Frustrated … Miranda Kerr is definitely NOT engaged / AP file

BIKINI beauty Miranda Kerr won’t be walking down the aisle any time soon.

The Aussie model has denied weekend reports she would wed her boyfriend, actor Orlando Bloom, next year and had been in Venice last week celebrating their engagement.

The Victoria’s Secret beauty was in the Italian city to shoot David Jones’s autumn/winter campaign.

The engagement news has sent gossip websites into overdrive for the past 24 hours, leaving Kerr’s agent, Carlii Lyon, to set the record straight yesterday.

“Miranda herself has clearly stated she is not engaged,” Lyon said. “There is nothing else to be said.”

The A-listers - dubbed Kerr-Bloom - live together in New York and began dating more than a year ago.

They have been the subject of persistent wedding rumours.

Kerr, 25, last week revealed she gets frustrated at being constantly asked about her superstar beau.

“Everyone asks me to talk about him and they get really annoyed with me when I say no,” she said.

“But if you want to know about him, why don’t you go and ask him? I’m sorry, but that’s just how it is.”

While her modelling career is soaring, Kerr is looking to life beyond the catwalk.

She will bring out a self-help book for young girls, Treasure Yourself, next year.

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Obama’s bold wardrobe choices have tapped into a yearning among style writers for the bygone days of Jackie’s youthful elegance. The New York Post has already christened the Obama White House “Bamelot,” playing on the Kennedys’ “Camelot” mythology. But aside from youth, beauty and little kids running around—plus that prominent “O”—what exactly do the two have in common? Next to nothing. “There seems to be this moving train that simply insists that Mrs. Obama is the new Mrs. Kennedy,” says Carl Anthony, historian for the National First Ladies’ Library, who has been fielding calls from reporters eager to connect the dots. But Anthony thinks they’re worlds apart.

Start with biography. Michelle Obama grew up working-class. Kennedy was a child of privilege, a skilled equestrian and avid foxhunter. Although both women had first-rate educations, Obama will be only the third First Lady with a master’s degree, after Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. And while Jackie had to give up a promising writing career when she married the then Sen. John F. Kennedy, Michelle met her husband at the law firm where they both worked—and where he was her subordinate. Anthony says it’s peculiar that journalists are “going back half a century” to find a comparison for Obama when Clinton seems more apt—and galling that Michelle could be known primarily for her attire, “as if she were a mannequin.”

But even the fashion comparison falls short. Kennedy was the epitome of 1960s haute couture. Her style was aspirational, unattainable. Obama is more of a fashion populist. It’s hard to imagine Kennedy, in her pillbox hat and leopard-skin coat, dishing about shopping at J.Crew.

Obama has pledged to focus on complex social issues, such as support for military families, once she gets to the White House. Still, most of her recent headlines have been about her clothes, such as the mixed reviews she drew for her election-night Narciso Rodriguez number. Historians say they hope it’s a passing phase—that the public will eventually focus on Obama’s serious contributions to the country instead of the fierce urgency of her fashion.

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“We’re clearly having a moment,” Padma admits, and recalls that when she began modeling, people “were so unfamiliar with Indian faces that they didn’t know if I was mixed, or Brazilian or Indonesian or maybe Hawaiian… Many times, they would book me when they were looking for someone quote-unquote exotic.” Whereas now, brands realize that with America and Europe broke, their burgeoning numbers of “exotic” customers in Asia and the Middle East will be keeping them afloat.

But not everyone’s so thrilled with this this sudden labeling of an entire nationality as fashionable. Says an irritated Simon Doonan: “We’re talking about a country where women wear pink saris and jewels just to do ordinary tasks. It seems like a no-brainer to me. I can’t believe people are touting it as a new thing. Style and India are inseparable. Go to an Indian wedding, hello.”

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Michelle Obama: first lady, mom-in-chief, savior of the fashion industry? The folks who work in fashion are hoping that the stylish future first lady inspires women to keep on buying, even as consumer spending shrinks. (Getty Images/AP Photo/Reuters)
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The flagging fashion industry, for one, is hoping that the future first lady will inspire women to keep on buying despite the dour economy.

“We’re all obviously trying to look at the silver lining,” designer Norma Kamali told ABCNews.com. “Where do we look for hope, an opportunity to create good feelings for the customer? There is real hope with Michelle Obama. I think she can keep women interested in purchasing.”

Obama’s name surfaced at a recent meeting of The Fashion Group International, a professional organization for members of the fashion industry. The topic of discussion was the economy, and one member wondered aloud whether Obama could bolster the industry during the current economic downturn.

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