The trophy piece on the fashion insiders’ shopping hit lists right now isn’t what you think. Cold-shoulder tops? Been wearing them since February. Crochet bikini? Everyone’s over those post-Coachella. Satin bomber jacket? Old news, babes.
The piece that will have us running into stores when it arrives – at the end of May, in Topshop’s case, not that we’re counting the days or anything – is the padded jacket, the breakout star of the most recent Paris fashion week. The padded jacket used to be your coat-cupboard’s guilty secret, the piece you reached for when it was too cold to care about fashion. But that has all changed. Balenciaga’s red quilted jacket, worn grandly off-the-shoulder in the manner of a mink coat at the opera, is to next season what the Chloé tracksuit is to this one. The Stella McCartney padded coat, in metallic bronze and in luxe navy velvet, confirmed the quilted coat’s leap into high fashion.
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