Pretend you know all about: Esther Franklin
Five years as Donatella Versace's right-hand lady teaches you a thing or two about glamour, as you would imagine. Put it this way: Esther Franklin is not exactly a sweatpants kinda girl.

Talent-spotted at her St Martins graduate show, aged 23, Franklin was flown to Milan the following day to meet La Donatella. Within a week, she and her sketchpad were installed at Versace HQ; within a year, she was head designer of the Versus diffusion label. Her days in the shadow of that My Little Pony mane of platinum hair came to an end when supermodels such as Carmen Kass and Karolina Kurkova started commissioning Franklin to make them copies of the handmade T-shirts she wore backstage at the shows, and agreed to pose in them for her first publicity pictures.

Franklin's first collection, on sale now at Selfridges, marks her out as a name to watch: Versace meets Roland Mouret in a modern fashion cocktail of sex and elegance. Watch this space.

Overheard: "Dolly llama"
The Sienna Miller/Michael Kors-inspired girlie style of poncho-wearing. As in, "My new Topshop poncho is so dolly llama"

Your guide to the summer sales: Your guide to the summer sales

Agnès B: 020-7565 1188, starts July 15

Alexander McQueen: 020-7355 0088, sale now on

Bally: 020-7408 9878, sale now on

Betty Jackson: 020-7589 7884, sale now on

Boyd: 020-7730 3939, July 5

Browns: 020-7514 0000, July 3 (the sale extends to the website)

Chanel: 020-7493 5040, June 26

Chloe: 020-7823 5348, June 26

Commes des Garçons: 020-7493 1258, June 26

Diane von Furstenberg: 020-7221 1120, July 7

Diesel: 020-7225 3225, July 1

DKNY: 020-7499 6238, sale now on

Emporio Armani: 020-7491 8080 sale now on

Fenwick: 020-7629 9161, June 29

Flannels: 0161-832 5536, July 3

Ghost: 020-7229 1057, sale now on

Harrods: 020-7730 1234, June 28

Harvey Nichols: 020-7235 5000, sale now on

House of Fraser: 0870 160 7270, July 1

H&M: 020-7323 2211, sale now on

Jaeger: 020-7200 4554, July 8

John Lewis: 020-7629 7711, July 6

Jones Bootmaker: 0800 163 519, sale now on

Kurt Geiger: 020-7546 1888, sale now on

Liberty: 020-7734 1234, sale now on

Matches: 020-7221 0255, sale now on

Miss Sixty: 0870 751 6040, July 2

net-a-porter.com: sale now on

Oasis: 01865 881986, July 1

Pollyanna: 01226 291 665, today

Prada: 020-7235 0008, sale now on

Selfridges: 0870 837 7377, sale now on

Stella McCartney: 020-7518 3100, June 26

Strand: 01132 438 164, sale now on

Vivienne Westwood: 020-7439 1109, June 26

Warehouse: 0870 122 8813, sale now on

Yohji Yamamoto: 020-7491 4129, sale now on

YSL: 020-7235 6706, sale now on