New blossoms, brighter days, and lighter layers — there is so much to look forward to for spring, especially this spring, when we could be getting a chance to venture out into the world once again, meet friends in parks, and show off the sartorial skills we’ve been refining in lockdown. If you’re looking to purchase a joyful new spring jacket or coat for the new season, then we’ve found 20 gorgeous transitional pieces that you need to add to your shopping list. When spring, or even autumn, rolls around there are a few jacket and coat silhouettes that are bona-fide classics — think longline wool coats, teddy jackets, lightweight puffers or quilted coats, and statement, vegan leather outerwear. For 2021, we’re especially fond of pastel-coloured jackets to remind us of...
New blossoms, brighter days, and lighter layers — there is so much to look forward to for spring, especially this spring, when we could be getting a chance to venture out into the world once again, meet friends in parks, and show off the sartorial skills we’ve been refining in lockdown. If you’re looking to purchase a joyful new spring jacket or coat for the new season, then we’ve found 20 gorgeous transitional pieces that you need to add to your shopping list. When spring, or even autumn, rolls around there are a few jacket and coat silhouettes that are bona-fide classics — think longline wool coats, teddy jackets, lightweight puffers or quilted coats, and statement, vegan leather outerwear. For 2021, we’re especially fond of pastel-coloured jackets to remind us of...
We all love musing over designer brands, but midluxury fashion is our true weakness. With the advent of social media, discovering unique independent clothing brands is easier than it’s ever been. Almost weekly, we discover an online shop selling a statement dress that captures exactly how we feel. So just in case you are wondering which brands are in style in 2021, we made a list of some of our favourites. Much of the beautiful clothes on our social feeds are designed by independent shops located here in the UK, with a few from the US, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark. Each of these small brands offer a unique take on the zeitgeist of the moment — including puff-sleeve dresses, oversize collars, patchwork pieces, sheer fits, and period drama-inspired silhouettes to fill every fashi...
We all love musing over designer brands, but midluxury fashion is our true weakness. With the advent of social media, discovering unique independent clothing brands is easier than it’s ever been. Almost weekly, we discover an online shop selling a statement dress that captures exactly how we feel. So just in case you are wondering which brands are in style in 2021, we made a list of some of our favourites. Much of the beautiful clothes on our social feeds are designed by independent shops located here in the UK, with a few from the US, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark. Each of these small brands offer a unique take on the zeitgeist of the moment — including puff-sleeve dresses, oversize collars, patchwork pieces, sheer fits, and period drama-inspired silhouettes to fill every fashi...
Area always gets us excited for sparkling dresses that celebrate showing skin with confidence. For the New York brand’s first couture show, designers Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk tapped trailblazer Precious Lee and catwalk favourite Yasmin Wijnaldum to model a body-positive, 14-look collection that can be described as sexy, fantasy couture. “Haute Couture originally started in Paris in 1858 but looking deeper into history and tracing back to ancient civilizations, there has always been a deep connection and appreciation for craft and beauty,” Fogg and Panszczyk said in a press statement. “It’s like Haute Couture has been ingrained into our souls culturally expressed in different ways. Whether it be for religious purposes, or simply the innate need to cre...
It’s not our first time falling in love with pastels. The soft, comforting colour palette paints many childhood memories of sweets, clouds, and gentle dreaming. Not too long ago, fashion was fixated with Millennial Pink, and now pastel is returning in shades of lilac, baby blue, mint, and lemon to soothe restlessness at home. Pastels are becoming colours associated with self-care. Fashion embraced Pantone’s 2016 colour of the year “Rose Quartz” and renamed it “Millennial Pink” the following spring. Later that autumn, Glossier packaged baby pink as the colour of self-care, which the beauty industry steadily adopted. For winter 2020 and spring 2021, our renewed connection to pastels is a longing for wellness and comfort, in response to the tension of the p...
There was an understandable eeriness to Burberry’s Spring/Summer 2021 fashion show. The heritage brand opened London Fashion Week with a chat between Erykah Badu, Bella Hadid, Rosalía, and Steve Lacy that was surprisingly spiritual. Moderated by Badu, the pre-show got guests in a meditative, calming mood before the live stream presented a mix of performance art, and clothes that referenced the healing powers of water, the natural world, and society’s current confinement, excess, and emotional release. “The circle is hugely symbolic – regrowth, renewal, the circle of life,” says Burberry chief creative officer, Riccardo Tisci, in a press statement. “The collection is called In Bloom because I was thinking about regeneration, about dynamic youth, about nature co...