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By Danielle Radojcin

Not since the teenager emerged in the \'50s to rock around the clock has there been an adolescent phenomenon quite like this. The upshot of a broadband-connected sub-culture obsessed with Facebook, Beebo and online fashion forums (such as handbag.com\'s), trend-conscious adolescents around the globe are becoming a force to be reckoned with. Spearheaded by It-Girl Peaches Geldof in the UK, whose idiosyncratic style gets the paps heated up wherever she goes, and reflected in the US by Jay-Z protegée Rihanna, who topped the charts with the anthemic \'Umbrella\', youngsters everywhere are proving that they are where the money is right now.

Over the next few frames, we celebrate the kids who are making a style splash - online and off

Peaches Geldof

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Photographed wherever she goes, Peaches\' ubiquity on the party circuit sometimes threatens to hide the fact that she is, in fact, a very hardworking and talented girl. As well as writing and presenting her own TV show in 2005 (the aptly named \'Peaches Geldof: Teenage Mind\'), the 18-year-old also writes for \'The Daily Telegraph\', and even acted as a guest reporter on \'Tonight with Trevor McDonald\'. As if all this wasn\'t enough, she is becoming a style icon in her own right, noted for her suitably exuberant get-ups, always worn with a heavy dose of teenage nonchalance

Rihanna

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Already a successful pop star with a several hits under her belt - notably 2005\'s \'Pon de Replay\' - and now managed by Jay-Z\'s Def Jam, the 19-year-old former beauty-pageant winner - who was discovered at the age of 15 in her native Barbados - has come a long way in an extremely short space of time. Now, with three albums under her belt, including this year\'s \'Good Girl Gone Bad\', and endorsements with Nike and Clinique among other brands, Rihanna is set to go stratospheric (her legs were reportedly insured for a million dollars, after Gillette named her 2007 Venus Breeze \'Celebrity Legs of a Goddess\'). Style-wise, expect more bling and sexy, body-baring numbers, with designers falling over each other to dress her for her many red carpet appearances. Not bad for a \'bad\' girl

Daisy Lowe

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Daisy has the kind of fashion pedigree that can\'t help but get her noticed. Daughter of designer Pearl Lowe, 17-year-old Daisy was all over the gossip pages when it was revealed that Gavin Rossdale, aka Mr Gwen Stefani and fellow Primrose Hill resident, was her father. Still, if recent activities are anything to go by, Miss Lowe is all set to outstrip parental associations by becoming a bona fide It Girl and fashion fixture. As well as posing for Steven Klein in Italian \'Vogue\' last autumn, and currently the face of Whistles, Daisy, it has recently been announced, will take over from Kate Moss as the face of Agent Provocateur

Kristen Stewart

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Seventeen-year-old Kristen is all set for big things. With an impressive number of films to her name, including \'Panic Room\' (2002) and \'The Messengers\' (2007), the Los Angeles-based actress also stars in the upcoming romantic comedy, \'In the Land of Women\' with Adam Brody and Meg Ryan. Her hard-chinned looks have drawn comparisons with Jodie Foster (her co-star in \'Panic Room\'), and, style-wise, her tomboyish, all-American wardrobe is not a million miles away from the former child star. In line with her passion for surfing, she favours a sporty uniform of hoodies, scruffy jeans and plimsolls. Here, she attends the world premiere of \'The Cake Eaters\' at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in New York

Pixie Geldof

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Younger sister to Peaches, the equally stylish Pixie recently sported a new, gamine crop at Glastonbury festival (left), which she teamed with a black bodysuit, wellies and generous splatterings of mud. Like Peaches, she\'s regularly in the papers for her exciting fashion sense and seemingly fun-loving lifestyle

Rumer Willis

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As the eldest child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Rumer is living up to her preconceived status as a Hollywood princess. Recently all over the press for running around with Lindsay Lohan (no stranger to teen style), the 19-year-old actress - who has appeared in a number of her parents\' films, including \'Striptease\' (1996) and \'The Whole Nine Yards\' (2000) - has managed to hold her own in the style stakes, staring sulkily at the camera as befits a cool teen. Here, she was photographed out clubbing at Ritual in Los Angeles in June this year

Willa Holland

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Actress Willa Holland is similar to her former OC co-star Mischa Barton in more ways than one. Like Barton, the 16-year-old Los Angeles native got noticed through modelling - in her case, for Burberry - and, also like Barton, is possessed of preternaturally pretty features, as well as a nose for style. Here, she is photographed sitting front row at the Spring 2007 show for Nanette Lepore

Zoe Kravitz

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Daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, 18-year-old Zoe is a New York It Girl and fashion favourite. She\'s been papped with Dad (having Mr Kravitz on your arm can\'t hurt your fashion cred) at several fashionable events (including the Spring/Summer 2007 Marc by Marc Jacobs show, where she sat centre front row) displaying her knack for putting together a great outfit. An actress, she will appear in two films later this year: the romantic drama \'No Reservations\' and Jodie Foster\'s latest, \'The Brave One\'. Here, she was snapped at a screening of \'All the King\'s Men\' at the Tribeca Cinemas in September 2006 in New York

Shane Lynch

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Daughter of actress Kelly Lynch (of \'Drugstore Cowboy\' fame) and screenwriter Mitch Glazer, Shane is your genuine Hollywood teen, who, although still a student, has already been photographed at various fashion events, and struck up a friendship with new Gap designer Patrick Robinson. Here, she was snapped at a lunch hosted by her mum and DJ Lisa Love in honour of James Ferragamo, the women\'s leather product director for Salvatore Ferragamo

Chanel Iman

celebrity style,model Chanel Iman

 

 

Hailing from Atlanta, 16-year-old Chanel has fashion in her blood. As well as having a name that crosses the high priestess of fashion with one of the most successful models ever, she is being hotly tipped as a supermodel-in-waiting. Already an habitué of New York fashion week, she was named one of the 10 models most likely to become household names in a recent issue of US \'Vogue\'. Expect to see her face all over upcoming fashion editorials. Here, she was photographed at a Cover Girl party earlier this year

Gabriella Calthorpe

Topshop,model Gabriella Calthorpe

 

 

If Naomi Campbell thinks you have what it takes to be a model, you sit up and take notice. As legend has it, the supermodel met Gabriella at a dinner party hosted by the late Isabella Blow, and was so taken with the socialite\'s pretty features, she wasted no time in referring her to the Premier agency. Before long, the 16-year-old was snapped up to star in campaigns for TopShop and LK Bennett

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