Let’s start at the top with those banana earrings – not an obvious designer accessory but then that’s Miuccia Prada all over (and they’ll be on sale in 2011 by the way). Then there’s that star-emblazoned glam rock leather jacket teamed with a midi-length Bacofoil silver pleated skirt. By the time you get to the rampy platform pumps, aren’t you just exhausted by the feeling of true fashion love? Mrs P, we salute you. Photograph: Richard Young/Rex Features
Expect a few “get you fancy pants” comments should you start pottering around the manor in a pair of velvet slippers, such as these fine Church’s specimens. Boasting a regal crown on their front, one wonders if HRH Prince of Charles wears similar attire on Christmas morning? Hope so. In any case, The Briefing is itching to get a pair on. The perfect sartorial accompaniment to the Glee Christmas album and some brussels.
£100, church-footwear.com Photograph: PR
Feast your eyes, good people, upon M.Missoni, an offshoot of the mainline label. With an air of the 1970s about it – one of next season’s big narratives, incidentally – this outfit, taken from the pre-spring 2011 collection, boasts signature knits and a pair of wonderfully on-trend slacks. Elsewhere in this range, expect colour-block dresses, lashings of zigzag and wallops of yellow. It’s filtering into stores now, while lookalikey knitwear will be on the high street early next year. Marv.
From £168, my-wardrobe.com Photograph: rands2/PR
This J Crew dress has much going for it. It features an on-trend lace trim, it’s not hideously expensive, and it can be styled with a simple tux jacket or blazer for a spot of Stella McCartney catwalk channelling. Important net-a-porter delivery information: order by noon on 21 December for pre-Christmas delivery or before 28 Decemberfor pre-NYE.
£120, net-a-porter.com Photograph: PR
If you’re a forward-thinking person, then your Christmas outfits will have already been selected, steamed, hung in a day-to-night order (with accessories) and stored in a temperature-controlled closet. If not, then you’ll still be in the business for some last-minute decoration. This Acne ring offers a brilliant bolt of colour, which will nicely offset any festive ensemble, plus it has next season written all over it. Ahead. Of. The. Curve. Actually.
£45, brownsfashion.com Photograph: PR
