Laura Csortan shows off her stunning figure as she soaks up the Sydney sunshine in a tiny black bikini

She works hard to keep in shape and Laura Csortan loves to flaunt the results on her social media pages.

As Sydney scorched on Sunday, the 38-year-old model, presenter and travel journalist took to Instagram to show off a snap of her toned figure.

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Wearing a skimpy black bikini the blonde beauty looked incredible as she smiled broadly for the camera.

Judging by her sea salted hair, the leggy beauty had just been enjoying a swim before sharing this shot.

Along with the pic she wrote:

'Exploring with my lil sidekick.#sydneyharbour #hiddenbeaches #bitcheeky.'

But before the weekend had even started Laura was already posing in a purple and black number in a photo posted to her Instagram account on Friday.

'FriYay!' she captioned the shot, roughing up her hair with one hand as she smiled for the camera.

The high-cut number revealed the blonde beauty's super toned physique.

And she looked equally stunning in a sleek little black dress in a social media snap posted on Thursday, showing off her toned legs and slender arms.

'My little go-to black silk wrap dress and leather sandals from @watsonxwatson #tooeasy,' the television presenter captioned the photo in which she effortlessly posed with one hand on her hip.

Earlier this week Laura denied altering some photos posted to her Instagram account, which appeared to show some blurring around her waist.

When contacted by Daily Mail Australia Laura said she only uses filters, Instagram settings and occasionally a blemish remover app, but denied 'altering' any of her pictures.

‘Apart from using the filters on Instagram, I have never altered any of my pictures,' she said.

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Fall 2015 Menswear - County of Milan

Marcelo Burlon, Milan's latest polymath, began his steady rise to stardom working in nightlife. He knows how to drive a crowd and has a rare talent for aggregation, which was apparent Monday night at the County of Milan show: Everybody who is anybody in town was attending, together with a horde of wannabes and club kids. It made for a lively event.

Burlon and a business partner launched the label little more than two years ago with a bunch of T-shirts, but it has quickly spawned a complete collection, becoming one of Italy's fastest-growing fashion phenomena with revenues already skyrocketing into the millions.

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This was County of Milan's first official show after last season's thunderous debut performance at Pitti Uomo, and it felt like a homecoming for Burlon, who hails from Patagonia but found his proverbial pot of gold, by way of very hard work, in Italy. This season he decided to merge nods to his native country, Argentina—malambo dancers opened the show—with the dark metropolitan aesthetic he is known for. The look was fast and athletic, with allover graphic prints in dramatic color juxtapositions, and ponchos and blankets providing an exotic/functional touch.

Burlon moves along the lines of the glorified urbanwear that is proliferating across the fashion landscape. The references in his work are certainly not hidden: Helmut Lang's martial simplicity, Rick Owens' gothic pragmatism. Burlon added a fierce touch of visual assertiveness to the general debate, which made for intriguing contrasts and some appealing pieces, like the technical cloaks and parkas. More than the clothes, however, what really sucked you in was the contagious and spontaneous energy of the whole performance. It doesn't happen that often, in Milan at least, and it was uplifting.

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Last weekend another teen fashion retailer, Wet Seal, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. On the face of it, Wet Seal is just another mid-market fashion retailer that failed to grow profitably. A deeper looks makes it apparent that the world of teen fashion has changed irrevocably.

The list of casualties is long: while cheap-not-so-chic retailers Delia’s and Deb Shops are headed for the dustbin of history, and American Apparel struggles to find its identity, other higher-end retailers have also had some real trouble retaining customers.

After several years of lackluster sales coupled with seemingly endless high profile faux pas, Abercrombie and Fitch’s controversial CEO Michael Jeffries abruptly retired in early December. Given some of Mr. Jeffries decisions since the Great Recession, and his perspective that A&F was for “the beautiful people,” it’s also somewhat easy to dismiss the company’s troubles. Couple that with the trend away from large logos as status symbols, and it is almost possible to dismiss poor results at Gap ’s brands as well.

But wait (as they say), there’s more. Urban Outfitters, which seemed to be withstanding the fickle teen market, also took a hit this past fall, although it seems to be rebounding. Sales, gross margin and foot traffic fell. Target has become more grocery-focused and less in tune with teen apparel trends. Macy’s, a chain that seemed to be on the mark recently announced a restructuring of its buying and marketing departments across its Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s divisions. The ostensible reason: To better serve omni-channel consumers. The initial actions: layoffs and cost-reductions.

In other words, many companies serving the teen market have been taking a serious sales and profit bath over the past twelve to eighteen months. Where have those sales gone? Blame it on Fast Fashion.

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Fast Fashion retailers include H&M , Forever 21 , and the Godfather of Fast Fashion, Zara, a division of Inditex. They have many similar traits.

The clothes are low-priced but stylish, styles cycle in and out of stores (and web sites) as quickly as every three weeks. That means, the product is turning well over twelve times a year, when traditional fashion retailers get excited at turns of 6 or 7.

Because sales cycles are so short, product development cycles must ALSO be short. In 2010, my company surveyed retailers on their time-to-volume for new product introductions. At that time, the majority reported a product lifecycle of twelve to eighteen months. That’s just too slow for a Fast Fashion world.

On the flip side, Zara has long been commended on products that can go from concept to shelf in a matter of weeks. Back in 2012, The New York Times published a comprehensive piece on Zara’s rise to prominence and its processes. Shortly thereafter, IBM optimization specialist Jean Francois Puget published a piece explaining “how Zara did it,” highlighting the role of mathematical inventory optimization in Zara’s decision-making. The short way to describe this concept is to say if you’re going to fail, fail fast. Don’t take eighteen months to do it.

Forever 21 is considered a “fast follower.” That means the company creates less expensive versions of fabrics and styles soon after they’ve been shown on runways or other high end stores. The company has been sued for all kinds of things: from ‘stealing’ designs to collecting too much information at the Point of Sale. But customers keep shopping and product keeps selling.

H&M seems to be a hit wherever it opens, and while it caters to teens, middle-aged women seeking the hip factor in their lives also shop there. After all, the product is cheap enough that a fashion faux pas can be easily forgiven and forgotten.

So while Fast Fashion retailers are doing really well, we have three other schools of teen retailing taking hits: there’s just plain cheap, like Deb Shops and Delia’s. And then there’s more expensive and classic, like Gap and Abercrombie and Fitch. In between there’s Macy’s, Target and even JC Penney.

The long and the short of the situation is this: today’s teens aren’t interested in wearing someone else’s logos to define their identities. Instead, they mix and match their own selections, and when they get tired of them, they move on to something else. The clothes don’t need to last. They just need to look good for a while.

Traditional product developers have had a heck of a time knocking off the knock-offs. Their supply chain cycles are longer than the demand cycles of the products they’re selling. That’s a hard business model to sustain in today’s world.

Ultimately, the entire retail apparel world must adjust. Two keys to success are speed to market and responsiveness. Fail quickly. Succeed quickly. And move on to the next product. Logos are yesterday. Today is all about something else. And the Fast Fashion retailers will be there to figure out where it is going tomorrow.

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Sunrise's Natalie Barr frets her return to work while showing off slender frame in a dark dress at Tennis Players' Party

She's enjoyed a few weeks of holidays, but the time has come for Natalie Barr to return to 3AM wake-ups.

The Sunrise presenter attended the Tennis Players' Party at Melbourne's Crown Entertainment Complex on Sunday, and reflected on her time off.

'My body clock is completely stuck in holiday mode and Lychee Martini mode...the next two weeks are going to feel like jetlag.'

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The 46-year-old presenter looked stylish in a bistre brown dress that matched her shoulder length brunette locks.

Her sleeveless dress featured a high neck with ruching at the waist, highlighting her slender figure.

Natalie admitted that she's slept through her 3AM alarm in the past, calling it a 'nightmare.'

'You wake up in a cold sweat with that phone going off by your bed...I usually come in at 3:30, [if I'm not in at] 3:45 they're calling and you're panicking.'

'Goodbye holidays. Hello a million loads of washing,' she wrote alongside a recent holiday snap on Instagram.

Before she returns to work with David Koch and Samantha Armytage, Natalie rubbed shoulders with some of the world's greatest tennis players at the event.

The world's No. 2 female player Maria Sharpova showed off her trim pins in a monochrome dress, while No. 3 male player Rafael Nadal wore jeans and a white shirt to the event.

Tennis wasn't the only sport represented, as former captain of the Australian national cricket team Ricky Ponting made an appearance alongside wife Rianna.

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Time to snap up in style

What to look out for? Well, this is a great time to buy a fur-trimmed hooded parka, because there are plenty of them going half price in the sales this week (check out Dorothy Perkins and Topshop).While fashion seems to have decided that they have had their moment for now, urban utility outerwear in khaki, black and brown is a classic and will always look relevant. True, fur trim limits wear to chillier days and the winter months, but we have more than enough of those in the UK to make it a worthwhile investment.

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Look out for padded jackets too, ideal for wearing with jeans and leggings on action-packed outdoor days, and faux fur coats and jackets, especially ones in seasonal shades such as baby blue and soft pink (well, that was always going to happen), although the white and neutral coloured ones are still full price, in the main.

It’s full price too for wraps and cape styles and indeed more seem to be finding their way into the High Street stores, which makes a lot of sense as they are ideal trans-season pieces, working well with new spring trends and easy to layer beneath, to suit the weather.

There’s plenty new season spring outerwear too, should you be looking to invest in new trends and colours. Take a look at the websites of fashion companies that specialise in contemporary classic British outerwear, including Cornwall-based Seasalt, which has neat, cool waterproof jackets in punchy bright colours, plus wellies to match and lots of pieces that will instantly make you long to take off for the coast. Celtic & Co has lots of luxurious classic leather and sheepskin coats and jackets, while Cotton Traders has a good sale on at the moment, with knitwear, coats and faux fur all as bargains.

Whether you wrap up and head for the shops, or browse cosily at home, get shopping.

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With lots of easy breezy makeup, minimal jewelry and loose hair, the Golden Globes opened the awards season with a red carpet chock-full of sparkly metallics, bright whites and dramatic reds.

Among those lauded by fashion pros Sunday night at the Beverly Hills, California, awards night was Julianne Moore as she led a parade of silver in custom Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci. Her sequins faded to black and a cascade of feathers at the bottom.

"For me she was it. She looked amazing, but the metallic trend was debated all over social media. A lot of people see it as very flashy but I think it looks great because it's just a new, totally different texture and something that's more interesting than just the same old strapless gowns," said Eric Wilson, fashion news director for InStyle magazine.

Style and beauty expert Mary Alice Stephenson agreed, adding Emma Stone's sparkly silver-and-black Lanvin jumpsuit to her top five. It had a big floor-length sash at the waist, after all.

"Emma Stone broke a lot of rules and that's what Golden Globes fashion is about. It was this great respite from all the boring gowns. And her hair was down. It was superglamorous and a little bit edgy," she said.

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Jennifer Lopez went with a low-cut sparkly dress with a high slit -- made by Zuhair Murad.

Extending last year's red trend was standout Viola Davis in Donna Karan Atelier. Her sisters in sultry red included Allison Williams, Lena Dunham and Helen Mirren.

And there was plenty for us to love or hate, including a daring white Vera Wang Collection gown for "Gone Girl" co-star Rosamund Pike. She showed off midriff cutouts, a strappy barely there back and plunging neckline soon after giving birth.

The look was criticized by some as ill-fitting at the top but lauded by Aya Kanai, executive fashion director of Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, as "white hot and sexy." A chartreuse Gucci column gown worn by Naomi Watts with a knockout diamond Bulgari Serpenti necklace was a questionable color to others while she was lauded as a vision by Joyann King, editor of HarpersBazaar.com.

"I love how she took the classic Old Hollywood glamour equation - memorable hue, over-the-top jewels, red lip and Veronica Lake curls - and made it completely relevant on today's modern carpet," King said.

Naomi Watts, meanwhile, donned an eye-catching Gucci yellow silk strapless column dress.

Ruth Wilson of "The Affair" stood alone in green, an edgy form-fitting Prada with a high neck and black-and-turquoise detailing.

Lupita Nyong'o -- who almost always gets it right on the red carpet -- radiated in her feminine violet and white gown.

Other highs and lows:

JESSICA CHASTAIN: The "A Most Violent Year" actress said it best of her ultra-shiny, plunging Atelier Versace: "My movie is about heating oil. It's like an oil slick so I was, like, it's perfect."

AMAL CLOONEY: The awards season debut of George's bride was much anticipated. Her long, baggy white gloves with a black Dior Haute Couture one-shoulder gown and long Harry Winston earrings had lots of fingers tweeting.

"To glove or not to glove," laughed Stephenson. "It was a big moment. People had high expectations for what she was going to wear. I think the gloves were ill-fitting. Her hair was down and she had that train coming off the Dior dress and the long earrings. It could have been a modern Audrey Hepburn moment but it wasn't."

UZO ADUBA: Crazy eyes was, in a word, awesome. The "Orange Is the New Black" co-star rarely disappoints on the red carpet. This time around she wore a halter-style beaded gun metal design by Randi Rahm with ruby touches and a crystal-embellished neckline.

"She just looked hot! Her hair looked great smoothed back," Kanai said.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY: She did not get the let's-flaunt-our-baby-bumps memo, showing up pregnant in a pale blue Chanel with a bib neck, tiers of ruffles at the bottom and appliques of butterflies and feathers.

"That was not a best-dressed baby bump," Stephenson said. "It was a little too "Little House on the Prairie."

Kanai demurred: "She was conservative and pretty for an expecting mother. She looked like she might have stepped out of a Jane Austen novel - in a good way!"

KERRY WASHINGTON: Usually solidly on point, she wore an of-the-moment midi length design by Mary Katrantzou. It was off-the-shoulder with pink and purple panels that were "too competitive with each other," King said. "A monochromatic color choice would have been better."

Stephenson agreed. "It was a little too pristine and buttoned up. She did not look comfortable."

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Ethan Hawke looks ready to ride as he joins Boyhood castmates Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, and Lorelai and Richard Linklater at the AFI Awards

The film may have taken 12 years to make but it takes just one luncheon to get the cast of Boyhood together.

Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette showed newcomers Ellar Coltrane and Lorelai Linklater what award season is all about at one of the first big events on Friday.

The actors, along with director Richard Linklater, joined together at the 2015 American Film Institute Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Their film has been marked as one to watch chosen as one of AFI’s Top 11 Movies of the Year, which is a good omen ahead of Sunday's Golden Globes where the epic independent feature is nominated for five nods, including Best Picture.

For the daytime event Ethan took a rather unusual approach to red carpet dressing, donning a suit with no tie but adding a big hat instead.

The 44-year-old skipped wearing the popular fedora in favour of a cowboy meets prohibition gangster felt hat.

While Sinister star was happy breaking with convention, co-star Patricia went for a more tried and tested look.

The 46-year-old donned a black long sleeve knee length dress by Black Halo.

However while simple, The Medium actress' gown was not as conservative as it appeared at first, as it featured a large lace panel up her thigh and smaller panels on her shoulders.

Wearing her blonde bob poker straight, the star added a pair of understated black pumps by Kurt Geiger and a matching clutch by Jinammi.

The veteran pair led the way for their younger co-stars Ellar and Lorelai, who all but grew up on film as the movie was made over 12 years.

While she may be new to the awards scene, 20-year-old Lorelai certainly has red carpet posing - but maybe not smiling - down.

The Hollywood newcomer made sure to show off her outfit from every angle.

Like Ethan, the young star chose to wear a slightly unusual choice donning a lace dress with peek-a-boo diamond cut outs down the front over a pair of grey stockings.

Giving her look an extra alternative boost, she added a pair of stud wrapped black leather boots.

The movie is not just about family and growing up, but is also a family affair Lorelai's father Richard directed the film.

Boyhood has already proved victorious with the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress.

The critically acclaimed film follows a boy named Mason (played by Ellar) as he ages from six to 18, delving into the emotional progression of growing up as a boy in America.

Mason divides his time between his divorced parents, played by Patricia and Ethan – a struggling mother and a wannabe musician.

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Apple makes key biomedical & fashion industry additions ahead of Watch launch

Apple has picked up a few new hires and advisors to assist its growing Watch team ahead of the Apple Watch launch currently on track for March. Among them, Apple has recently hired another executive from the fashion industry, this time from Louis Vuitton, in addition to two new hires from the medical industry.

Jacob Jordan, previously based in Paris as Louis Vuitton’s director of the company’s men’s ready to wear collection, joined Apple in October and since confirmed the move on his LinkedIn page. Jordan now serves as Director of Product Merchandising on Apple’s Special Projects team in Cupertino, likely working alongside other fashion executives Apple has hired to assist in preparing for the upcoming Apple Watch launch. Prior to the two and a half years spent at Louis Vuitton, Jordan held various fashion executive roles stateside at Theory, Thom Browne, and Helmut Lang. Jordan is yet another fashion executive hire for Apple as its new retail chief Angela Ahrendts, formerly of Burberry, and the company’s Apple Watch team recruit team members for the launch of its first product crossing into the fashion world.

Another notable recent hire for Apple is Dr. Stephen H. Friend, co-founder and president of Sage Bionetworks, a non-profit doing biomedical research and developing an open-source platform for sharing and analyzing data. The non-profit’s work includes a platform dubbed Synapse that the company describes as “a collaborative set of technical services that allow scientists to access, share and analyze data together, in a visible and traceable way.” It also has BRIDGE for allowing patients to share data with researchers through a web-based open source platform.

The Synapse platform is composed of a set of shared web services that support a website designed to facilitate collaboration among scientific teams, and integrations with analysis tools and programming environments…Synapse goes beyond being a data repository and creates a computational platform for real-time research collaboration. We have begun to see evidence that a shared environment can help scientific teams find and correct analysis errors more quickly, get more diverse teams working on complex problems, and integrate disparate data to answer scientific questions

Sources say Friend is advising Apple on medical technology.

Also now advising Apple on medical related technology is Dan Riskin, MD, founder and CEO of Vanguard Medical Technologies and an Consulting Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford University, according to sources in the medical industry. Vanguard describes itself as “a medical technology incubation firm” with several products and spin-

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off companies already in the healthcare industry, although there aren’t many details on specific companies it has invested in. It is likely that Apple’s latest medical hires are working alongside Apple’s growing team of medical and fitness experts, many of which are working on projects related to Apple Watch and its upcoming launch. Riskin declined to comment for this article.

Earlier this week we reported the first solid launch date for the Apple Watch as retail training is set to get underway in mid-February signaling a likely March release for the product.

Apple’s new hires add to a long list of medical and fitness experts hired in the time leading up to the Apple Watch announcement last fall and its launch later this year. On the retail and marketing side of things for the Watch, Apple has also added a number of hires from the fashion industry under its new retail chief, former Burberry exec Angela Ahrendts.

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C'est la vie, fashionistas. The city of New York and Lincoln Center are evicting the invitation-only, twice-yearly Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in a court spat over destroyed trees and displaced park benches.

A judge approved a pretrial settlement in a complaint brought by community groups. They objected to the onslaught of the fashion industry at Damrosch Park, a 2.4-acre stretch on the Upper West Side that is adjacent to and managed by Lincoln Center.

The groups argued the insular nature of the fashion shows that draw top designers and hundreds of buyers, editors and journalists violate laws governing public use of the land. Each February and September, the stiletto-heeled hordes cram the Lincoln Center complex for eight days of runway shows and presentations held in a large temporary tent.

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“We're going to get flowers and benches, and there's going to be a park again,” said Olive Freud, president of the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, one of the groups that filed the complaint in May 2013. “We're all very happy here.”

The upcoming February Fashion Week will be held at Lincoln Center as scheduled but must find new digs after that. Andrew Serrano, a spokesman for IMG Fashion, which owns and produces Fashion Week, confirmed the settlement Dec. 18.

The settlement does not include any admission of wrongdoing or cover other private events held on the land, including the Big Apple Circus, a ticket event open to the public.

Fashion Week for years had been held in Bryant Park. In search of more space, it moved to the Lincoln Center area in 2010. Freud said Damrosch had been public park since 1969.

“We objected to the whole idea of demolishing a park and of throwing the public out and of making this a place for raising money,” she said. “Private people aren't supposed to be making money on it.”

Many designers had tired of the Lincoln Center location's box-like spaces and hurried turnaround between shows, choosing edgier, more atmospheric spaces in downtown Manhattan and even Brooklyn that allow greater creativity in how shows are presented. Of more than 300 shows, less than 100 were held at Lincoln Center in recent years, with more leaving each time Fashion Week rolled around.

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Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port and Taylor Swift: Lob story short

2014 has truly become the year of the lob. (That's a 'long bob,' FYI). While lobs are popping up on Pinterest boards and Instagram feeds with a frequency to rival the motivational Monday morning quote, there are a few celebrity chops that really caught our attention this year. First up, Taylor Swift. After years of rocking a mane of long blonde ringlets, the pop star showed she's not all kittens and cupcakes by lopping off her locks at the shoulders - well-timed with the release of her edgier new album, 1989. Somehow we don't think the video for Blank Space would have had quite the same impact had T.Swift been sporting her once-signature pageant-style curls.

After years gracing our TV screens with long smooth locks, former The Hills star turned fashion designer Whitney Port also took the plunge, leaving behind the Rapunzel-esque tresses of her youth to make way for a more sophisticated style.

The starlet debuted her new 'do on Instagram back in May with the caption, "Finally did it! Man, I feel like a woman!"

Port's fellow The Hills star Lauren Conrad followed suit just last month - but chose to make the change at a slower rate, revealing various stages of shortness over a three week period. LC told E! News that she and stylist Kristin Ess had planned to make the change gradually so that the 28-year-old didn't "freak out."

"My hairdresser did it slowly, she didn't do it all at once because she knew I would freak out," she explained. "So she cut it in like three steps...I see her a lot, so every time I'd see her, she'd take a little bit off."

Kylie Jenner and Renee Zellweger: The names on everybody's lips

Celebrity scrutiny reached an all-time high in the second half of 2014, when Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kylie Jenner hit headlines for her suspiciously plump lips. After posting a number of pouty selfies online, the Twitterverse went ballistic, with speculation the 17-year-old had had her smackers surgically enhanced. But it turns out the teen is just a dab hand with the lip liner.

"I love lip liner and over lining my lips," Jenner told E! News, a statement that was backed up by Kylie's sister and fellow selfie queen, Kim Kardashian West.

"She draws her lip, and it looks amazing," Kim told beauty blog Pixiwoo, according to MTV. "And I go into her room like, 'What liner do you wear?' because she only wears a lip liner and she fills it in, she doesn't wear lipstick or a lip gloss." There you have it, just a good old-fashioned trompe l'oeil.

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But it wasn't just the Kardashian clan creating a stir on social media this year. Who could forget the frenzy that occurred in October after Renee Zellweger hit the red carpet for ELLE's 21st annual Women In Hollywood Awards looking dramatically different to the Bridget Jones we all know and love. Dr Alex Karidis of London's Karidis Clinic told MailOnline he believed the 45-year-old may have had an upper eye lift and botox, but in a statement issued to People, Renee explained that her appearance was all down to the healthier lifestyle she now leads.

"I'm glad folks think I look different!" she revealed. "I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows."

"My friends say that I look peaceful. I am healthy," she added. "For a long time I wasn't doing such a good job with that. I took on a schedule that is not realistically sustainable and didn't allow for taking care of myself. Rather than stopping to recalibrate, I kept running until I was depleted and made bad choices about how to conceal the exhaustion. I was aware of the chaos and finally chose different things."

Lorde: The M.A.C. moment

She's taken the world by storm with her stunning vocal abilities, thought-provoking lyrics and enviable style, so it seemed only natural that our favourite Kiwi should sink her teeth into the world of beauty too. On June 27 Lorde launched her very own shorthand makeup collection for M.A.C. Cue everyone from teens, to bloggers, beauty editors and office managers chomping at the bit to try their hand at recreating the Lorde look with the deep grape Pure Heroine lipstick and Rapid Black Penultimate Eyeliner. And as with everything Ella Yelich-O'Connor touches, her mini collection was met with rave reviews, with Smith & Caughey's ordering up five- to six-fold more stock than usual for an initial limited edition celebrity line order. "We've never ordered these quantities before," revealed cosmetics buyer and manager, Lynda Grant.

Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lawrence and Shailene Woodley: Pain-free pixie grow-outs

It's no secret that when you decide to commit to getting a pixie cut, you really do have to commit. But it's only natural that at some point you may decide to embark on the sometimes painful journey of growing it out. Luckily this year we've been privileged enough to watch three of our favourite celebrities grow out their short 'dos in their own unique and completely non-awkward ways - proving that maybe it's really not such a bad time afterall.

In 2012, Anne Hathaway did what many of us could never fathom - shaving her head for work. It was a starring role in Les Miserables no less, but still a huge ask of any woman. Two years on and we've watched Anne's style go from a number one all over to a cute pixie cut and now, in 2014, she's sporting an ultra-chic chin-length bob. Our style observation: Side-parts are a short-haired woman's very best friend.

But it wasn't just Miss Hathaway who showed commitment to her career recently - Shailene Woodley had a date with the scissors for her role in The Fault In Our Stars, while also showing her altruistic side by donating her freshly chopped locks to non profit organisation Children With Hair Loss. While the 23-year-old is still rocking a shorter 'do, we love the versatility of the star's hair when walking the red carpet. From slicked down, to smoothed out and sometimes a little tousled and carefree - it's safe to say this leading lady is having a blast with her new look.

Jennifer Lawrence also proved the versatility of an edgy crop by growing out her once asymmetrical style into an on-trend wavy bob, thanks to the help of a few simple accessories. At the world premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 in London in November the Academy Award winner kept her hair pulled back with a simple black headband. Only a few days later she'd swept her hair into a side-parted half-up half-down 'do and even managed a modern take on a low french twist at the film's Los Angeles premiere. J.Law, is there anything you can't do?

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