The fashion icons setting trends for 2015

New year, new you! To help you with makeover inspiration, here are some of the stars whose style we’ll be chanelling in 2015

Veuve Clicquot: the effervescent widow who gave us the champagne lifestyle

Married in a cellar and given Dom Pérignon’s book by the priest, Madame Clicquot’s verve made her business a success

The truth about alcohol, from gin tears to champagne hangovers

Do different drinks have different effects on your mood, why do funny-coloured drinks make you more drunk and what causes the worse hangovers?

Champagne is all a matter of taste – but the taste doesn’t really matter

Experts are saying that upmarket champagne tastes better out of a normal wine glass than out of a flute – is this the new shape of alpha snobbery?

2015 gears up to be the year of wearable tech

Apple Watch forecast to deliver spring boost to sales
Could 2015 be the year wearable tech becomes sexy?

The year novelty fashion broke free of its Christmas shackles

From cereal-box inspired handbags to coats that make wearer look like a Muppet, fashion silliness has become a serious business