10) Colour - Bright futures and fun pastels felt fantastic at first,  but then we realised how expensive it is to maintain a rainbow wardrobe. Can we go back to black yet?

9) Pinching from Prada - Noticed a flood of flatforms creeping into your shoe store lately? What about the high street's stripe saturation? It's all via Prada, and we're getting sort of sick of it. When Miuccia sends curvy hot-rod honeys down the catwalk in fifties-futurist applique lace onsies, it's amazing. Then high street equivalent looks chunderously cheap.

8) Slutty pirates - November revealed Tom Ford's SS12 collection was as bad as everyone suggested it was, with billowing blouses and frothing purple lace that would make Penelope Cruz's Pirates of the Caribbean character cringe, meanwhile bloggers continue to pile on bagels, spangles, bandanas and woven-up wrist ties on like they're having their own personal treasure hunts, and harem pants still swish the streets of South Yarra and Sydney. Combined with spray tans and unbrushed hair, these looks are beginning to feel distinctly Arr-me-half-hearty.

7) Karl overload - We'd say Karl Lagerfeld sleeps upside down in a cave, his wings wrapped close around him, but it is becoming more and more apparent that the man doesn't sleep at all. He maybe indefatigable, but we're tired.

6) False advertising - From shoes that claim to tone your butt by rolling your walk, to mascara ads so retouched they look like bad Bambi fan art, it has been a year of blatant lies from the advertising industry. Fortunately there's a wonderful counter-trend of calling this BS out. We'd say we hope the ad-busting continues next year, but it'd be even better if it didn't have to.

5) Spirit Hoods - Giant faux-fur hatscarves with critter ears that look as matted as a feral's dreads after a twelve day bush-doof, beloved by a bizarrely numerous number of celebrities. Can these stop please? We feel like we're candy-flipping every time we open NW.

4) Daphne Guinness - Too much fashion makes you Gaga (you too, ADR).

3) Bad Celebrity Endorsements - This list wouldn't be Komplete without some Kardashian Karnage, so kan we just say, Kris Jenner's incontinence pad endorsement? Klassier than her daughters' use of slave labour to manufacture their handbags. But Kardashians aside, celebrity endorsements in general are wearing thin. If you can't score someone we want to be - that's Alexa, Cate Blanchett or Gwynny - we're not buying it.

2) Designer drama - Marc Jacobs' has another porn-star boyfriend, every designer in the whole world ever is going to take over Dior, Armani thinks Prada is trashy, Dolce and Gabanna are tax evaders and everyone is suing everyone else. It's gotten so bad that not even the international fashion weeks can agree with each other anymore, getting into an endless round of debates over dates, that made DVF cry.  At first it was fun to watch fashion designers getting their Days of Our Lives on, but now, like Alaia, we'd just like them to get back to cutting hot frocks.

1) Racism - It seems like racism never really goes out of style (see last year's multiple blackface brouhahas) but this year the trend for insensitivity and hate speech reached all time highs (by which we mean lows) with Galliano spraying anti-Semitic slurs all over La Perle (and subsequently the internet), then sending the entire industry into a tailspin with his prompt dismissal from Dior, only to be forgiven by Kate Moss, who also doesn't mind when her hairdresser uses the 'n' word. This was followed by Nivea telling black people to 'recivilise' and Benetton showing shocking insensitivity by depicting lip-locked despots. Then, to round the year out, Karl Lagerfeld made some exceedingly questionable comments about the people of India ("even the poor have something very chic about them," really?), Donna Karan got in trouble for exploiting the people of Haiti  and the Editor of Dutch Mag Jackie called Rihanna a 'Niggerbitch' in print, then quit in disgrace, only to later rescind her apology and blame Americans for being too touchy. Hey fashion: given in about 20 years time your primary source of income will lie in BRIC, it's not only disgusting to keep up the racism, it's also incredibly bad for business.

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