While multiple retro tropes graced the runway this season – from Burberry’s Eighties blouson bomber jackets to Chet Lo’s Noughties hair crimping – the most memorable fashion motif was certainly the revival of the pillbox hat.
Often paired with high riding boots – another trend that has permeated from last season – this season’s baggy cropped trousers evoked a blend of old-school country shooting attire and Noughties capri pants.
While the ‘mob wife’ aesthetic brought back the extravagant fur coat last year, subtler trims were observed on this season’s runway, with lined leather jackets and faux fur stoles.
Emilia Wickstead’s 1960s collection inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film, The Birds (1963), brought back an accessory that has already been slowly creeping onto the fashion scene since Copenhagen Fashion Week.
“This season, we started with a desire to investigate the archetypes that carved out the idea of a very British wardrobe,” designer Steven Stokey-Daley told Vogue, “so taking the donkey jacket or the duffle coat or the trench coat and creating our very core everyday version of those.”.
