In an unexpected turn of events, the most fabulous outfits waiting to be worn this Christmas day would not look out of place on the cover of Tatler — circa December 1986.
Indeed, mink shawls (Granny’s, from the Eighties) and taffeta ball gowns are go. The decade has succeeded in gripping popular culture by its fuchsia hemline — from the return of Rupert-Campbell Black and the whole Rivals entourage, through to Alessandro Michele’s new vision of Valentino which, during his debut catwalk show in Paris this September, showed a handful of gowns torn straight out of Jilly Cooper’s playbook. You can’t miss the mood which has been stamped on Oxford Street: his designs currently line the windows of Selfridges.
