Celebrity redheads setting the fashion agenda

Beth Ditto has been rocking up a storm with her orange hair, worn here in a choppy bob Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Florence of Florence and the Machine is another glossy ginger trailblazer Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Elly 'La Roux' Jackson's sculpted crop is straight out of an 80s L'Oreal mousse advert Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

Singer/actor Paloma Faith rocks a rouge do Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

More leftfield fans of Girls Aloud like to claim Nicola Roberts as the real style icon of the band, not Cheryl Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features

The 'flame-haired' prefix seems to be surgically attached to Grace Coddington, the creative director on American Vogue Photograph: Matt Baron/BEI/Rex Features

Karen Elson was the first model to really 'own' the redhead look in the late 90s Photograph: Evan Agostini/Getty Images

Lily Cole followed in 2003, and now porcelain-pretty Paige Young is also set for a promising career Photograph: Geoff Caddick/EPA