Bill Oddie's daughter Rosie goes wild for fashion By SIMON CABLE

Last updated at 22:36pm on 11th April 2008

With his binoculars and combat trousers, Bill Oddie wouldn't class himself as a style icon.

But when it comes to fashion, thankfully his daughter Rosie couldn't be more different from her father.

The 22-year-old was this week voted one of the five most original dressers in Britain by American fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

And as she took to the stage to perform with her band the Odd Squad at the Sony Walkman launch party last night, she showed just why she deserved the accolade.

Dressed in a fur hat, ripped tights, and virtually non-existent denim shorts, the singer certainly seemed to discard the conventional style book.

And her striking appearance went down well with the crowd who cheered the band as they performed in east London.

The singer was sharing the bill with Razorlight bad boy Johnny Borrell, who stepped in at the last moment when Pete Doherty was forced to cancel after being jailed on Tuesday.


She was accompanied by her boyfriend, 22-year-old Johnny Lloyd, frontman of rock band Operahouse.


And she insisted that her father is supportive of her career as a budding musician.


"He's incredibly proud of what I'm doing at the moment," she said. "He has never been anything but totally supportive of what I'm doing.


"He likes the music and has come to see me play a few times. He knows that I love what I'm doing with the band."


Having been signed up by a small independent record label last year after winning a songwriting competition, she has already released her first single called Genni's Song with another coming out in may.


Miss Oddie has been touring London's pub and club circuit since she first announced herself at the O2 Wireless Festival last year.


She is also set to play Bestival and the O2 Festival again this year.

She has admitted in the past that having a famous father has given her an advantage when it comes to her music, although she insists that has the determination to make it on her own merit too.

Already her music is being described as a cross between Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, although Rosie insists that she is any comparisons are wide of the mark.

"It's only because we are young girls from north London and the two of us have got famous fathers," she says.

"Lily Allen was known as 'Keith Allen's daughter' for only three months and now she is just Lily Allen. Soon they'll be writing that Bill Oddie is better known as Rosie Oddie's dad.

"I've always known I've got a famous dad because people constantly recognise him, but it never crossed my mind to change my name.

"Dad has suggested I should, and so have a few other people, but I'm proud of my name."

Of her eye-catching attire she simply says: "When I set out to craft my appearance I'm basically thinking about David Bowie and glam-rock. I don't like complicated dress senses.

"I'm much more about keeping things simple and then glamming up using glitter and face-paint."