CHRISTMAS

traditions are different everywhere. In Italy, naughty children get a visit from La Befana (loosely translated as ‘the hag’), who brings them a lump of coal. I wonder if she could have been the inspiration for Gucci’s latest designer sunglasses, the ‘inverted cat eye’, above? Have you ever seen anything quite so hideous? Yours for a mere £470. The model’s expression says it all. Give me a lump of coal any day.