Taking time out from her busy schedule packed full of water balloon lobbing and screaming "why can't I make her break?!" at the full moon, Australia's Next Top Model "winner" Demelza Reveley has begun her modelling career in earnest.

This involved doing a trade show to launch Saba's latest collection - not much news there, but I do like this vaguely damning faint praise that her agent (and AusNTM judge) Priscilla Leighton Clarke whipped up for the bullying teenager:

"I'm not going to throw her in the deep end because she's only 16 - Alice Burdeu was 20 and there's a big difference in what she was able to take on," she said.

Reveley is set to make a chaperoned step on to the international stage next month, visiting casting agents in New York.

Or so I'm told.

While the actors, writers and sportspeople Australia spits out and sends overseas might not always end up kicking goals, if there's one area in which we are leading the field (well, right behind, say, the entire Eastern Europe region) it's fashion modelling.

As Confidential notes today, Catherine McNeil is the latest expat to wow the modelling world - except, they're sort of a bit behind the eight ball. McNeil has been going gangbusters for the past twelve-plus-months, shooting numerous campaigns and covers (including a handful of Vogues) and walking for pretty much everyone. Here's what Models.com (the "NASDAQ of modelling") has to say about our Cath in their Top 50 Models death match, where she has been at #9 for the past few weeks:

She has the height, the body, the skin, the hair and the presence of a major new star in the business.

Now Catherine McNeil is poised to have a landmark campaign and editorial season and we can't wait to see the first burst of blue chip imagery.

Or words to that effect. Er, Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

Pretty little Isabel Lucas, who has decamped to the States while on a break from saving whales and dolphins and washing her face in rose petals and moondust, has been spending more and more time with ladies' man Adrian Grenier lately.

In fact, the pair just attended the Kentucky Derby together, and it seems the US fashionistas weren't powerful impressed with Lucas' choice of frock - and neither, it seems, was Grenier, judging by his expression in this shot:

He looks like he's fighting to stave off an epileptic fit or a particularly overwhelming wave of nausea. Or maybe he's just trying to remember the last time he washed and shaved. She is wearing a tone of matte brown lipstick (likely called "Coffee Bean", "Toasty" or "Mocha Surprise") that was last popular in uptown LA in 1993.

Who wants to bet that Lucas is the sort of lass who'd make you a homemade dream catcher for your birthday, and give it to you with a card featuring a Native American Indian homily on it, and then you'd wake up in the middle of the night and she'd be standing next to your bed, "reading your aura"?

If you're one of those fans who just can't wait to see what your favourite Australian star wears to the Logies, you'll likely be excited by this news: about 90% of the Logies frocks - which are borrowed for the night - are on their way back to the designers.

However, those wishing to snap one up and wring out the sweat of their idol may be disappointed: not all the dresses are going back on sale. But that won't stop them from sniffing under the arms looking!

A few will be kept in designers' stores for customers to try on, but a handful - including Lauren and Patti Newton's frocks - will hit clearance stores at a discount.

Fans of Sibylla Budd can walk into designer Gwendolynne Burkin's Fitzroy store to try on her near-$4000 dress.

But it's not for sale, and the best her fans can do is order one the same, as a few did for her flowing, heavily beaded oyster-coloured dress by Gwendolynne for last year's AFI Awards.

The $3000-$4000 Mariana Hardwick dresses worn by Lauren and Patti Newton will be part of a Logies gowns display in the designer's Sydney Rd, Brunswick, store by the end of the week.

Forget this year's frocks, though - I'm still trying to find out where I can get my hands on Sandra Sully's Technicolour dream dress from last year. And to think those scurrilous rumourmongers say she likes a bong or four...

Just this morning we were reading the latest "too young to model" fuss, which was, we have to admit, actually quite well-founded: Polish teenager Monika Jagaciak (aka "Jak"; pictured) was booked to walk and pose at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, not to mention booked to shoot for Vogue Australia... until everyone found out she was 14.

Vogue editrix Kirstie Clements was particularly vocal on the topic and it now seems that when Vogue speaks, the rest of the industry listens:

Rosemount Australian Fashion Week organisers this morning responded to Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements' call for a minimum age of 16 for models appearing in the event.

"In light of industry and community concern regarding the acceptable age for models to appear on the catwalk at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAFW), today RAFW revised its industry policy," an official statement said.

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We know that Defamer Australia's model-mad and fashion-fanatic readers have been hanging to read Alice's responses to your questions, however we're quite sure her excuse for tardiness will wash with you: she's been busy shooting the Dolce & Gabbana diffusion line D&G's latest campaign, with superstar lensman Mario Testino. If that isn't the definition of "top" modeldom, our years of reading the Vogue Forums have taught us nothing.

(Incidentally you can check out her ever-expanding book of amazing editorial shots here.)

However, the lovely Alice took a moment from her ridiculously busy schedule this afternoon to let us know she is completing her answers as we speak, so tune in on Monday for the thoughts from Australia's reigning Next Top Model before we begin the search for the next one!

Sorry about the title, we were just so excited for Local Girl Made Good™ Miranda Kerr's latest news that we had an attack of the Picnic At Hanging Rocks. To that news: as though snaring Orlando Bloom and being a Victoria's Secret Angel and all wasn't enough for Kerr, it looks as though she's set to be the new face of David Jones after Megan Gale stepped down a month or so ago.

And she'll be compensated generously for her troubles, with a rumoured six-figure sum inked into her contract. Because, you know, it's a hard life 'n' shit.

The 23-year-old's youth and beauty, which has propelled her meteoric rise on the international fashion scene, is believed to have impressed DJ executives scouting for generational change.

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Just when you thought you'd had enough fashion to last you from here to eternity, the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival is the stylish gift that just keeps on giving. In fact, you couldn't stop it from giving, such is the unending avalanche of its sartorial smorgasbord, so here goes your report from the front lines of Fashion Fest, day four. Send food and supplies, please.

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Defamer Australia's fashion correspondent reached something resembling nirvana at last night's installment of the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival when someone claiming to be from NW Magazine requested to take our picture. It took us until approximately 3pm this afternoon to recover from this even vague degree of separation from "Amy & The NW-ettes", hence your missive arrives from fashland a little late, but better late than never, eh? Read on...

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Defamer Australia is by now existing solely on promotional ice-creams and mineral water and chewed up paper from the pages of Vogue, all so we can continue to bring you the news from L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival. We spent another evening installed at Central Pier's lavish Paris Runway thrilling to the front row and the catwalk. So, put on that Anna Wintour wig we know you keep in the top drawer for times like this, and read on for your daily dose...

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