Call 0171 243 7300 for stockist enquiries

Call 0171 243 7300 for stockist enquiries.Ghost, 36 Ledbury Road, London W10, bed throws, from pounds 300-pounds 450 and large cushions, pounds 90; enquiries on 0171 229 1057.Caroline Charles, (pictured left, below) printed double duvet pounds 79, pillowcases from pounds 14.95, flat sheets from pounds 45, available from Harrods and Caroline Charles.Yves Saint Laurent, solid colour block print double duvet covers, from pounds 139, pillowcases from pounds 49.95, flat sheets from pounds 99.95 available from Harrods, as before.J&M Davidson, 62 Ledbury Road, enquiries 0171 243 2089, double duvet pounds 75, king-size duvet pounds 165.Missoni, (as pictured in main feature and left, above), Liberty, Regent Street, W1.Above: white double duvet cover with multi-colour dot, with pillowcase set, pounds 65, by Gallagher, inquiries 0171-431 8880; grey chiffon dress with matching knickers, from a selection by Gianni Versace, 34 Old Bond St, London W1. Printed Oxford pillow case from pounds 15, flat sheets from pounds 46, double duvet covers from pounds 65. They've got the car, the job, the great pay packet, and they want the whole look." With sheets like those, it's a wonder they manage to get out of bed in the morning.Splashing out on sleep - where to buy designer beddingThe Design Net, phone orders only, 0171 639 4950, complete set of natural calico bedwear costs pounds 79, includes king-size duvet cover, one sheet and four pillowcases.Ralph Lauren Home Collection, from Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and Harrods, enquiries 0171 495 5499, sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers from pounds 35, throw cushions from pounds 59.Kenzo, double duvet cover pounds 129, pillowcases pounds 19.95 from Harrods, SW1.Christian Dior, "sleep-inducing" patterned duvet covers from pounds 149, pillowcases, pounds 34.95, (no matching sheets), Harrods.Christian Lacroix, double duvet, pounds 139, flat sheet, pounds 89.95, pillowcases, pounds 49.95 from Harrods, as before.Designer's Guild, 267-271 and 277 King's Road, London SW3. At pounds 900 for a single throw, however, these are sheets with limited appeal.

Hoodless herself confesses to merely lusting after the sheets and her own bed is dressed by Habitat, all in white applique sheets.So who on earth can afford such prices? "It's people that have jobs in the city, who don't have kids yet. Browns have been inundated with requests and tell me they are only available at the moment from a shop in Tokyo. I wouldn't be surprised if some desperate designer bed linen victim hasn't booked a flight and made the trip to the Far East in search of them."People don't just want their wardrobes to be in fashion that season," Ms Hoodless says "They want their homes to be too. Eventually there will be summer and winter trends for bed linen just as for clothes.

There's a definite market for it." Her tip for the ultimate in bed linen is by a French designer, Catherine Memmi, sold exclusively through Selfridges. Those sheets, as slept in by Helena Christensen no less, have taken on near mythical status. I am told they can be ordered through Browns of South Molton Street, which was the first shop to sell the New York label's hip, lacy dresses a few years ago. Her other favourite designer sheets are by Kenzo in blue and white.Meanwhile, back at Wallpaper* HQ, Suzy Hoodless, Interiors Editor, has not quite got over the number of calls the magazine got with enquiries about some embroidered lacy sheets by Tocca, featured last spring.

She also sells her own label sheets in 100 per cent untreated calico which is like linen but doesn't crease as much and doesn't require a home help every time you want to wash them. "They're Egyptian cotton and are a dream to sleep in," she says. Her idea of a perfect bed is a mix 'n' match affair with clashing colours, stripes and florals. Her recent find was a patchwork duvet made by a stall holder in Spitalfields Market who sells fifties dresses and uses any dresses that are past their prime to patch into quilts White is far too boring. "You have to have square pillows - they make the bed look better. The best ones are at The Source on Kensington High Street [in London]. At the moment, I'm in lime green summer mode, but I'm looking forward to winceyette candy stripes available from old fashioned draper's stores in the winter."Simon Wilson, half of Butler & Wilson, the jewellers, also considers his bed linen to be so important he has to employ a cleaner to iron it, while Gay Mill of the Design Net, an interiors consultancy, bought her first designer sheets from The Conran Shop by Cerruti for pounds 200 in 1988 and is still sleeping in them.

She has a thing about bed linen, although she says you don't have to spend hundreds of pounds for your bed to be in vogue. "I think the rule is never poly-cotton, never, never in your life," instructs Hilary Robertson, an interiors stylist who works for magazines like Country Homes & Interiors. The feel is not quite so overpoweringly Versace - there are polka dot and ivy leaf prints.How you dress your bed is a serious matter for those in the know. She will even try and sell you a bed, a snip at pounds 9,000 a go "It's a whole bed," she stresses.