SO there you have it, 2009 is all over bar the singing. This time tomorrow you will be blinking through the hangover at the start of not just a new year but a new decade.

At these times it is fitting to look back, to reflect on the things we have seen, done and in my case… worn.

And on that front this year has been one of the good ones.

Yes 2009 was something of a vintage year for fashion and its vintage was largely of the 1980s variety.

As the country wrestled with recession we went back to the clothes we were wearing last time the economy was plunged into the red.

Uber-expensive fashion house Balmain brought back big shoulders and tight, sparkly dresses and while few of us could afford their £2,500 ripped jeans (they still sold out) it didn’t matter because the high street was having its own eighties revival.

Slogan tees, Day-Glo, spiky heels and lots and lots of sequins were de rigueur as we went back to the Dynasty days.

But with the good came the bad. Did we really need to bring back the Bananarama look? If we learned one thing this year on Planet Fashion, it’s that no-one looks good in stone-washed denim.

When we weren’t plundering the decade that taste forgot, we were going designer mad as high street favourite H&M persuaded some of the world’s hottest designers to produce collections for them.

And along with the collections came the queues… and the craziness.