During all those months of waking up and coming home while it's still dark, work looms particularly large. Ever get the feeling that it's live to work, rather than the other way around?

Well, here's a cheering thing – the women of London are injecting life into their dreary work uniforms every day that they set out to go the office. Forget the tired and crumpled, cheap shiny suit cliché: here's a gallery of the capital's most elegantly dressed working women – proof that smart and chic, and corporate and cool, don't have to be mutually exclusive.