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Her fifth Baby K range has been selling like hot cakes. The autumn/winter collection features tunic dresses embellished with enormous flowers, harem pants and puffball coats, stripey jumpers and smart blazers. Everything a style-savvy preschooler (or their parent) could desire. Myleene plays a big role in developing the collection, from sketching out designs, to travelling to New York and Hong Kong to source fabrics. “I know a lot of people probably think I just stamp my name on the clothes, but that’s not true,” she says, a tad defensively. “It’s a real labour of love.” You get the impression that Myleene is a bit of a grafter. At age four, she started learning the piano and the violin. “I loved doing my practice. I did go through a stage when I was about 12 when I wanted to hang out with my mates instead of doing my scales. My dad was like,
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