21 September, 2025

What’s the surprise? JW Anderson’s retail redux

JW Anderson Brewer Street

It might be my age and the time of year (nesting is calling!) but I’m a bit more excited for fashion’s lifestyle news than adding more clothes to my wardrobe. (Yes, really!)

This week sees the newly refurbed JW Anderson store in Brewer Street, ~~overflowing~~ beautifully merchandised with Jonathan Anderson’s mix of knitwear, loafer bags, Wedgwood Jasperware and Mackintosh oak stools. Later in the year we’ll see his vision for a new store in Pimlico Road (home of spendy antique shops and World of Interior-style stores). (more…)

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8 September, 2025

On my radar: Soshiotsuki

Soshiostuki ss26

Congratulations to Soshi Otsuki, who just won the LVMH Prize.

Since launching as a menswear brand, Soshiotsuki, in 2015, his “distorted elegance” (also the name of his AW25 collection) in the tradition of Armani, Cerruti and even Studio Nicholson, now includes a number of women’s pieces.

To be specific, that means taking western men’s tailoring and filtering it through a Japanese lens – cardigan-soft fabrics, gentle gathering and draping, voluminous tailored trousers, enveloping knits – and juxtaposing them through careful styling. (more…)

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29 August, 2025

The real reason we’ve fallen for Bessette-core

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy style

If you thought we’d reached peak Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy style this summer, well think again. The signs are pointing to a Bessette-core fall.

Why? It’s so simple. All the Bessette-Kennedy house codes very easily translate to autumn; the black-and-white 90s minimalism palette, the stovepipe pants and dark denim jeans, long pencil skirts and tall boots, and definitely the ¾ single-breasted coat (think Calvin meets COS – and here’s just the thing*). (more…)

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24 August, 2025

Milkshake on my mind

Why is everyone obsessed with the latest Gap ad?

I have some thoughts.

The ad dropped last Tuesday and the thing that first grabbed my attention was the catchy tempo of Milkshake (originally by Kelis, but this time covered by K-pop girl group KATSEYE), accompanied by Robbie Blue’s brilliant staccato choreography.

It felt like a return to ye olde Y2K Gap campaigns and I guess the timing of a feelgood Gap denim throwback chimed against the controversial American Eagle ad (more…)