award winning shoes

We all know shoes are powerful items in our wardrobe, they can make or break an outfit, they can attract men and they can make you tumble in a heap. Shoe designers dominated the British Fashion Awards this week with designers from one end of the scale to the other, literally. Here are the people you need to know about before you head to the sales at Lane Crawford, which incidentally started today with 50% off...

Sky high and good enough to drink from

• Nicholas Kirkwood - Emerging Talent Award
• More of mantelpiece item than a something to wear on your feet, but gorgeous all the same
• Stocked in Onpedder

The It Girl favourites still reign

• Jimmy Choo - Designer Brand Award
• Her surname may be Mellon but gosh she can design cracking shoes for those party girls
• Stocked in Lane Crawford

Simple but incredibly foxy

• Rupert Sanderson - Accessory Designer Award
• He's quite a cutie and his shoes are not so super sky high that you can't walk
• Stocked in Lane Crawford

more glamour in gavin & stacey

I saw the latest Bond at the weekend and I am sorry, but a) Daniel Craig is not hot or funny b) the Bond girls outfits were rubbish and c) there was not enough romance. Daniel fails to deliver the cheesy lines we so love to hate, the lines that slipped off the tongue for Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. They are real men, dark, brooding and yet dapper all at the same time. Daniel's trousers were too short, he couldn't even rock aviators (which make even slightly ming people look attractive) and he's just a bit....how do we say it...rough. As for the Bond girls, poor old Olga's top didn't fit properly and most of her outfits were just too ordinary. Gemma was dressed in a flasher coat and some manky boots which looked like they had been through wash. As for the romance, well it's hardly surprising is it? Bond girls used to be so glam, so unreachable, so amazingly beautiful you didn't think they really existed...bring back Honor Blackman. She is a real fox! Ask Roger what he thinks, he's in HK this week, having drinks on Thursday at M at the Fringe from 5.30pm, and signing his book at Dymocks IFC on Saturday at 2.30pm.

a first for the secret stylist

Wednesday night was the first secret stylist party

Co-hosted with my new designer buddy

We sipped on champers without a care in the world
And in our glamorous outfits we twirled

We ooohed and we ahhhhhed
And accidentally flashed our bras

We posed and we pouted
Until the credit cards sprouted

We all agreed not to spend Christmas demure
By indulging in flamboyant designs from Kanchan Couture

playing dressing up

Remember when you raided your Mother's wardrobe to steal her boob tube to wear as a skirt? Or was that just me... I remember it so clearly. Now I am nearly a grown up, the closest you get to this level of excitement is dressing up for weddings. I just love it. I get so into the outfit decisions, the matchy matchy, the pedicures, the hair do. It is a great excuse to make a real effort because it's someones special day and if I were them I would want my audience to rock just as much as I did. At a recent wedding in HK I hadn't actually decided on a dressing up theme but it ended up slightly Great Gatsby, 1920's style. I think it was the headband and feathers. I do love that era, the drop waist bands, the long pearl necklaces and the divine Mary Jane shoes. The boy thought this was an attempt to echo the current economic situation and it's similarity to the Great Depression. Bless. It's nice he thinks I actually know about these things. Another fab wedding and I ended up looking like Alice in Wonderland, not really the desired effect but, hey, let's go with it. Dressing in a theme is so much fun, it's almost fancy dress but you are allowed to look hot. I love it. This week I am going do The Edge of Love, all tea dresses and cardi's. Search the Pedder Building by Shanghai Tang for great treasure trove shops. The best tea dresses are from Topshop, Whistles or vintage stores. For the best mary jane shoes head to Manolo Blahnik. I am guessing you won't attempt Alice in Wonderland.

kate moss topshop arrives

Well she's here and gosh she is pricey! Even Vogue picked up on the drama of it all. You have to take your hat off to the girl from Croydon who can now command HK$3,700 for essentially a Topshop made dress in Lane Crawford, the classiest department store in Asia. I have to admit I fell for the collection and forgot the exchange rate and all this boring credit crunch chat and purchased a tea dress, which every other blonde on Wyndham Street will probably be wearing tonight! Ha ha. Oh well, when you have been starved of Topshop for so long things start affecting your brain. I called my shopaholic friend (not to be named as her boyfriend will flip - he loves the credit crunch chat) and she said that really, when alls said and done, it is only GBP15 more per item and you would pay that in post and packaging to your mum, who would then send it out at another cost and so really its worth it. So there. Head to Pacific Place and see the collection for yourself, there are still a lot of items left (I'm dreaming of the ridiculously short black dress with beading on the neckline) and see what you think...

monsieur louboutin does not like my topshop shoes

I am clearly not a proper fashionista. I wore my slightly scratched used-to-be-cream Topshop shoes to a fetish show photography exhibition which Mr Louboutin was at on Thursday night. It was fabulous and packed with gorgeous people. I think he saw the funny side to my joke but who knows?

glamorous OAPs

It's been a while, but not long enough for me to actually become an OAP. I do love them though. Amazing wedding recently and the most glamorous OAPs you have ever seen, they did this thing on the junk called the "double swimsuit look". Basically you bring one swimsuit (and they wear swimsuits because really you should stop wearing bikinis over 50, sorry but it's true) for going in the water and then one swimsuit for getting out and posing. Isn't that fabulous? No clingy droopy costumes post swim in manky HK water, just a pristine new look and you are glammed up for the junk trip home. OAPs know these things. I also love the way they are so glam when they go shopping in Waitrose and how they wear grey and black and sometimes grey hair and then they have shots of colour bursting from jewels or bags or scarves. They really rock AND they get cheap tickets on the Star Ferry as well as getting in for only HK$10 at the Football Club pool. Lucky old them.