A new year. A whole new set of values, a new generation of icons, new pin-ups to lust after, new tunes to hum, new fitness fads to buy into, new places to escape to and new things to feed your friends. Good riddance o-eight, we’re ready to embrace the shiny new year of nine. Here are some of the things we’re most excited about.

WHAT TO WEAR

BARRATTS SHOES Amazing Balenciaga and YSL rip-offs for £16. We’re having five pairs, because we can. Budget fashion bites back.

THE 1980S Metallics, zips, cobalt blue, polka dots, all-in-ones, orange, biker jackets. The decade is back in fashion, big time.

LOUIS VUITTON HIGH-TOP TRAINERS They glow in the dark. ’Nuff said.

DESIGNERS Danielle Scutt (the fashionista’s choice), Louise Goldin (award-winning robot-chic), Alexander Wang (the sportswear you’ll want to wear).

GAP Set for a complete revamp, thanks to the former designer of Paco Rabanne, new boy Patrick Robinson.

TRADING BURIED TREASURE The new shopping is swap-shop shopping.

LANVIN Coming to Mount Street, W1.

WHERE TO GO

LOS ANGELES The new New York. And Cecconi’s LA opens in February (to coincide with the Oscars).

CROATIA The new Ibiza. Petrcane is attracting all the big names in electronica to its summer festivals, kicking off with the Garden Festival (July 3-12, 2009).

HOBBY HOLIDAYS Fly and flop is so pre-bust. Try an urban gardening, sky-watching or austerity holiday with the School of Life (www.schooloflife.com ).

NULL STERN The Zero Star hotel is housed in a Swiss nuclear bunker (www.null-stern-hotel.ch ).

LISTEN TO THIS

DR DRE Ten years later, the new album, Detox, is here.

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER Ronson’s right-hand man releases solo album and makes all the girls swoon inthe process .

BLUR But will they do Glasto, too? Yes, we’re girls who like boys.

THE GIRLS Look out for these ladies, they are hot: Fan Death (disco-tastic), Jazmine Sullivan (the new Lauryn Hill), Little Boots (“the future of pop”), Lady GaGa (Britney does Boombox).

HOW TO BEHAVE

SHARE Join a co-op, pimp out your garden, pitch in to buy the local pub.

LOVE YOUR JOB At least you’ve got one.

BUY TO LIVE Not buy to let.

BE GOOD Submit your ideas for making the world a better place at www.project10tothe100.com.

DOWN THE PICTURES

THE WRESTLER Mickey Rourke wrestles (January 16).

MILK Sean Penn fights for gay rights (January 23).

HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU Jennifer Aniston gets dumped (February 6).

LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS James Corden stars, Lily Allen cameos (March 20).

THE BOAT THAT ROCKED Richard Curtis does Radio Caroline (May 1).

BUZZ WORDS

HOMEDULGENCE Living the high life without going out. Cue cocktail parties, home karaoke-offs and dressing for dinner.

THE LATTE FACTOR That’s Local, Authentic, Traceable, Trusted and Ethical. Has your lunchbox got it?

WHOLE-BRAIN LIVING As in all work and play.

BRANDANTHROPY If they’re not donating at least half their profits to charity, we’re shopping elsewhere.

READ THIS

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS Nine-year-old Alec Greven’s bestselling dating book, based on classroom observations (Collins £5.99).

THE FAME FORMULA Behind every great star, there’s a pit bull of a publicist. By Mark Borkowski (Sidgwick & Jackson £16.99).

THE STEPHEN SPROUSE BOOK The fashion tome of the year. By Roger and Mauricio Padilha, out January 20 (Rizzoli £30).

GOING OUT

THE NEW CHINAWHITE Reopens this summer. Let the good times roll outta the club and into a pile of paps again. . .

DEAN STREET TOWN HOUSE The new Soho House restaurant with rooms. Hosting hot celebutante debauchery come summer.

OLD MAN’S PUBS Cosy, cheap, local. Start using yours before they die out for good. When’s quiz night again?

HOUSE MUSIC Four house parties, it’s the new disco nouveau.

EAT AND DRINK

DIY DELI Smoking, brewing, pickling, baking. And everybody’s making their own salami.

ARTISANS If they only make one thing, it must be good.

THE M&S BACKLASH This isn’t just a cut-price seafood platter. This is a Lidl cut-price seafood platter.

HEALTH

POOLATES As in, Pilates in the pool.

DRUGS ONLINE Who needs a prescription?

ALLI The new miracle diet pill.

GUT FEELINGS It’s all about digestive health this year.

WHO TO TALK ABOUT

EMILY BLUNT See her in The Young Victoria, Wild Target and The Wolf Man. Want to be her.

SALLY HAWKINS The Happy-Go-Lucky lady is tipped for a Golden Globe.

SCARLETT & CRIMSON The anti-Bratz backlash starts here.

SURI CRUISE Forbes’s “world’s most influential toddler”.

THE NEW ‘IT’ Georgia May Jagger, Coco Sumner, Amber Le Bon, Tali Lennox.

GEORGE CRAIG One Night Only singer and new Burberry boy. Barely legal, but hot.

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