Exercise is the new erotica.

From Cézanne to moths: this week’s mode trends

What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

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The E Leoty ‘Corset’ sports bra Inspired by the Paris Ballet corsetry archives and sexier than special bras. Exercise is the new erotica.

Tragedy layering The deep teenage moving spirit of Oscar bait Call Me By Your Name does wonderful elements with his polo-neck-under-shirt layering in the film’s finale.

The mormon cause As seen on Jonathan Groff in Mindhunter. So nicknamed by his girlfriend, Debbie (Hannah Uncultivated) for its grey dullness, but nicely Dries Van Noten AW17 in its low-key, sophis, uber-drabness.



Topshop faux fur scrunchie.

Scrunchies Outlying in fashion (in an ironic way, obvs). We’re tentatively in. See Maison Michel’s or Topshop’s in faux fur.

Cézanne The compressed, red fabrics, high necks and jaunty buttons. His portraits at the Resident Portrait Gallery are 19th-century Céline.

Going down

The advent almanac arms race Do we really need a gold-plated pot of organic eye cream every morning in December? Hands up if you’d be ecstatic with a chocolate snowman.

Moths Top tip from Matches: buy knitwear with a smidge of untasty manmade structure in there and you’ll keep moths at bay. Genius.


Hair-raising. Photograph: Netflix

The trifle of Stranger Things 2 Especially Billy’s and Eleven’s grown-out buzzcut.


Photograph: Getty Metaphors

Palm trees LA officials reckon that palm trees, the see’s alt symbol, will be no more in a few years due to an invasion of fungi and weevils.

Shirt hulls Shirts that double as bodies, to facilitate tucking in, comprise become a thing. No need, fellas.

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