Have your sel f a very Col l ins Christmas

Stumped for festive fashion inspo? May we suggest you cast your eye over Dame Joan Collins’ Instagram account (@joancollinsdbe). Immediately. The bona fide legend has been serving up her favourite festive looks on her feed, from sparkly trousers to brocade jackets to Kurt Geiger boots ( Joan is the face of the shoe brand’s Christmas campaign).

Unsurprisingly, Joan favours ‘full throttle glamour’ for the festive season (although she admits that on the 25th ‘the traditional tacky Christmas sweater is my choice’). ‘Leave understated elegance to the rest of the year,’ she says. ‘You can never have enough sparkles and sequins during the holiday period, so the [more] glitter, the better. Big, chunky jewellery is best. If you think it’s too much, you haven’t gone far enough.’

While Joan admits there’s ‘nothing more glamorous’ than a formal black tie and gown at New Year, she says one of her most memorable outfits involved ‘a rolling bottle of oxygen with tubes stuck up my nose’, after her host in Aspen neglected to warn her that altitude and alcohol don’t mix well. And she’s not averse to staying in (one New Year in LA ‘a friend came over for wine and pizza.’) However, if she does go out, then Happy by Pharrell Williams and

Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars are guaranteed to get her on the dance floor.

So, will Joan be making any resolutions for 2019? ‘Yes,’ she says. ‘I’m going to resolve to not make any more new year’s resolutions because I invariably break them!’ kurtgeiger.com