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FASHION:Fashion has never shone so much and cost so little, as evidenced by Penneys’ latest razzle-dazzle, rock’n’roll collection

HARD-CORE GLITTER and shine and a lot of rock attitude mark this party season. Studs and sequins are everywhere in kaleidoscopic colours (see Tommy Hilfiger, for instance) with silver-studded bags, studded shoes (Christian Louboutin) and spiked hair adding to the general razzle dazzle of the display. With so much black leather around this winter, it’s like Liberace with punk overtones. At Warehouse, its “little” black dresses laden with chains, studs, sequins and jet have prices in inverse proportion to their weight.