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We're a nation of nail-bar habitués thanks to recent talon trends – googly eyes, contrasting tips, matte effects and appliqué doo-dads have been all the rage.

Victoria Beckham's handbag designer, Katie Hillier, is to launch her own high-end jeweller tomorrow to coincide with London Fashion Week and St Valentine's Day.

Department store chain Debenhams today said it had maintained sales and profit growth through the cold snap and a "challenging" trading backdrop.

What are you wearing right now?

Right now, I'm in some Topman skinny chinos, a Levi's flannel shirt, a pair of Raf Simons high-top trainers and my very own House of Holland KMT T-shirt.

There's a general consensus that opting for a sexy Halloween outfit is bad form. Dressing up as a Playboy cat or a 'Witches of Eastwick'-type sorceress rather than your more traditional green-faced cackling version is cheating. If you want respect, get gluing those Rice Krispie warts on now, or for the more artistic out there, try the ghoulish looks demonstrated by Mac on YouTube.

Nicky Haslam says Beth Ditto isn't beautiful, just fat. "Parties" wouldn't dream of wading into such a spat, but we can report that the Gossip girl was operating on Gas Mark 8 at the Royal Academy of Arts' summer exhibition party last week, first to shimmy up the blue carpet and last to leave, belting out her songs on a specially erected stage as the well-refreshed throng tripped into the night.

Springtime: chicks are hatching, lambs are gambolling and the fashion set are shag-tastic. No, not in the way you may think. We're talking shaggy coats, darling – whether crinkly sheep, long-haired goat or full-on fur, it's set to be the cognoscenti's outerwear of choice.

Of course they did it for the art, but the £13.5m expansion of the Whitechapel Gallery has made it an ideal venue for a party, too. Art-world movers and shakers did what they do best at last week's opening night, snaking up and down and in and out of the labyrinth of white-washed studios and spaces created from knocking through into a disused library next door.