10 HOT STORIES
£49.50, M&S
YOU’VE PERFECTED YOUR punch recipe and turned your front room into a twinkling grotto. But what about the main event – your party dress ? Because it’s no mean feat to find something that’s comfortable, head-turning and priced at that sweet spot around £50 while preparing for a bash that’s going to be talked about until next Christmas.
If that feels impossible, take inspiration from the fashion set, who’ve already decided what a ‘mistletoe’ dress – one so special you are guaranteed admiring glances at the very least – looks like. To Larisa Klitsinari, communications and PR manager at De Beers, it’s a mini from Saint Laurent, which she scored on Vestiaire Collective. ‘It’s heavy silk with long sleeves and a deep V-cut all the way to the waist. From behind it looks like any little black dress but, when you turn, the effect is immediate,’ she says, adding , ‘Every time I wear it something fun and unexpected happens and that feeling never gets old.’ A mistletoe dress means different things to different people but, according to Dua Lipa, Maya Jama, Taylor Swift and Demi Moore, your best bet for a 2023 spin is something silver.
M&S has a dress that ticks all the boxes: it’s a) high-necked, long-sleeved and has a midi length that will look great with sheer tights, b) silver, and c) clocks in at £49.50. Ding, ding, ding! In fact, when M&S posted a reel on social media featuring the silver scene-stealer, sales rocketed by 100%. ‘We’re thrilled with the reaction to the dress, worn by Zawe Ashton in our Christmas ad,’ says Lisa Illis, M&S’s head of design. ‘Metallics are per
