T he good news from Paris? There is only one item you need to crack autumn: the blazer. I can count on the fingers of one hand — OK, maybe two — the number of women I have seen not wearing one in Paris this week and Milan last. Never before have I borne witness to the fashion-month crowd so definitively coalescing around one item.
So, autumn? It’s all about the blazer. You may well have one in your wardrobe that you already love. In which case, lucky you.
Before you go any further, however, try it on and do due diligence in your full-length mirror (and if you don’t have one of those, you need to rectify matters pronto. John Lewis’s Anyday has one for.
