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By Sofia Laurent  |  London  |  February 2026 Can we just talk about what's happening with winter dressing right now? Because I walked into my usual coffee shop in East London this morning behind a woman in a head-to-toe cobalt blue knit set — turtleneck, midi skirt, the works — and I genuinely stopped in the doorway. Not metaphorically. Actually stopped. The barista looked at me funny. That's the kind of power a really good colored skirt outfit has, and honestly? After six years of covering fashion from London, I'm still not immune to it. Winter 2026 has done something I genuinely didn't expect: it's made color the answer. Not color as an accent, not a strategic pop of something tucked into an otherwise beige outfit — actual, full-on, committed color as the main event. Midi skirts in canary yellow, fuchsia pink, fire-engine red, cobalt blue, tangerine orange, emerald green. Paired with chunky knits, velvet blazers, camel overcoats. On rooftops, in offices, at...

By Sofia Laurent  ·  Fashion  ·  Concert Style Most concert outfits are an afterthought. You find something clean, something that can handle a crowd, something you won't mourn if it gets beer spilled on it. That approach works. But it costs you something. The best concert dressing I've ever seen isn't loud for the sake of loud. It's deliberate. Color chosen with intention, silhouette considered, fabric that interacts with stage light in a way that feels almost choreographed. There's a version of going to a show where your outfit is a decision you made — not something you defaulted into — and that version is worth pursuing. I went to see Rosalía at the O2 Arena last spring and spent a meaningful portion of the opening act distracted by the woman two rows ahead of me. She was wearing a canary yellow wrap dress with strappy gold sandals, and every time the stage lit up warm, she looked like she'd planned it down to the lighting cue. She probably hadn't....

Picture this: a woman walks through a midwinter crowd — grey coats, black coats, the occasional forgettable beige — and she's wearing head-to-toe canary yellow. Sweater dress. Over-the-knee boots. A wool scarf draped over one shoulder like an afterthought that took fifteen minutes to get exactly right. Every eye in that room does the same involuntary thing. That's what monochromatic dressing in a saturated color actually does — it doesn't just make you look put-together, it makes you look like you have a point of view. And in 2026, with street style having gone increasingly timid and same-ish, a point of view is the rarest thing anyone can wear. This particular trinity — sweater dress styled with over-the-knee boots and an oversized wool scarf — has been building into something serious for a while now. But what this season did was commit to the color. Not neutral-toned, not safe, not muted. We're talking cobalt, fuchsia, emerald, tangerine, fire-engine red. Six col...

By Sofia Laurent — London Fashion Editor Let's be honest — the conversation around office dressing has become spectacularly tedious. Every season, brands hand us the same so-called solutions: the wrap dress, the tailored trouser, the blouse-and-blazer combo that photographs well on a mood board and falls apart the moment you actually have to sit in a meeting for four hours. What nobody mentions with sufficient urgency is that the shirtdress has been quietly solving this problem for decades. Not because it's a shortcut. Because it was built — structurally, intentionally built — for women who have more important things to think about at 7am than whether their collar is reading right against their lapel. I came back to the shirtdress properly about three years ago after a spectacularly bad Monday morning involving a blouse that wouldn't stay tucked, trousers that were somehow too formal and too casual at once, and a commute where I caught my reflection in a shop window a...