Coloured Tights legs will be bold this Autumn

Give Autumn's more muted colour palette a new lease of life with bright opaques,The vibrant blur limbs at Balenciaga are a perfect example.

Legs were loud and proud at Somia Rykiel ,while pucci created Sleek outlines with simple shifts ,lollipop shades and stacked heels.

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What to save and splurge on

Get cheap and cheerful when buying Winter Jewellery.wether it's colourful bangles,chunky or wooden ethnic-style necklaces or simple chains,buy lots and pile them up.

We recommend Mezzola's stacked bangles available in gold or silver at £35.00

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How to be a good houseguest

Be generous.
especially when you're invited to visit a friend for a holiday,load up with treats for your hosts -bottles of wine,delicious deli foods ,board games ,new DVDs.
Remember ,you're not paying for a hotel ,so go to town.
Don't take uninvited extra people or pets,unless they've been specially requested by your hosts.
Offer to contribute some sort of skill,offer to cook supper a few times .
Know when to leave,don't outstay your welcome
Send a thank-you gift that shows you care.

Think Purple

Last winter it was orange,this winter it's purple-things are really looking up.
There's a really wearable colour grabbing pole position in the fashion world.
Purple is just one of those colours that is easy to love.For it to look it's best you need to try to buy the best fabrics you can afford-silk ,velvet,heavy satin for instance.
It 's both grand and reassuring and while red demands that you feel on top form when venturing out in it,purple allows you to be in a much more under -the radar mood.
A rich purple does wonders for the skin-it doesn't reflect colour onto it but contrasts flatteringlywith pallor and looks beautiful on dark skins.
Purple is the ideal colour for the evening,you will stand out among the predictable sea of black and looks delightfully chic.

Private Fashion Shows-Paris

Since the beginning of the modern fashion industry, it has been a tradition for most of the elite fashion designers to have private showrooms at elegant addresses and settings around the world, such as Avenue Montaigne in Paris and Fifth Avenue in New York. These showrooms were used mainly to display the new haute-couture and prêt-à-porter collections to buyers from the most prestigious retail establishments. VIP customers also had the privilege of discovering the collections at these exclusive settings. Today this tradition remains, with showrooms such as the private haute couture salon of Christian Dior at its boutique on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, where Dior's Director of VIP Clients shows the new collections that graced the Paris runways to selected individuals or groups.

Paris Fashion Week

Travelling to the 19th arondismont for a sneak preview of Paris' new contemporary art centre Le 104 Cent Quatre was a bit of a treat for us and a coup for McQueen who secured it as his show venue. He added stuffed wild animals and a giant representation of the globe, projected with moving images of the sun and the moon, as the backdrop. Beneath his signature sculpted tailoring, with a tiny torso enhanced by exaggerated fold and tucks in the cloth, second skin pants, and towering shoes with shards of crystal for their heels, McQueen was making a statement about man and his conquering of the natural world, and in particular the industrial revolution, the Victorian Era and Charles Darwin. Nature featured, with light embroideries of meadow scenes over flesh-like net, faux wood prints like dŽcor from Meisen porcelain and 'specimen jar' dresses, with silk flowers trapped below a fine gauze, a transparency theme he began in Milan with his menswear. Then there was man's assault on nature, with acid colours and prints of crushed crystal, and Eiffel tower prints that through McQueen's scissor-sharp cuts appeared to have passed through a kaleidoscope.

Treats for girls

• Treat yourself to the book of the season One Fifth Avenue -Candice Bushell


• Bally Since 1851 -Moreno Gentill ,a slick coffee table book stuffed with archive illustrations and snaps of footwear dating back to Bally's humble beginnings when local cobblers produced the shoes


• Diptyque Fragrance in Fig ,we are loving it


• Charbonnel et Walker's pink champagne truffles


• Escape with your girlfriends to Castle Cottage,b&b,Sussex .Doubles from £100 - enq-01798 865001


• Hot almond milk at Hotel Costes,Paris


• Fortnum & Mason's 1707 Wine bar-181,Piccadily,London W1


• You must read Breakfast at the Wolseley-AA Gill-Check out the Cannele Bordelaise,a pastry covered in honey

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