Rochelle Humes returned to the This Morning sofa today, as one of many stars due to cover for Cat Deeley over the summer holidays. Looking as elegant as ever, the seasoned TV presenter wore a chic dark denim dress that skimmed her silhouette, and tapped into one of the latest trends for 2025: the drop waist.
When it comes to what to wear in the heat, you'll find us putting our jeans to the back of the wardrobe, but as denim is one of our favourite fabrics, the warm weather is the perfect time to reach for a denim dress. Delivering several spring/summer fashion trends for 2025, Rochelle presented the show in a high street style that costs less than £50. Unfortunately, the ASOS dress is now, unsurprisingly sold out, but we have found some excellent alternatives.
The drop waist dress is one of the best summer dress styles on the market at the moment. A trending silhouette, this shape is great if you're looking to lengthen your upper body. A directional style, this look has been reinterpreted in various ways, so you'll need to find the style that most suits your body type, where the drop seam hits in just the right place, and helps to enhance your curves.
Move over jeans, this trending denim alternative is the perfect true blue choice
Ruching through the centre front of the dress creates a flattering, figure-skimming fit, as the gentle gathering puckers over curves. This is a dress shape we have seen on the catwalk at the likes of Victoria Beckham, who championed this dress shape heavily in several silk iterations, but we love the heavier denim, high street version that Rochelle wore for the show.
Denim never truly goes out of fashion and Rochelle's super dark wash design, despite being bang on trend right now, will still work for several seasons to come. If you're yet to invest in a denim dress, it's all about finding the silhouette that best enhances your body type.
Ruched waist details and fit and flare shapes are always the most universally flattering styles to go for, but if you want something a little more figure hugging, look to vertical stitch detailing to help lengthen your frame by drawing the eye up and down your silhouette.
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A strong likeness for Rochelle's dress, but without the ruche detailing, this elegant A-line design can be easily dressed up as part of a summer outfit for work, or down with trainers for a smart casual outfit.
This fit and flared silhouette is ideal for those looking to skim over a middle. The slightly angled seam coupled with the fullness of the skirt means this design creates an hourglass silhouette.
Featuring a subtle dropped waist, dark wash and striking seam detailing, this denim dress will gently contour your frame without constricting you. Thanks to the dark blue hue, it feels polished too.
With a much more figure-hugging fit, this form-hugging design uses traditional denim stitch detailing to draw the eye down the body, creating a lengthened silhouette.
Featuring a similar dropped waist, with a more A-line skirt shape, the squared off neckline and long hem deliver a delightfully vintage feel to this thoroughly modern dress.
Keeping things polished, this straight up and down silhouette hits just above ankle height, so get ready to show off those summer shoe buys. The contouring stitch details help to create a curvaceous shape.
Styled by This Morning's fashion editor, Amber Jackson, who posted a picture of Rochelle's ensemble to her Instagram grid, we love how there is so much inspiration to draw from today's look.
While denim has a reputation as a tough, workwear fabric, the feminine twist of this elegant dress gave jean fabric a whole new meaning. Teaming the dark washed denim dress with black wedged sandals and subtle silver jewellery, Rochelle and Amber elevated denim to new heights, especially for a Monday morning.
A denim dress makes for a great capsule wardrobe investment. A sleeveless style is light enough to wear in spring and summer months, but layered up will carry through to autumn and winter. While ruched bodices are clearly having a moment, as a super flattering silhouette, this style won't date.
