1: Chunky Knits
Big knits for winter? Get outta here. But in all seriousness, make them super-chunky, like at Victoria Beckham and Phillip Lim, where knitwear was worn as a sort of daytime counterbalance to sequins and prints on the bottom half, to justify such glitzy dressing before the sun has set.

2: The Parka / Bomber
You couldn't move for bomber jackets in New York last season - for autumn, the style is beefed up for added warmth, given a furry hood and a military detail in places, or made silkily sports luxe elsewhere. Liam Gallagher, eat your heart out.

3: Mid-lengths
Still A Thing, but they're no longer entirely ladylike as many designer styled them up with brogues or even trainer boots. Try as a clingy skirt, a swishy one or even as baggy and billowing culottes.

4: Tapestry
The arts and crafts look is very strong this season, perhaps an antidote to all the starkness of the past few years, and it manifests itself in tapestry detailing and chintzy florals.

5: The Wide-leg Trouser
Designers are still trying to make this happen and, who knows, maybe autumn 2014 will be this style's time to shine. Best worn with supermodel legs and a very high heels.

6: Mannish Tailoring
Whether mannish in cut - boxy, anti-fit and with street-wise slouch - or mannish in taste - pinstripe, strong shoulders, a certain swagger - tailoring is interesting for autumn, and it steps out of the office, too.

7: Layering
That's right - layering during cold weather, another gimme. But it's more about how your clothes interact than it is about keeping warm - it's about varying lengths, about clashing prints, about finding the sartorial holy grail that is what I'm calling the column triptych: cropped knit, long-line tunic, mid-length skirt.

8: Patchwork
A meli melo of prints, graphics and textures this season. Designers couldn't decide on one, so they mashed them all together. Or perhaps it's an indication of the less uptight, more boho approach for autumn 2014.

9: Homespun
Similar to patchworking, even the most haute labels presented pieces that looked deliberately raggedy and organic. So 'homepsun', if you will, although few are the people who could recreate these clothes on a Singer machine by the fire.

10: Chevron stripes
Softly rippling, as at Marc Jacobs, or sharply delineated at Alexander Wang, these flashes gave movement to other flat cut pieces. Often on tulle and organza, a chevron moves with the body and is a more gentle version of a blocked stripe.