Fashion Trends
10 Ways to Style a Silk Scarf and Instantly Elevate Your Casual Outfits
A silk scarf is your perfect spring and summer accessory. Besides being a favourite on the spring/summer 2020 runways, it’s also one of fashion’s most sustainable styling trends. You can make a scarf out of any fabric you have lying around and use it in countless ways: from saving yourself from a bad hair day to instantly elevating a casual at-home look and even as a makeshift mask for protecting yourself from the coronavirus (COVID-19). On the spring/summer 2020 runways, we’re taking inspiration from the scarfs worn as belts at Tommy Hilfiger, the scarf-print bandeau tops at Bronx & Banco, the massive pussy-bow-tied scarfs at Tory Burch, and the simple french-knot-tied scarfs at Preen by Thornton Bregazzi. We love that a scarf can be styled to look cool, as much as i...
11 Black British Fashion Brands That Mix Innovative Design With Expert Tailoring
London is one of the world’s creative superpowers, all thanks to the city’s incredibly rich cultural and ethnic diversity. And while London is home to exceptional fashion designers hailing from every inch of the globe, our Black and brown creatives are a major reason British style continues to be relevant, influential, and innovative. You’d be surprised to know how many Black and brown Brits are behind the popularity of major brands like A-Cold-Wall* and Trapstar. Or perhaps you’re familiar with the young millennial designer Grace Wales Bonner, whose eponymous label Wales Bonner was worn by Meghan Markle while showing the world a first glimpse of her and Prince Harry’s son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. Currently, London’s young Black designers — like Mowa...
11 Black British Fashion Brands That Combine Innovative Design With Expert Tailoring
London is one of the world’s creative superpowers, all thanks to the city’s incredibly rich cultural and ethnic diversity. And while London is home to exceptional fashion designers hailing from every inch of the globe, our Black and brown creatives are a major reason British style continues to be relevant, influential, and innovative. You’d be surprised to know how many Black and brown Brits are behind the popularity of major brands like A-Cold-Wall* and Trapstar. Or perhaps you’re familiar with the young millennial designer Grace Wales Bonner, whose eponymous label Wales Bonner was worn by Meghan Markle while showing the world a first glimpse of her and Prince Harry’s son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. Currently, London’s young Black designers — like Mowa...
Selling Sunset: Shop the Exact Wardrobe Worn by LA’s Most Fabulous Real Estate Agents
Netflix’s hit reality drama Selling Sunset is like The Hills with real estate. It follows the lives of seven agents who hustle hard to sell Los Angeles’s most sought after properties. But what’s more impressive than their ambition are their fabulous designer and midrange outfits that are all available to shop online. The show mostly revolves around key characters Chrishell Stause and Christine Quinn who don’t always get along. What they do have in common is exceptional style and a shared love for designer pieces from Balmain. Most of the blazers worn in the series were courtesy of the French fashion house, and the remainder of the cast’s wardrobes are by midrange brands that can be found on Revolve and Shopbop. Some of our favourite looks of Selling SunsetR...
Instagram’s Colourful Patchwork Fashion Trend Is a Cool Alternative to Ubiquitous Tie-Dye
Tie-dye is one of the first big fashion trends of summer 2020. And while we love the bold, colourful Links”>DIY style, it’s become so ubiquitous that people social distancing have added tie-dyeing to the at-home activity list — right up there with bread baking, Dalgona coffees, and impossible-to-solve puzzles. If you fancy taking this colourful summer fashion trend in a more alternative direction, then get inspiration from the fresh patchwork pieces taking over Instagram. Patchwork isn’t new to the world of style. Many of us have fond memories of a homemade patchwork blanket or jumper gifted from our nan, and even if you don’t, we all seem to be familiar with this comforting childhood memory. Recently, patchwork designs have had a very cool and sexy makeover, tha...
Gucci Calls the Fashion Schedule “Worn Out” and Decides on Seasonless Shows Twice a Year
It’s no secret that the coronavirus (COVID-19) is the push the fashion industry needed to clean up its act. Now that everything from garment supply chains to performative fashion shows are in desperate need of restructuring, who will be the voices of fashion’s future? Gucci’s Alessandro Michele is one person leading that conversation and thinks the annual seven-season fashion show schedule is “worn out” — we couldn’t agree more. Following Gucci‘s virtual press conference on Sunday 24 May, creative director Alessandro Michele took to Instagram to elaborate on how the brand is embracing a more sustainable fashion show schedule. “I will abandon the worn out rituals of seasonalities and show to regain a new cadence, closer to my expressive call,&...
Lizzo’s Quay Sunglasses Collection Offers a Free Extra Pair While Helping Someone in Need
Lizzo launched a juicy eyewear collection with sunglasses brand Quay that’ll give you a confidence boost all summer. The exclusive eight-piece collection has the perfect pair of sunnies to complement your unique style — from classic cat-eye shapes to sparkling shades covered in rhinestones. Lizzo isn’t only shining with her fab new sunglasses collection, she’s also teaming up with Quay and hunger relief organisation Feeding America to donate one million meals through a “Buy one. Get one. Give 100 meals.” program. Between 20 and 25 May, buyers can purchase a pair of sunnies, get a second pair free, and help Quay and Feeding America provide 100 meals per purchase to people struggling with hunger. “Quay is cool and fresh, but also inclusive and attainable,&...
