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Oversubscribed: C&C California
Not to be mistaken for 90s dance act C&C Music Factory (of Gonna Make You Sweat fame), nor bearing any relation to high-street has-been C&A, this label is currently being billed as the first superbrand T-shirt.

Worn already by the likes of Sofia Coppola, SJP, Kristin Davis, Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz, the label has already achieved waiting-list status stateside, and caused a mini-stampede at department store Henri Bendel on arrival of new stock.

Set up in LA last year, C&C California is the baby of former actors Claire Stansfield and Cheyann Benedict. They specialise in wardrobe staples (long-sleeved tops, T-shirts, vests, etc), which come in vibrant colours and are designed to "feel like your boyfriend's favourite old college T-shirt".

Oprah-approved, these tops are luxury basics (think Juicy Couture tracksuits), and don't come cheap. While Ms Winfrey might lap them up, you can bet that Lorraine Kelly would deem them "a bit dear". So what's all the fuss about? Well, of course, it's all in the "fit" and the "weave" - so that said garments fit the body snugly and softly and come in great shades. Particularly worth checking are the sugary pastels.

· T-shirts by C&C California, from £40, from Browns, 020-7514 0000

Overheard: "Busted"
When a person is instructed to cover their décolletage for the sake of modesty, eg, "Charles Saatchi totally busted Nigella when he made her wear that frumpy scarf for the Saatchi Gallery party this week"

Pretend you know all about: 'Zhooshy'
Sorry, Patsy and Edina, but fabulous is over. Keeping up with the times isn't just about overhauling your wardrobe every six months, you see - you have to revamp your vocab, too. And as sure as green is the new pink, so zhooshy is the new fabulous, the word used to convey style approval.

Pronunciation first: it's juh-jee, with both initial consonants pronounced in the soft, continental way - that is, as in jolie, not jolly - and the stress is on the first syllable. Next, meaning: something is zhooshy if it is gorgeous, and also has a bit of flair or swank. It could be used to describe your new Dolce & Gabbana shoes, or drinking cocktails instead of house wine, or any made-an-effort outfit - no matter whether it's from Mango or Marni. The spelling, a subject of debate on the style desk for some time, has finally been established courtesy of the sub-editor's trusty standby text, Fantabulosa: a Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang. Fantabulosa describes zhooshy as an adjective meaning showy, "an example of gay slang, used in the fashion industry and on US television shows such as Will and Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". But be warned, use it while you can. It'll be over before you can say, "whatever".

Overexposed: Knitting
Well, thank heavens: just when I was looking for a new black, and, in fact, a new rock 'n' roll, along comes knitting. This has been bubbling up for a while and the knitting pot has now come to the boil. Tonight, the V&A is holding what it describes as a "knitting-club night", entitled, with requisite exclamation mark, Craft Rocks!

The fact that Julia Roberts and - oh, my dear sweet Lord - Geri Halliwell have been spotted with knitting needles is somehow being taken as confirmation by the media that all this woolliness is totally where the hep cats are at today. And we haven't even mentioned how all the top models knit, too - quite when the pastimes of models became sources of inspiration as opposed to healthcare warnings is a puzzle, but I digress.

Like crap TV and anything described as "very Hoxton", this knitting trend takes as a given that what most people would describe as mundane is actually cool in, like, an ironic way. Yet this concept of irony is as misguided as Alanis Morrisette's, and when something smacks of being a media-coined, attention-grabbing smug little construct, then "cool" it most definitely isn't.

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