This week you want to be thinking visors and yellow doors flung wide open. Both tips are courtesy of the Balenciaga sports-couture resort collection – 20 outfits, the bulk worn with visors, and all emerging from eye-popping doors with silver knobs. The clothes were gloriously odd: think bunchy skirts (the label calls them “umbrella skirts” because of their fullness), brilliant patterns, and lashings of interesting shoulders. It was fashion at its most forward-thinking, as you might expect from designer Nicolas Ghesquière. Prediction: this dress will shortly be worn by Anna Wintour.
Photograph: BALENCIAGA by Nicolas Ghesquière
As Wimbledon slams into action, why not celebrate by wearing this cheeky pleated skirt from the Stella McCartney Adidas tennis collection? The range also features a white tennis dress with a satin ruffle, trainers and a short-sleeve zip-up jacket in the same colour as the skirt. Watch out for sightings on centre court as Caroline Wozniacki will be sporting the designs during the tournament.
Skirt, £72, adidas.com Photograph: PR
In Milan, the menswear spring/summer shows are under way, and supermodel David Gandy hooked up with Dolce & Gabbana this weekend to launch a glossy/sexy/steamy/raunchy (delete as appropriate) coffee-table book featuring career highs alongside new pics. Gandy has been the face of D&G’s Light Blue fragrance and a regular catwalker for the label since its autumn/winter 2006/07 collection. Nerds will also note the model shares the same initials as the brand. Spooky.
£110, 020-7659 9000 Photograph: PR
These towelling trunks are from the Resort collection by Orlebar Brown. The label has opened its first store, on Westbourne Grove in London, and is set to expand beyond beach gear to other holiday wardrobe staples, such as sweatshirts. It’s top class, if a trifle pricey.
£99, orlebarbrown.co.uk Photograph: Pete Webb
Yeah, yeah, wellingtons aren’t the cult fashion-as-irony thing they used to be. But Glasto revellers won’t give two hoots about that if they end up knee-deep in a swamp this weekend. Anyway, here’s this year’s alternative to Hunter. Superga, a label best known for sneakers, also does wellies, which it has supplied to the Italian army for years. For max festival fashion points, style up a blanket, maybe on your shoulder à la Meadham Kirchhoff autumn/winter 2011.
£120, rubbersole.co.uk Photograph: PR
