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Are you adorable enough for 2024? Why everyone in London is obsessed with dressing cute

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The terrace of Somerset House on Wednesday (January 24) night was one sugar-covered, fluffy trimmed sight to indulge. 

The towering building was lit up pink. Rhubarb flavoured, petal filled drinks were passed around. And as for the guests — well, they were a veritable sea of all things adorable. Pikachu tees, strawberry knit beanies, lilac tutus and huge phone cases (held as handbags) were de rigueur. It was t, open from today, and it signaled something of a watershedeven brought an actual cat to the premiere of the film Argylle. 

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