Big news from MIPIM: navy suits are on the way out, charcoal grey tailoring is in the ascendant, and casual wear is even gaining a trainer-clad toe-hold at the annual international property conference.

There were also a few more skirts in evidence this year, an indicator of female attendance, rather than any kind of gender nonconformity – it may be 2023, but we are still talking about MIPIM (Le Marché International des Professionnels de L’immobilier) here.

MIPIM will rarely pass the Bechdel test (two named women speaking to each other about something other than men) but in the spirit of embracing and encouraging progress where we can find it, an incremental shuffle towards gender parity is something.

I don’t mention this purely to stick it to the 23,000-or-so MIPIM lads that descended on Cannes for four days this March (the so-named Twitter account does a fine job of that).