

The cheeky 31-year-old makes her comments in the latest issue of Essence – a US magazine.

Running through the A to Z of her life, Saldana said the letter S is for sex.

“Love it, love it, love it,” she says in the April issue. “Can’t live without it.

“I love sex. I love skin. I don’t believe the body is something to hide.

“I think in American society we’re messing up our kids by taking away the education on and awareness of our sexuality and replacing it with violence, guns and video games – and we’re breeding little criminals.”

And, asked whether she would ever do a graphic sex scene, Saldana says: “If you asked a painter, ‘Are you going to paint in red?’ the answer would be, ‘I’m going to paint paintings and if one day there is red in it, there’s red in it’.”

The actress, who stars in upcoming movie The Losers, has been with her actor boyfriend Keith Britton for a decade, but says she is not the romantic type.

“I’m more of a punch-drunk-love kind of girl. I mean punch as in that pow, that jolt, that kick in the gut. I like things that are severe, passionate and extreme.”

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Tim Burton’s 3-D fantasy Alice in Wonderland has tumbled into the No 1 spot in the US weekend box office with takings of $116.3 million.

Alice, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp, opened on Friday and was followed by a cop flick Brooklyn’s Finest, which took in $13.5 million over the weekend, and Shutter Island, which took $13.3 million.

Next came Cop Out ($9.14 million), Avatar ($7.7 million), The Crazies (more than $7 million) and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief ($5.1 million).

Rounding out the top 10 were the ensemble rom com Valentine’s Day ($4.27 million), Crazy Heart ($3.35 million) and Dear John ($2.85 million).

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The 42-year-old star says she tried to trim her leg hair once but never again.

She said: “If you have seen my legs, I am 42 and I’m very hairy.

“The older you get, your hair drops off.

“So as a younger woman, I was even hairier.

“I tried shaving one time and it was so uncomfortable and so painful. When it grew back, it grew back even thicker and more of it.

“I said never again would I do that to myself.”

Interviewed for Barbara Walters Oscar Special, the host asked how her husband feels about her grooming habit.

“He loves the hairy legs,” said Mo’Nique.

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Penn, who was credited with rescuing a woman and child in the earthquake-ravaged nation, told CBS News his critics could get rectal cancer for all he cared.

He said: “I guess I’ve been so away from it all and our tent camp in Haiti that I haven’t had an awful lot of time to pay attention to them. Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah. You know, but I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it.”

Digital Spy reports the actor pointed out that his 18-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son joined the Haiti mission. He explained: “I think they’ve had the experience, as I have, that the first person served by the service is the server. You know, there’s nobody in the world that isn’t looking for a kind of purpose in life, and tangible purpose is the most immediately recognisable. There’s no time that you’re over there, there’s not something to do to lend a hand.”

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The 79-year-old star is probably best known for being the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies and is currently playing the role of Big Daddy in the West End production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in London.

He has been nominated for best actor at the Laurence Olivier Awards and, at the nominations lunch in London, he said: “I’m a jobbing actor. I never know what I’m doing next.

“And I’ll never retire. I love stage acting but I don’t think I can afford it – it doesn’t pay as well as film acting. We have to bring our own sandwiches in for lunch.”

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Angelina Jolie, 34, and Mick Jagger were lovers, according to the bombshell claim of a new book.

The UK Sun reports a book that was six years in the making unveils an affair with the Rolling Stones rocker while he was married to leggy Texan model Jerry Hall.

The book, titled Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie: The True Story by biographer Jenny Paul claims the couple had an affair after Jolie appeared in the band’s Anybody Seen My Baby? video in 1997.

Jolie, now partnered with Pitt, 46, was reported by Paul to have had another affair with Jagger in 2003. She has been twice-married, to Jonny Lee Miller, 37, in 1996, and to Billy Bob Thornton, 54, for three years before they were divorced.

Paul lists Jolie’s punk rocker friend “Texas Terri”, along with an ex-boyfriend of her mother, as among her sources. Terri told celeb weekly Life & Style: “Hollywood will be rocked by these revelations.” Paul also reports Jolie dated Colin Farrell for four months after the 2004 movie Alexander.

Jagger is now 66, and divorced from Hall, 53. Agents for Jagger and Hall declined to comment.

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The pair tried to kill each other in the classic movie about a cheating husband’s affair going disastrously wrong – but they shared a warm hug and some memories.

Close recalled how she drank half a pitcher of margaritas for a steamy elevator sex scene in her role as an obsessed scorned mistress.

The stars were brought together by Oprah Winfrey for her Oscars Special.

Close told Douglas how she was gripped by the original script but had doubts about the infamous scene where her character literally boils a bunny.

She said: “I thought it was over the top.”

And recalling the elevator sex scene, she said: “I asked for a pitcher of margaritas and I drank about half of it.”

Douglas joked: “You were pretty good. I was a very happy guy.”

Close was “so mad” when the ending of the movie was changed to see her character shot dead by Douglas’s screen wife in a dramatic finale. But Douglas told her: “You were so good in the part everybody wanted you to be killed.”

After watching the classic clips, Douglas also sighed: “Man, I got older. You still look fantastic.”

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