#denim-trends

#denim-trends

Goldilocks jeans ie straight cut have made a comeback. Think Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor, rather than Jeremy Clarkson's bootcut Top Gear era or an indie band's painted-on pip-squeezers. Leon Hedgepeth, a menswear writer who coined the term Goldilocks jeans, describes the style as not too skinny, not too baggy just right. Levi's' bestselling jeans of all time the 501, worn by everyone from Marlon Brando to Steve Jobs and Kate Moss best encapsulates the shape.

Is it Schiaparelli? No, it's Mango Knitted jacket with jewelled buttons 59.99 at Mango Eye-catching, witty buttons have been a signature detail of the house of Schiaparelli for a century. Elsa herself commissioned none other than Alberto Giacometti to make buttons in the shape of birds and figures in the 1930s; current designer Daniel Roseberry fastens his pieces with golden ears, jewelled keyholes or coins. So the five different buttons on this Mango jacket give it a distinct Paris fashion week sensibility. Sound the high-street bargain klaxon.

The cowboy aesthetic, previously dominated by hyper-masculine figures like John Wayne, has transitioned to embrace women, as pop stars and influencers adopt cowboycore fashion.