As if cocktail hour could be made any more glamorous an expanse of drinking time, a brand new invention arrives. Ever since olives were introduced to martinis in 1920s America, the aim has been to skewer the slippery fruit with a tool equal in style to the suave drink it accompanies. With the help of the jeweller Delfina Delettrez Fendi, the solution has been found.

This surely is the chicest cover-up of the season. The divinely tactile lambswool blanket pictured here is the product of The Gentlewoman’s newest partnership for autumn and winter 2016 with Paul Smith, master of upbeat fashions and candy-coloured stripes. Curl up in its rosy warmth and luxuriate in its many ingenious design particulars.