It wasn’t the models but a Hollywood mother and daughter duo who stole the show on Wednesday at Balenciaga’s Paris Couture Week presentation.

Demi Moore, 63, and Tallulah Willis, her daughter with Bruce Willis, posed hand in hand in the designer’s creations in the French capital, where they had front-row seats to see Pierpaolo Piccioli’s autumn collection.

The Indecent Proposal star wore a black fishtail puffball skirt with a matching oversized black shirt and bold green pointed heels.

Her actress daughter, 32, chose a chartreuse skirt so tent-like that it created its own shade in the 31C heat, teamed with a cool oversized white T-shirt. 

Wicked actress Cynthia Erivo, 39, was also among the celebrity attendees and likewise chose an outfit with reams of fabric in spite of the sticky temperatures.

She wore a fishtail puffball skirt similar to Moore’s but as part of a caramel-hued dress, with a sequin bodice and coordinating suede bomber jacket artfully worn off the shoulder.

Emily In Paris star Lily Collins, 37, perhaps sensibly chose a black strapless minidress, paired with all-black accessories including dramatic opera gloves.

She was spotted posing with Hudson Williams, 25, star of Heated Rivalry, a TV show about a forbidden romance between rival male ice hockey players. 

Demi Moore wore a black fishtail puffball skirt with a matching oversized black shirt and bold green pointed heels, while her actress daughter chose a chartreuse skirt with an oversized white T-shirt

Wicked actress Cynthia Erivo was also among the celebrity attendees and likewise chose an outfit with reams of fabric in spite of the sticky temperatures

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Emily In Paris star Lily Collins chose a black strapless minidress, paired with all-black accessories including dramatic opera gloves

A model walked down the runway in a frothy pink cascade of a feathery dress at the Balenciaga fashion show as part of Paris Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026 fashion week

Williams wore a brown double-breasted suit so slouchy that the sleeves and trousers drooped over his hands and feet.

The focus on voluminous silhouettes continued on the catwalk in Piccioli’s first couture collection since taking on the role of creative director at Balenciaga last year.

One model showed off a frothy pink cascade of a feathery dress.

In another look, a black trench coat was done up completely save for the bottom few buttons, which revealed a flurry of feathers.

And model Gigi Hadid, 31, walked in a huge black feathered hooded top.

Being too tired is no longer a valid excuse to work from home, as a senior Victorian council worker found out after losing a legal battle to spend less time in the office.  

Steve Polak, 55, had already been working in the office two days a week at Macedon Ranges Shire Council in Central Victoria, but wanted to cut that down to one day for three weeks a month because he had ‘work-related fatigue’. 

The planning and building liaison officer, whose LinkedIn profile includes an impassioned defence of a healthy work-life balance, argued his commute and letting a family member borrow his car for university contributed to his fatigue. 

He also claimed his work responsibilities could all be done from the comfort of his own home, particularly with Microsoft Teams available to communicate with his colleagues. 

However, the council rejected the request, a decision later upheld by the Fair Work Commission. 

Commission deputy president Kamal Farouque said Mr Polak’s 14-year experience in the role made him a valuable asset in the office, especially when assisting younger staff.

That provided the council with ‘reasonable business grounds’ to require his in-person attendance even though he agreed Mr Polak was able to perform ‘much of his day-to-day job tasks at home’. 

‘The respondent (the council) wishes to have the applicant’s experience available to the planning team and build team connection by having him work in the office for two days a week,’ Mr Farouque said.

Being too tired is no longer a valid excuse to work from home, as a senior Victorian council worker (left) found out after losing a legal battle to be out of the office more

‘This is in circumstances where there has been significant change in the composition of the respondent’s planning team and the applicant is one of three long-serving employees within the team. 

‘For the purposes of clarity, [the council] refused the applicant’s request … on grounds that the operational needs of the statutory planning team require a regular and consistent onsite presence in order to build team engagement and strengthen in-person collaboration and that Mr Polak’s request was inconsistent with those objectives.’    

Before Mr Polak took the matter up to the tribunal, the council had given him the option to choose which days he would work from home, which he declined. 

His manager told the commission the arrangement would help Mr Polak manage the shared car issue, an argument the tribunal agreed with. 

‘Increasing team engagement and strengthening in-person collaboration are key priorities for the [council]’, a manager told the commission.

As a result of the tribunal’s ruling, Mr Polak will continue to work two days a week at the office.

In his LinkedIn profile, he says he doesn’t have time for ‘yes men’ and prioritises having a ‘work-life balance’.

‘I have little patience for yes men and people who suck up, especially when it’s contrary to good business practice or team morale,’ he wrote. 

The Fair Work Commission has ruled that companies have the right to require employees to work from the office even if they are ‘fatigued’ with it (stock image)

‘Totally believe in the work-life balance if when at work, work is the priority.

‘Rewards and recognition are a must for all business and can’t be just a statement with no substance.’

Daily Mail has contacted Mr Polak for comment.  

The ruling comes amid major changes to workplace laws in Victoria, where eligible employees have gained new protections around working from home.

From September 1, workers who can reasonably perform their duties remotely will be able to request up to two work-from-home days a week under changes to the Equal Opportunity Act.

However, employers will still be able to reject flexible work requests where there are valid business reasons for doing so.

The father of a piloting instructor who leapt to his death from a plane while giving a lesson to a 22-year-old student has said his son had been going through a ‘difficult time’.

Leandro Bertazzo, 42, flung himself from the pilot’s seat of a Cessna C-150 on July 4, after taking off from Coronel Olmedo Airport near Córdoba, central Argentina. 

He is said to have told the young student he was flying with that day: ‘You know what to do, keep moving forward.’

Bertazzo, who described himself online as a former commercial pilot in Chile, was then found dead 20 minutes later in a field in the area the woman marked out as the place he could have fallen. 

According to Eduardo Alvarez, director of flight school Flying Parrot Córdoba where Leandro had worked as an instructor for four years, Leandro’s father said his son had been going through ‘a difficult time’.

On top of this, according to Alvarez, the man’s family revealed he had attended a consultation at a psychiatric hospital the week prior to his death. 

Bertazzo’s loved ones said he was single, had no children and lived with his parents in the city of Córdoba, according to Argentinian outlet Para Ti. 

Alvarez said of his employee: ‘He was an excellent professional, always cheerful, and greatly admired by all his students.’

The 22-year-old was then forced to land the Cessna C-150 alone and unaided at Coronel Olmedo Airport, where they took off, and alerted authorities to the emergency situation

Emergency services were seen at the field where the Mr Bertazzo’s body was found

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He added that he was ‘a wonderful person, with a great smile and a clear outlook on life’.

Investigators are still looking into his death. According to his boss, Bertazzo ‘took his headphones off, arranged his belongings including his mobile phone, took his seatbelt off, opened the door which is very difficult to open and jumped out.

‘[The student pilot] sent a message informing about the situation and proceeded to return to the runway to land.’ 

He added: ‘She was very shaken, but with complete professionalism she flew the plane to the airfield and made a perfect landing. She maintained a very high level of training and professionalism.’

Earlier in the day of the incident, Mr Bertazzo had taken another student out to fly before getting into the cockpit with the 22-year-old.

He added: ‘He took this tragic decision on board a plane with a person by his side.

‘There’s no way to think about it or understand it, but the human mind is so complex, so treacherous. That’s why what happened, happened.’ 

Officials have said the circumstances surrounding the tragedy are so unusual they cannot offer any explanation for the moment as to how it could have happened.

One of the lines of inquiry investigators are thought to be studying is whether the incident may have been the result of a mechanical failure related to a hatch or one of the aircraft’s safety systems.

They are checking the plane’s and flight school’s documentation and analysing communications maintained while the plane was in the air before the instructor fell out of it.

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An Italian man who left an injured ‘illegal’ Indian worker to die on the side of a road with his severed arm in a box following a farm incident has been jailed for 16 years. 

In June 2024, Satnam Singh, a 31-year-old undocumented worker, had his arm torn off and legs crushed by a machine in the town of Borgo Santa Maria.

But instead of taking him to the hospital, his employer, Antonello Lovato, abandoned him and his wife on the side of a road, with the severed limb in a box, according to the unions supporting the victim’s widow.

Singh succumbed to his injuries two days later at the San Camillo di Roma hospital. 

At the opening of the trial in 2025, Lovato claimed to have ‘lost his head’ when he saw Singh bleeding out. He added: ‘I wasn’t myself. I didn’t want him to die.’

Prosecutors had asked for a 22-year prison sentence for the 39-year-old farmer, who was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter with eventual intent. 

The drama received wide media coverage in Italy and sparked a debate about work conditions for undocumented workers on the country’s farms. 

The announcement of the verdict was covered live on television.

Antonello Lovato (pictured) abandoned the man and his wife on the side of a road, with the severed limb in a box

Thousands of Indian farm workers had demonstrated in Latina, a rural area south of Rome, to demand justice and an end to ‘slavery’ in Italy.

If Singh, who died of severe haemorrhaging, had been rescued quickly, ‘he would very likely have been saved’, the Latina public prosecutor’s office said, citing the forensic report.

Italian unions, upon the trial’s commencement, denounced the country’s farming industry’s practice of employing illegal migrants who are often more vulnerable than most. 

They decried the system of abuse and exploitation, known in Italy as ‘caporalato.’

Maurizio Landini, the secretary-general of the powerful CGIL trade union federation, said in 2025 at the start of the trial: ‘As is the logic of exploitation known as “caporalato,” which allows for people to be treated like merchandise, like parts of a machine that can be easily bought and sold for the lowest price. 

‘And I insist that it is this culture that needs to be changed.’

Landini said that while Lovato’s trial was important, more work was needed to change the practice of abuse: ‘We think it is important to seek justice, above all to put in motion everything necessary to change the way of doing business so episodes like this can never be repeated. 

‘We don’t think this is an isolated case. It is a mistake to think this problem can be resolved with this trial.’