As a nation we used to be shocked at any mention in the overseas style bibles - I remember Perry Ogden's Dublin photoshoot for the ever-so-trendy American mag W was practically announced on the six o'clock news. Now, however, we've become positively blase about articles heralding Dublin or Galway or west Cork as the most stylish spot on Earth. Sure we know that.
Still, finding out what the arbiters of taste from across the water think of us is always interesting and you may be quite sure that the article in the January issue of Vogue that includes Dublin as one of its five stylish cities, will be well thumbed in a newsagent near you. It must be said that the photos of Dublin look by far the most stylish - stylist Atlanta Rascher looks relaxed in the Clarence while a clubber with cutesy hair rollers laughs down at The Beauty Spot. Nicholas O'Neill, the director of Hooligans, a film about the pony kids directed by Sophie Fiennes which will be out next year, donates some quotes and a picture of his good self.
Still, we would take issue with some of the suggestions - apparently Dubliners wear nothing but second-hand clothes or Dries Van Noten (where am I going wrong?) and our trendiest pub is Grogans. Now, Grogans is a fine pub, beloved of generations of artists, crusties and other disgruntled types, but would even its loyal clientele describe it as the trendiest Dublin watering hole?