Great news for Paulini in the recent PopRepublic poll for the Fashion Icon of 2006.

Ah the magic of irony! The joy of shoving it in the faces of those who believe they are the WORD in style and fashion.

Paulini has placed second in the Pop Republic's "It list" public survey asking Australian's to vote for who they thought was the fashion icon of 2006.

Yep, that's right, Australia voted her into SECOND position!! Out of all the people in the entire universe, well world at least, Paulini has rocked into the list at an awesome second place. She is behind only Mischa Barton (American star of OC and girl-buddy to Nicole Ritchie) and ahead of Australia's own Jennifer Hawkins. And this despite not fitting ANY of the stereotypes of what a hot young chicky babe is supposed to look like (eg no blonde hair/blue-eyes/skeletal body etc).

Some of you may remember last year some obscure fashion guru getting stuck into Paulini for supposedly not dressing fashionably enough. We gave them their very own feature story (read: "roasting") right here on Paulini Online – even tho no-one had ever heard of the "stylist" prior to her suddenly pronouncing judgement on Paulini.

Well perhaps our mis-guided "stylist" needs to go back to "stylist school" and take a refresher course

Of course, Paulini getting second place in the fashion stakes comes as no surprise to any of us. The only thing we might be surprised about is why she didnt get the top gong!

PS I have noticed the "sour-grapes" comments being made about Paulini's success with this nomination in some of the Young Divas fan forums and all I can say is – seriously kiddies, grow up.