The preppy-style Tillie is our dream purchase. Designer Emma Hill is on to a good thing. Popular models are given a very English makeover; the Tillie is quilted, the Bayswater comes in ponyskin and, like the diamond-quilted Alexa, comes with fox-head hardware.

3 Sergio Rossi

Pretty frills twist and turn like Calla lily petals around stamen- like heels, while Lalique-style enamel butterflies alight on your ankle - Sergio Rossi in couture mode.

4 Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld

Leather and hi-tech materials employed in ultra-light jackets, bombers and bags with geometric quilting - futuristic footwear featured streamlined trainers and a high-heeled Oxford.

5 Bulgari

The signature Serpente design, a snake's head with malachite eyes from its 60s archives, now rears its head as a clasp on new exotic skin bags, slithering its way around waists and wrist as belts and bracelets.

6 Bally

They might have ice-pick heels but we don't suggest climbing in Bally's new lug-soled mountain boots, made in shearling, or leather with ski fasteners, and matching Pina bag.

Other brands that stood out included Roger Vivier, whose Uptown-Downtown collection has a nocturnal 80s vibe with plenty of bling. The bad-penny loafer is punk inspired, the Palace heel is regal and the Metro Pour-Tout bag comes in silvery marmot. Fratelli Rossetti, inspired by the enchanting Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe fairy tale, retells the story in illustrations by artist Rebecca Moses, in new tasselled loafers, lace-ups, lattice-cuffed booties, Chelsea boots and ballerinas set in cities from New York to Beijing.