Autumn in Japan brings a particular set of occasions: the end-of-quarter work events, the outdoor gatherings before the cold arrives, the evening plans that require something more considered than a summer outfit but less formal than winter dressing. This piece works through the most common autumn occasions and what they actually ask of the wardrobe. Read more →
Every autumn the coat conversation starts too early and ends too quickly. The press picks a single shape, declares it the coat of the season, and moves on. What actually happens in the collections is more varied and more useful than that. This piece works through the silhouettes that appeared most consistently across the autumn 2026 shows and explains what each one asks of the rest of the outfit.
Fashion and film have always moved together, but the relationship is less direct than it used to be. A costume does not translate immediately into a wardrobe choice the way it once did. What happens instead is slower and more interesting: a film shifts the visual culture slightly, and that shift shows up in the collections a season or two later. This autumn, several films are doing exactly that.
October in Japan is not one season. In the first week, the temperature in Tokyo can still reach 28 degrees in the afternoon. By the last week, the evenings are genuinely cold. The wardrobe that works for the first week does not work for the last, and the collections in the shops are already dressed for November. This piece is about the weeks in between.
Colour in fashion moves slowly and then all at once. For the past three seasons, the dominant neutral in the collections was a cool grey. Blue-grey, stone-grey, the grey of concrete. This autumn that changed. The collections moved toward warmth: brown in several registers, a dusty terracotta that is not quite orange, and an olive that sits between green and khaki without committing to either.
The wardrobe edit is one of those things that sounds obvious and turns out to be harder than expected. Most people approach it by pulling everything out and then putting most of it back. This piece describes a more structured method. The same one used in the one-on-one wardrobe edit sessions. That produces a clearer result.
The tension between personal style and fashion trends is one of the questions that comes up most often in styling sessions. The concern is usually the same: if I follow the trends, will I stop looking like myself? The answer is that trends are most useful when they are treated as a source of information rather than a set of instructions.
The neutral wardrobe is one of those ideas that sounds simple and turns out to require more thought than expected. The difficulty is not in the concept. Buy things in neutral colours, they will all work together. But in the execution. Not all neutrals work together, and the order in which you build the wardrobe matters more than most guides acknowledge.
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