A weekend of kinky boots, lingerie and general fetishwear is promised at Olympia in London's first ever show of Erotica

Shops are springing up all the time. Here are just a few that have opened their doors in the past week, and a preview of some which launch next week

It was a risky - not to say risque - decision to open a shop selling naughty undies, but it worked for Joe Corre and Serena Rees. And Agent Provocateur has proved so popular, says Melanie Rickey, that a new store is about to open in Knightsbridge. A little more sophisticated, maybe. But just as saucy.

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1. Swiss girls seem to have no trouble pulling - could it be their underwear? White Swiss-style lattice underwired bra, pounds 12, by Marks and Spencer, 458 Oxford St, London W1 and branches nationwide, enquiries 0171- 935 4422.

Everyone knows this trick: your boss is giving you an earful, so you picture him in his smalls. Strip away pinstriped authority, says Belinda Morris, and imagine the wanton within

I can't go to the movies, or read a book, or open the New York Times without becoming depressed (the only cheering news was Labour's recent, much-awaited victory - I am amazed at how it quickened my blood, and I'm not even British). I find it depressing to get depressed. That's why I left Toronto for California. It's harder to be depressed when the sun shines every day and I can walk my three dogs by the ocean and in the mountains.

The bikini had its first outing of the summer last week at the balmy Sanctuary health club in London's Covent Garden. Glamorous models, including the voluptuous Sophie Dahl (pictured), donned the sheerest, sexy two-piece numbers to celebrate the launch of Agent Provocateur's new capsule range of bikinis. The models pole-danced and writhed on beds; one danced with an eight-foot python while another frolicked with a baby leopard.

Where would fashion designers be without Blade Runner, with its mix of old and new Japanese imagery, hard, glossy make-up and replicant punks? In fashion, as in film, the future looks Oriental, be it a cheongsam from Chinatown, or Imperial Blue lacquered nails. Styling by Sophia Neophitou. Photographs by Sandro Sodano

The orgasm stuff. This orgasm-in-a-bottle business. We have to come to terms with the fact that, thanks to modern science, women can now go out and buy something which, when washed down with a glass of soothing water, will make them yowl like Siamese cats then roll over with that placid smile on their faces, the one which they wear just before they say: "What? What are you looking at? Oh no. Forget it. Have you any idea what time it is?"

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