Elle dazzles with surprise turn on Paris catwalk

Elle Macpherson, 46, has dazzled with a return to the Paris catwalk.

The supermodel turned entrepreneur joined her fellow Australians Catherine McNeil and Julia Nobis at the Louis Vuitton Autumn show at Paris Fashion Week.

The event has been brimming with buzz since Lindsay Lohan's no-show at the Ungaro showing and the McCartney family turnout to Stella's stunning fall show.

Australian models, meanwhile, are eating up magazine covers and catwalks with a bold new presence. Fashion scribes claim the Australians are being chosen for their curves.

Macpherson's sashay has been met with excitement. The Australian Associated Press writes: "By jettisoning Macpherson – famously dubbed The Body since her megastar modelling days of the 1980s – into the closing day of Paris Fashion Week, Vuitton has scored a major coup for a season of runway surprises."