With Fashion Month over for another season and the Oscar’s red carpet taking place over the weekend, February and March have delivered some serious style. From high street collaborations to the Paris show everyone was talking about, here are our spring fashion 2023 highlights to inspire you this March….
The High Street Collection: Mango Selection Edit
Every so often a high street collection comes along that looks SO expensive. This season, that’s Mango, with their limited-run selection line full of pieces made for special occasions. Think slinky silk dresses, intricate lace and androgynous tuxedo shirts in a muted colour palette of black, ecru, pink and nude.
High-quality satin is at the core of the collection, which adds a fluid, feminine edge to an otherwise quite minimalist line. We love the blush pink satin blazer with its double-breast front and chic-covered buttons. Wear it with jeans and a white tee for a high-low evening look or cape it over the shoulders of a slinky slip dress for an elegant spring cover-up.
The Star Buy Of The Week: & Other Stories’ Blouse
This dreamy off-white blouse is our steal of the week. Crafted from a linen-like fabric with delicate covered buttons and intricate lace detailing, it will add romance to your spring wardrobe. Pair with this season's baggy denim and pointed metallic heels for a cooler edge.
The Sunglasses Collab: COS X Linda Farrow
High street store COS has teamed up with iconic sunglasses brand Linda Farrow to bring you five seriously good frames. The collection comprises five new pieces, taking reference from the clean, simple lines of COS and the vintage 1970s style of Farrow.
Choose from an oversized black pair – perfect paired with leather jackets or double denim on the weekend; a fabulous half-frame pair in pretty rose gold – very Daisy Jones & the Six; or a go-with-everything square tortoiseshell style that will take you from walks in the park to summer holidays and beyond.
The Jewellery Line To Gift Yourself: Edge of Ember
A little self-gifting never did anyone any harm and we’ve found a jewellery brand that is perfectly priced for adding to your everyday collection. Edge of Ember is a London-based brand with wearability, quality and sustainability at its core. It was founded back in 2014 by Lynette Ong, who quit her job in finance to explore a lifelong love for artisan jewellery.
Fast forward almost a decade and Edge of Ember is now stocked in the likes of Harvey Nichols and has been spotted on everyone from A-listers Megan Markle to influencer Aimee Johnson. The look is dainty everyday jewels that bring polish and personality to every look, whether that’s a trusty pair of gold hoops or a vintage-inspired chain necklace.
It is the brand’s signature alphabet pieces that have really caught our eye, from delicate letters that sit on barely-there chains to huggie hoops that are given a personal touch with tiny monograms dangling off. Shop for yourself or treat your mum to one this Mother’s Day.
Fine jewellery that’s affordable and good to the planet. We love.
The Show: Stella McCartney AW23
Fashion Month has come to an end with the Paris shows wrapping up last week, and there was one that undeniably became the moment of AW23. Stella McCartney took her latest collection to France’s historic Manège de l’École Militaire, the country’s oldest riding school. Alongside the clothes, horse whisperer Jean-François Pignon guided a string of beautiful horses to the beat of the music, rolling in the sand, cantering up and down the dusty sand school and ‘danced’ in one of the most extraordinary settings of Fashion Week.
The event has not come without its controversy, with some citing why did vegan and career-long animal rights campaigner Stella have to use animals in her show at all? The designer responded with: “This show is very much about the relationship between all creatures on planet Earth. Whether you’re a horse or not, this is a cruelty-free fashion show. There’s no leather, no fur, no cruelty. I’m trying to remind people that the things they’re watching on the runway and buying were once living beings, like these horses. There is a connection to be made.”
It’s also not the first time horses have been used in fashion, equines have appeared in countless editorial shoots and campaigns, and weaved their way into detailing on equine-inspired pieces for centuries – think the Gucci horse-bit or the Hermès‘ stirrup-style details.
We thought it was absolutely stunning, the collection, the spectacle and the message being made.
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This show is very much about the relationship between all creatures on planet Earth.
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