Kate Moss for Christmas

Kate Moss' hotly-awaited Christmas collection for Topshop was unveiled at a celebrity party in London this week, plus a rather fabulous and seventies-influenced fringe, which we salute.

This season saw affordable cashmere and trademark flippy floral dresses, cut boxily across the shoulders, for a flattering, puffed-sleeved answer to body-con. Wearable and elegant wide-legged trousers were a welcome return to post-smock chic albeit nothing new, the matching tweed waistcoat turned up on Ebay for three times the recommended retail price and skinny rib-bearing vest tops was spotted all over late summer London.

Although her new perfume - available exclusively at... Superdrug, when frankly we were expecting Selfridges - may have made small ripples rather than big splash, La Moss hit the fashion nail squarely on the head once again with the latest offering from her design team, which includes Brit uber-stylist, Katy England.

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For Christmas, long and slinky is key, with floor-length gowns, shimmery mini dresses and trousers in luxe-look fabrics,and colour is muted and flattering on winter skin. The purdy hair is optional, but tempting after shaggy boho locks. Take a look and make your wishlist before it hits stores on October 25th and let the party season begin.

Material Girls

Eyeing up nice things the other day I wondered into H&M and found myself in front of the collection 'designed' by Madonna, after deliberately avoiding it since its launch. With what looked like a music promo playing on a wide screen above my head, specially-designed tags and attendant prices, it had all the ingredients of a Stella McCartney/Viktor & Rolf-style H&M fashion happening and I fully expected to see the same stark, empty donkey rails and piles of the collection's less wearable pieces trampled underfoot.

But no, it was all still there, hanging neatly.

On closer inspection it was clear to see why, the fabric was of the sort of quality you'd expect to see on a market stall which meant that the clothes didn't even look good on the hanger. Thin, plasticky pleather made a black zipped dress look like a binbag and unlined cream trousers meant that VPL would be more Courtney Love then Dita von Teese. Ever one to jump on the bandwagon, it looks like Madonna has barely covered her tracks on this one. Will Kate Moss' designers show the same disdain for her customers in her collection for Topshop? Let's hope not.