Lana Del Rey goes rock chick at Milan Fashion Week as she sexes up her style in over-the-knee boots, smokey eyes and see-through top

Lana Del no way! Rey goes rock chick at Milan Fashion Week as she sexes up her style in over-the-knee boots, smokey eyes and see-through top

By KIMBERLEY DADDS

PUBLISHED: 18:41, 23 February 2013 | UPDATED: 18:47, 23 February 2013

She's so far been known for her vintage looks and butter wouldn't melt ways.

But it seems Lana Del Rey is trying to vamp up her look by ramping up her sexiness.

The Blue Jeans hitmaker was one of the star guests at Milan Fashion Week's Versace show on Saturday evening.

Lana Del Rey! Blue Jeans singer vamps up her look with some sexy over-the-knee boots as she attends Milan Fashion Week's Versace show

And she decided to make a statement as she looked almost unrecognisable in over-the-knee leather boots with gold buckles.

She went bare legged and matched the raunchy get-up with a minuscule see-through black playsuit with embroidered detailing showing off more flesh.

And if that wasn't enough the 26-year-old wore her jet black locks down with a slick of dark red lipstick and smokey eyes to fit in with the new rockier image.

Causing a stir: She shunned her usual girl next door vintage image for the sexy ensemble with smokey eyes and vampish red lipstick to finish the look

She completed her look with a matching clutch bag, chunky gold ring and co-ordinating red nail polish on her fingers.

And she still showed off her other ring on her engagement finger, fuelling rumours she is to wed her rocker boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill.

It could in fact be the reason for her image overhaul to fit in more with his usual style.

Rocky: She seems to have gone rock chick since reportedly getting engaged to rocker boyfriend Barry-James O'Neill

Eyeing up the fashion: Lana was their to witness the new autumn/winter Versace collection on Saturday evening

And it was a far cry from the way Lana looked at the Brit Awards on Wednesday night.

She somewhat underwhelmed as she arrived alongside the glamorous A-list music stars in a Chanel shirt dress which seemed more suitable for a more casual affair, while her hair was more girlie with a plaited braid around her face.

Picking up International Female at the bash, she happily posed kissing Barry-James as they entered on the red carpet.

The star is yet to confirm she is engaged to beau Barrie-James but she looked delighted to be with her Scottish rocker boyfriend at the awards.

Unrecognisable: Only a few days ago at the Brits she went for a more wholesome image with a shirt dress and plaited hair with her rumoured fiance alongside her

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Is Laura Whitmore the hardest partying TV presenter in showbiz? (with a stylish wardrobe to match)

By J J ANISIOBI

PUBLISHED: 13:53, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 16:56, 21 February 2013

Laura Whitmore is showing her contemporaries how to party hard and still perform to the best of their abilities.

The television presenter has been a fixture at many high profile events recently in London and is swiftly building up a reputation for her hard partying ways and fierce wardrobe.

However, unlike Nick Grimshaw, Laura is able to have a good time until the early hours and still look like a movie star the next day.

Shining star: Laura Whitmore, pictured at The Brit Awards on Wednesday night, has been partying an awful lot lately

The 27-year-old was seen out on Wednesday night at the Brit Awards where she was combining business with pleasure by both working and socialising.

First of all she hit the red carpet to interview the musicians and looked superb in a short metallic dress.

After finishing her day job for ITV2 she then headed off for a quick change and got ready to hit one of the many after-parties.

Hard at work: Laura showed the tough part of her job by hanging out with One Direction

Large wardrobe: Laura changed outfits after working the red carpet at The Brits and headed to a Universal after-party in a sleeveless grey number

Good to go: Laura took on the fashion world as she made a large number of appearances at London Fashion Week and wore a sleeveless dress on 15 February

Laura changed into a lovely sleeveless grey dress as she partied the night away at the Universal Brits after-party at Soho House.

London Fashion Week was a big one for Whitmore as she made sure she was at as many shows and parties as she could fit in.

Having rocked the Elle Style Awards at The Savoy Hotel in a yellow dress just days earlier, Laura began fashion week sedately at the Zoe Jordan show at Somerset House.

Fashion favourite: The television presenter wore five different outfits as she attended shows on the first day of London Fashion Week including Bora Aksu, left, and PPQ, right, on 15 February

Back to black: Laura changed outfits yet again as she ended the first day of LFW in style

Star and stripe: The Whitmore looked her best in a busy dress which she teamed with her mac

Not content with simply being on the front row of every show Laura changed her outfit five times in one day making sure she was centre of attention.

The presenter slipped out of her white dress and into a blue number as she watched the Bora Aksu show before putting on some trousers for the Felder Felder show and switched into a striped dress for PPQ's after-party which was held at Baroque.

With fashion week over Whitmore found more excuses to party as she attended the O2 and War Child Brit Awards Concert with Muse at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire.

Singing star: Laura brought some sunshine to Rihanna's River Island show on 16 February and was elegant on 19 February in a floor-length gown at Maria Grachvogel

Blossoming: The television presenter again wore a yellow number to the Elle Style Awards on 11 February

The Baftas provided yet more opportunity for the star to dress up and she didn't disappoint in a gracious black jumpsuit.

Whitmore also looked sublime in a white cocktail dress at the Bafta Nominees Party at Asprey.

Enjoying her new found fame and hitting up party after party isn't stopping her from functioning day to day as she tweeted on Thursday morning: 'Photoshoot day after the Brits #badidea'.

Best supporting role: Laura proved she could do elegant in a black jumpsuit on 10 February at the Baftas, and looked glamorous the night before at the nominations party

There she goes: Robbie Williams was just one of the many celebrities Laura got to interview backstage at the Brits

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King and Queen of the Brit Awards: Emeli Sandé and Ben Howard lead winners with two gongs each + Winners list

King and Queen of the Brit Awards: Emeli Sandé and Ben Howard lead winners with two gongs each

By SARAH FITZMAURICE

PUBLISHED: 20:30, 20 February 2013 | UPDATED: 22:58, 20 February 2013

The awards celebrate the best of UK music and on Wednesday night Emeli Sandé and Ben Howard proved to be the cream of the crop winning two gongs each at the 2013 Brit Awards.

The Next To Me singer was named Female Solo Artist and scooped the award for British Album with for Our Version of Events at the glitzy bash held at the 02 arena.

Ben Howard also enjoyed a double celebration at the ceremony picking up awards in the British Breakthrough Act and British Male categories.

Double whammy: Emeli Sandé proved herself to be the Queen of the Brit Awards winning Female Solo Artist and British Album awards

Emeli won the first award of the evening and was presented with the Female Solo Award by Taylor Swift.

She told the crowd: 'This feels amazing. This is incredible I am so happy to win this award.'

She added: 'Thank you to everyone who has allowed me to win, thank you my family.

'This is a dream! The 25-year-old singer was thrilled to pick up two awards

Later in the show Emeli spoke of her delight and said the evening 'a dream' after picking up her second award of the evening.

Giving an emotional speech she revealed: 'I think I'm an unlikely popstar.'

She said that she started singing because: 'I didn't have the confidence to say these things in person.'

Double whammy: Ben Howard won two awards as well scooping the British Breakthrough and British Male gongs

'Thank you to everyone who has bought this record and who has made me feel like I’m part of something bigger. This is a dream. I’m so thankful for this year and for this award.

The singer closed the star-studded show with a mash-up of some of her biggest songs.

Ben Howard proved to be the big male winner of the evening winning British Breakthrough Act and Best Male Act.

American invasion: Taylor joked about her accent before revealing that Emeli had scooped the first award of the evening

Hugging it out: The 25-year-old singer accepted her award from American songbird Taylor Swift

The 25-year-old, accepted the Breakthrough award from Nick Grimshaw before admitting he was fazed by public speaking. He said: 'I'm not very good at speeches I'm not very good at dancing.'

He thanked Radio One for supporting him, before making a swift exit from the stage.

Ben enjoyed a double win scooping the Best British Male gong.

The Devon-born singer accepted the award from Ed Sheeran and he told the events: 'That's bizarre isn't it. I didn't really expect. I was shocked to come to the awards so to come away with two of these

'It's a real privilege'. 

Going global: One Direction were awarded the trophy for Global Success

Speaking at the Winner's press conference a little later, he sad: 'I was a little shell shocked to win. This is definitely the cherry on the cake. The year had ended, the album had been so much more successful than we'd ever thought, to be nominated for the Brits in the first place was amazing, and to actually come away with these two is bizarre, I think is the best way to describe it.'

One Direction also proved to winners at the star-studded ceremony winning the Global Success award.

The quintet were presented the gong by Robbie Williams and Louis Tomlinson said being honoured was 'absolutely mind-blowing'.

After thanking their fans, record label and management Liam Payne also shouted out to the group's parents, who attended the ceremony.

Mumford and Sons beat the likes of Alt-J and Muse to scoop the second award of the evening.

As the group took to the stage to accept the award they admitted they hadn't expected it.

'We haven’t ever thanked everyone who comes to our gigs.'

They added: 'We love being British, very proud, very grateful.'

American girl! Lana Del Rey was thrilled to win the International Female Solo award

Another one for the trophy cabinet: Coldplay's Will Champion and Jonny Buckland accepted the award for Best Live Act, the band's eighth Brit Award of their career

Lana Del Rey was presented with the International Female award and she spoke of her love of Britain during her acceptance speech.

The 26-year-old, who was dressed in a navy Chanel shirt dress took to the stage and said: 'Thank you so much I live here, and I love it here and I wrote my record here.'

And she thanked her record label Polydor for: 'Helping me to turn my life into a work of heart.'

Coldplay won their eighth Brit award of their career in the British Live Act category.

Standing out: Robbie Williams also took to the stage to perform Candy and was dressed in a bright blue suit

Bringing sexy back: Justin Timberlake performed his new track Mirrors and looked dapper in a satin tuxedo jacket and a bow tie

Adele's Bond track Skyfall was named as Best British Single but the songstress was able to accept the award in person.

Instead she was seen in a video and told the audience: 'Hello everyone thank you so much.Sorry I can’t be with you tonight but I'm LA rehearsing for the Oscars. I don’t want to keep you too much because I don’t want to interrupt the best album speech at the end of the night.'

Unable to attend: Adele won the gong for British Single for her Bond track Skyfall but sent a video message from Los Angeles

'Wouldn't want to hold anyone up': Adele made reference to last year's awards she was cut off early and James Corden made sure the video was over before continuing the show

As the screen cut back to host James Corden, he referenced last year's blunder, which saw Adele cut off mid-way through her speech, and he asked: 'She's definitely finished? She didn’t say anything else? Check the tape. 100 percent?' 

The Black Keys, who won the International Group award, were also not at the ceremony and presenter Dave Grohl said he would take the statue back to America for them.

Model Jourdan Dunn was thrilled to present the International Male Award and screamed the winner was: 'Frank fricking Ocean'.

Teenage kicks: One Direction performed their charity song One Way Or Another Thing

The 25-year-old was effortlessly cool as he took to the stage and kept his speech short and sweet.

He said: 'Before this year I didn't get many trophies in my life.'

Frank added: 'Thanks to Damian Hurst for the polka dots. Have a good night.'

Guests were treated to a whole host of killer performances including a rendition of Candy by Robbie Williams and Justin Timberlake also took to the stage to sing his new song Mirrors.

One Direction performed their charity single One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) while Harry Styles' ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift sexed things up with a rendition of I Knew You Were Trouble, which is thought to be about the heartthrob. 

 

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Brit Awards 2013 Winners 

  Best Female Solo Artist -  Emeli Sandé

British Breakthrough Act - Ben Howard

British Male - Ben Howard

International Female Solo Artist - Lana Del Rey

British Live Act - Coldplay

British Single - Adele - Skyfall

British Group - Mumford and Sons

International Group - The Black Keys

International Male - Frank Ocean

Special Recognition - Warchild

British Album - Emeli Sandé - Our Version of Events

Global Success - One Direction

British Producer of the Year - Paul Epworth

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Taylor Swift has a bad girl makeover as she puts on sexy Brits performance of I Knew You Were Trouble

PUBLISHED: 22:01, 20 February 2013 | UPDATED: 22:45, 20 February 2013

With her country pop songs and girl-next-door look, Taylor Swift isn't exactly considered edgy by the music industry.

However, the blonde star attempted to give herself a bad girl makeover as she put on a sexier, rockier performance than usual.

The singer, 23, arrived on stage in a white floor-length gown, before stripping off to reveal a racy black playsuit.

Bad girl: Taylor Swift wears a racy black playsuit as she sings I Knew You Were Trouble at the Brit Awards

Who knew she could dance? Taylor performed with a troupe of male dancers

Taylor has chosen to sing her track I Knew You Were A Trouble - which she reportedly wrote about ex-boyfriend Harry Styles when they briefly dated first time round in March 2012.

After their brief flirtation in the Spring, the couple started dating properly in November that year, before splitting days in 2013 after an 'almighty row' in the Caribbean.

Of course, Harry was sitting a short distance away with his One Direction bandmates.

Well hello! Taylor gets to grips with some male dancers

Leg up: Taylor's performance was a lot more raunchy than what we're used to from the American singer

Her colourful performance appeared to outshine One Direction's jumping around on a giant pinball.

The American arrived on stage being carried by her dancers, wearing a dramatic floor-length white gown.

Halfway through her performance, she stripped it off to reveal her playsuit - which included sheer lace panels and bottom-grazing hotpants.

During her energetic dance routine, she body-humped one of her male dancers and lay on the floor as she enjoyed a rock chick moment during one long note.

Rocking out: Taylor puts her all into hitting a high note

Bridal: Taylor entered the stage in a floor-length white gown

Robbie Williams was certainly impressed as he talked to host James Corden after her set.

He said: ' She's really fit.... That was really great. What a good tune.'

Perhaps referring to the long list of Taylor's past celebrity lovers, Robbie added cheekily: 'It'll be my go soon.'

Inspiration: Taylor is rumoured to have written the song about Harry Styles

 

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Brit Awards 2013 Winners 

  Best Female Solo Artist -  Emeli Sandé

British Breakthrough Act - Ben Howard

British Male - Ben Howard

International Female Solo Artist - Lana Del Rey

British Live Act - Coldplay

British Single - Adele - Skyfall

International Group - The Black Keys

International Male - Frank Ocean

Special Recognition - Warchild

British Album - Emeli Sandé - Our Version of Events

Global Success - One Direction

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Brit Awards winners list so far, including Emeli Sandé scooping Best Female Solo

That's one in the bag! Emeli Sandé scoops Best Female Solo artist at Brit Awards

By SARAH FITZMAURICE

PUBLISHED: 20:30, 20 February 2013 | UPDATED: 21:25, 20 February 2013

She's up for three awards tonight and Emeli Sandé picked up an early win after picking up the first gong of the awards ceremony.

The Next To Me singer took to the stage at the 02 to pick up the Best Female Solo Artist award accepting the gong from Taylor Swift.

Emeli told the crowd: 'This feels amazing. This is incredible I am so happy to win this award.'

One out of one: Emeli Sandé picked up the award for Best Female Solo artist award

She added: 'Thank you to everyone who has allowed me to win, thank you my family.

The 25-year-old singer took to the stage after Muse had opened the show.

Mumford and Sons beat the likes of Alt-J, One Direction and Muse to scoop the second award of the evening. 

American invasion: Taylor joked about her accent before revealing that Emeli had scooped the first award of the evening

Hugging it out: The 25-year-old singer accepted her award from American songbird Taylor Swift

As the group took to the stage to accept the award they admitted they hadn't expected it.

'We haven’t ever thanked everyone who comes to our gigs.'

They added: 'We love being British, very proud, very grateful.'

Rita Ora missed out on being crowned the British Breakthrough Act and guests saw Nick Grimshaw award the gong to Ben Howard.

The 25-year-old admitted he was fazed by public speaking and he said: 'I'm not very good at speeches I'm not very good at dancing.'

Stellar star: Muse took to the stage to open the show at the 02

Rocking out: Matt Bellamy was seen strumming his guitar as the brand performed their hit track Supremacy

He thanked Radio One for supporting him, before making a swift exit from the stage.

Ben enjoyed a double win scooping the Best British Male gong.

The Devon-born singer accepted the award from Ed Sheeran and he told the events: 'That's bizarre isn't it. I didn't really expect. I was shocked to come to the awards so to come away with two of these

'It's a real privilege'. 

Double winner: Ben Howard was shocked to scoop the awards for the Breakthrough Act and Male Solo Act categories

Lana Del Ray beat the likes of Taylor Swift and Rihanna to win International Female and she spoke of her love of Britain during her acceptance speech.

The 26-year-old, who was dressed in a navy Chanel shirt dress took to the stage and said: 'Thank you so much I live here and I love it here and I wrote my record here.

And she thanked her record label Polydor for: 'Helping me to turn my life into a work of heart.'

Coldplay won their eighth Brit award of their career in the British Live Act category.

Adele's Bond track Skyfall was named as Best British Single but the songstress was able to accept the award in person.

Guests were treated to a whole host of killer performances including a rendition of Candy by Robbie Williams and Justin Timberlake also took to the stage to sing his new song Mirrors.

Standing out: Robbie Williams also took to the stage to perform Candy and was dressed in a bright blue suit

Bringing sexy back: Justin Timberlake performed his new track Mirrors and looked dapper in a satin tuxedo jacket and a bow tie

Teenage kicks: One Direction performed their charity song One Way Or Another Thing

Brit Awards 2013 Winners

  Best Female Solo Artist -  Emeli Sandé

British Breakthrough Act - Ben Howard

British Male - Ben Howard

International Female Solo Artist - Lana Del Ray

British Live Act - Coldplay

British Single - Adele - Skyfall

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