Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was once described as the most consciously intellectual woman writer since George Eliot; her dense, cerebral fiction looked set never to command a large public until her novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990 and transformed her into an international literary celebrity.
Micro, sunray pleats have really come back into vogue, and once the party season kicks off, expect to see lots of metallic-hued pleated skirts on the dance floor.