December, and considerably less sequinned than the month suggests. Fifteen pieces, most of them still wearable in March.
The problem with what shops sell in December is that it is designed to be photographed on one night and then never worn again, at a price that assumes you have not noticed. We buy this edit against a single question, which is whether the piece has a Tuesday in February in it.
That rules out most of what the season offers and leaves something better: dark colours with a texture rather than a shine, one genuine piece of glitter for whoever wants it, and a great deal of velvet, which is the only fabric that manages to be festive and completely ordinary at the same time.
The edit goes up in the second week of November and the alterations diary is full by about the twenty-fifth. That is the real deadline: not the last shipping date, but the last day Konstantinos can hem something and mean it. We publish it on the shop door each year and it is always earlier than anybody wants.