Dress like a scruffy sixth former and avoid Harry Potter shops... What's hot (and not) this week

Going up!

Scruffy sixth formers

Robert Pattinson (AFP via Getty Images)

Dior’s new look! Per Jonathan Anderson’s menswear debut. Top styling notes include upturned collars, loosely knotted ties and untucked shirts. If it works for R-Patz.

Burlesque

Film party: Cher and Christina Aguilera at the Burlesque premiere

The only way to properly celebrate Pride? Get tickets to Burlesque the Musical, opening at the Savoy Theatre on July 10. Wagon Wheel Watusi, etc.

Tennis spritz

(DS & Durga)

Perfumer DS & Durga’s new Crush Balls scent is ace for anyone experiencing Jack Draper fever.

Dante

Vanessa Kingori and CEO of the British Fashion Council Laura Weir attend a lunch at Claridge’s Restaurant hosted by The Standard's Chief Content Officer Anna van Praagh (Dave Benett)

The Manhattan restaurant and bar is in Mayfair for summer: its Claridge’s pop-up has begun and the daily aperitivo hour is the place to be seen.

Going down…

Bluesky

It was hailed as the new Twitter but I wonder, six years on and now unflatteringly described as an “online desert”, whether it is time to move on.

Any dietries?

(The Standard)

This is a rhetorical question! Any response other than “I’ve got a life threatening peanut allergy” is unforgivably naff. Don’t like coriander? Suck it up, sweetie.

@instagram____

What is with the bizarre glitch dumping a load of underscores after every username on Instagram? Although it did, rather amusingly, ruin everyone’s Glasto content.

Harry Potter shops

(Harry Potter)

These appear to be the new barber shops, which were the new kawaii toy shops, which were the new US candy/vape shops. Whatever next?

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