Leading UK retailer Debenhams has revealed the most unlikely of fashion superstars.

Spearheading the new clothing line to hit the high streets is the famous British walker Alfred Wainwright.

Wainwright is more commonly known for his walking guides to the Lake District, along with a reputation for foul moods to suit the foul weather. He is renowned as a notoriously bad dresser, which in some part could explain the new wave of counter-chic. Over the past two years, his fame has increased markedly thanks to a host of radio and television programmes about his life.

The public exposure has cascaded down from the cliffs to the high street in that time, with demand for walking boots, rucksacks and all-weather, hiking-style clothing soaring, leading Debenhams Director for Menswear Buying, Paul Baldwin, to call the new trend ‘Wainwright Chic’. Baldwin claims that both women and men across Britain have taken to the rugged outdoors look, and that the hill climbing image usually reserved for the most extreme of weekends has now found a place in everyday wear. In the past, specialist clothes such as Wainwright’s defining look were the preserve of nature enthusiasts and train-spotters only, but Baldwin says they are now just as likely to appear on the streets of Chelsea and Kensignton as Scafell or Grisedale Pike.

The Wainwright look usually involves a woollen jumper, belted coat and aged flapped-ear cap. These are most often complemented by trousers that use braces rather than a belt for support and which are tucked in to thick woollen socks. The choice of footwear is traditionally unstylish but highly functional.

Erin Andrews, the stunning sports reporter for ESPN and standout performer of the last season of Dancing with the Stars, is taking legal action.

Andrews has announced she will be suing a number of hotels who allowed a known stalker to find out where she was staying, who then proceeded to film her nude in her hotel room and post the footage online.

The glamorous Andrews, 32, is suing both the Radisson Hotels International and Marriott International Hotels for negligence, as well as invasion of privacy and causing emotional distress and invasion of privacy. Her actions follow the sentencing of former Illinois insurance salesman Michael David Barrett four months ago to two-and-a-half years in prison after he was found guilty on a range of stalking charges.

The prosecution in the case alleged Barrett had made contact with 14 separate hotels to ascertain reservation information on Miss Andrews. Barrett pleaded guilty to renting hotel rooms next door to Andrews in no less than three cities, while firstly in Columbus, Ohio, in 2008 and then Nashville, Tennessee, in 2009 he was found to have created peepholes and used his mobile phone to video Andrews. He then attempted to sell the videos to online celebrity site TMZ who declined to purchase the footage. He then uploaded the video himself online where it went viral in a matter of days.

Andrews is seeking $1.2 million (£784,000) from the respective hotels and from Barrett himself, in the Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, for severe and permanent emotional distress.

Katie Price, Cheryl Cole, and Lindsay Lohan are off the tanning chart, literally. The trio of stunners has been named as just some of the many celebrities who have used fake tanning services, with the results occasionally being a disaster.

The new Debenhams ‘Tan Tone Colour chart’, which looks remarkably like a painting colour guide, has been put together to help those addicted to getting some colour avoid ending up either florescent of overly coloured, which the likes of Cole, Price and Lohan can all admit to. Other notable celebrity tanners include Alex Reid, Dale Winton and wrestler Hulk Hogan.

The Beauty Halls of the leading high street retailer have recently been revamped to match the change of season, and welcome a new round of tanners while providing them with the best solutions to they’re pale pores. Now customers can identify where they place on the tanning chart, which ranges from ‘pale and interesting’ up to ‘radioactive orange’, with Alex Reid’s latest effort a good example of the latter, while Nicola Roberts has been suggested as typifying the former.

Director of Beauty at Debenhams, Sara Stern, claimed this summer was all about looking bronzed, but that research by her team had found that a high 70 per cent of DIY tanners get it wrong. Unsurprisingly, says Stern, the three major sins committed were using too much product, choosing the wrong tone for their skin and applying to frequently.

The lead up to the so far blessedly pleasant British summer saw Debenhams fake tan sales soar by around 64 per cent, as people rushed to give themselves a base tan to go on holiday with, in keeping with the historical irony of the trend for using tanning products when the sun comes out.

The most popular brands of fake tanning products are Clarins, Lancaster Sun, St Tropez, Fake Bake, Xen Tan and Famous Dave’s. Stern also said that they had started stocking tan remover from St Tropez, making the analogy with a paint shop even more poignant.

‘The Body’ Elle Macpherson has caused a furore after posting online claims she used a globally banned product.

The supermodel has sparked outrage after revealing that she uses the Chinese-based medicinal therapy of powdered rhinoceros horn in her beauty treatments.

She was in the process of conducting an online interview with leading British newspaper The Times Online, when she apparently condoned the use of the powdered product made from the endangered species to the interviewer, claiming via her Twitter link-up that simply put, the product worked for her. Macpherson compounded matters by going on to describe in detail the rhino horn taste, suggesting it resembled a mix of fungus and crushed bone in capsule form, before adding that it does a good job. Exactly what crushed bone and fungus actually does a good job of doing was not specified.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare was quick to react to the incident, claiming they have prepared an information brochure for Macpherson which they will be sending in order to educate her on both the use of traditional alternative medicines and also the plight of the rhino, stating that her comments were frankly shocking. They added that not only was the practice of using endangered animal products inexcusable, it was technically illegal. Spokeswoman Erica Martin lamented the notion that Macpherson’s long run of successful careers and businesses, and generally a well-respected image, had meant that the public were impressionable to her comments and listened to whatever she had to say.

The contentious pre-election interviews by Adam Boulton and Kay Burley have been dismissed by the UK’s media regulator.

Viewers of Sky News had objected to the treatment of the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg by Boulton, with Ofcom receiving around nearly 2,000 complaints regarding the election coverage. The issue arose during an on-screen debate with Alastair Campbell, the renowned spin doctor for the Labour Party. Burley also caused complaints over her interviewing of an electoral reformist.

Boulton, who is the Sky News political editor, received 1,787 complaints, with most centred on what was seen as  unprofessional behaviour, with many analysts suggesting Boulton had lost his temper and railed at Campbell after the now deputy prime minister had accused him of being obviously upset that David Cameron was not prime minister. A second interview, on May 10, generated 671 complaints against Boulton for similar allegations.

In dismissing the allegations, Ofcom stated that the audience for the popular news channel was presented with two well-known personalities that had contributed to a heated debate, and though it was a concern, the content and tone was not deemed out of place and Boulton’s treatment of Clegg was not said to constitute heckling.

The media regulator also threw out the 1,008 complaints arising from Burley’s interview with well-known electoral reformist David Babbs on May 8, which sparked a Twitter campaign calling for her dismissal and shouts of abuse at later live broadcasts.