Article: Our style guru defends her love of expensive clothes and gives her top tips for designer sales bargains; Summer class: (above from left) Yves Saint Laurent, Dries Van Noten and Chloe FROM TOP: Kaftan, [pounds sterling]35, and bikini, [pounds sterling]30, both Kate Moss for Topshop, and Roberto Cavalli silver python shoes, [pounds sterling]542.

Byline: LIZ JONES

AFEW weeks ago, Private Eye magazine wrote a piece about the amount Ispend on clothes, and how my profligate, high-end spending not only ended mymarriage (they wrote that I got divorced because my husband refused to spendmore than [pounds sterling]300 on my Christmas present), but also my friendships (I had writtena piece about how my friend Lucy blows more than [pounds sterling]400 a week on food for herfour children, in which I commented: 'Why on earth doesn't she learn how to"make do"?').

The magazine pointed out that while criticising children for eating food, I hadjust spent [pounds sterling]585 on a pair of silver leggings by Les ...

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