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Shoulder pads, handbags, mobile phones - everything was just that little bit bigger in the eighties, especially in women's accessories.

It comes in the run up to the holidays. "Faces for the Forces," is a campaign to collect 1 million messages of support for the US Armed Forces by December 31st .

Society bible Tatler once ranked Lady Bamford fourth in its list of the world's most-powerful blondes.

In this June 9, 1984 file photo, entertainer Liza Minnelli, left, is shown with actor Gene Barry and his daughter Liza Barry during a party hosted by Minnelli in New York.

THE movie star who gave Joan Collins her first on-screen kiss has opened up on fame, acting and his South Wales Valleys upbringing in a new autobiography.

With a new TV channel showing only America's hottest Eighties soaps - from Dynasty to Falcon Crest - it's time to celebrate Alexis Carrington Colby, once the finest role model a girl could have When I was 16 I got the top of my head permed.

Miss Marple is asked to help her old friend Carrie-Louise , who has been slowly poisoned by an unknown hand.

If you stay current on fashion trends then you're aware that the eighties are back in full force.

WHEN Mark Zunino said, "I've been dressing Sophia Loren for years," it was not meant to impress.

If you've outgrown the traditional Halloween slasher films like "Friday the 13th" and you're afraid that after the new uber-frightening "Paranormal Activity" you'll have to drive home checking the rear-view mirror every few seconds to make sure the back seat is still empty, then check out these holiday DVD classics, any of which are a better ...

Joan Collins - the selfproclaimed saviour of Britain's "dowdy" women - told a shopper on her new show: "I don't mean to be rude but fleece should be on a sheep." And fur should be on an animal but that never stopped you before, Joan.

She's perhaps best-known for the pop culture imprint she made with her catfighting portrayal of Alexis Carrington Colby on the '80s primetime soap "Dynasty." But Joan Collins' career extends further than the hit ABC drama.

JOAN COLLINS is on the war-path. We're not dressing properly, or, in fact, wearing enough clothes, she harrumphs.

So this week Joan Collins returned to our TV screens declaring her mission to inject some old-school glamour into the wardrobes of dowdy British ladies, wrestling from them their beloved fleeces and jogging bottoms with the same snooty savagery she displayed during her infamous lily pond catfight with Krystal Carrington in Dynasty .

In a new documentary, Joan Does Glamour, Joan Collins lambasts Britons for their lack of clothes.

Dynasty diva Joan Collins heads to Plymouth to perform a Trinny and Susannah-style makeover on the Littlefair family.

JOAN COLLINS is on a mission to make Britain more glamorous. 'I think people have become sloppy, I think people have become lazy in their grooming and in themselves because I think they're more interested in being on the internet, texting, e-mailing and watching TV.' Yeah right, you're probably thinking.

GLAMOUR icon Joan Collins has revealed that she is shopping at PRIMARK because of the recession.

Joan Collins, from Dynasty fame, has a new documentary " Joan Does Glamour ", in which she attempts to help British women get their act together and avoid the fashion police.

Women of Britain, we have let ourselves go. Suffering from a terminal lack of glamour, we are becoming a nation of frumps.