Christy Turlington is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent

The 40-year-old supermodel will front the fashion house's upcoming Autumn/Winter campaign, taking over from German beauty Claudia Schiffer, who starred in their most recent series of advertisements.

Christy - who has two children, Grace, five, and three-year-old Finn with husband Edward Burns -fronted YSL's campaign five years ago.

Her latest pictures, which were taken by photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, will appear in fashion magazines from later this month.

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Supermodel Karen Mulder has been arrested for making "threatening" phone calls to a plastic surgeon

The 39-year-old star was questioned at a Paris police station after calling the medic and reportedly demanding for a previous operation to be reversed.

A detective said: "She was screaming and shouting about the operation and became extremely threatening. There were repeated calls to the female surgeon who was extremely scared. The suspect is being interviewed."

Karen was arrested at about 10am yesterday (30.06.09) and taken to a station in the fashion district of the French capital city.

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Linda Evangelista applies her make-up in 10 minutes

The Canadian supermodel - who fronted last year's Prada Fall campaign and is the current face of L'Oreal Paris cosmetics - has learnt so many beauty tricks during her 30-year career she only takes a few minutes to perfect her appearance.

She said: "I did my own make-up this morning and it takes 10 minutes, tops! My best trick is to do it in natural light. I keep all my make-up on a huge mirrored tray and I just take it to whatever window is looking good that day."

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