It\'s handbag.com\'s 10th birthday!

A decade is a long time in fashion and boy do our tastes change fast. One minute you\'re rocking a pair of Ugg boots thinking, \"What did I ever wear before these?\" next thing you know, Coleen Rooney\'s got a pair and the love affair is over. So who were the style icons of the last 10 years? What were the must-haves we lusted over and queued up for? And what were the fashion no-nos that should never have seen the light of day? Read on to find out...

1999

Style icon: Sarah Jessica Parker. A year after Sex And The City launched in the US, Carrie Bradshaw and her fashion kudos had eclipsed anything else on television. Fuelled by positive feedback the show\'s stylist, Patricia Field, was given greater creative control with the result SJP\'s outfits (and celebrity status), just got better and better.

Must-have item: The Pashmina (or Poshmina as they became known), broke out of Chelsea and invaded every high street. If you didn\'t have one of these colourful swathes of fabric flung about your neck you really were a loser.

Fashion no-no: Britney Spears’ school uniform, which went from initially being novelty to seriously worrying as women much too old a droopy to carry off the look began adopting it on a Saturday night.

2000

Style icon: Jennifer Aniston. The ever-popular Friends actress caps off five years as the woman we all want to be by bagging the ultimate accessory: Brad Pitt as her husband.

Must-have item: The iconic Diane von Furstenberg jersey wrap dress invented in 1973 made a spectacular comeback.

Fashion no-no: Kelly Brook wears Julien Macdonald knitted dress and revealing pants to the premiere of Snatch. Taking the name of movie a wee bit too literally we felt…

2001

Style icon: Missy Elliot. When her best selling album Miss E dropped in 2001, everyone wanted to get their freak on like this funky-fresh hip-hop diva.

Must-have item: Bling was the thing. If you could wear it, you could cover it with diamanté and crystals. Even ghetto fabulous trackie bottoms and baseball caps weren\'t safe. Gok would have been in his element.

Fashion no-no: Stella McCartney\'s solo debut October in Paris featured cropped T-shirts with ‘Raspberry Ripples\' and ‘Bristols\' written across the front, and a blue net Ann Summers-style body suit. In hindsight the electric blue sequined pieces and one-shoulder dresses looked very 2009. A bit before her time perhaps?

2002

Style icon: Kylie. This was the year when we couldn\'t get her out of our heads, thanks to that catchy song and white hooded suit by Fi Doran.

Must-have item: A year after Phoebe Philo took over at Chloe the French luxury house launched a line of handbags. The Paddington with its clunking lock and £1,000 price tag became the first of a new era of It bags. It also came out in a limited edition prompting it to be called the don’t-you-know-who-I-am bag – like the cuddly bear.

Fashion no-no: Christina Aguilera\'s transformation from Mickey Mouse Club pipsqueak to Dirrty pop star with a penchant for crotchless chaps, nasty bras and extension braids was complete. In this year she swept the board at most music awards (and topped most worst-dressed lists.)

2003

Style icon: Paris Hilton was the surprise hit of the reality TV show The Simple Life, which traced the rich little rich girl\'s adventures outside her privileged Beverly Hills homestead. Her passion for fashion and acutely vulgar taste - little more than trailer-park style but with a logo - made compulsive viewing.

Must-haves: Marc Jacobs put coloured leopard print and combat trousers on his catwalk this year and fuelled another it bag rush for Louis Vuitton\'s Murakami, having roped in the Japanese artist to collaborate on his French luxury accessories line.

Fashion no-no: Customising kicks off. Blame SATC\'s Carrie for sporting a necklace with her name on. In this year celebrity clothing lines and makeover TV shows like Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and What Not To Wear made their debut.

2004

Style icon: Sienna Miller, the pretty, sun-kissed blonde shook the fashion world every time she stepped outside with her apparently effortless knack for kick starting trends. Conspiracy theorists claimed she plagiarised Kate Moss and the Olsen gnomes, sorry, twins.

Must-have item: Gypsy skirt, the layered hippy skirt gave the high street one of its most commercial hits ever. Furry gilets, coin belts, cowboy hats and hobo bags also took off with alarming gusto.

Fashion no-no: Ugg boots began their virus-like grip on womenfolk of all ages. There is still no vaccination available. 

2005

Style icon: Angelina Jolie. The year she made her first public appearance as a couple with Brad, Ange never looked better. We tried to stay loyal to Jennifer Aniston but Angelina\'s dazzling dress sense and other-worldly beauty had us drooling like the fickle beasts we are.

Must-have item: Sass & Bide kick off the most enduring trend of the decade – skinny jeans – with their grey drainpipe Misfits, as debuted by Kate Moss. Nobody thought they would ever catch on but four years later they’re still glued to our legs. Literally.

Fashion no-no: Once we’d been converted to the skinny, boot-cut jeans became the ultimate in mum-fashion overnight.

2006

Style icon: Victoria Beckham, who personified the \'retail therapy\' vibe with her unparalleled addiction to spectacular accumulation. This was the year of the Wags - including Victoria, Cheryl Tweedy as she was, Coleen McLoughlin (as she was too), Nancy Dell\'Olio, Carly Zucker and Alex Curran - who remember got holed up in Baden Baden during the World Cup.

Must-have item: Roland Mouret\'s curve-loving Galaxy dress which sounded the death knell for the vintage maxis championed by Rachel Zoe for celebrity clients (like Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton, Nicole Richie, Kiera Knightley and Kate Hudson).

Fashion no-no: Carol Vorderman wearing a Galaxy. Also, market-stall-like micro shorts, so beloved of those Wags to offset their tanorexic legs. Despite all those well-documented shopping sprees those chavvy girls never managed to bring home - or wear - anything decent.

2007

Style icon: Kate Moss, who launched her greatest hits collection at Topshop shortly after giving us ‘Foho’ or festival chic, teaming cut-off denim shorts and a gold tunic with a studded bag and Hunter wellies at Glasto.

Must-have item: The Yves Saint Laurent Tribute platform began the superheel trend. These came in a choice of two vertiginous heel heights with a whopping platform to tackle the balance issue and give often-tiny actresses all-important elevation.

Fashion no-no: When Sienna Miller wore Bridget Jones style big black pants over thick tights to her Factory Girl premiere in New York - her first ever fashion faux pas - it raised the question, could her trailblazing days be over? Lady Gaga has since recycled Sienna\'s cast-offs and rebranded them Gaga pants. Miuccia Prada too. Trouble is they still look dire.

2008

Style icon: Agyness Deyn, the bleach blonde, unlikely model whose jumbly mish-mash radical sense of style has seeped into the lifeblood of designer fashion. Instead of rocking the branded stuff, Aggy\'s geek glasses, flat pumps, shorts, stripy tights, quirky hats and cute bags are totally her own, although we suspect not all are from Camden Market.

Must-have item: Sass & Bide Rat Gatter ruched leggings. Although these were never meant to go into production they caused such a stir following the New York and Sydney catwalk shows they did. And boy have they got a lot to answer for.

Fashion no-no: Jump suits and playsuits. Fine for children and tweenagers. Disastrous for everyone else.

2009

Style icon: Cheryl Cole. We\'re only just into the boot camp stage of X Factor and the fashion cutie has already provided us with so many lovely looks. More please.

Must-have item: The boyfriend jacket from Balmain\'s killer shoulder military to Yves Saint Laurent elongated styles. Won\'t make you look like a biker\'s moll, like its leather jacket rival.

Fashion no-no: Lady Gaga\'s Kermit the frog jacket. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, you already sound like one but do you have to look like a Muppet too?