Stella Tennant’s collection for Holland & Holland blends high fashion with dressing for the elements. So what does a Chanel muse wear in the rain?
If anyone can make tweed culottes happen, it is Stella Tennant. Even by the standards of someone who has been Karl Lagerfeld’s muse for two decades, she is having a moment. In the last few months, Tennant has opened the Chanel cruise show in Cuba, starred in the lookbook for the white-hot Balenciaga – and now, with former Vogue editor Isabella Cawdor, relaunched Holland & Holland, the Chanel-owned company that has been making shooting jackets and cashmere cardigans for country-house wardrobes for 181 years.
Right now, most of the fashion industry is waffling on about how many kaftans to pack for a yacht. Meanwhile, as I write this, rain falls steadily. Scotland-dwelling Tennant and Cawdor, however (Borders and Highlands, respectively) understand full well the challenges of dressing for drizzle in June. So, whether or not you are in the market for a weasel-fur gilet to wear for a grouse shoot, the new creative directors of Holland & Holland have some timely advice for looking chic in all weathers.
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