Young girls play dress-up in Paris Vogue

Hollywood's latest fashion sensation - 13-year-old actress Chloë Moretz - is already facing competition from models less than half her age. Paris Vogue's December issue has hit the newsstands with an editorial spread featuring a bevy of little girls who look barely old enough to write their age in double digits.

The 15-page feature about Christmas gifts, ' Cadeaux ', shows the 'model-ettes' dressed up to the nine-teens, their hair styled in glamorous 'up' do's and chignons, or tumbling in curls around their shoulders; their naive attempts at a smouldering gaze disconcertingly adult and at odds with their baby-face complexions, albeit these are enhanced with blusher, lipstick and blue and green eyeshadow.

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Reclining on tiger-skins, or sprawled on beds, they wear ballgowns from top designer labels including Versace, Lanvin, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent; their necks, wrists and ears bedecked with diamonds from a host of haute jewellers such as Cartier, Boucheron, Bulgari, and Van Cleef & Arpels; their feet in pint-sized gold sandals from Balmain, or leopard-print mules with crystal spike heels by Christian Louboutin.

According to New York Magazine's website, nymag.com , the models are 'heavily made-up 6-year-olds', but the only things which look remotely as if they really belong in the little girls' wardrobes are the white singlets and vests from the French children's wear specialists, Petit Bateau, which are visible underneath Giorgio Armani and Valentino gowns, for example, or dressed-up with a satin bra from Sabbia Rosa and diamonds and emeralds from Harry Winston.

Photographed by Sharif Hamza, originally from London, and a former first assistant to Steven Klein, the feature is one of the highlights of French Vogue's Christmas issue, edited by Tom Ford, who appears on the cover, with Lara Stone, and has illustrated his 'Le Point De Vue' de Vogue (editor's note), with a shot of himself giving photographer Terry Richardson, a full-on smackeroo on the lips, and a cheery 'Merry Christmas' sign-off.

In complete contrast to the little girls, the Ford-edited issue goes to the other extreme, with a fashion spread photographed by the designer himself entitled 'Forever Love'. Here, two 'Golden Oldies', so wrinkled they clearly have never had an intimate relationship with Botox, demonstrate that you may be geriatric but you can still get it on - and you are never too old to know better.