So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu! As New York Fashion Week kicks off, we’re taking a little sabbatical from sharing all the must-have collabs, must-see campaigns and must-go events with you as we focus on the collections – you can follow all our coverage from the SS24 season here. We’ll be back before you know it though. In the meantime, we bring you jaw-dropping new campaigns from Acne Studios and Bimba Y Lola, a new big smoke flagship for Gucci and the V&A’s long-awaited exhibition journeying through the life of Coco Chanel. There’s also new jewellery collections from Sandy Liang and A. Roege Hove to obsess over and vintage Lacoste to snatch up. Here’s what’s in fashion.
Sandy Liang drops a new jewellery collection and BTS zine
To kick off New York Fashion Week, local favourite Sandy Liang threw a party in her dowtown shop to celebrate her latest jewellery collection. It features 14 new pieces, including charm necklaces and velvet chokers, as well as sweeping satin hair bows and headbands, all adorned with Sandy’s signature Y2K stars and hearts. The new jewels were first seen on the AW23 runway, and documented in an exclusive zine shot by Daria Kobayashi Ritch. “Growing up as an Asian American girl, I felt connected to Sandy’s world from the first time I came across it,” Daria said. “The nostalgic references Sandy often points to are things I grew up loving, and her unapologetically girly aesthetic gives me a genuine childlike joy. I want to be part of Sandy’s world because it empowers me to embrace my own roots, my girlhood, and love for all things cute.” Having previously worked together, the pair linked up for the project, now available at 28 Orchard and online. And the zine, much like Daria’s own personal work and photographs for this very magazine, offer an authentic and intimate portrait of the lead up to the show. Be sure to dive in before the next one. ND
A. Roege Hove’s jewellery collab with Georg Jensen is here
And speaking of jewellery, that A. Roege Hove x Georg Jensen collab we were raving about during Copenhagen Fashion Week is finally here. The Danish knitwear designer has teamed up with another iconic Dane, Georg Jensen, on the ‘Moonlight Grapes’ collection, conceived as a bold, contemporary meeting of two crafts. Named after the brand’s silver beaded jewellery collection, and inspired by 1920s Georg Jensen styles, necklaces, bracelets, rings and more, crafted from 100% recycled sterling silver, are spun together to look as if they’re never ending – constantly reinventing themselves – much like the threads in Amalie Roege Hove’s looms, which are transformed season after season into new surreal designs. Check out the campaign lensed by Lena Emery and styled by Alexandra Carl above, and purchase the collab here. ND
Lacoste celebrates its 90th with a vintage pop up in London
HBD to the Lacoste Croc! 90 years old and don’t look a day over 18. As part of our birthday queen’s big celebrations (like Paris Hilton’s famed 21st she’s having a few events this year to commemorate), the french luxury leisure label have opened up a vintage pop-up in the heart of London’s vintage shopping scene: Shoreditch. Partnering with vintage resale platform Wavey Garms, the space in Truman Brewery has been filled with tracksuits, polos, runway pieces and more from the 00s, 90s and prior that nod to the UK rave scene and played a role in styling the era. Additionally, activations across the pop-up will play homage to the scene with electronic DJ residencies and workshops, a dubplate cutting machine and bespoke graffiti in neon Lacoste green from local street artists, who are also each co-creating 30 limited edition polo’s to be sold in the space over the first weekend. Head on down to the space between 14 and 26 September to grab all the must-have retro goodies you can carry! TG
It’s Kylie vs Kylie in Acne Studios new campaign
Rise and shine 2010s teens! Acne Studios have performed a resurrection way more iconic than Jesus – your style icon of the period, grunge Kylie Jenner, is back, and she’s been duplicated! For the swedish house’s AW23 campaign, the 26 year old beauty brand founder and Kardashian-Jenner sister has switched up her 2014 turquoise dip-dye for turquoise ‘penicillin-wash’ and ‘oil-coated’ ultra-oversized jeans and other distressed denim pieces adorning her, and her doppelganger’s, very grimy, dirty and wet body in a sexy campaign by Carlijn Jacobs that has social media (and Timothée Chalamet, probably) obsessed. It is, of course, the year of, just like, realising stuff, and what we’re realising is no one breaks the internet like a Kardashian-Jenner sibling. TG
Gucci opens a new London flagship
London shoppers, rejoice! At last, the branded boards outside Gucci’s new Bond Street flagship have come down, revealing a 15000 square foot, five-storey maison! Located at 144-146 New Bond Street, the store houses the full gamut of the luxury’s house’s offering, from Jackie bags in every fathomable leather and hue to fine jewellery, ready-to-wear, suitcases and shoes. Notably, it also houses the latest Gucci Salon, the brand’s top-tier, invite-only shopping suite. As if shopping in the British capital couldn’t get any better! MS
The V&A’s long-awaited Chanel exhibition launches next week
In further much-anticipated news for London fashion fans, in just under a week, we’ll see the opening of Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto at the V&A, a landmark exhibition celebrating and chronicling the life and work of one of fashion’s – and wider contemporary culture’s – most influential forces. The first UK exhibition dedicated to the truly iconic couturière, it’s based on the original show that ran at Paris’ Palais Galliera back in 2020, albeit with significant revisions, with 122 new looks among those on display. Naturally, there’ll be a strong focus on Coco’s connections to England, particularly her use of British tweeds (where did you think her tweed obsession came from?!), but the 10-part show will also explore facets including the designer’s penchant for costume jewellery and the birth of two of her namesake house’s most recognisable products: the 2.55 flap bag and, of course, Chanel No. 5. Snap up your tickets here before they inevitably disappear! TG
Bimba Y Lola celebrate Britain’s iconic funfairs
It’s a pretty difficult feat to look slay while hurtling through the air at roughly 80 miles per hour but desperately clutching on to your Bimba Y Lola bag through it all seems to do the trick. For their new campaign, the spanish brand got Grant James Thomas to take their new tote pocket bags to the funfair, swinging above the heads of adrenaline-junkies on rides, or from the arms of models, distracted as they protect their greasy van chips from the attacking seagulls. Leave the fries, save the BYL bag! TG