Update

This year, we have teamed up with John Lewis, and will be bringing you an incredible roster of top brands offering fabulous bargains — Whistles, LK Bennett, Topshop, Hobbs, Liberty London, Kurt Geiger, Jigsaw and more. You can also enter the draw to win a two-night stay at the Savoy, as well as tickets to London’s most glamorous ice rink, Skate at Somerset House, with a post-skate glass of Fortnum & Mason champagne and chocolate truffles in Fortnum’s Lodge. We’ll also have a raffle packed with exclusive prizes.

Of course, there’s no point snapping up snazzy outfits when you have a dodgy ’do, so Aer Blowdry Bar will be on hand, as will Bobbi Brown make-up artists and Juku Nails. Plus there will be champagne and cupcakes to refresh you.

Here at Style, we believe in the power of a good outfit. So does Smart Works. The charity aims to build the confidence of women trying to re-enter the workplace after suffering abuse, addiction, homelessness or low self-esteem. Each client is dressed for interview in clothes donated by top retailers, and an average of 58% secure jobs. There were more than 2,000 appointments held across its two London offices in 2014, and the charity has just opened branches in Edinburgh and Manchester. With our support, Smart Works aims to dress and train 10,000 women for interviews in the next three years. You can help — by shopping.

Get your tickets
The Sunday Times Style Big Fashion Sale with Smart Works, Somerset House, London WC2, on October 31. Tickets cost £15 from ticketmaster.co.uk/Times-Style. Tickets are limited and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis

Words: Marie-Claire Chappet

Beauty

Blue crush

Clockwise from top left: Missoni; Make Up For Ever Artist Shadow in Night Blue, £13; debenhams.com; Mary Katrantzou; Diane von Furstenberg; Chanel; Jonathan Saunders; Dries Van Noten

Sea, royal, navy or peacock: from mascara and liner to all-over shadow, blue appeared on eyelids in all four cities in the recent run of fashion weeks. And guess what? It suits you. “Don’t think fashion show,” says the make-up artist Lucia Pieroni, who was responsible for the wraparound blue liner slicks at Jonathan Saunders. “To make it chic rather than wacky, go for dark blue on lashes, or experiment with metallic textures on lids.” Whatever you do, make sure it’s blue.

Back to Beauty School

This week: the must-have hairbrush

The lowdown The GHD ceramic vented radial brush (from £15) has a hollow ceramic cylinder with large holes to speed up drying time. Plus, the short, strong bristles provide extra grip and help with control.

How to blow-dry with a round brush Place your brush under a section of hair. Apply heat from above and roll down, away from your head, making sure you cover from root to tip.

Instabeauty

The Korean beauty experts @glowrecipe

USP The founders Sarah and Christine are keeping us in the know on all Korean beauty news. Here, they are trying rubber face masks, which, apparently, go the extra mile in calming and hydrating.

Anything you’d like to learn about? Tweet us @TheSTStyle or contact us on Facebook

Words: Sarah Jossel

Party

Sea and be seen

Clockwise from top left: Sexy Fish mermaids at the restaurant’s launch party; Rita Ora and Kate Moss; Goldie Hawn; Tracey Emin; Matthew Williamson; Lindsay Lohan and Immy Waterhouse

Rita Ora is no stranger to these pages, but her arrival at Sexy Fish — the unfortunately named but fabulous new £15m restaurant in Mayfair, London — hand in hand with Kate Moss cemented her place in our firmament. She took to the stage for a few opening numbers, before handing over to a band of crustaceans — crabs and lobsters (yes, the marine theme was as subtle as a starfish) — who then broke out into Under the Sea.

Continuing the theme were Baywatch hunks in nothing but trunks and goggles (who Mossy was all over) and Goldie Hawn, who had gone, um, overboard. “It’s such a small world here,” she told us as we helped her sneak out of the party at 11pm. “I’m having the best time and it’s so great seeing everyone, but I really want to go to bed now. Shhh, don’t tell anyone.” Oops.

It was then on to Chiltern Firehouse with Kate, Annabel Nielson et al, where one of our number was last seen leaving at 3am. Ouch.

Smelt
Poppers pumped through the air conditioning at the underground Paris sex club Le Dépôt for the French label Vetements’s fashion week party. Ooh, matron

Country pursuits

From left: Suki Waterhouse, Immy Waterhouse and Georgia May Jagger; Sigail Currie; Atlanta de Cadenet

On to celebrations with Ugg for its annual great escape. This year, it was all down to the recently opened Soho Farmhouse, with Suki and Immy Waterhouse and Georgia May Jagger. Fancy a model life? Not much. Suki had to get a car back to London at 3am, straight from enjoying a DJ battle between Atlanta de Cadenet and Joséphine de La Baume, in time for a gig in Paris. Georgia, on the other hand, proved something of a homebody, promising to make us a shepherd’s pie if we were to pop round for dinner. That’s our girl.

No pictures!

Christian Louboutin

All aboard the 4.20pm to Manchester with Christian Louboutin, who was heading up north for a shoe signing to open his new boutique in Selfridges. We took the opportunity to ask his thoughts on selfies: “I have an allergy to them,” he said. “They drive me nuts. It’s fine if it’s a friend, but otherwise it’s just quite aggressive. I don’t want myself on 150 pictures on different cameras of people I don’t know. The only thing I can’t deal with is having a camera in my face. On a selfie, you look like a balloon.”

Words: Michael Hennegan

Men

In the fold

Gant Diamond G shirt

£80; gant.co.uk

For 66 years, it’s been the well-dressed fella’s secret weapon — worn under a blazer, with a knitted wool tie, down the pub on a Saturday. And for a casual bash worn open collar over a white vest or T-shirt, the Italian way. We’ve tried both — and it works. It’s a wardrobe wonder.

Man power

Dsquared2

Harrods — the seventh most Instagrammed tourist attraction in the world — is allowing its menswear department something of a moment this month. Taking over the store with talks, events and one-off capsule collections by the likes of Christopher Kane (who has created exclusive tees), Burberry (limited-editon macs) and Dsquared2, which has delivered some dapper evening clobber.Until the end of the month; harrods.com

The art of dressing

From left: Jake and Dinos Chapman; shirt, £80, Grayers; mrporter.com. Parka, £149, Penfield; endclothing.co.uk. Wallabee shoes, £95, clarks. 501 CT jeans, £85, Levi's

Meet the art geezer — that’s the ridiculously talented and bloke-down-the-pub tribe of British artists. You can spot an art geezer by his bald head and two-day-old face fuzz. Ties are rare, suits rarer still. Instead see AGs such as the Chapman brothers and Damien Hirst in jeans and trainers or desert boots. It’s cool but not that cool, and in no way fashiony. Luckily for any wannabe art geezers, the shops are currently full of this kind of bloke kit.