New to the fashion circus, Isabel Lucas, the Australian actress who’s won international fame for her role in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” said she’s rapidly adjusting to the limelight. “It has been a whirlwind. I’ve had a very tight schedule,” she related. Accompanied by her law graduate sister Nina, who was also decked out in Chanel, Lucas said she’s looking forward to wearing more couture for a spread in Italian Vogue.

– wwd.com

ElleUK.com: Hollywood’s hot new face Isabel Lucas (she once starred in Home and Away as Tasha) was a special guest of Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel and sat front row with former Chanel muse Ines de la Fressange and fashion photographers Inez and Vinoodh.

The collection was quintessentially Chanel featuring tweed suits, winter coats and shift dresses, all featuring fashion’s new obsession – the exaggerated shoulder. And if you want a couture styling tip to adopt right now, make like the Chanel models and team everything from skirts suits to evening dresses with a pair of lace tights.

News.com.au: ONE glittering Paris catwalk show is not enough for competing film vixens Megan Fox and Isabel Lucas of Transformers fame.

While Fox and Cate Blanchett shared a front-row bench at Giorgio Armani Prive’s haute couture show at the Palais de Chaillot, Lucas was basking in the limelight over at French fashion powerhouse Chanel’s decadent show at the Grand Palais yesterday.

Fox and Lucas have become rivals in the babe stakes since starring in the blockbuster and yesterday Lucas claimed the advantage in the fashion stakes after revealing she’d just scored a star spot modelling couture for an upcoming shoot for Italian Vogue.

She’d also wrangled a head-to-toe Chanel S/S ’09 outfit for herself and law graduate sister Nina as they sat front row.

Vogue.co.uk: At Chanel, Patrick Demarchelier and Isabel Lucas were among the select few to see some of the most expensive clothes in the world.

MIA has come from nowhere to be Australia’s most popular girls’ name, possibly thanks to tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt and his wife Bec.

A McCrindle Research survey found traditional names dominated, but some parents chose the unusual, such as Mickayla, Jaedyn, Me-a, Thai-son, Ty’Ana and Al’Bert, the Herald Sun reports.

McCrindle looked at birth records nationally and found Jack, William and Lachlan were the most popular boys’ names registered last year. Mia, Chloe and Isabella topped the girls.

Some star-struck parents added a celebrity angle. They included: Sienna (Miller), Lily (Allen), Ruby (Rose), Imogen (Bailey), Eva (Mendes/Longoria Parker), Scarlett (Johansson), Isla (Fisher), Charli (Delaney), Keira (Knightley), Isabel (Lucas), Angelina (Jolie), Jack (Black), (Prince) William, Harrison (Ford), (Prince) Harry, Seth (Green) Ashton (Kutcher) and (Prince) Charles.

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf’s Transformers sequel has topped the 300 million dollar mark in the US.

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen shot past the milestone this week after just 14 days on release.

It means the blockbuster is the second fastest movie to top 300 million dollars, behind last summer’s Batman flick The Dark Knight, which made it in 10 days.

So far the Transformers sequel has topped 600 million dollars worldwide.

The movie about shape-shifting robots is closing in on the original flick’s worldwide total of 700 million dollars.

As reported, Isabel attended the Chanel events at Paris Fashion Week yesterday, and photos have finally popped up! Here are a few previews for you:

Just to let you know, you can now access Isabel Lucas Online via www.isabellucasonline.org and www.isabellucasonline.com, as well as the original www.isabellucasfan.org. I bought these domains late in May but have only just got them set-up to point here.

Q: What about your work with the Whaleman Foundation and Isabel Lucas? Have you kept in touch with Isabel?

HAYDEN PANETTIERE: I haven’t seen her in a while but she’s doing great.

Q: (joking) She’s in a very low budget movie that’s coming out this week.

HAYDEN PANETTIERE: (Laughs) Oh yeah. It’s called Transformers or something like that?

– From an interview with MoviesOnline.ca

As reported on our sidebar, Isabel is featured in the July issue of Australian FilmInk magazine. ‘Harry Potter’ is on the cover of this issue.

The magazine is on sale now in Australia, and you can buy the magazine directly from the FilmInk team by emailing your enquiry to dina@filmink.com.au.

Thank you so much to Mariana and Dov for this.

It’s a vampire movie, the lead character is named Edward and it arrives in theaters this winter. Um no, not that one. But hey Twilighters… maybe we should keep an eye on this “Daybreakers” movie too, don’t ya think?

Starring Ethan Hawke (as Edward), Willem Dafoe, Sam Neil and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” breakout Isabel Lucas, “Daybreakers” sounds like a less romantic, bloodier alternative to the “Twilight” craze. Lucas, an Australian native, sat down with MTV recently to spill the beans on the vampire flick’s hot new trailer, and how the flick is aiming to draw new blood out of the crowded genre.

“They’re different vampires; they’re much more classic,” she said of the difference between “Twilight” and her January film, about an Earth in 2019 where a handful of humans struggle for survival ten years after a plague turns much of the population into bloodsuckers. “95% of the population of the world is now vampires, and there are 5% of fugitive humans on the run.”

Move over, Megan Fox. Isabel Lucas is the unsung hottie of this weekend’s stupendous box-office smash, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

But the Melbourne native, 24, tells Details for its June/July issue that she’s more than just a pretty face. The actress describes herself as “quirky” and a big-time nature buff, who likes to hike in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park – she’s a fan of the “energy of the trees and air” – and spent a year of her youth in an Aboriginal community.

Then there’s that open warrant for her arrest in Japan, for her participation in an anti-whaling protest. (Even though her Transformers premiere tour will take her to Tokyo, she surmises, “It’s quite unlikely I’ll be arrested.”

While the up-and-comer seems to take life in stride, she’s already earned some fairly serious credentials. She spent two years back home on the long-running Aussie soap Home and Away and hit Transformers director Michael Bay’s radar after a recommendation from Steven Spielberg, who cast her in his WWII miniseries The Pacific.

Still, she isn’t afraid to write her own story, even if it’s all over her body: In a further quirk, she says she scribbles daily “with a word I pull out of a basket my roommate has. Just as a reminder.”