She shot to fame for in the infamous Versace safety pin dress in 1994. And 16 years later Elizabeth Hurley still knows how to cause a stir on the red carpet.

The bikini designer wowed Wednesday night, in an asymmetric red dress at the Estée Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness event in New York.

Hurley, 45, stood on a chair to introduce the event and was on standby to steady Evelyn Lauder, daughter of Estée, as she made her speech. Evelyn Lauder, a well-known philanthropist, has been credited as one of the inventors of the pink ribbon worn to raise awareness of the disease.

Hurley has been a longtime spokesperson for Estée Lauder and active in the company’s breast cancer awareness campaigns.

Together, they will be attempting to set a new world record to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness month in October.

Estée Lauder will be illuminating 40 global landmarks in 24 hours as part of the Estée Lauder Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.

Landmarks include the Taj Mahal in India and the Kuala Lumpur tower in Malaysia, and the illuminations will culminate at the Empire State Building in New York today, October 1st.

–Daily Mail

From show choir saint to sultry seductress: Lea Michele shakes off her geeky Glee image with a semi-naked photo shoot

It’s enough to make her alter ego run prudishly screaming back to the rehearsal room.

In what is probably her sexiest photo shoot to date, actress Lea Michele gazes seductively at the camera as she poses in nothing more than black pants and calf-high lace-up boots.

It’s certainly a far cry from the knee-high socks, knitted motif jumpers and sensible shoes that have made her Glee character Rachel Berry a household name all over the world.

And as ironies go, Lea, 24, said life has imitated art for her by landing the role and she is actually a lot more like her character than some people would think.

The Broadway star stripped down to her pants, hiding her modesty behind a black tutu as she teetered on lace-up high-heeled boots for the sexy photo shoot for Marie Claire.

At eight years old, she got her first role on Broadway in the original New York production of Les Misérables after accompanying her friend to an open-call audition.

Two years ago the audition for the role of Rachel Berry in Glee came up, a part which was ‘made for her’, and which she said has changed her life. The role has also won her numerous showbiz accolades, including an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy.

Lea is currently starring in the second series of Glee, which started in the US on September 21 and is back on UK screens in January 2011.

The November issue of Marie Claire is in stores now.

–Daily Mail

I’m still the ‘cat’s whiskers! Madonna prowls around with eye-popping cleavage on show in Dolce & Gabanna advert

Just in case anyone needed reminding, Madonna has once again set out to prove she’s not letting age change her ways.

The 52-year-old has posed for yet another racy Dolce & Gabanna advert, this time while wearing an incredibly low-cut black body suit and hold-up stockings.

Accessorised with sunglasses, a crucifix and a red string Kabbalah bracelet, she prowls around an unmade bed with her cleavage threatening to spill out of her lingerie.

In another frame, she reclines on white sheets accompanied by a black and white cat.

Madonna struck up a friendship with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana while she was filming Dick Tracy in the early nineties and they were invited to design her costumes for The Girlie Show tour in 1993.

The Italian designer duo announced their new collaboration with Madonna last year, which came after she spent her birthday with the pair on-board a yacht in Italy last August.

They said at the time: “To have Madonna in our campaign is a dream come true.”

Madonna has since launched a fashion label of her own with her teen daughter Lourdes called Material Girl.

–Daily Mail