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It’s finally here – tonight is the ELLE Style Awards, and we can at last reveal that Alexa Chung is the host.

ELLE towers is a whirl of excitement, wardrobe anxiety and last minute preparations today. Tonight it’s the ELLE Style Awards, and we’ve got an impressive line-up of celebrities and fashion insiders on the guest list. You’ll have to wait until the ceremony itself to discover the full line-up but there are a couple of secrets that we can reveal now.

First up, our host for the evening will be last year’s Editor’s Choice Award winner, Alexa Chung – place your bets on what she’ll be wearing.

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THE GIRL NEXT DOOR: Model Anne V shows off her photo from the 2010 edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition isn’t just about sexy to fashion designers lucky enough to make it in. There’s a loud ‘ka-ching’ for years to come.

“Everybody opens up that issue and goes, ‘Wow, where can I get this suit?’ We have a great response when it hits the newsstands,” said Simon Southwood, who expects seven of his suits to grace the famous pages.

Southwood has already presold to stores in anticipation of the big reveal on David Letterman’s show on February 14, followed by newsstand sales the next day.

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From designer Simon Hedt comes the Ecopod, an all-in-one solution for apartment washer and dryer needs – and using nothing but steam!

Apartment space is frequently at a premium and while having a stacked washer/dryer combination in a suite can be great for the convenience aspect it can be both costly in terms of water use and noisy as hell.

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Rumours are flying that Blake Lively is being lined up to play Carrie Bradshaw.

It’s fair to say that the last Sex and the City movie did not get rave reviews, and in the wake of all the pretty terrible coverage that it got the word was that its producers ruled out making a follow up. Now it seems that they’re rethinking their decision and are considering a third installment – with a difference.

Last year Candace Bushnell wrote a prequel to her original stories, ‘The Carrie Diaries’, about Carrie’s life before she moved to New York City and now it seems that it may be hitting the big screen.

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This is the tale of an ancient calvary, a daring man and shoes imbued with antediluvian character …

… A legend that begun back in 1759, when Colonel John Hale of the 47th Regiment of the Foot news of the victory in the Battle of Quebec to General James Wolfe just prior to the General’s death. Hale was rewarded with land in Canada and permission to raise a regiment of light dragoons, at first known as the 18th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, then renumbered as the 17th in 1761 and named as a Lancer regiment in 1822.

The Battle of Balaclava – The (17th lancers) Charge of the Light Brigade – Crimean War – 25 October 1854

Over the next 150 years, the 17^th, also known as Hale’s Light Horse Regiment after its originator, fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American War of Independence where one of its own handed George Washington the final declaration of the cessation of hostilities. Impress Read more…