Overnight   tweakments,  Bambi print,   big shades   and flamenco skirts

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Get a front row funnel

When the designer Phoebe Philo launched her label in 2023 with a funnel jacket, the direction of travel among necklines was clear: chinwards. After appearing on the catwalks at Victoria Beckham, Khaite and Stella McCartney, funnel necks reach the high street this spring — see All Saints’ Serne leather jacket (£459, allsaints.com) and Arket’s sportier take in pink nylon (£109, arket.com). Style with an insouciant fashion editor hair tuck. PW

Stack it

The 2025 look was defined by minimalism but 2026 preaches a bit too much of everything. A lone belt is no longer enough: models at Schiaparelli stacked them four-high but you could start with Black & Brown’s Marina (£220, black-brown.com) and stick to just a couple. See also: wearing bangles in pairs, layering several perfumes and doubling up on shoelaces, as at Miu Miu (try Schuh’s Mindy Suede lace-up trainers for a cheaper alternative; £60, schuh.com). Consider this permission to stop editing out and start piling it all on. SL

Lose the beachy waves (and get some black jeans)

“That tonged and wavy look feels so laboured now,” says the hairdresser Luke Hersheson. Instead you’ll need “sleek, refined hair with face-framing layers and maybe a side fringe or a nonchalant French twist”. His reference is Madonna in Tom Ford-era Gucci at the Video Music Awards in 1995, and you can expect more late Nineties inspiration in the forthcoming Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy bio-drama Love Story (out Feb). Get ahead with a good pair of black straight-leg jeans — the front row are in Agolde’s criss-cross style (£340, agolde.com) and Stple’s high-rise cut (£260, stplewardrobe.com). On the high street: Gap’s 90s loose (£50, gap.com) and Levi’s Ribcage (£110, levi.com). HW

Overnight tweakments

The new insider fix for frown lines? Silicone scar tape. Designed to heal wounds by hydrating and boosting collagen, it has become a beauty pro hack for visibly reducing wrinkles, albeit temporarily. Wrinkles Schminkles patches come with Liz Earle’s seal of approval (£30 for 20 uses, wrinklesschminkles.co.uk) or cut your own from medical-grade Silicon Scar Sheets (£7.86 for 3.8m, amazon.co.uk). PW

Dig out your clogs

Louise Trotter, the Brit in charge at Bottega Veneta, came up with a curved-toe, Cuban-heeled slip-on that looks set to be this spring’s must-have shoe. Ganni’s hit shops soon too and there are whispers of waterproof “garden clogs” coming in from the cold too. (see Tretorn X Kassl’s Alba style, £150, tretorn.eu). Wear with chunky ribbed socks for now. HW

Drop this

You might already be stirring functional mushroom powder into smoothies to enhance your sleep, memory, focus, even libido, but the latest crop comes as on-the-go drops. Superoom’s pipettes pop under your tongue (£44.99, superoom.life) while the style set pep up their coffee with Medshrum’s tinctures (£41, medshrum.com). Revive Collagen’s new skin-boosting sachets contain reishi, lion’s mane and chaga alongside its usual marine collagen blend (from £63 for a subscription, revivecollagen.com). HW

Style stalking

We all love leopard but for 2026 enter “Bambi print” or “doe-core”. The soft fawn motif was first spotted at Tory Burch before leaping onto Sofia Richie Grainge’s silk dresses and ATP Atelier’s shoulder bags. “Animal print has always had a strong pull but the usual suspects have been in rotation for so long,” says ATP’s creative director, Maj-La Pizzelli. “With Bambi there was suddenly something that felt new.” Asos has followed suit with a full capsule, which includes a deer-print exclusive of Puma’s cult Speedcat trainers (from £80, asos.com), while & Other Stories has a covetable tote bag in the print (£109, down from £189, stories.com). Time to change your spots? SL

Power up

“Energy” is set to be the buzzword of 2026 and the pursuit of what experts at the Future Laboratory call “felt-state success” is very next year. Some treatments skew woo — the ancient Korean spiritual practice of Sun Kyeong combines acupressure and breathing techniques to re-up your qi (sunkyeong.org.uk) — while others are more clinical. Tired A-listers and flagging pop stars are booking in for Reviv’s 10X medical IV drips and supplements, which can be bespoked to your needs via genetic testing (from £349, revivme.com). Transdermal patches are very 2026 too: the What’s Supp Co’s Protect Your Energy pack transmits caffeine and perking vitamins through your skin (£18 for 15 patches, thewhatsupp.com). HW

Big shades are back (and really big!)

After an eternity of narrow Matrix-esque frames, oversized sunglasses are back, inspired by visor styles so big they’re basically ski goggles at Phoebe Philo and Jacques Marie Mage. Insiders have already snapped those up but try the fashion set’s other favourites: yellow-tinted Tom Ford Aviators (£370 at Sunglass Hut) and Jimmy Fairly’s oversized Lux frames (£135). Pair with a boxy leather jacket (preferably vintage) for full Lovejoy swagger. SL

Cut your cloth accordingly

Mindful shopping, scouring second-hand, make-do-and-mend: “underconsumption” looms large for 2026. The new AI-powered site trybasket.com alerts you when prices of items on your shopping list drop, while Instagram’s army of menders will teach you via video-clip how to darn a hole in seconds. Alternatively use the repair app Loom to find someone locally who can help. Loom reports a boom among GLP-1 jabbers having old things tailored to their new proportions rather than splashing out, while the fashion rental company ByRotation says those who have lost weight are testing shapes and styles by borrowing instead of buying. HW

Red light = go

You’ve got the red light face mask but what about your body? The Nordic health company Flowlife’s full-length panels promise to invigorate muscles and skin to alleviate pain and inflammation within (from £159, flowlife.com). Or seek out an infrared sauna or Pilates class for similar benefits. “Infrared is set to define wellness next year,” says Studio Anatomy’s Lotti Bernadout. “Heated mats help you move with more ease and train with more depth while minimising the risk of injuries, and saunas support [muscle] repair.” At Dr Karen Doherty’s in-the-know Shoreditch clinic, the Lymph and Light package uses red and infrared light to kickstart collagen and elastin while healing acne and eczema (from £150, drkarendoherty.com). HW

… and flamenco skirts too

Flamenco frills, feathers and a fine dusting of sparkle: Matthieu Blazy’s first collection for Chanel hits shops this spring and his catwalk was full of lipstick-red skirts with dramatic flair. Will you unleash your inner dancing emoji in 2026? HW

Designer choux

Flame-grilled cabbage steak. Kimchi cocktails. Cabbage leaves encasing everything from pork dumplings to fish tacos. The cabbage is set to take cauliflower’s crown as the veg du moment. The Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge chargrills his hispi cabbage, allowing the vegetable to “get that smoky flavour”, while the tasting menu at Plates, the UK’s first Michelin-starred vegan restaurant, features kimchi accoutrements. Marks & Spencer’s chic range of cabbage-leaf crockery might be an easier sell (from £10, marksandspencer.com) PW

Embrace ‘stoptimisation’

If 2025 was about “self-optimising” everything from gym goals to bowel movements then 2026 is about leaning into doing less: stoptimising in fact. “We’ve been sold so many ‘hacks’ to make us calmer, slimmer or more powerful,” says the transformation coach Jo Glynn-Smith. “If you listen to your mind and body, I guarantee they aren’t saying, ‘We want to be stimulated, measured and optimised like some kind of digital marketing campaign.’” From “Nineties living” (complete with landline, Walkman and digital cameras) to “unplugging”, existing offline and beyond one’s health app data looks set to be the new year’s biggest status flex. Start now, why don’t you? HW